AI proliferation has not demonstrably caused real side-channel cryptography attacks. Its now so cheap to get way more timing samples of sensitive operations on all devices, and to analyze it better. Curious situation

We're happy to see Zakura's optimization work being adopted and fortified elsewhere in the Zcash ecosystem! We strongly advocate permissive, open-source licenses for Zcash cryptography and protocol code.

Dev Ojha (@zkDragon) explains how Zakura is rebuilding Zcash infrastructure for scale: 0:00 - Why Zcash needed a new full node 3:01 - The path to 50,000 TPS 7:02 - Building the most hardened Zcash node 8:35 - What’s coming next

Dev explains why Zcash is meaningfully different today because of Ironwood’s quantum recoverability and formal verification “I think it's meaningfully different to be a Zcash user today than literally six weeks ago” “Quantum recoverability and formal verification with Ironwood means that you can just get funds in Ironwood and go away for a decade and know your money's still safe” “A quantum computer can't steal it because the pool will get frozen and you can still move your funds out after the fact” “That's what quantum recoverability is and you know there's no undetectable bug left. That's what formal verification proves”

Confidential Intents TVL crossed $110M. This means that if NEAR is listed on @DefiLlama's Privacy Category it would be #2# after TornadoCash. However, it's not only the TVL that matters here. Short thread below.

My conversation with @drmichaellevin, a biologist at Tufts University whose research explores bioelectricity, regeneration, morphogenesis, and how cells collectively process information to build and repair bodies. Timestamps: 0:00 - Causes and downstream effects of aging 3:31 - Bioelectric patterns and memory in regeneration 9:30 - Cracking the bioelectric code 12:10 - The boredom theory of aging 23:11 - The germline is ageless 25:45 - Bioelectricity and epigenetic reprogramming 27:15 - What experiment could falsify Mike’s ideas? 29:13 - The role of aging clocks and biological age 31:06 - Top-down control in biological systems 39:09 - Consciousness and its implications 48:25 - Changing human goals and preferences 51:30 - The future of medicine

Presenting "thus spoke zakura" A batteries included dev environment for zcash developers! - gets you started with a zcash dev environment in seconds with a single click - in built wallet, block explorer and faucet for testing - cheat codes to mine & faucet and much more 👇

The zcash coin holder vote results are in! Record high participation levels, 2.4M zec voted, and for context the pool had 3.6M zec at snapshot height. Record high (66%) levels of participation! The results!