I can attest that many great cryptographers' secret source is to start from Dan's intro to cryptography class. Now, a group of stellar educators are bringing this to ZKP :p

Seeking non-zero knowledge of Zero Knowledge proofs? Exciting new MOOC on ZK proofs coming up. Get ready, anon!

A crash course on all the latest topics in the ether-verse today

Well-articulated thread on the non-fungibility of blockchains. Builds on Josh's excellent thesis of 'atoms, institutions and blockchains'. stark.mirror.xyz/n2UpRqwdf7yjui…

Starting today to watch at least one Devcon🇨🇴 talk every night in the next weeks.

About Staking economy

Favorite quote from Sreeram Kannan:

'If you think of each blockchain as like a node and as like a graph, you see that the hub-node of this network is Ethereum:

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Using the Lens of Sunny's Mesh Security talk: youtu.be/Z2ZBKo9-iRs?t=…

This is excitingly exploring the approach of making a 'Green on Green' system (Consensus on top of other consensus algo's, to further net security).

Rollups pack a lot of information and value per unit bit they write. Like the Salomon Rollup.

Nice thread with comments on TrustBoost by 🔥 🔥 🔥 Jae Kwon 🔥 🔥 🔥

Brilliant idea: to boost security of several chains - build a multi-blockchain BFT, each verifier is a smart contract!! Problem: most BFT protocols require signature verification - making smart contract validator expensive. Solution: use Information Theoretic Hotstuff!

Really enjoyed how basic building blocks from distributed systems recur in different eras. The original motivation of not relying on PKI was when verifying PKI keys was prohibitively expensive.

Hotstuff implemented on top of IBC 🤯🤯

Really interesting problems if you are interested in economics and incentives underlying Ethereum.

Novel, permission-less avenue to make the multi- & cross-chain world 🌎⛓ more secure🔒 (ofc, this ‘extra-security lunch’ comes w/ a bit of extra-costs)! Chapeau to Xuechao Wang, Peiyao Sheng, Sreeram Kannan, Kartik Nayak + Pramod Viswanath!

This is absolutely huge, it means security will compound across chains!