Was waiting for @sinakian1 to weigh in 🧠 🧠!

No one remembers the🔥crypto projects from 5 years ago and most people won't remember the what's 🔥on Twitter today, esp. because none have significant real-world adoption. The future belongs to the committed builders that are focused on building value over the long-term.

As an ex-federal prosecutor, I know the massive flaws in our AML/KYC system. We spend >$40B each year on rules that have a 99% failure rate – and keep millions of legitimate customers from accessing financial services. It’s broken. We need something better. Senators that

All these years into crypto, and the category of products/paradigms that “incentivize communities and users to build out the digital platforms they use and participate in” still feels really underdeveloped.

Hello, Again.

Really important conversation re privacy & digital money in the UK. The prospect of digital money w/o privacy is a bad one and would have many unintended consequences empowering bad actors. It's really great important for liberal democracies to understand this before it

Let's not repeat the oversight of neglecting privacy as we did for the internet.

NEWS: Zero knowledge identity verification comes to Aleo blockworks.co/news/zk-decent…

Proud to emerge from stealth today to announce the launch of ex/ante (ex/ante), the first-ever venture fund dedicated to agentic tech: technology that advances individuals’ agency and control—over their privacy, data, assets, and information. forbes.com/sites/alexkonr…

1/ Today, I'm officially stepping down as the CEO of Aleo Systems Inc., and stepping into the role of Executive Director for the newly created Aleo Foundation. It's the end of one journey, and the start of a new one

23/ 9,357 monthly active developers work on Top 200 ecosystems outside of Bitcoin and Ethereum, down -31% year-over-year But some ecosystems managed to grow very quickly in 2023 including Scroll, Aztec, Celestia, @aleohq, and TON 💎

exceptionally interesting work from an exceptional team - really excited to see people think through these incredibly important public policy issues

In the era of AI, the concept of "provenance" becomes increasingly complex, creating a huge opportunity to use blockchain technology to create a transparent and secure system of provenance that helps us differentiate between human-generated and machine-generated content.

It's great to see such high quality teams come together. Some of the most fundamental work of the next decade will be making the internet a safer and more secure place, from deterring bad actors and data hacks to combatting fake/misleading AI-generated content.