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02.12.2023

Speaking at Devconnect TrustX
So much was happening at Devconnect, gravitated towards security and ZK; top favorites: fuzzing of blockchain VMs, David’s beast-mode talk on ZK vulnerabilities, CPerezz’s folding recap, and ZK permeating Web2 and connecting it to Ethereum: ZK-email & ZKP2P (support them [1] [2]).

27.09.2023

Nomination for Arbitrum Security Council
Motivation for running, results from the 1st and 2nd rounds.
Thankful for the community support on and off the ballot.

25.08.2023

New article: The Evolution of the Multichain
The Triumph of Ethereum and the New Dawn of ZK-everythin

24.08.023

The excellent Daniel (collab on Spartan-ECDSA) and Rasul (collab on RLN) were key to the success of zBlock1

15.08.023

Six auditing fellowships at yAcademy: solid numbers

14.08.2023

zBlock tops most clicked on Week in Ethereum

05.08.2023

Pilot ZK Auditing Fellowship concludes, ZK-in-Context series will continue

07.06.2023

Fun chat with Zapper fam

02.06.2023

Talk: The Multichain For Auditors

10.05.2023

Block 5 started hot and ended with two banger reviews published, congrats to graduating fellows

06.05.2023

yAcademy research featured on Week in Ethereum

09.04.2023

The kick off of Block 5 of Smart Contract Auditing Fellowship, highest turnout despite stake requirement -also lowest acceptance rate

24.07.2022

Talk: Too Many Bugs to Count

24.07.2022

Good aspects of Ethereum killers

21.07.2022

The zkEVM wars, more color from Anthony

01.07.2022

Inter-chain security in Cosmos

24.06.2022

Devconnect was a lot of fun

04.02.2022

Attack surface of bridges

23.01.2022

Optimistic execution on Solana chokes finality as predicted

04.10.2021

ZK and the Oracle problem

08.06.2021

Parachain vs Rollup, more color from Anthony

26.05.2021

DeFi on Bitcoin

16.05.2021

Narrative and values

10.05.2021

Looked into Dfinity

29.04.2021

Switching to crypto

30.03.2021

What I like about the Cosmos community

13.03.2021

New article: Layer-2 for Beginners
Misinformation campaigns in the crypto space increase dramatically during bull cycles. Many sidechain projects misleadingly present themselves as layer-2 scaling solutions. This article explains what makes a chain an L2, for absolute beginners. more ..

17.01.2021

When it comes to Ethereum competitors, there is nuance
Ethereum competitors that align with its core values should not be equated with others. Shared-security sharded blockchains are a clear example

01.10.2020

Grateful for the community support <3

18.09.2020

Proposal for the UNI community

2.09.2020

Does Ethereum need the gas refund mechanism?
This inspired an interesting debate, an EIP to address this issue

27.05.2020

New article: Optimistic Rollups, from the Bottom Up
The best way to understand something is to build it. This article presents Optimistic Roll-Up (ORU) from the bottom-up through a simple example. Yes we will spec out a simple ORU MVP, so we can “touch and feel” what it’s all about. more ..

19.04.2020

ELI5 Reentrancy attacks

17.04.2020

New article: The Investment Thesis of a Blockchain Developer
Blockchain is not a new layer of abstraction but rather a unique trust API under the serverless computing paradigm. Which API provider (chain) should a developer build on? more ..

13.04.2020

Gourmet Crypto: Technical Blockchain Insights in Plain English
Introducing Gourmet Crypto: an off-the-beaten-path publication covering smart contract platforms, DeFi and layer-2 solutions more ..

05.04.2020

Consuming Blockchain: The Weakest-link Methodology
Don’t fall for marketing traps and Gish gallops of blockchain projects, use the “weakest-link methodology” to navigate the space more effectively more ..

17.02.2020

TLDR of ETH 2.0 AMA Part III