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Stephen Duan

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Build zkVM for real world applications @AppliedPQC @ProjectZKM @GOATNetwork @ClawUpAI
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    Stephen Duan
    @sd_eigen
    Aug 14
    When binary fields operations become efficient, hash functions with more strict security assumptions come back.
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    ZKM
    @ProjectZKM
    Aug 14
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    Why Ethereum Walked Away from Poseidon
    Nearly every major zkVM and zkEVM in production today - including Ziren - runs on Poseidon2. So this decision reaches far beyond Ethereum L1, and it did not come out of nowhere: the pivot has been...
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    Stephen Duan
    @sd_eigen
    Aug 14
    Pivoting to BLAKE is one of our objectives too. We recently migrated the digest function of public inputs in Ziren from Poseidon2 to BLAKE3. @ProjectZKM @GOATNetwork
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    Justin Drake
    @drakefjustin
    Aug 13
    Goodbye, Poseidon! An epic 8-year, 8-figure rabbit hole in post-quantum cryptography reaches its dream conclusion. The Ethereum Foundation is abandoning Poseidon for L1, pivoting to SHA or BLAKE. This milestone unlocks ultimate security for lean Ethereum and foreshadows a golden
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    Stephen Duan
    @sd_eigen
    Aug 10
    Impressive. During the last half a year, I am using AI coding and research heavily, the classical algorithms and tools help a lot for AI to solve problems.
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    Dimitris Papailiopoulos
    @DimitrisPapail
    Aug 8
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    AI Settles a 25 Year-old Problem We Left Behind
    Last week, GPT-5.6 and Claude Fable appear to have settled an open theoretical question in wireless communications that was intensely studied between 2000 till the 2010s and that I briefly worked on...
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    Stephen Duan
    @sd_eigen
    Jul 31
    In-house tech stack allows us to realize a complete PQC upgrade. @GOATNetwork @ProjectZKM
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    Stephen Duan
    @sd_eigen
    Jul 30
    Security is not negotiable.
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    GOAT Network
    @GOATNetwork
    Jul 30
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    Model checking the GOAT BitVM3 bridge
    Before mainnet, we ran a formal verification round on the GOAT bridge node. The full report is public, including the counterexamples, the fixes, what the audit itself got wrong on the way, and what is...
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