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John Woods

@JohnAlanWoods

CEO @Nillion Association 🔑 GPG/A45F8C27C80F5D4E5CE0EBD3CA8E83A64C185D8D 🔗 woods.algo

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Joined March 2009
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This is not the consensus amongst cryptographers - sure, there might be some who think this, but to say that ECC is *likely* to break is definitely not the consensus. There is absolutely no evidence to support this statement. Likewise, to say that symmetric is more secure.
sasha shilina (@sshshln) profile picturesasha shilina@sshshlnNov 2
just when we were getting used to post-quantum cryptography, vitalik brings up post-AI cryptography. lovely
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Nillion has just received a KRW pairing on Upbit! 🇰🇷🇰🇷🇰🇷
Nillion (@nillion) profile pictureNillion
@nillionOct 27
NIL/KRW spot trading is now live on @Official_Upbit. 업비트에서 NIL/KRW 현물 거래가 시작되었습니다. 🔗: upbit.com/exchange?code=CRIX…
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They’re less likely to be backdoored, but reproducing P-256’s coefficients only proves how they were generated, not that the designers didn’t search through candidate seeds to select a curve with a hidden weakness - I’ll be sticking with k1 and Edwards25519.
Pete Kim (@petejkim) profile picturePete Kim
@petejkimOct 16
the choice of secp256k1 over r1 (P-256) in bitcoin (and ethereum) was heavily influenced by the fear of an NSA backdoor. this has been very annoying for wallet developers because the secure enclave chips found in most consumer devices only support r1. passkeys use r1 as well. turns out there is no backdoor after all... amazing work by anthropic. anthropic.com/research/ecdsa…
Claude reveals ECDSA curve origins

Claude reveals ECDSA curve origins

The decades-old mystery of the origins of one of the most popular cryptographic standards has been explained.

anthropic.com
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Oh and our next release, Darkfall, coming in a couple of months, brings Hyperliquid support, a P2P network and a consensus layer, to Covenants. ✨✨✨
Nillion (@nillion) profile pictureNillion
@nillionOct 16
Almost two weeks since Dusk launched on Ethereum mainnet. Developers are already building with Covenants. Here are some apps you can try 👇
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PSA: this is referring to shutting down legacy blind computer infrastructure. Which is no longer needed with Covenants. Covenants/Encrypted Markets are at L1. You now stake and earn rewards on L1. Covenants are the future of $NIL.
Mork (@MorkHood) profile pictureMork
@MorkHoodOct 15
wtf was that post from @nillion? they announced they were shutting down, posted a sloppy tutorial on how to withdraw funds, then deleted the post an hour later a failed marketing attempt, or did they get hacked?
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Anthropic vibe-coded its way out of Git and into a proprietary, always-online, centralized mess, then called losing 20 years of distributed-systems learnings an architectural breakthrough. Intelligence != Wisdom.
Anthropic (@AnthropicAI) profile pictureAnthropic
@AnthropicAIOct 13
New on our Engineering blog: Creating in-house source control. In May, we merged around 2,500 code changes per day. In September, we merged more than 30,000 per day. As a result, we became bottlenecked by developer infrastructure built for human (rather than agent) scale. Here, we share how we built a new version control system—and fully migrated our monorepo from git—in five months: anthropic.com/engineering/re…
Redesigning source control at Anthropic

Redesigning source control at Anthropic

As our merges per day grew more than tenfold, source control became our biggest development bottleneck. Here, we share how we migrated to an in-house version control system in five months.

anthropic.com
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Aj (@Ajwritescrypto) profile picture
Aj
@AjwritescryptoOct 13
Holy….. @nillion is gunna pop bro. I don’t have a deal with them, JAWS is my homie. And the ALGO CTO just jumped ship. 🤯
John Woods (@JohnAlanWoods) profile pictureJohn Woods
@JohnAlanWoodsOct 13
I’m proud to announce that @bmartins_ will be joining the @nillion team as CTO, to help drive the development of Covenants and encrypted markets! Bruno is a brilliant engineer who brings unparalleled experience building distributed systems and in applied cryptography. 🔥🔥🔥
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Exactly. Algorand owns the quantum game in crypto. Needs to be a technical tour de force out there publicly slamming that message home IMO. Algorand is the Daddy of PQC, own the narrative.
Al Goanna (@al_goanna) profile pictureAl Goanna
@al_goannaOct 13
Algorand needs to scream "quantum secure" till the whole of CT's ears bleed
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blocmates.
@blocmatesOct 13
Private Money Isn't Enough

