Prof., Cornell Tech; Co-Director, IC3; Chief Scientist @chainlink Labs; author, THE ORACLE, oraclenovel.com. Views expressed are mine alone
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In 2017, I wouldn't have dreamed that Chainlink would be where it is today thanks to Sergey and Steve's foresight and leadership. I look forward to being amazed eight years from now.
On this date 8 years ago, the Chainlink whitepaper was released to the world.
Since 2017, Chainlink has evolved from just an idea to becoming the industry-standard oracle platform enabling tens of trillions in transaction value and securing nearly $100B for the vast majority of DeFi markets.
Up next?
Bringing the whole world onchain.
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To the anonymous LINK Marine who secretly picked up the tab for my lunch today, what a pleasant surprise! Thank you so much!
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Seven years ago, I saw a bright future for Chainlink, but didn't imagine it would become the foundational infrastructure for DeFi it is today. Visionaries like Sergey and Steve did.
Who's to say what Chainlink will do for TradFi in the next seven years?
@SergeyNazarov @chainlink
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DECO was the first zkTLS protocol. These things take time, so I'm delighted that Chainlink has just announced its inclusion in the Chainlink Platform Privacy Suite. Kudos to the DECO team: @0xFanZhang @mskd96 Jasleen Malvai and @sgoldfed.
@chainlink
These new features complement the Chainlink Platform’s existing privacy-preserving capabilities, including DECO—a novel ZK-oracle technology for authenticating web data in a privacy-preserving manner.
DECO uses zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs) and existing web infrastructure to enable financial institutions, enterprises, and Web3 developers to verify sensitive information without exposing the underlying data.
In the very near future, we plan to make the DECO Sandbox publicly accessible, offering pre-configured use cases that showcase DECO's privacy-preserving capabilities including verifications around identity, proof of funds, and sanctions screenings, while maintaining the privacy of sensitive data.
DECO 🤝 Data Verification
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The Oracle of Delphi was critical infrastructure in ancient Greece—pivotal in the major political decisions and historical events of the time. This coin (in a Berlin museum) depicts one founding myth, a clever surveying trick by Zeus to site the Oracle at the center of the world.
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The Oracle jacket is done. Thanks to the brilliant David Ter-Avanesyan for this understated gem in gold and black and to @VitalikButerin Martha Pollack @SergeyNazarov @el33th4xor and @lmoroney for so graciously providing cover blurbs.
Looking forward to sharing this adventure story next month!
#oraclenovel oraclenovel.com
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A milestone in privacy-preserving oracle systems. Congrats to the #Chainlink DECO team and to @0xFanZhang @mskd96 Jasleen Malvai and @sgoldfed!
In an alpha test with @useteller, #Chainlink DECO was used to verify off-chain bank account balances in a privacy-preserving manner as a way of reducing collateral requirements.
Learn more about undercollateralized lending and the proof of concept below.
blog.chain.link/undercollate…
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THE ORACLE cover is complete (thanks to the wonderful designer at Talos Press known to me only as David!). And the website is up!
OracleNovel.com
Publication date: 20 Feb. 2024. Book events being planned.
#OracleNovel
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Full prototype of Chainlink's Fair Sequencing Services (FSS) unveiled at SmartCon 2022. FSS combines a long line of classic and cutting-edge research with considered design by Chainlink Labs research. The goal: Reduce harmful MEV. @pszalach @dahlia_malkhi
piped.video/watch?v=nCrN2Ivn…
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Not everyone fully appreciates that oracles are more than just data feeds. They're bidirectional, compute-enabled bridges between blockchains and external resources—resources that can include other blockchains.
#Chainlink
The cross-chain era is here, enabled by #Chainlink CCIP's unparalleled security.
