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David Tse

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David Tse

@dntse

Professor at Stanford University (tselab.stanford.edu, davidtse.io) Co-founder of Babylon protocol, Information theorist.

Joined October 2013

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David Tse
@dntse
Jan 16
Today we release BABE, a new Groth16 proof verification protocol for Bitcoin. It improves the state-of-the-art by three orders of magnitude in setup and storage costs. eprint.iacr.org/2026/065.pdf BABE (BAbylon-BErkeley) is a synthesis of two key ideas: Witness encryption on
David Tse
@dntse
Dec 10, 2025
BitVM2 suffers from a huge on-chain fee of > $15,000. BitVM3 dramatically reduces this to be less than $100, but the off-chain costs are very significant: terabytes to store the garbled circuits and hours of compute and communication to set things up. Bulky. Three months ago
David Tse
@dntse
Aug 22, 2024
btcstaking.babylonlabs.io 3 years in the making. 38 blocks to go.
David Tse
@dntse
Dec 24, 2024
Toward the end of Cap-3, someone suddenly staked 10,000 BTC on Babylon. A reminder: one Bitcoin is worth ~$100k. That’s $1 billion dollars, staked by one anonymous person, on Babylon. Usually, when putting up any kind of crypto, you do a test transaction. To make sure your
David Tse
@dntse
Jun 4, 2025
BitVM mainnet experiment completed. Entire unhappy path took a total of less than 8 hours and $16K of transaction fees. Details: The first tx was included 2025-06-04 07:37:25 UTC+8 The last tx was included 2025-06-04 15:13:40 UTC+8 lasting 7 hours 36 mins, spanning 42 blocks
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David Tse
@dntse
Jul 3, 2025
As a professor, I spend my career saying "good question" to students who ask stupid questions. There are no stupid questions, we tell them. But actually, there are stupid questions.
David Tse
@dntse
Aug 22, 2024
Babylon mainnet phase 1 launch. Cap 1000BTC filled in 6 BTC blocks by 21k staking txs.
David Tse
@dntse
Jul 15, 2024
Babylon is on the cutting edge of the evolution of proof of stake networks. Who's joining us?
David Tse
@dntse
Jul 23, 2025
Many professors my age have mentally retired. I worked 19 hours straight the other week, according to my wife. I'm too old for this. But we're breaking new ground at 2 AM while others play it safe. Don't know why I'm still grinding like a 25-year-old PhD student.
David Tse
@dntse
May 13, 2025
Why did we build on the @cosmos SDK? It provides the modularity and sovereignty we needed to implement our unique Bitcoin-securing mechanisms.
Kam 🌑
@KamBenbrik
May 8, 2025
Here’s our @cosmoshub thesis, written together with @0xAdrianzy Cosmos has always been one of the most fascinating ecosystems for its innovation, but $ATOM has consistently struggled to capture value from the activity and technology built around it. Now, with the acquisition
David Tse
@dntse
Feb 21, 2025
The professor becoming the student – I have loved sitting in on @danboneh’s Stanford graduate course in cryptography. But not for the reasons you may think. Not only is Boneh the founder of the Science of Blockchain Conference, but he also invented many interesting cryptographic
David Tse
@dntse
Jul 23, 2024
Hypothesis: Bitcoiners want to participate in the staking market with their native Bitcoin. The experiment: Babylon. The results: Stay tuned.
David Tse
@dntse
Jan 28, 2025
In 2023, many were skeptical of Bitcoin staking, viewing it as a contradiction. Bitcoin ecosystem projects in general faced heightened scrutiny due to past failures. But this resistance just forces you to refine & strengthen the vision.
David Tse
@dntse
Nov 27, 2024
It turns out Bitcoin can't do introspection - and that's essential if you want to make a bridge. Let me explain. Before you can understand the world around you, you must first understand yourself. This philosophical axiom turns out to be a fundamental technical challenge in
David Tse
@dntse
Oct 15, 2025
Two months after the launch of the trustless Bitcoin vault whitepaper, @babylonlabs_io has built a PoC that allow native BTC to be used trustlessly as collateral to borrow on Ethereum for the first time. This morning, we will live report on our first end-to-end experiments on