
✞ • a third culture kid, perpetual optimist • @presto_labs @okx • posts on digital assets and random interests • 25 y/o
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Еlena retweeted
“if you value intelligence above all other human qualities, you’re gonna have a bad time”
Aging like fine wine.
Еlena retweeted
Dads did the most but often under appreciated. I think it’s tough to be a father.
Love you always dad, forever thankful for you (but this pic is still about me)
Ignore the pose lol
Еlena retweeted
How I felt giving a back-to-back #IHSG outlook to Canadian and Australian firms on a friday night, convincing them that this is an overlooked potential from potential $30Bn outflows we're expecting due to the potential MSCI downgrade.
This is crypto reality now. No more fun charade awaits.
Еlena retweeted
Cryptocurrency and Zcash went through “bugpocalypse” this spring.
It was an intense ~3 months or so. A lot of hacks. A lot of critical security patches.
You’ll notice that there were no big crypto hacks this week while web2 melts down.
There is light at the end of the tunnel.
Еlena retweeted
W Singapore.
You don’t only complain about declining marriage and birth rates year over year, instead you incentivize mothers to stay at home postpartum, create a platform to facilitate relationships, and help families to raise big family.
Beside Russia, Singapore seems to be the only country taking birth and marriage decline seriously 👏
Еlena retweeted
How can anyone look at these tiny, impossibly beautiful creatures, with their little hands, curious eyes, and hearts overflowing with love, and not feel an ache to become a mother?
Something in me physically aches at the thought of carrying a little life beneath my heart, feeling those tiny movements inside my womb, bringing someone into existence only to spend a lifetime kissing their little cheeks, holding their warm bodies against my chest, and watching them discover the world.
They are innocence made flesh, love. I want a house overflowing with babies and their endless need to be held. Make lots and lots of babies.
Еlena retweeted
Fun fact of the day: Bitcoin mining cost is split about 50/50 between compute capex and electricity. Meanwhile, AI inference is almost completely dominated by compute capex.
Еlena retweeted
I have just digged into the rabbit hole of Ledger (was not panicked mid week because not a Ledger user) but it's insane that everything is timed during token 2049.
This morning alone, I blocked 4 TG accounts of my old acquintances that I presumed have been hacked by DPRK, shot me an usual "been quite a while, let's catch up *insert calendly link*"
We need better OPSEC. I can't believe some people still use Telegram for sensitive deal sharing info and even drafts on agreement etc.
Еlena retweeted
most of you guys i have met need to believe in yourselves a lot more
i meet countless idiots who have raised, extracted and built everything on pure smoke and mirrors
ironically the most self-aware and smart dudes i have met struggle to get out of their own way and think less
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Today I call upon the blockchain industry to calmly begin planning for "bunker mode". My personal recommendation is to set in motion a controlled mass migration of assets to fresh addresses, i.e. addresses whose pubkeys remain hidden behind a hash.
Holders, starting with large and sophisticated ones, should consider moving the bulk of their funds to addresses that have never signed a transaction. And when they do sign one, they should also move remaining funds to a new address (possibly generated from the same seed phrase).
Don't rush. While I believe there is cause for action a rushed migration would do more harm than good. Don't panic either. Moving assets to protected addresses is a simple, preventative step which does not require new cryptography or new wallets.
IMO it is now reasonable to brace for the possibility that ECDSA breaks before qday, in the worst case in months not years. By "break" I mean fast private key recovery (e.g. in one week) on available hardware (e.g. a large GPU cluster).
Recent days have been humbling for human mathematical intuition. Long-held, unquestioned hypotheses have fallen. This includes the n log(n) bound for integer multiplication and the 3SUM conjecture. In hindsight, May's unexpected disproof of the Erdős unit distance conjecture was our warning shot.
Yesterday's OpenAI drop made it clear that mathematical superintelligence is upon us. They say there are weeks where decades happen. We are about to live through weeks where centuries of mathematical progress happen. Could our magic 64-byte ECDSA signatures be too good to be true? Was it just security through obscurity all this time?
Elliptic curves feel especially vulnerable to superintelligence. Curves carry rich structure, with room for fancy tricks like Schoof, Frobenius, pairings. (By contrast, hashes are designed to minimise algebraic structure.)
Separately, as Ewin Tang can attest, an efficient quantum algorithm sometimes foreshadows an efficient classical one. We should be open to the possibility of a classical counterpart to Shor that breaks elliptic curves and RSA at once.
Also noteworthy is the striking under-representation of cryptographic breakthroughs among the 722 mathematical results OpenAI published. I've witnessed first-hand the US government censoring academic quantum cryptanalysis results. Backroom interventionism is my base case.
I urge large, sophisticated actors to lead by example. Project11's "risq list" (bitcoin-risq-list.projecteleven[.]com) is a great tracker of exposed BTC pubkeys. Binance, Bitbank, Robinhood, Bitfinex, and Tether have an opportunity to harden their cold storage. Next month I'll address institutions in London in a live Q&A (forum.ethereuminstitutional[.]org/london-2026).
Again, please do not rush. Wallets holding under 50 BTC enjoy partial cover from "Satoshi's shield", i.e. his 20K exposed addresses that hold 50 BTC each. Load-bearing signers like oracles and L2 security councils should consider rotating ECDSA pubkeys with every signed message and/or multi-signing with a hash-based schemes like SPHINCS.
Exiting bunker mode safely will require post-AI cryptography. My inclination is to go all-in on hash-based cryptography and avoid structured mathematical assumptions entirely, whether from curves, lattices, or isogenies. A single battle-tested hash (e.g. from the SHA or BLAKE families) yields plausible post-AI security.
The Ethereum roadmap on strawmap[.]org fully embraces hash-based cryptography with end-to-end formal verification as a response to the quantum threat. Those timelines must now be revisited and accelerated in light of mathematical superintelligence. I'll be pushing for maximum defensive acceleration.
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This man risking his personal safety to engage an organized crime working for “L” Group as primary launderer of possibly one of the most high profile, biggest crypto hack in history (Bybit) In addition, he spent $340k and losing 5% in each order.
@tether and others must start to flag the addresses Zach mentioned in order for him to retrieve his intel funds.
Еlena retweeted
I think a couple years from now crypto perps will still make up about ~70-80% of biggest DEXes volume and revenue
On chain tradfi perps is growing but as a result of where the industry right now onboarding phase fees are heavily subsidized
Once it's grow exponentially, and protocol like $HYPE allow buyback with tradfi perps fee instead of fully relying on crypto perps fee, we then can see meaningful tradfi perps vol overtaking crypto

