🏝️ No more multi-chain fragmentation
🧑💻 Seamless user experience
⚡ Cross-chain composability for nextgen dApps
Your cross-chain starter pack:
The basics: Familiarize yourself with cross-chain fundamentals
• blog.chain.link/cross-chain/
• blog.chain.link/cross-chain-…
• blog.chain.link/from-tcpip-t…
• chain.link/education-hub/cro…
• blog.chain.link/cross-chain-…
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Use cases: See what's possible
• blog.chain.link/cross-chain-…
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Security: Learn core cross-chain security concepts—and why CCIP is vital for building secure cross-chain apps
• blog.chain.link/cross-chain-…
• blog.chain.link/consideratio…
• blog.chain.link/five-levels-…
• blog.chain.link/ccip-risk-ma…
Start building:
• blog.chain.link/how-to-use-c…
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Silver coin (in a Berlin museum) from the ancient Greek colony of Kroton. The Pythian tripod was an emblem of the city, whose founding relied upon a prophecy from Apollo at the Oracle at Delphi. When founding a new colony, the Greeks considered it imperative to consult an oracle.
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Key management could become the Achilles' heel of the whole crypto endeavor: If users can't custody their own keys, they'll lean too heavily on centralized services. DECO can be a powerful ingredient in a workable solution.
In this new research post, @chainlinklabs Chief Scientist @AriJuels explores how #Chainlink DECO could help simplify key management by enabling users to safely recover crypto keys through authentication to websites of their choice.
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Our new paper on DAOs has two main findings:
(1) Common ways to measure decentralization today leave DAOs flying blind. A new metric, Voting-Block Entropy (VBE), surfaces key lessons about how to decentralize DAOs.
(2) Dark DAOs are practical and a realistic threat. They enable confidential vote-buying in DAOs, i.e., bribery. A "lite" version is as easy to use as liquid staking.
Heavy lifting by James Austen, Andrés Fábrega, @sarahalle_, @KushalBabel, and @_mahimna.
arxiv.org/abs/2311.03530
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We've now publicly released code for Liquefaction: github.com/key-encumbrance/l….
Liqufaction privately liqufies any blockchain asset, showing how TEEs are poised to transform the blockchain landscape. Impacts in the table below.
Austgen et al. paper here: arxiv.org/pdf/2412.02634v1.
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Ask not what ML can do for blockchains; ask what blockchains can do for ML.
arxiv.org/pdf/2410.20522v1
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Outstanding presentation by Dahlia Malkhi @dahlia_malkhi on DECO, now in alpha tests with Chainlink partners. Privacy-preserving oracle technology promises to transform web3. E.g., Burrata @burrataxyz demos "mind-blowing" KYC app with ten lines of code.
piped.video/watch?v=eJqZQ2_V…
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If cryptocurrencies and DeFi are truly to succeed, they must avoid the fate decreed by G.B. Shaw: “Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny: they have only shifted it to another shoulder.”
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Privacy-preserving oracles can tap a vast new source of data for AI. That's the idea behind Props—protected pipelines.
Discussion with @lmoroney, who's unsurpassed in getting to the heart of a technical topic. Listen especially for his platypus anecdote.
A lack of data is holding back AI—what’s available on the public Internet is just a small fraction of the world's information.
This creates a massive opportunity. If privacy can be protected, medical and other highly sensitive yet extremely valuable data could safely train LLMs, leading to major leaps in understanding by AI models, such as in health and financial markets.
Chainlink Chief Scientist @AriJuels, and Chainlink Advisor and former AI Advocacy Lead at Google, @lmoroney, came together to discuss how Chainlink’s privacy-preserving oracles and protected pipelines for machine-learning security can advance AI ↓
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We introduce new notion in cryptography of *Complete Knowledge* (CK) in blog post and paper released today. @KushalBabel @VitalikButerin @phildaian @_mahimna
Blog post: initc3org.medium.com/complet….
Paper: arijuels.com/wp-content/uplo….
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Congratulations to my (former) PhD student Yan Ji @iseriohn42, who has completed her dissertation defense and will soon officially be Dr. Ji!
