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As a corporate lawyer, I've been incorporating companies for 17 years, & it's a mess. Somehow we really got robots & AI before a halfway decent startup app.
So I built it myself--oneshot formation, cap table, governance and onchain identity for your startup today.
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Added to both my ethereum:0xe76c6c83af64e4c60245d8c7de953df673a7a33d and ethereum:0x88800092ff476844f74dc2fc427974bbee2794ae positions today. I believe that both of these tokens are *potentially undervalued* ahead of what should be their biggest catalyst yet.
At @EFDevcon on Nov. 3, @VitalikButerin and @ncsgy will be giving a live presentation showcasing Kohaku on mainet(!!!)
This is pretty massive news IMO, as Kohaku has been in development for over a year now, and it finally seems like it's ready to be integrated into wallets.
For those of you who don't know about Kohaku, Railgun, or Ambire, here's a quick rundown:
Kohaku - Wallet SDK built by the @ethereumfndn that lets any EVM wallet easily integrate privacy features on Ethereum.
@RAILGUN_Project - One of the most robust privacy solutions on Ethereum that is being integrated into Kohaku. RAIL is its token.
@ambire - EVM wallet that Kohaku is forked from. Ambire will be the first wallet to implement any Kohaku-related features. WALLET is its token.
The main hurdle to privacy adoption in crypto has always been UX (see what happened to
zcash:native after @zodl_app improved Zcash's UX), so I believe that Kohaku represents a meaningful catalyst for privacy on Ethereum.
Link to my theses for both RAIL and WALLET below 👇
gabriel shapiro retweeted
Next year will be such a breakthrough for Ethereum UX and security that it's hard to put into a single tweet all the benefits we'll get.
Key rotation, native multisigs, huge security advances via transaction assertions, native post quantum signing schemes, ...
gabriel shapiro retweeted
suddenly putting all the critical digital infrastructure code onto public blockchains so we can verify what is even going on, doesn't seem so strange. And going server-less. We should just put all the apps into blockchain code, too. So they run same every time. Switch not hard...
gabriel shapiro retweeted
@VitalikButerin and @ncsgy on the same stage at @EFDevcon
"Kohaku: privacy for everyone, by default"
Nov 3, live demo on mainnet with @ambire :
Tornado Cash, Railgun, Privacy Pools, light client, post-quantum accounts, hardware wallet clear signing.
Nice
gabriel shapiro retweeted
Following a refreshing Gor Morning…
Felt the need to make the @Gorbagana_chain pfp a little more trashy.
solana:71Jvq4Epe2FCJ7JFSF7jLXdNk1Wy4Bhqd9iL6bEFELvg
gabriel shapiro retweeted
I do think that some people confuse "pragmatic" with "easier"
For example, it's incredibly hard and takes longer to ship a private decentralized network where the operator sees nothing
But ultimately it's more pragmatic; it's very practical to have a permissionless network controlled by nobody, accessible to anyone in the world
Ultimately the business use case will catch up with this kind of neutral settlement layer
In the mean time, I agree it's easier to ship something with compromised privacy and could benefit projects in the short term (and maybe position them to do well in the long term if they are able to decentralize)
Agreed - a pragmatic solution that works today is way better than a perfect solution that doesn't work. I would make one distinction though:
The pragmatic solution should be a stepping stone on the way to a better solution. It is OK to make compromises in the short term if there is a clear path to improve the privacy in the medium/long-term.
This has been our approach with Miden: we are launching with a pragmatic solution (what we call "guardrails") but the foundation is set to enable Zcash-level privacy incrementally and do so safely.
gabriel shapiro retweeted
people will naturally want to give agents spending authority. instead of embracing it and solving in a nice way, banking executives are crying about people giving the agents banking passwords. how about you offer another option! just borrow what tempo did, with timed and limited allowance, it works really nice.
gabriel shapiro retweeted
AI leaders at most law firms:
>buying AI from whoever wines and dines them the best
>fundamental lack of understanding about market and product capabilities
>not close enough to the legal work
>will end up with frontier LLM anyways because it's that much better
gabriel shapiro retweeted
One thing about CT is that you can never bullshit us and try to get away w it
It’s an army of autistic mfs out here 24/7 trying to find cracks in the egg the second you start movin different
good; other lawyers/firms don't need the hand-holding and will eat into BigLaw's moats...
gabriel shapiro retweeted
This was coming. Most of the winning infra (especially at the L1 / L2) has already been built out and you no longer need megafunds for the crypto app layer. There aren’t too many spots for $50M - $100M rounds.
For the pure play crypto projects, you’ll see a lot more from:
- smaller crypto VC funds funding pre-seed / seed
- onchain capital formation through platforms like MetaDAO
Crypto still has bright spots ahead but the funding landscape has changed.
"nooo honey I didn't buy onlyfans that was some rogue agent!!!"
SCOOP: Major U.S. banks are detecting unauthorized third-party AI agents inside customer accounts, including some attempting to take actions that appear to be independent of user instructions, sources told Axios.
The findings have alarmed banking executives, who are racing to restrict access to their systems as AI moves at a velocity faster than financial institutions can respond, multiple industry and bank executives told Axios.
Several banks are now preparing for worst-case and even “day after” scenarios, including how to rapidly secure or restore customer accounts if things go wrong, the people said.
Several bank executives told Axios they're struggling to distinguish between human users and AI agents. One executive said banks also struggle to determine whether agents are authorized by customers or potentially operating without their permission, more akin to rogue agent behavior.
Read my latest for Axios here: axios.com/2026/10/22/ai-agen…
gabriel shapiro retweeted
A case for decentralization:
The same authority that lets you fix a system can also become the means by which an attacker compromises it.
Social blackmail-driven hacks can become more common than pure software hacks after some time, especially if data leaks keep occurring.
100 year ethereum hash-based dynasty lfg
Project Eleven co-founder Alex Pruden on why Justin Drake and Yehuda Lindell take different approaches to the quantum threat
"Justin's concern is thinking about the longevity of Ethereum over 50 to 100 years. People who lived through the ETH1 to ETH2 transition remember how painfully long that took and how difficult it was."
"These are decentralized systems. It is very, very difficult to upgrade them. This is not like your phone upgrades and OS kind of thing."
"We need to minimize any kind of possible theoretical risk that might exist in the future. Therefore, we need to do hashes. That's, I think, Justin's perspective. I mean, that's very valid."
"On the flip side, Yehuda, responsible as the chief cryptographer at Coinbase for billions of dollars right now. At this second, his name on the line."
"So can understand why he's maybe got the view that maybe we shouldn't throw away the only thing that we know has worked right now and go into bunker. And I think there's elements of truth to both."
people mad that a blockchain company is trying to . . . *checks notes*. . . sell blockchain extensions to as many companies as possible lol
gabriel shapiro retweeted
Blockchain teams that have cut corners in the name of user acquisitions by centralizing their technologies are ironically the most prone to lose users as the security tradeoffs they have made are too great, and this is not the age to FAFO with security.
🤖 Made with AI
not sure why this is getting so much criticism
I actually agree a mass "company town" model is a plausible & desirable outcome for corporate finance/governance onchain
Ofc, it only makes sense if the company towns are "real" L2s; Stage 2 should remain a standard
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Just like every company has its own server now, soon every company will have its own blockchain.
@jinglejamOP explains: