That’s a wrap on our Whitepaper Reading at #SBC2025! An incredible 8 hours with a global audience of researchers, node operators, investors, and builders. 📝 We dove deep into 6 critical topics shaping the future of blockchain: - TEE-based asset sharing: Liquefaction @initc3org - Next-gen ZK privacy: Ligero @ligero_inc - High-speed consensus: AlpgenGlow @anza - Chainless architectures: Chainless @BrianSeong99 - ZK-rollup attack vectors: @TheProofLab - Universal proving marketplaces: @boundless_xyz 🙏Thank you to our co-organizers @initc3org (Oana, Gina, Ashley), @HouseofZK (@irynahozk, @alicelingl, @talianotnatalie), and @CalBlockchain for making this happen 🧠Shout-out to the authors of the papers: James Austgen (@Cornell - @AriJuels) & @0xfishylosopher (@Pantera), @mvenkita (@ligero_inc), @TheWattenhofer (@anza_xyz /@ETH_en), @BrianSeong99 (@0xPolygon) @paulgebheim (@SeiNetwork), @YourBuddyConner (@TheProofLab), @hashcashier (@boundless_xyz / @RiscZero ), 🫶 Thank you to @BrianSeong99 and @mrrongxin for spending 8 hours with us on this :) Event Link: #Blockchain #Web3 #ZK #SBC2025

How do you survive the prover killer? At our recent House of ZK San Francisco event, @YourBuddyConner (Lead Researcher at @TheProofLab) presented new research on the hidden cost mismatches between @ethereum's gas schedule and real-world zkVM proving performance - and why those mismatches matter for network security. Conner introduced ZKarnage, a live mainnet stress-testing initiative funded by the @ethereumfndn to identify “prover killer” transactions, reveal worst-case performance scenarios, and push zkVM implementations toward antifragility before bad actors exploit them. Also available on YouTube:

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Frontiers talks bring experts from the frontier of fields beyond just AI to discuss key problems, challenges, and opportunities. Really excited to have our first talk on the topic/area of ZK proofs from the legend @YourBuddyConner

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📣Our next Frontiers Talk is coming August 16th at 10 AM PDT! @YourBuddyConner, founder of @TheProofLab, will show how adversarial mainnet transactions can stress test ZK provers and expose hidden weaknesses in Ethereum’s proving stack. Register below!

Tune in tomorrow for the @TheProofLab Special, featuring the prover killer himself, @YourBuddyConner 🤝 🗓️ August 5th 🕔 5pm UTC 📍 @HouseofZK Expect pure signal from a true crypto OG.

Reading the Hierarchical Reasoning Model paper right now and had the thought that @ylecun might actually be right about autoregressive models...