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Food

ate
Homemade crunch wrap supreme (I bought too small flour tortillas, we made do)

Exploring circle STARKs

https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2024/07/23/circlestarks.html

Thank you to @StarkwareLtd friends for the kind support in understanding these concepts!

See also my implementation at

Exploring circle STARKs

https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2024/07/23/circlestarks.html

Thank you to @StarkwareLtd friends for the kind support in understanding these concepts!

See also my implementation at https://github.com/ethereum/research/tree/master/circlestark

I feel like off-chain ZK applications are really undervaluing the potential of just using STARKs, including for privacy-demanding use cases.

These days a STARK is < 100 kB, for off-chain use cases that amount of  bandwidth is utterly trivial compared to the client-side prover time savings that come from using STARKs.

Ethereum

One important difference between shards and rollups that I did not get into is *upgradeability*: shards would upgrade their EVM automatically, rollups need their own governance. But could we change that? (thread)

Tropical House

New channel: /tropical-house

https://music.apple.com/us/album/higher-love/1469941839?i=1469941840

Do "super", "hyper", "ultra", "meta" actually mean anything different beyond just being "cool prefixes" that cycle in and out of favor either organically or suddenly when a major entrepreneur just comes along and names their entire ecosystem after one of them?

Base

200K sign ups!

10x since going permissionless in October.

Geopolitics

Degen

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Good news?

https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/15/echr_backdoor_encryption

Roman

@rmn100