@septengineering

Cypherpunk. Ex-Rainbow Bridge Tech Lead at @NEARProtocol & @AuroraIsNEAR; ex-Head of Security @ASIMOV_Protocol. [email protected]

Joined March 2011
If AI is to evolve, it must evolve with trust, user sovereignty, and transparency at its foundation. Thrilled to be part of this amazing team at @ASIMOV_Protocol! Building a decentralized, reliable, and sovereign AI is a long-term vision, and I'm excited to play a role in making it a reality.
✨👋 Meet the Team at the ASIMOV Protocol! Kirill (@septengineering), Head of Security ⚔️, is a prolific blockchain security white hat best known for his work on NEAR’s Rainbow Bridge 🌈, the first trustless cross-chain bridge in the industry. He led the Rainbow Bridge team for more than two years, first at @NEARProtocol and then at Aurora. Under his stewardship, the bridge was never hacked despite holding billions of dollars in locked funds and enduring a number of high-profile attacks. At the peak of the previous market cycle, the bridge secured over $15B in TVL 💰 Kirill also managed the Rainbow Bridge security bounty program that successfully incentivized would-be black hats to turn white hat. The program paid out a number of significant bounties, including $6M for the second-largest bounty in history. The Rainbow Bridge’s reputation as a hack-proof bridge remains intact to this day 🛡️ Kirill has contributed to many well-known privacy projects at an early stage, including hardware wallets (Ledger, Trezor), Zero Knowledge Proof (ZKP) initiatives, a ZK-encrypted video messenger, as well as to Beam, the first blockchain based on the Mimblewimble protocol. During the past year, Kirill has been focused on building trustworthy user-owned AI at @HaltiaAI, one of the founding members of the ASIMOV Protocol. 👇
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Every time at a big conference, it's been frustrating figuring out who else is in town... but just about solved it now: /asimov Who in my X network plus @ASIMOV_Protocol's followers might be attending #Money2020 in Las Vegas this week, based on their posts? Draw a social graph
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It's becoming so evident now that Rust is going to sweep the systems programming space at the expense of just about everything else--and perhaps not only systems programming... Coders I know who worked the previous decade with Python, Ruby, or TypeScript have over the past quarter switched to vibecoding Rust. Why not? Faster, safer, smaller (memory-wise), simpler (deployment-wise), what's not to like? Similarly, Rust is eating the Python ecosystem from the inside outwards (uv, Ruff, Polars, Pydantic, etc, etc) Rust is an emerging Schelling point for coding agents. Its infamously strict static constraints function like guide rails, such that by the time the code actually compiles, the job's often largely done. And Rust's best-in-class, precise compiler error messages (valuable when compile cycles are slow) help agents make quick work of pinpointing & troubleshooting the effects of their changes We didn't yet see this sweep prior to this year because models were simply not capable enough of fully mastering the nontrivial complexity of the language (cf. ownership). They still made mistakes that I now simply no longer see with the current frontier. Rust seems to have a particularly pronounced threshold effect: the same strictness that repeatedly blocked a weaker model now actually helps the stronger model converge! For my own work, Fable 5 was the inflection point where the quality of generated code often exceeded what would be economical to code manually. (Astra and Opus now mostly do okay, too) This new Rust hegemony will become obvious to everyone during 2027, with much gnashing of teeth!
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The latest @ASIMOV_Platform release lands a built-in `--jev=NOUL` output filter, enabling agentic harnesses such as Hermes to offload simple natural language postprocessing decisions to Jev, a System One model Look ma, here just casually turning my LinkedIn network into JSON-LD linked data and then searching and filtering people using plain old English, zero LLMs involved! No autoregressive models were harmed in the making of this film
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This should ideally in a future iteration be fulfilled from a single graph query, but it does already nicely showcase benefits of the hybrid neurosymbolic approach: Using ASIMOV, show me Semantic Web OGs from my LinkedIn connections
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Test driving our social media intelligence layer in Hermes
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What does personal intelligence mean? If tech like Palantir’s were to be democratized and available to you, what might your own personal seeing stone in your pocket enable you to know, to do? Here’s a bit of a sneak peek through ASIMOV’s seeing stone regarding our San Francisco event later today. In the minute or so that this ingest took, we first extracted the Luma event’s guest list and then for each of the 95 guests figured out their social media accounts on X, Instagram, LinkedIn, and beyond We obtained those profiles in full, as well as the respective social graphs (followers/followees/mutuals) for each of those accounts, and collated all that into a nontrivial (95 → ~300K → 50M+ nodes) knowledge graph representing the combined social network, reconciled with and layered onto our existing massive knowledge base. This tells us who is in the room and how they relate to us and to each other We then fetched and indexed the most recent posts for each guest’s social media accounts, and computed & compiled executive summaries of their recent activities and demonstrated interests on each those platforms, not only from text posts but also from any available photos and (short) videos. These dossiers are incredibly helpful in pinpointing who might share mutual interests We also, naturally enough, indexed all faces detected in guests’ profile photos and their most recent social media posts, as well as filed away a voice sample from any available Instagram or YouTube clip. This enables recognizing guests by their likeness and/or their voice, as we have showcased at previous events All this, by the way, can run directly on your phone, tablet, or laptop as well; just rather slower than the dedicated, scalable upstream infrastructure showcased here. Nonetheless, in the future you will be able to produce and monetize this event intelligence in your pocket yourself, or just purchase on-the-go access to it as you like The future is already here, it's just not evenly distributed. Join us at Frontier Tower tonight at 6pm to learn & discuss personal intelligence built on your own personal context graph connecting all people and information in your life!
Join us this Thursday in downtown San Francisco at Frontier Tower for the next edition of ASIMOV DevLabs with the topic Context Graphs & Personal Intelligence! We have a lively, friendly community forming around Bay Area builders working on graph-based approaches to local AI and self-sovereign intelligence. At our previous events, the fascinating conversations have often continued to midnight & beyond! Limited seating. Bring your laptop. Lightning talks welcome. luma.com/asimov-devlabs-11
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Good to be ahead of the market merely a survivable number of years, for once! xitter.cf/i/trending/20796146800…

