In the rest of this thread, I'll describe CashTokens and why I think they're an important tool for expanding financial access and protecting human rights.
💯 Still plenty of work to do, but it can and must be done. Beyond the UX gains, all Satoshi-derived nodes will continue to require security hardening this year, and spreading out confirmed throughput by 10× would meaningfully harden node security and tx censorship resistance.
Bend 2 is here!
It is a new programming language that blocks AI mistakes via *proof checking* - the same technique big AI labs used to solve open math problems, like Navier-Stokes.
It is also very fast, and runs on GPUs.
Watch the video. Link in the comments.
1/ Today we're releasing Lattice Jolt: a post-quantum version of the Jolt zkVM, built on lattices instead of elliptic curves. It's _faster_ than curve-based Jolt and has the shortest proofs of any post-quantum zkVM — under 100 KB.
Post: a16zcrypto.com/posts/article/…