Yan has joined @chainlinklabs as a Research Engineer, so I'll have the good fortune of working with her for years to come.
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AI safety will become an issue for blockchains. We're in a good position to address it if we start now. Talk from SmartCon 2023.
smartcon.chain.link/video-on…
AI and Blockchain Oracles: Averting a Wallet-Carrying Godzilla
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King Croesus of Lydia—incidentally, the first to mint gold coins, like this one in the British Museum—wanted to learn which of the oracles scattered across the ancient world issued the most truthful prophecies. He devised a clever test.
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The next iteration of PROF blog post is out. We believe PROF is a simple, promising way to combat harmful MEV and get fair ordering (for your favorite notion of "fair"). We're exploring ways to make it happen. @KushalBabel @iseriohn42 @_mahimna
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Web2 systems—such as centralized exchanges—are inescapable today. My PhD student Yan Ji @iseriohn42 works on the pragmatic idea of endowing Web2 systems with Web3-style trust assurances, e.g., proof of liabilities (eprint.iacr.org/2021/1350). Increasingly relevant post-FTX.
While presenting proof of liabilities at #CSAW22, I was asked “what’s the incentive for CEXes to implement GPoL”. I guess one of the lessons to be learned after FTX, is that it’s urgent for these centralized service providers to EARN users’ trust.
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The #Chainlink community deserves its own thriller novel!
The Oracle is not just a celebration of oracles, but a glimpse into near-future possibilities in blockchain tech based on real science. It's for non-technical readers and industry veterans alike.
#oraclenovel @oraclenovel oraclenovel.com
.@AriJuels’ new sci-fi thriller novel The Oracle—a story that brings together mythical antiquity, blockchain tech, and oracles—will be published on February 20, 2024.
For in-person book events and more: oraclenovel.com
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This ancient Greek coin shows ground zero for oracles: The Omphalos, the stone at the Oracle of Delphi that was believed to mark the center of the world. (The god Apollo is sitting on top.) Oracle builders' task now: Create the New Delphi.
Source: numismatics.org/collection/1…
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Locked / unvested tokens. Airdrops. Soulbound Tokens. DAO voting. These crypto applications all have one thing in common…
They assume critically that private keys are controlled by an individual.
arxiv.org/abs/2412.02634
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Interesting recent deep-learning-based stylometric analysis of research papers. Aims at uncovering Satoshi Nakamoto. See fc22.ifca.ai/preproceedings/…. How disappointing to be only a 4th-ranked suspect. (I'd wager in any case that Satoshi wasn't publishing in conferences.)
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What was the first digital currency to do proof-of-work (PoW) mining?
Not Bitcoin. By my reckoning, it was MicroMint, devised by Ron Rivest @ronrivest and Adi Shamir in *1996*. Given their innumerable contributions, it's easy to overlook this one.
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What’s an Atomic NFT? A new type that resists fractionalization—even by means of keys shared off-chain. Sounds impossible? (It should at first.) Kushal Babel @KushalBabel will introduce in a short talk. (At IC3 NFT gallery opening on 3 Oct.) Paper to come.
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Chainlink Labs recognized as #20. Treating employees well is a point of pride as important as tech prowess. @chainlink
newsweek.com/rankings/most-l…
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MEV exploitation may seem inevitable in a world of profit-maximizing validators—with resulting harm to users. We believe it's not. We propose a different way in a new system called PROF. @KushalBabel @iseriohn42 @_mahimna
initc3org.medium.com/prof-fa…
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Dark DAOs are DAOs designed to attack other DAOs—while keeping attack dynamics secret. We've built complete, end-to-end Dark DAOs to highlight this future risk to DAO voting integrity. New blog post—with demo: initc3org.medium.com/daos-mu….
Demo here: piped.video/watch?v=GHmLVLB6….