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Ethcc 2021. 5 years ago exactly today. You just had to be there.
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Finished submitting my paper reviews for #EKAW2026! Honored to serve on the @ekawconference program committee this year
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A handful of photos from last night's kick-ass @ASIMOV_Protocol event in @frontiertower! Rob (@lux) and Ray presented on their respective state-of-the-art agentic personal knowledge graph approaches, after my opening talk which channeled Fibonacci on why we as an industry simply must level up to embrace graph-based knowledge representation
Join us today at 6pm in SF at @frontiertower for the next edition of Context Graphs & Personal Intelligence! We have a great community forming around folks working on graph-based approaches to personal intelligence. At our previous event, the conversations continued to midnight & beyond!
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Reposted in memory of @Gkellogg
a standing ovation for daraxonrasib at asco. over 40k oncologists, entrepreneurs, investors, and patient advocates together celebrating revmed's breakthru in the fight against pancreatic cancer. u never forget these moments. it's what innovation is all about.
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My @ASIMOV_Protocol update on the NEAR Town Hall today: a first exclusive alpha leak and early access to ASIMOV Personal Intelligence, a category-defining product akin to an offline-first, P2P, crowdsourced Palantir in your pocket!
Don’t miss the April @NEARProtocol Town Hall, tomorrow at 4pm UTC. All of the biggest ecosystem updates in one place. 👇
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Every American who believes in the 1st and 2nd Amendments should run their own local AI. The AI is about to become the state-owned TV. Soon, all the governments will have that one "honest AI" curating everything that is: safe to know, safe to think, safe to do. Own your reality before open-source models become “a danger to the state”.
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Artemis II crew is thousands of miles away from Earth And they’re asking ground crew for help because they have two versions of Microsoft Outlook open and neither is working This scene is now canon 😭
JUST IN: Artemis II crew experiences issues with Microsoft Outlook on their way to the Moon, asks ground crew for assistance.
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The shift of power from defensive technologies to offensive technologies has toppled entire societies. Currently we are witnessing a massive shift to more offensive surveillance tech (AI) while defensive privacy technologies are severely lacking. Really concerning.
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Speaking at EthProof #7 today! 🎙️ Presenting Aurora EVM & Swift EVM as zkVM Guest Programs. 🚀 #Ethereum #EthProof #zkVM
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Spin up your own Calimero node in minutes🚀 In this first dev episode, we walk through installing and running a local merod node step by step. We think it's cool. Check it out👇 youtube.com/watch?v=fcOl2I52…
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"Programmable cryptography meets decentralisation" 🔥 Epic panel from the Ethereum Cypherpunk Congress featuring top minds like @Zac_Aztec @0xcyp @suji_yan @willscott. youtu.be/ww2InbgeWNk (And yes, that's @chefsale repping Calimero! 🚀)
Replying to @web3privacy
"Programmable cryptography meets decentralisation" x @Zac_Aztec x @aztecnetwork x @0xcyp x @ethstatus & @suji_yan x @realMaskNetwork x @willscott x @Filecoin x @chefsale x @CalimeroNetwork "We want those apps to be as seamless as possible while integrating the highest level of privacy possible" Watch the talk here: youtu.be/ww2InbgeWNk Cypherpunk Congress #3 in Mumbai: luma.com/spsnos9t
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If you missed our blog on What is Calimero Network? — or prefer quick video explainers, here's a short one breaking down our framework for building peer-to-peer, self-sovereign applications.🔒 More coming soon and blog/TLRD thread below 👇 xitter.cf/CalimeroNetwork/status….
Excited to launch our first blog post in a new series! 🚀 Get a holistic view of all the tooling and general concepts! Read it here: calimero.network/blog/what-i…. TLDR in the thread. 🧵 More coming soon 👀
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