Sam Ragsdale (samrags)

Sam Ragsdale

Founder & CEO at @meritsystems. Prev @a16zcrypto. Did my time in big tech, since recovered.

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Recent casts

We have $350 of bounties up on merit-systems/echo. If you're interested dm me and I'll help you get started!

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Ran an Echo hackathon at Columbia’s DivHacks this weekend. $1000 to the winner.

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Top casts

We're finally releasing Jolt Alpha – the world's fastest zkVM. Jolt is fully open source. Always has been and always will be. zkVMs are the closest I've seen to algorithmic magic and I believe they'll allow us to deliver on the promises of web3.

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Jolt has a ton of low hanging fruit waiting for the right harvester. We're teeing these up in Github issues and we'll regularly refresh. Great way to get your feet wet with ZK and play a role in the impending revolution. Examples below.

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July Roadmap Update TL;DR: Jolt is faster, simpler, and more usable than ever. Huge shoutout to the contributors who made this happen!

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