Our Dark DAOs work on Ethereum, with Oasis Sapphire Paratime as a back end. Work by James Austgen, Andrés Fábrega, @sarahalle_, @KushalBabel, @_mahimna, and me.
On a happy note: (1) Dark DAOs techniques can be used for good purposes too, such as confidential DAOs (think private ConstitutionDAO) and (2) There are countermeasures to Dark DAOs, e.g., Complete Knowledge (CK): eprint.iacr.org/2023/044, by overlapping authors and @phildaian @VitalikButerin.
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DAOs are a truly interdisciplinary research topic, spanning political science, computer science, economics, law, and organizational science.
Here's a fresh compendium of DAO research papers waiting to see the light of day: arxiv.org/abs/2310.19201.
@joshuaztan @mpg_dd @sarahhubba @eliza_oak et al.
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Hear ye! Hear ye! Come hear about Town Crier from @0xFanZhang, lead author of the original paper. He'll also talk about DECO.
11 June at the IC3 10th Anniversary event in NYC. Free, but registration required: lu.ma/qn6enkr8?tk=xnW7gG.
Town Crier: An Authenticated Data Feed for Smart Contracts
As far back as the 11th century, town criers made trusted public announcements in city streets.
Today, in web3, oracles serve a similar role: delivering real-world data to smart contracts. Town Crier is an early realization of a fancy concept known as zkTLS 🧵
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Supremely fitting way to celebrate today's launch of my thriller novel THE ORACLE: A fireside chat last night in NYC with oracular legend @SergeyNazarov.
Thanks to Chainlink community members for joining us!
@oraclenovel #oraclenovel oraclenovel.com
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In a parallel universe, there's no Bitcoin. No blockchain industry. Not even digital signatures to sign transactions.
In that universe, U.S. science lacked the strong federal support it had here after WWII.
We're headed that way now.
Open letter from 9 U.S. colleagues and me:
An open letter from leading academics highlights the critical role of university research in driving crypto and blockchain innovation. They argue that the U.S. can't lead crypto innovation through regulation alone; it needs top-notch research.
Opinion.
trib.al/h1mMrF5
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TEEs / trusted hardware are in theory a perfect complement to blockchains. But security concerns have slowed adoption.
The Sting Framework (SF) is a new defensive layer for TEEs and other systems that enforce secrecy. See our blog post initc3org.medium.com/the-sti… or the TLDR below.
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Here's the idea behind Anchored NFTs in a nutshell. The key controlling an NFT is physically embedded in the device displaying the NFT. So when you see, e.g., a CryptoKitty, you're seeing it "in person," at the physical point of control. Learn more at initc3org.medium.com/anchore….
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Looking forward to speaking at the CBER conference at Columbia Univ. on Friday as I accept the award on behalf of the team. I'll give a retrospective on the paper and thoughts on ways to combat harmful MEV. @phildaian @sgoldfed @ethlorenz @relyt29 @CBER_Forum
Congratulations to #Chainlink Labs Research Team members @AriJuels, @ethlorenz, and Xueyuan Zhao on receiving the Crypto & Blockchain Economics Research (CBER)-Circle Insight Award for their paper "Flash Boys 2.0," which pioneered research on MEV. circle.com/blog/winner-of-in…
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The Gulbenkian Museum has an astonishing collection of coins (among other things). Here's their Akragas Decadrachm—an entire frieze sculpted on a coin almost as big as a U.S. silver dollar. Only some ten are known to exist today. It depicts Helios driving his chariot in the sky and scaring the bejesus out of an eagle carrying home dinner (a snake).
(I took this photo because the coin gets a brief mention in The Oracle.)
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Very much looking forward to my chat with @ChainLinkGod. Join us on Tuesday!
🔊 On Tuesday, 3/19 at 5PM ET, join @AriJuels and @ChainLinkGod on the Chainlink Official Discord, where they'll discuss Ari's new sci-fi thriller novel "The Oracle" and the role of AI and blockchains in society.
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Giving AI Agents Access to Cryptocurrency and Smart Contracts Creates New Vectors of AI Harm
New paper by Bill Marino and me. Available here: arxiv.org/abs/2507.08249
Bloomberg article on the work: bloomberg.com/news/newslette…
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Now would be a good time for someone to launch a DAO for training generative AI models.
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내가 사토시라고? 나는 비트코인 아닌 블록체인 신봉자
“I’m Satoshi? I’m a believer in blockchain, not Bitcoin.”
My interview with Jun-ki Hong in today's Chosun Daily.
chosun.com/economy/weeklybiz…
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With basic cryptography, you can accomplish little marvels, like one I just taught this semester: flipping a coin over the telephone *fairly*. The idea in a nutshell: use cryptography to simulate one person flipping the coin and covering it with her hand.
Recipe below.
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Oracles aren't just a technology...
When oracles first came on line, it felt like living in a primitive city that finally got electricity.
The Oracle novel U.S. edition available February 20th oraclenovel.com
#TheOracleNovel
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People often ask: What's the coin shown the cover of THE ORACLE? It's believed to be a portrait of Alexander the Great himself in the guise of Apollo—minted shortly after Alexander's death in 323 BC. The artistry is superb. (Compare to older version on right of same coin type.)
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My fireside chat with @SergeyNazarov about The Oracle.
Sometimes a fireside chat is a just an interview. But in my conversation with Sergey, I felt the crackle and warmth of the (metaphorical) fireplace. Wonderful to have the @chainlink community there!
piped.video/watch?v=tNB5-KmV…
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A thread on the future of NFTs—technical ideas devised and explored by my group at Cornell Tech in collaboration with others at IC3 @initc3org and elsewhere.
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Witches, vampires, and Arthurian knights weren’t the company I thought my work on blockchain tech would be keeping... but I can't ask for better!
THE ORACLE was announced today as a Publisher’s Weekly @PublishersWkly notable book pick for SF, Fantasy, and Horror in Spring 2024.
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Increasingly complex DeFi means increasingly complex MEV risks. Lanturn, led by @KushalBabel and @mojan_jp, uses adaptive learning to get accurate MEV estimates w/o heuristics: eprint.iacr.org/2023/1338.pd…. It has even discovered two interesting new MEV-extraction strategies. 1/5
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Thanks, @balaji. I agree that crypto and AI combine in some natural and powerful ways. And oracles do promise to play a role: coindesk.com/consensus-magaz….
“off chain program checking for on chain auth”
Yes, one way is just polling a chain for events.
But better methods exist. Chainlink and @AriJuels have work on securing bidirectional links between onchain & offchain.
[1]: research.chain.link/whitepap…
[2]: docs.chain.link/chainlink-fu…
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My crypto thriller novel THE ORACLE is out today! It can be ordered from pretty much everywhere you buy books. You can learn more at oraclenovel.com, but here’s a quick thread about its origins.
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I had fun recording a series of short introductory videos on blockchain topics (and ancient Greek history!). Here's the first of them. Thanks to the publicity team for _The Oracle_ for asking interesting questions and helping put these together. #oraclenovel
People focus too much on the digital gold rush, the part of crypto that’s gaining a bad rap...they’ll overlook the vast sea of technological possibility that comes from #blockchain technology beyond #Bitcoin…
#TheOracleNovel available February 20th.
oraclenovel.com
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People have asked whether I’ll sign copies of THE ORACLE. Always with pleasure! Book events are in the planning stages. I’ll also sign a small batch of bookplates for those at events—to be shared with friends who can’t make it. Initial design below. #oraclenovel #cryptothriller
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Thank you! My first ETHDenver. Looking forward to my talk, "Oracles: Science Fiction and Not-So-Science-Fiction," and to seeing friends and colleagues in Denver!
🎤 SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT
🟣 We are THRILLED to welcome @arijuels from @chainlink and @cornell_tech as an #ETHDenver2024 speaker!
