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I raised a Series B last year for Bluesky to build the open social web. I want to thank our investors who share our vision, our users who light up the network (2.4B posts and counting), and the developers bringing the Atmosphere to life. Can’t wait to show you all what comes next!

Bluesky's 2025 $100M Series B Lays Foundation for Open Social Web - Bluesky In April 2025, Bluesky raised $100 million in Series B funding led by Bain Capital Crypto. Since our Series A, we've grown from 13 million to over 43 million global users.

Last April, we raised $100M in Series B funding. This round gives us the ability to scale our team to meet the rapid growth of Bluesky and the AT Protocol. Read more: bsky.social/about/blog/0...

1/ Had a great time on the ZK podcast chatting about local-first and emerging use cases for programmable cryptography (ZK, HE, MPC) with @goblinoats.com @arro.bsky.social @nicomnbl.bsky.social . I'm excited for more exploration here & I'd love to hear ideas from both local-first & prog crypto worlds

1/ Earlier this year, Yuval Domb of @ingonyama.com discovered Logjumps — a more efficient way to do large-prime field multiplication than Montgomery multiplication. So much modern crypto relies on modular multiplication — all the way from TLS sessions to elliptic-curve based ZK proofs.

Video of my talk in zksummit about Ligerito has been published!

It’s about the work by Andrija and @lmao.bsky.social introducing a small and concretely fast polynomial commitment scheme

Since then, a fun thing has happened —



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🧵 I've been experimenting with combining local-first software and the AT Protocol (atproto) to play with the design space of apps that live at both ends of the privacy spectrum - maximally private AND maximally public, without some of the downsides of the modern web. 

Why? 👇

ZODA and The Accidental Computer This week Anna catches up with Nico, Guillermo and Alex from Bain Capital Crypto to discuss two of their recent works; ZODA: Zero-Overhead Data Availability by the trio and The Accidental Computer by…

This week's ZK Podcast episode was on ZODA & The Accidental Computer from @baincapitalcrypto.com research team, with the trio @alexhevans.bsky.social @guilleangeris.bsky.social @nicomnbl.bsky.social chatting with @arro.bsky.social about these innovations.
Ep: https://zeroknowledge.fm/podcast/349/

What I learned working at a high-growth crypto startup On personal learnings, building products, and company scaling

🚢~New Essay ~🚢

As markets heat up, I thought I'd publicly share a few reflections from the hypergrowth days of OpenSea

And going from 25 to 300+ employees and $20B+ GMV in <2 years

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ZODA: Zero-Overhead Data Availability We introduce ZODA, short for ‘zero-overhead data availability,’ which is a protocol for proving that symbols received from an encoding (for tensor codes) were correctly constructed.

ZODA

Joint work with @nicomnbl.bsky.social and @lmao.bsky.social (with help from our friends Nash, Sanaz, and John at @celestiaorg.bsky.social)

A minor tweak to the encoding procedure makes data squares like Celestia's provably correct

Paper: bit.ly/zoda2
Blog: bit.ly/zoda1

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