Private Money Isn't Enough

Article · @blocmates
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I’m proud to announce that @bmartins_ will be joining the @nillion team as CTO, to help drive the development of Covenants and encrypted markets! Bruno is a brilliant engineer who brings unparalleled experience building distributed systems and in applied cryptography. 🔥🔥🔥
Bruno (@bmartins_) profile pictureBruno@bmartins_Oct 9
After nearly 4 years, I've decided to resign and move on from my role at the Algorand foundation. I'm super grateful for the experience and look forward to my next chapter. I'll remain part of the community and will be cheering for the success of the Algorand network.
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Mark Karpelès
@MagicalTuxOct 13
Ledger Flex sold at Singapore Airport confirmed to contain a spy implant! @BenYorke found suspicious marks on his @Ledger and sent it to me rather than using it, that was probably the best decision here. youtube.com/watch?v=Nf4FEFlg… nitter.cf/BenYorke/status/210908…
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Ben Yorke (WOO👍) (@BenYorke) profile pictureBen Yorke (WOO👍)
@BenYorkeOct 11
I have a $300 @Ledger Flex that I bought from the Singapore airport in summer (Metapod, should be fine?) I never plugged it in but it looks like theres some scratches on the casing, an indication of potential tampering? Anyways theres no way i can trust it (or Ledger) now
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> I think we might lose public key cryptography. > I’m not worried about all public-key cryptography. What a great way to whip up panic for normal people.
Matthew Green (@matthew_d_green) profile pictureMatthew Green
@matthew_d_greenOct 8
Replying to @matthew_d_green
Third: the tweet was written quickly. I’m not worried about all public-key cryptography, or PKC in principle. I’m worried about standardized public-key encryption (and some signatures) and specifically the fact that most of it is based on a small number of hard problems. 3/
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This. JP is smart. Elliptic curves are super likely to be fine, sans quantum attacks.
JP Aumasson (@veorq) profile pictureJP Aumasson
@veorqOct 8
difficulty != (computational) hardness; AI wont break computationally hard problems, the Church-Turing thesis applies
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Only 1 month after publishing our 7 era roadmap, era 1 is live! Encrypted Markets are here - powered by Covenants. Dusk is live, heralding a new dawn for Nillion. Privacy matters. 🔒
Nillion (@nillion) profile pictureNillion
@nillionOct 6
Dusk is LIVE on Ethereum Mainnet! Welcome to Encrypted Markets. Markets have always run in the open. We’re sealing them. More below 👇
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Monero (XMR) (@monero) profile picture
Monero (XMR)
@moneroSep 30
'The Road to Divisors in Monero Full-Chain Membership Proofs (FCMP++)' - by @MagicGrants
MAGIC Grants (@MagicGrants) profile pictureMAGIC Grants@MagicGrantsSep 29
The Road to Divisors in Monero What do you do when experts disagree? Three independent reviews, two years of work, and now a machine-checked proof. Learn more ⬇️ magicgrants.org/2026/09/29/D…
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Nillion is moving nodes to L1. DM if you need help. This lays the foundation for our new core platform Covenants. Encrypted Markets are here.
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Great artists steal. NEAR start your photocopiers. Thank you for validating Encrypted Markets.
NEAR Protocol (@NEARProtocol) profile pictureNEAR Protocol
@NEARProtocolSep 24
Confidential limit orders are now live on near.com, for any assets from any chain. Set your target price. It fills automatically when the market gets there. Your order waits out of public view.
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You need Encrypted Markets? - use ethereum:0x7cf9a80db3b29ee8efe3710aadb7b95270572d47 You need Encrypted Money? - use monero:native
Hack VC (@hack_vc) profile pictureHack VC
@hack_vcSep 22
Exciting progress from the team at Nillion.
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