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IC3 was created to bridge the gap between academia and the blockchain industry.
Our alumns have had monumental success, founding, e.g., Ava Labs, Offchain Labs, and Flashbots.
We're ramping up IC3 tech transfer with the IC3-Cornell Blockchain Accelerator.
@initc3org
How can industry and academia work together to advance crypto and blockchain development?
We’re excited to introduce the IC3-Cornell Blockchain Accelerator: A groundbreaking initiative, led by students and alumni, to transform research and bold ideas into real-world applications.
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Without decentralization, a DAO is just an AO.
But what does decentralization really mean for a DAO?
New blog post: The ‘D’ in DAO? We’ve All Been Getting It Wrong.
w/ J. Austgen A. Fábrega @sarahalle_ @KushalBabel @_mahimna
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Privacy is of paramount importance in CBDC design. Basic CBDC designs risk leaking more information to central banks than the existing system. But I believe this op-ed overlooks nuances discussed in, e.g., IC3's CBDC survey: nber.org/papers/w27634.
coindesk.com/layer2/2022/10/…
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Come find me at the @Chainlink booth between 4-6 p.m. on 29 February (a day that barely exists) at #ETHDenver24. A bunch of complimentary copies of THE ORACLE on offer and I'll be signing books. Looking forward to seeing you there!
@oraclenovel oraclenovel.com #oraclenovel
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Thanks for coming and celebrating with me!
Last night, we celebrated the launch of @AriJuels' @oraclenovel, joined by #Chainlink co-founder Sergey Nazarov and the Chainlink community in NYC. It was great to see the community together IRL!
Find more info and order your copy at: oraclenovel.com
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Blockchain and AI tools will grow more powerful and inevitably combine in oracles...
#oraclenovel oraclenovel.com
As #Blockchain and AI tools grow more powerful, I believe that blockchain oracles could evolve as sources of truth for many different things.
#TheOracleNovel U.S. edition available February 20th.
oraclenovel.com
#Cryptocurrency #Bitcoin #AncientGreece
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Thanks, @OasisProtocol. Lead authors of the work were James Austgen and Andrés Fábrega, with co-authors @sarahalle_, @_mahimna (and me). Yes, confidentiality generally helps with decentralization. Delegation helps under specific conditions outlined in the paper.
Recent research from @AriJuels suggests direct confidential mechanisms (e.g. voting) and indirect confidential mechanisms (e.g. delegation) can lead to to greater participation & decentralization 🩵
You can read the full article at initc3org.medium.com/the-d-i…
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My new op-ed in Blockworks: What can blockchain do for AI? Not what you've heard.
There are promising ways that blockchain technology can support AI. But there's also a good lead of noise and misleading narrative.
blockworks.co/news/blockchai…
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Scalper bots regularly spoil NFT drops. Yan Ji @iseriohn42 to give a talk on CanDID NFT (nft.candid.id/)—an anti-bot NFT technology that leverages decentralized identity via oracles. (At IC3 NFT gallery opening on 3 Oct.)
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Securing AI + blockchain could help secure broader uses of AI.
In writing this short piece for @coindesk, I learned a lot from my co-author @lmoroney.
I also arrived at a better understanding of how AI safety could benefit from oracles.
Blockchain technology could play a key role in the world of artificial intelligence, @chainlinklabs Chief Scientist @AriJuels and @Google AI Safety Lead @lmoroney predict.
Opinion.
trib.al/WxW6j1u
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In 2015, @el33th4xor, @ElaineRShi, and I founded IC3 @initc3org , with @dawnsongtweets on the first board.
We foresaw academic research as an innovation engine for the industry. A decade later,
@avax Flashbots @OasisProtocol @chainlink and more
show how true this came to be.
Join us in NYC to celebrate 10 years of IC3! 🎉
June 11th 8:30am - 5:30pm
We’ll revisit the groundbreaking research that introduced concepts like MEV, zkTLS, Selfish Mining, and more.
