Made a DAW based on the "agent writing strudel" idea. Connected to openrouter or a hacky local setup if you want to reuse a sub: wraitii.github.io/pickup/
Great way to waste 5 dollars of API credits
Lancelot retweeted
I think we've missed the forest for the trees on tokenisers. We should represent computation itself, not English.
Our enormous LLMs are forced to make about one BPE token worth of progress per forward pass. This is almost absurdly wasteful.
In late 2023 I talked @sylvechv into starting Hyli, a boldly ambitious plan to rethink blockchain architecture for the future, with ZK as our killer feature. It was the logical endgame of blockchains. Unfortunately, it didn鈥檛 work out: ZK has not exploded in usage like we鈥檇 hoped, and the market has overall coalesced around a few specific use cases for which this ideal of blockchain is simply unsuited.
After two years building with our brilliant team in Paris, we鈥檝e decided it was no longer worth a try. I鈥檇 like to thank all of our partners, investors, friends, and of course the team who believed in our ambition. They鈥檙e incredible operators any founder would kill for, you should hire them.
Thanks for all the fish. @sylvechv & I will be exploring new territories around agent-driven commerce. Drop me a DM, always happy to chat.
Sad news: we鈥檙e shutting down the Hyli project.
Hyli was started on a core idea: that ZK can push blockchains far beyond current capabilities, that someone had to push the boundaries of blockchain architecture. We鈥檙e extremely proud of what our team built over the last two years: we shipped a full node client from scratch, built using the latest BFT consensus technology with Autobahn, and shipping highly innovative support for ZK smart contracts and proved it could sustain real user load.
Unfortunately, technical achievements are not all you need. The market has changed a lot since we started, ZK has not gained the traction we had hoped for, and we don鈥檛 see a viable path to launching Hyli in the current environment.
Everything we have built will remain open-source on our github repo: github.com/hyli-org
Thank you to our backers, supporters, contributors, and friends.
If you are looking to hire highly capable operators in engineering, operations and marketing, drop us a DM.
It鈥檚 been a brilliant journey, we鈥檒l see you again soon.
If Canton is so good why isn鈥檛 there canton 2
Blockchains still broadcast every transaction publicly. Every stablecoin payment leaks the amount, the sender, and the recipient.
We鈥檙e excited to share that Tempo is building Zones for businesses that need privacy: private blockchains that are interoperable with the rest of Tempo for stablecoin use cases like payroll, treasury, and settlement.
A month later, Zolt v0.1.0 is here!
- Code is good enough to make an official release
- Faster than Jolt on the @eth_proofs' SHA256 benchmarks 馃槺
- Huge refactoring effort
- Really fun to work on!
- Still a lot of work to do to match Jolt with bigger programs (2^28+)
Introducing Zolt: the first pure-Zig zkVM
Fully compatible with @a16zcrypto's Jolt, the entire cryptography is made from scratch in @ziglang , only using the stdlib!
No arkworks FFI or other dependencies 馃
The first benchmarks:
Lancelot retweeted
God does not bless any conflict. Anyone who is a disciple of Christ, the Prince of Peace, is never on the side of those who once wielded the sword and today drop bombs. Military action will not create space for freedom or times of #Peace, which comes only from the patient promotion of coexistence and dialogue among peoples.










