Why bother with blockchain privacy? It's key for institutional adoption - like banking & asset mgmt. JP Morgan's report nails it: confidentiality, anonymity, & auditability are must-haves for onchain assets. At @0xMiden we unlock for the big players

DEXes built as Automated Market Makers (AMM) can't compete on the number of writes to global state. Even AMMs built on chains with "parallelizable" exectution like @solana are limited, because the parallelization only applies to tx's which affect different parts of the global state. E.g., 100 transactions taking the different sides of an AMM trade of one token pair end up updating the same global piece of state (the reserve amounts). In contrast, with an orderbook model, those 100 transactions can be matched and processed independently of each other. A self-custodial onchain orderbook with offchain matching can be built on any chain, but deploying it on @0xMiden provides two further advantages: 1. It takes the load off the validators, allowing higher throughput 2. Trades are private! You can't get this anywhere else.

The three privacy architectures naturally lend themselves to building token exchanges with vastly different mechanisms: Shielding pools ➡️ AMM Edge execution ➡️ orderbook Private shared state ➡️ dark pool

LFG @TACEO_IO! One of the most talent-dense teams in the space, half the team are PhDs, all are friendly and... they're building privacy solutions. Very bullish

Privacy on blockchain has been expensive, legally ambiguous, and unintuitive to users and developers alike. But where there is a vision, there is hope. There is @0xMiden

Come work with us! You'll get to post "LFG @0xMiden" (among other responsibilities)

The most successful blockchain projects were able to bring something new to the users: - store of value (BTC) - programmability (ETH) - EVM + low cost (L2s) - fast execution (SOL) The next one is obvious: - privacy ( @0xMiden)

In case you missed it: I recently joined @0xMiden as Engineering Manager 🥳 After interviewing with many leading companies in the space (and to those - thank you for the trust), I saw the best fit with Miden on multiple fronts: the vision, the team & the tech. ↩️

More proofs is more proofs, so let's prove everything

An individualistic society will have many roles that were previously done by the community, replaced by someone (or something) we actively pay for. Babysitting is a great example, it used to be your aunt/brother etc, now you hire a person. So soon robots take over the service roles, no doubt. We will find ourselves further from the community than ever (yesterday aunt, today hired babysitter, tomorrow robot). To combat loneliness and replace some part of the lost communities, we will start paying not for the service of a human, but simply for their company. Since already today the society struggles with building connections organically, my guess is that new jobs (Connection/Community Builder?), and perhaps even tech (Meetup-like apps) will play a large role in navigating intrapersonal dynamics, organizing local gatherings and helping bridge the connection gap. @Trevornoah and @EstherPerel held an insightful discussion on "What Now?" on a similar topic which I found very timely. Go and listen, that future is now.