Cross-Chain Arbitrage
and Zero-Knowledge Privacy
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Scalability
Security
Decentralization
Privacy
Compiler, Search, Ranking & Protocols
Formal Security @ Penn PhD, Microsoft
Social-Location-Mobile @ Google, Spotsetter
Search Ranking & Infrastructure @ Apple
Open Consensus & Protocols @ Harmony
Why Decentralization Matters
@a16z “The Long-Tail Problem in AI”
Autonomous markets for Strong AI owned by and serving 10B people
Token incentives for cold start & coordination
Smart contracts for immutable and self governance without platform risks
Data Economy: Ownership & Privacy
@numerai “Last Hedge Fund” as data science tournament ($62m payout) for signals of stock markets
@oceanprotocol “Data Farming” & DAO (decentralized autonomous org) for grants
@oasislabs “Privacy-Preserving Computation” against front/back running
Cross-Chain & Cross-Exchange Bots
Thousands and long tails of tokens
Open but hostile markets: intra-block flash loans, miner-extractable values
@hummingbot “Cross-Exchange Market Making” with open source and community
@harmonyprotocol “Cross-Chain Finance & Trustless Bridge” w/ staking & slashing
Open Arbitrage of US Dollars
Pegging hundreds of stablecoins (“digital dollars”) in thousands of liquidity pools
Swap ∞ variants of $1 at 0% fees?
@starkware “A Cambrian Explosion of Crypto Proofs” for privacy and scalability
@deversifi zero-knowledge proofs for fungible cash vs Know-Your-Customer
Harmony Protocol: Sharding & Staking
2-second finality with 1-block confirmation
Mainnet since 2019: 4 shards, $0.001 fees
BLS aggregated signatures, first chain with view change in production
Fair staking: on-chain delegation & slashing
Applications: Digital Arts
Low fees for airdrops, trading, experiments
Lending assets interoperable on Ethereum
Branded Assets: Beast Quests card sales with Animoca as staking incentives
WANTED: community arts, 10k-user games
Developers 💙 $7M Grants
“Ethereum 3”: cryptographic primitives, ZKProof-based privacy, event oracles
Protocol: VDF resharding, gossiping protocol
Applications: cross-border finance, fiat integrations, radical markets
Formal Verification, language-based security
Cross-Chain Arbitrage, Zero-Knowledge Proofs
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Scale Trust & Create Radically Fair Economy
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Radical Markets & Auditable Privacy
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$7M Grants, We are HIRING! 💙
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