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Joined January 2012
required reading especially for those in SF h/t @WeberWest
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Stablecoin-backed cards make make global balances instantly usable at 100M+ businesses. We're looking forward to working with @plasma to advance the space.
We're bringing together Stripe's fiat and crypto infrastructure to make it easier for businesses to build stablecoin-backed cards that work across currencies and markets. More on what we're building with @Plasma,
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Plasma and @Stripe are partnering to bring a new generation of products to market. Our co-development of multi-currency cards is the first step in realizing this vision.
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Update from Scott Aaronson: Some AI companies are now using their latest internal models to take a run at breaking 'important cryptographic protocols and primitives.'
He also adds this, to which I agree: 'Also noteworthy is the striking under-representation of cryptographic breakthroughs among the 722 mathematical results OpenAI published. I've witnessed first-hand the US government censoring academic quantum cryptanalysis results. Backroom interventionism is my base case.' Things are probably further along than it seems. This is true in many areas right now. There are also persistent rumors that the OpenAI math release yesterday was only the first batch of three.
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Replying to @kmad @matthew_pines
I think we might lose public key cryptography.
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We at @hiFramework are thrilled to triple down on @MeckaAI. Their execution has been nothing short of flawless and it still feels like day one. If you’re looking to join one of the fastest growing startups ever, they’re hiring 🚀
Today @MeckaAI is announcing a $60M Series B from @sequoia to accelerate the advent of general purpose robotics This brings our total funding to over $120M to become the data and deployment layer for physical AI Read more below 🧵
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rogue agents and prompt injection are currently considered the biggest unresolved threat in security. picture this: you ask claude code to review a PR, the agent reads a compromised package and gets tricked to exfiltrate your environment keys. we are building cyber defense to solve this exact kind of problems. Clarion can ingest any kind of telemetry, integrate with platforms, triage and resolve issues at machine speed. in this example Clarion is set up to ingest agent telemetry. the developer was using Claude Code and a prompt injection made the agent post his AWS keys to a remote attacker server. the attacker then logged into his AWS account using that same key. Clarion is able to correlate actions across different environments and take action. here it detected the exfiltration via Claude telemetry, confirmed the abuse by correlating CloudTrail with auth from a differnet IP, contained the host using CrowdStrike Falcon, blocked the attacker address and escalated the issue. all this in ~6 minutes. a human operator alone would have not found out in weeks.
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If I was a major AI lab I would be gobbling up security firms like peas at a farm stand.
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1/ Today, @m_mosier_ @malekanoms & I are sharing a new paper: "The Compatibility of Financial Integrity With Permissionless Networks". Institutions say BSA & sanctions laws prevent use of these networks. We debunk this & provide a path forward. 🧵 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.…
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this wild defcon talk is finally out researchers created a fake defi startup, hired lazarus it workers, put them into a sandbox and recorded their tooling, workflows, and faces from inside the operation starts at 5:46:09 youtube.com/live/_uYQr8hfpbI…
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We spent years finding vulnerabilities before attackers did. That was the easy part. Teams already know what's broken. Nobody has the bandwidth to close it. Today we raised $16.5M to make Cantina the security workforce for your security workforce. cantina.review/next-chapter-…
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I've been loudly pushing back on the corp-chain FUD that MEV makes permissionless networks un-useable for traditional fin'l tx's. My article in @traders_tweets today lays out the full rebuttal. Open networks have won out every time; they'll win again now. tradersmagazine.com/flashbac…
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AI is speedrunning crypto and will inevitably look to run back Operation Choke Point everyone fighting for control over the policy and personnel engine, as always this is why “censorship-resistance” is not only a buzzword or meme, but a characteristic of real value
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The 3 minute talk I gave at @Stanford AI Cybersecurity conference. If you want to know what the data is telling us about the direction of AI Cybersecurity tooling, check this out, maybe you'll learn something : ) Had to hand draw these graphs because slides weren't allowed.
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an excellent pairing h/t @cashewmake2
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AI is speedrunning crypto and will inevitably look to run back Operation Choke Point everyone fighting for control over the policy and personnel engine, as always this is why “censorship-resistance” is not only a buzzword or meme, but a characteristic of real value
actually an insane thing for openai’s head of strategy to publicly say
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Brandon Potts retweeted
Open USD is the new standard for global stablecoins, now coming to Plasma. The stablecoin backed by Visa and Mastercard, launching on the chain built for stablecoin payments.
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A hearty congratulations to @rajivpoc Very well deserved!
THE BLOCK: Framework Ventures closed an oversubscribed $400 million fourth fund to invest across crypto, AI, robotics, energy, and other frontier technologies. The firm also promoted Rajiv Patel-O'Connor to general partner as it expands its investment strategy beyond digital assets.
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1/ Today in @FortuneMagazine: Framework Ventures has raised $400 Million for our 4th fund, FVIV. We believe the future is being built at the intersection of blockchain, AI, robotics, energy, and fintech. 🧵👇
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