in 4 days zcash becomes quantum recoverable in addition to becoming mathematically sound in privacy & supply all while zakura improves block times and performance those are each colossal milestones, and theyre happening this week the purest expression of cryptographic money

This is a simple, accurate description of quantum recoverability, which is coming in Ironwood in just four days. It wasn't created in two months though; it was in progress for more than a year and is riding Ironwood into the Zcash protocol for simplicity and convenience.

odyssey review: - it is basically just oppenheimer with swords - the casting is bad - agamemnon has tremendous aura. they should give him a solo film - anne hatheway solo carries - the theme about civilizational rules is well done - overall: not good, not bad. just mid

Wrote a beginner-friendly developer guide to building subscriptions on Solana Recurring payments used to be really hard, now they're easy. In fact, we already use them at Helius for onchain API plan renewals with USDC Learn more and build:

I've been loudly pushing back on the corp-chain FUD that MEV makes permissionless networks un-useable for traditional fin'l tx's. My article in @traders_tweets today lays out the full rebuttal. Open networks have won out every time; they'll win again now.

Mert: 10% of Bitcoin's market cap is a 'conservative' $ZEC target. "Zcash is smaller than Dogecoin. Smaller than Tron, smaller than pretty much anything in the top 10." Yet it solves a problem nobody else has solved with mathematical guarantees. "Why would you not want your Bitcoin to be private? What do you gain by simply not having the option to shield your funds?" "It's strictly inferior technologically speaking." Once it hits 10%, the momentum question becomes obvious. FT @KevinWSHPod @mert @helius.

pisses me off how CEXes rinse new retail on basic stable conversions I've had multiple friends new to crypto msg me asking where their cash went when you convert your USDC to USD for "no fees", you are getting bent over on the spread literally 98 cents on the dollar

back in 2023-24 this would've been 9/11 for L2 mfers solana blocktimes are 400ms (with plans to reach 200ms soon) but you can see txn data way earlier than that, on the order of 2 digit ms latency from submission now with this, we open up the lowest latency data to everyone

NEW: Preconfirmations See transactions the moment a validator commits to executing them That's 5-50 milliseconds BEFORE transactions are turned into shreds, and the earliest a tx can be observed on Solana All delivered via one new WebSocket subscription: preconfSubscribe

most rpc benchmarks are horribly flawed they are not global, run over home internet, ignore tail latencies, omit data freshness/correctness, and cherry-pick time-ranges today we're releasing a new, open-source RPC benchmarking tool featuring: - 24/7 coverage - randomized inputs (cannot be cached/gamed) - freshness & correctness checks - multi-provider support (TSW, AWS, GCP, CF) - global coverage (US, EU, APAC) - user-specific scoring method (configurable)

Mert predicts Solana will become the biggest onchain economy "I do see a very viable path in which Solana makes another very gradual but very consistent run as it keeps releasing these things" "As World releases onchain prediction markets, as Backpack continues to list more assets, as Helius gives institutions and payment providers the tools they need, as wallets improve, and borrow and lend and RWAs consistently budge up" "There is a moment where you look back a year from now and think I was only focusing on the candles on TradingView and I missed that this is now undoubtedly the biggest economy"

A lot of motion in this release, so I need a few bullet points: 1. If you used stablecoins for B2B payments before, you probably operated at least three systems at once (a wallet, an on/off-ramp and a bank account). Reconciling them was always a mess and a giant pain for your accountant. During the last crypto cycle, an entire category of middleware companies emerged to provide a subledger between onchain balances and ERP systems. With Altitude, you keep your balance in stablecoins, make onchain and bank payments, use cards and bill pay and now sync everything directly into your ERP. No additional subledger. 2. If you have always operated in fiat, you now have a global business account available in 150+ countries, with access to multiple onchain and bank rails, corporate cards, and a direct ERP integration. Every transaction is reconciled in one place, whether it happened through fiat, stablecoins, bill pay or a card. 3. Personally, my favorite part. Altitude runs on Solana, so we are indexing its relevant onchain activity (thanks, @mert), enriching it with the necessary financial data and syncing it straight to QB. It’s a good metaphor for our evolution as a company. From building onchain infrastructure to connecting it directly to real world financial workflows that help businesses manage money, whether they consider themselves crypto companies or not. 4. This is the third deployment of Altitude Agent. Here, it learns how you categorize transactions and begins suggesting categories automatically so you as an operator - do less. 5. Our in house creative team spearheaded by @thenouxnoux, is clearly doing great work. They somehow made accounting feel bold, exciting and full of energy. 6. After payments and cards, accounting was the next infinity stone we needed to collect. It closes the loop and lays the foundation for e2e agentic workflows that execute, reconcile and sync themselves to your books. 7. The Accountant 1 and 2, are surprisingly good movies, though they weren’t helpful in making this launch possible.