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The beauty of on-chain pyramid schemes is their transparency. They've existed for centuries, but we finally get a detailed picture and ideas on prevention. We'll present study of Forsage at FC in May 2023. Original blog w/ paper link: medium.com/initc3org/red-fla…. Key results👇
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What's a blockchain? My slightly crazy attempt at a 90-second explanation for non-technical friends.
A blockchain is a kind of digital bulletin board...
#TheOracleNovel U.S. edition available February 20th.
oraclenovel.com
#Blockchain #Crypto #Bitcoin
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The birth of @initc3org (and Ava Labs @avax) recounted by my former colleague @el33th4xor, who co-founded both. IC3 isn't wedded to any particular project. Its goal was—and is— "just good researchers doing good research" to solve the blockchain industry's most pressing problems.
🎙️Take a sneak peak at IC3's latest Founders in Web3 interview with Emin Gün Sirer @el33th4xor, CEO of Ava Labs @AvaLabs @avax and former IC3 Co-Director. Gün highlights IC3’s founding vision as a global blockchain research hub where "Just Good Researchers Doing Good Research" thrive🏆. He also notes that much of Ava Labs' work is rooted in the practical and influential research developed at IC3. Our community keeps shining!🌟 #blockchain #Web3
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The lights of NYC are about to grow a bit brighter. Phil Daian @phildaian to give a talk on co-designing a ten-foot-high NFT display panel commissioned from glassblower Jason Mack. (At IC3 NFT gallery opening on 3 Oct. @initc3org)
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Take My Ape is out! Try it at takemyape.com.
Own a Bored Ape for 15 minutes with one Ethereum transaction.
Ownership ≠ rental. It means copyright license, access to BAYC spaces, and your address on chain as owner.
TMA's goal? To demo the power of Liquefaction.
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I dare say @initc3org has played a more important role in launching successful blockchain tech and ideas than most deep-pocketed VC firms. Scientific innovation and stellar students are a winning combination. @GyroStable
Special thanks are due to @Balancer for all of their incredible integration support to date, as well as @initc3org for incubating the early ideas as a summer bootcamp project.
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Congratulations to my (now former) PhD student Kushal Babel @KushalBabel! He successfully defended his PhD thesis and has just joined @monad_xyz.
Kushal's dissertation focuses on ways to measure and combat exploitative practices in DeFi, e.g.: piped.video/watch?v=VXpUGod6….
His work at hasn't just been outstanding, but also accelerated in the home stretch. Keep your eyes peeled for his work on entirely new types of DeFi instruments, coming out soon...
I feel both lucky and proud to work with my PhD students at @cornell_tech / @cornell.
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Live demo of Liquefaction by @danivilardell77 at @CryptoCanal EthDam, jointly with @OasisProtocol.
Take My Ape (a Liquefaction app) allows anyone to own a Bored Ape for 15 minutes—for the price of a single Ethereum transaction.
Public release coming soon after Dani's preview.
IC3's @danivilardell77 takes the stage at @CryptoCanal ETHDam to discuss Liquefaction, a novel method for privately liquefying blockchain assets.
Dani will conduct a live demonstration of Liquefaction on May 10th at 11:15 CEST. This project is a collaboration with @OasisProtocol 🐵
We'll share a video of the demo. Stay tuned.
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One of our upcoming demos of how Liquefaction changes the meaning of ownership.
Own Bored Ape #8180 for the cost of a single Ethereum transaction... for 10 minutes.
What is ownership in Web3?
With Liquefaction, the meaning is shifting.
@AriJuels will demo how anyone can cheaply gain full—though temporary—ownership of a Bored Ape.
Rethinking digital assets starts here.
Join us at NFT.NYC 2025 to explore what ownership really means in the age of NFTs.
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The key to key management is to know your risks. Key loss, leakage, and theft are different types of failures. Ittay Eyal @ittayeyal will discuss his pioneering research around these issues, which began with eprint.iacr.org/2021/1522. (At IC3 NFT gallery opening on 3 Oct.)
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Some people have asked me how you go about getting a novel published. Once you have a complete draft, you send out queries to agents. Then you await their responses. Here's what that looks like. Repeat 50x.
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Yes, you probably are, @franklinisbored! NFTs are an important addition to blockchain curriculum.
(Corrections to Twitter noise: This was my talk at IC3 event at Cornell Tech, not a Harvard course. $100k referred to collection floor price.)
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THE ORACLE is released today!
"Is it pure fantasy? Parts of it are. But unlike most sci-fi, THE ORACLE is grounded in real history, science, and tech—including my work at Cornell and Chainlink Labs."
#oraclenovel @oraclenovel oraclenovel.com
“I hope you’ll turn the first page and join me in the adventure’
The #OracleNovel is available today wherever you purchase your books!
oraclenovel.com
#blockchain #bitcoin #author
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Short talk at ETHDenver on THE ORACLE today: "Oracles: Science-Fiction and Not-So-Science-Fiction." (1:50 p.m., Atlantis main stage.)
From 4-6 p.m., complimentary books at Chainlink Booth + signing (on bookplates, numbered in hex of course).
See you here in Denver!
@oraclenovel #oraclenovel oraclenovel.com
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Last night's test run of display for IC3 NFT gallery opening on Monday. Videographer (me) gives sense of scale. Trippy vortex noise is just the soothing sound of NYC at night. @phildaian @initc3org
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It seems we’re not just oblivious to the beauty around us, but crushing it underfoot. One of many striking photos at sandgrains.com/.
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"NFT Fair Drops with Decentralized Identities." Nice, concise talk by Yan Ji @iseriohn42 on use of oracles to level the NFT playing field. At IC3 NFT gallery opening: piped.video/watch?v=8u1MKhZs….
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Many thanks to @taliakaplin for @CNBC interview today on misleading narratives around AI and blockchains. Also how focus on prices distracts from blockchain innovation (right after news about Bitcoin price swings!).
...and a bit on The Oracle.
cnbc.com/video/2024/04/10/bi…
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Yes!
This is why Ethereum needs PROF.
MEV-Blocker, MEV-Share etc. operate in a very fragile trust model, and force users to choose between privacy and inclusion likelihood.
PROF circumvents such tradeoffs and privacy risks.
More info: prof-project.github.io
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Thanks to Uniswap for their generous support. Until the emergence of tools to mitigate MEV—something we're working on—I hope that predicting impact will be a useful stopgap measure.
@UniswapFND @FKoushanfar
In R&D, @AriJuels and @FKoushanfar have received a grant to research and build an MEV Estimator Prototype
This work will allow swappers to better predict whether MEV will occur, and to what extent they will be impacted, prior to executing a transaction on Uniswap
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My talk on DAOs at Columbia CryptoEconomics (CCE) Workshop.
How should we measure DAO decentralization? What threat do Dark DAOs pose?
Covers Austgen, Fábrega, Allen et al. paper: arxiv.org/abs/2311.03530.
piped.video/55gOFXmCc1s?si=qbP2…
(Paired with excellent talk by Sreeram Kannan@sreeramkannan on cryptoeconomic security via insurance.)
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The Science of Blockchain Conference (SBC) submission deadline is less than a week away: Thursday, 13 March.
To learn more and submit, visit sbc-conference.com/2025/.
Co-organized by @BerkeleyRDI, @CBRStanford, and @initc3org. Co-chaired with @dawnsongtweets and @danboneh.
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Talking tomorrow at the Princeton DeCenter about tools to address two NFT problems: (1) Scalper bots (using privacy-preserving oracles) and (2) The increasing pressure on creator royalties (by enforcing a new property called Complete Knowledge).
decenter.princeton.edu/event…
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