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🚨 Stop everything and WATCH THIS! Zooko, founder of ZCash, gives the best Zero-Knowledge explainer I've ever seen... 🤷🏽♂️ If you're not already excited at the prospect of ZK technology, you should be. Here's why: 'Send proofs, not data' ⛓️ We can create robust, global, automated networks to run apps and payments (Blockchain) but use unique cryptography to keep sensitive data: 1. Away from the public record (unless required) 2. Of third parties systems (reducing their data governance burden) 3. In the hands of their 'owner' (whether B2B, B2C, B2G, etc.) 😓 The challenge with ZK tech is the same we faced with Blockchain in the early days: all the narrative was around how the tech worked, with very little around how the tech can be used to drive change. �� So hopefully this small video will help make ZK a little less scary for you, and bring more eyes on the possibility of Dapp that use ZK. 🕛 And, of course, if you're looking for a Blockchain that has ZK, smart contracts, and can be programmed with Typescript... Try Midnight... What's you're feeling on the potential of Zero-Knowledge? 🚀🌔 #blockchain #technology #management #innovation 

📣 I am excited to share part 2 of our blog post series with #Alchemy on building account abstraction wallets. In part 1 we covered the challenges of blockchain wallets, and how account abstraction addresses many of these challenges. In this second blog post, we present a technical how-to on building account abstraction wallets using Alchemy's Account Kit, AWS Key Management Service, and Amazon Managed Blockchain. https://lnkd.in/eVahuty8 Special thanks to David Dornseifer (co-author), Forrest Colyer, and Paul Fullarton #aws #awscloud #blockchain #ethereum #alchemy

As regulations and efforts regarding cryptocurrencies, digital assets tokenization, and central bank digital currencies continue to evolve, financial institutions worldwide must develop or adopt custody architectures, also known as digital vaults. Here's a summary of the fantastic work we accomplished with our partners at Itaú Unibanco in building theirs. 🚀 #AWS #Itau #WorkHard #HaveFun #MakeHistory #CryptoCustody #DigitalAssets #FinTech #Tokenization #vamosdeturma Caio Gomes Gustavo Peternelli Abrell Marcio Neris Anderson Bandeira Fernando Borsarini 🏳️🌈 Leonardo Volkmar David Dornseifer Brian Cassin Nico Kicillof John Liu Everton Fraga Jonathan Allen Christopher R. McDonald Christopher Munley Paul Fullarton Kimberly Hatton Damu Winston, MBA, PMP

The Gemini/Gemma tokenizer takes a completely different approach to tokenization from Llama, GPT and Mistral. So i created a draft benchmark looking at different language, culture, people, cities etc to compare how the tokenizers work differently. Honestly the results are super interesting. Gemma/Gemini takes a totally different approach over regular sub-word tokenization. The trade off in vocabularly size is also super interesting.... #ai #gemini #geminiai #gemma #gpt4 #llms #benchmark https://lnkd.in/eteE6qt4

Chock-full of AWS activities at #ethdenver for the innovative builders of Web3: 1. Feb 27 11:30 - 12 at Polygon's Aggregation Cave (https://lu.ma/h7dytzqm), I'm giving a presentation of AMB Access and Query, including demo of a battery passport built on Polygon Labs. 2. Feb 27 ZkDay (https://lnkd.in/e82X8WV2), at 12:30 - 1:15 Emile Baizel will talk about the breakthroughs of zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs) RISC Zero, Zircuit, and Linea. From 2:30 - 3:15 Brad Feinstein explores how ZKPs are supercharging applications with Aleo, Mysten Labs, Modulus, and O(1) Labs. Come visit us at our booth while you're there! 3. Feb 27 Fireblocks Brewing the BUIDLing Blocks (https://lnkd.in/eAG5ddzK), at 15:00 - 16:00 David Dornseifer dives into AWS key management solutions for builders. At 16:15 - 17:15 Christoph Niemann shares solutions to deliver blockchain data quickly and easily to applications, including #AMB's Query. 4. Feb 28 GoPlus Security Summit (https://lu.ma/debc8tm0), join me for a Fireside chat with GoPlus co-founder Eskil as we talk about the importance of on-chain data for application security. 5. Feb 29 EthDenver 16:45 Paul Fullarton joins Chirag Dhull from Chainlink, Sid Sanyal from Eigenlayer, Meta, and Bloccelerate to discuss the benefits and challenges of multi-chain for builders.

I'm excited to go to my first #ETHDenver2024 this year. If you're interested in how to get data from blockchain most efficiently, I'm going to talk about querying blockchain with Amazon Managed Blockchain Query or the Graph at the Fireblocks side event: https://lu.ma/7r0jr2oo