TKMatima (@tkmatima) • Hey
Hacker | @Microsoft Top 100 Security Researcher of 2018 (alias: Dmitri Kaslov) | Crypto
Publications
- In a battle for AI assistants, OpenAI and Google seem to be front runners, with Apple nowhere to be seen
- Lol as usual, alot of people missed the point of #AIDay :
- it is recruitment event for robotics & AI engineers to join #Tesla , not a product reveal event
- yes ofcoz Teslabot is nowhere near Boston dynamics robots in functionality
- are BD robots mass produced???
- After a short 7 days off work, this is how “well” those emails will find me tomorrow
- Oh my word, the #Bitcoin guys are piling in on the $GBP dump.
Apparently orange coin is better than the Sterling 🙆🏽♂️😅🤢🤮
- Kinda got bored with hacking (pentesting, 0day exploits)
Now im building (Learning iOS dev, Swift)
Have been envious of devs for the past 12 years of my cyber security career, now im finally doing something about it
- To achieve credible neutrality and censorship resistance in #web3, we need to minimise governance not maximise it. Most things will never be #decentralised and must not be relied upon to be so.
- Yesterday Lens Protocol announced the CultivatorDAO (👩🌾,👨🌾) to establish community driven content curation for Trust & Safety. Going to share our vision below on how we see the web3 social stack evolve 🧵
First, Lens Protocol is a decentralized social media protocol that acts as a registry to point content and followers. Users can link to any content which can be stored on-chain & off-chain. Most of the content is off-chain (stored in IPFS or Arweave etc).
The Protocol is flexible enough to link the content even to a private cloud or to a self-hosted environment. This is an interesting use case for follower and token gated content. It's up to the applications and users to choose how they use Lens Protocol.
Lens Protocol design guarantees users the access to their own social network. You don't need to trust centralized or off-chain platforms with your followers. Meaning every user has their own social network.
Not only you own your own network, but you also have the ability to broadcast content in a permissionless and censorship resistant way. Anyone you grant the access to your content has the ability to explore your creativity and self expression. This is decentralization by design.
While decentralization is groundbreaking for web3 social, the amount of information and finding relevant peers and content for you to discover would be a time consuming mission. This reason is why we would see another stack evolve - the middleware - where curation lives.
The middleware layer already exists on Lens Protocol, there are tools such as Graph Protocol, RSS3, Sepana and the Lens API. The middleware layer consists from widely decentralized appoaches to being progressively decentralized depending on the use cases they serve.
The latest addition to the middleware are communities such as the CultivatorDAO, focusing on curation with Trust & Safety in mind. Where code cannot solve everything, we need communities to reflect their values and govern.
The DAOs of the Lensverse will serve the application layer for various tasks ranging from building discovery algorithms, content moderation and solving various challenges that social media faces today.
The key difference between the web2 and web3 social stack is that in web3, the stack is completely open. When you don't like a policy or an experience, as a user you should be able to find a new experience without leaving behind your accumulated social capital.
Hopefully we will see small communities evolve across the web3 social ecosystem, being utilized for tasks that would benefit from community governance.
I would even imagine that every social media application built on top of Lens Protocol would have its own DAO consisting of its community members voted by the community that reflects the their own values.
Most importantly, these DAOs can operate transparently and since the measures taken by these DAOs are public, there should not be any shadow banning (see here: https://lenster.xyz/posts/0x05-0x0417).
By ensuring human assessment and the design that leads to decentralization, we are able to ensure that web3 social doesn't become a closed platform and users are able to access to open social networks that are driven by community engagement & stewardship.
Building a decentralized stack is a harder exercise than starting from a centralized approach, but brings the benefit of fully verified content linking on-chain wherever you store your content, ownership to your social graph, ability to use timestamps and create programmability.
And most importantly: decentralized and on-chain content and follower registries opens up the programmability and composability to another level. Imagine pairing Lens with tools like Simo, Lit Protocol, DeFi, NFTs, ReFi and DAO governance.
Besides reachitecturing the social stack, part of the mission for the Lens team is to make the social stack more accessible. Now with all interactions across the Lens Protocol, users do not need to sign or pay any gas. Blockchain on the backend, party on the frontend 🥳
Next Monday, you will be able to vote for CultivatorDAO with your Lens Profile to signal your support for community driven stewardship https://snapshot.org/#/cultivatordao.eth/proposal/0xd512345eb6c9b7bbf57b28a8b4f7dc46d31ab6c19ac8ad5de4605fa52fcb9e98
If you love our vision and what we are building, collect and mirror this post to retain your early user flexing rights 🌿
- They say startup ideas are born from dismantling alot of the Microsoft Excel features and functions.
Apple is dismantling startups by incorporating all their features with each major update
- Introducing CultivatorDAO 🧑🌾👩🌾 the first Web3 social DAO designed for open, decentralized content moderation on Lens Protocol. It is the first solution for addressing spam, bots, and other risks that can damage your social graph.
CultivatorDAO is optional - meaning it can be "turned on" by developers and/or users - and helps address spam, mitigate the risk of bots, and further curate the social graph across the ecosystem.
CultivatorDAO is also forkable, meaning the Lens community can fork the DAO and create their own version that caters to their specific needs for content moderation.
We believe that open, decentralized content moderation leads to more user-centric web that is resistant to abuse and censorship. We are excited to see what the Lens developer community builds out 🏡
Read more in our blog: https://mirror.xyz/lensprotocol.eth/pIzwjs9uhH8eSS1Bx0K1r-3iHEgLlBt6ruPXcEJe0S0
- Is the nakamoto coefficient still the best measurement of decentralization or is there a new one?
I see people now bashing it because nako coefficient reports that ETH is more centralized
Afaik, its the closest decentralization measurement thus far….despite how hard it is to do
- The fight for the #metaverse
- Controversial take :
Web3 wont *replace* Web2
Instead, what will happen is Web2 tech giants will just integrate relevant parts of Web3 and continue to win & grow, as they always have
Yes there will be crypto specific unicorns along the way, but aint no replacement
Web3 competitors will have to have the moat web2 companies already have - brand, distribution channels, attention, being profitable businesses, etc.
Its *much* harder to do that than most web3 proponents think,imo
examples :
NFTs - The minting & displaying of NFTs will hv far greater reach on current Web2 giants.
PKI - Apple can single handedly do more for the “not your keys crowd” than current crypto native wallet companies/projects
Payments - web2 giants hv distribution rails, etc
- My first hour into Joe Rogan - Mark Zuckerberg podcast and here are some thoughts
Zuck envisions that social becomes more immersive, pretty much the bet Meta has been going after since the rebranding. I definitely agree that there will be lot of space for new social networking in surfaces we all are still exploring (VR, AR etc) and big part of the experience would be immersive. There is lot of value to experience social in 3D and making this experience as real as possible, even if its not the same experience as IRL. According to Zuck the focus now is to make incremental improvements on the experience itself - things like having your avatar reflect your facial expressions is valuable.
Also Zuck mention an interesting topic on.... Holographs! Recent progress on holograms is getting better - seeing earlier 2pac as hologram and now the latest excitement on Abba Voyager hologram tour, I am quite bullish on what could be done as the tech matures more.
Immersive social will never be the exact same as you would feel when you would meet someone IRL, but it would definitely create a new layer of social experiences we all can benefit from.
Whether to choose a headset, glasses or 3D holographic experience appearing in front of me, for me its the holograms
- Other skillsets I have besides hacking and saying “nothing from me” in meetings
- It is well that there are palaces of peace
And discipline and dreaming and desire,
Lest we forget our heritage and cease
The Spirit’s work—to hunger and aspire - CS Lewis
- My Git commit messages:
- All Merge-related bounties for vulnerabilities have received a 4x multiplier between now and the 8th of September. Critical bugs are now worth up to null million USD 💪🏾
https://blog.ethereum.org/2022/08/24/mainnet-merge-announcement/
- Sometimes we gotta:
- be realistic about our threats
- be upfront about existence of vulns vs the exploitation of vulns
- decide if we take a data-driven security approach or just nitpicking rando stuff
- @phaver_frens.lens wen iOS?
- Coding in the early AM’s while wife and son sleeping, and before you gotta do the day job, is ……exciting! (Although tiresome if done over long periods)
- Is there a mobile app for @lensprotocol ?
- Aave, Uniswap, DYDX, other Defi apps, etc|
Isn't it time that even companies contributing to these protocols start *by default* use and host these on IPFS, etc?
- The censorship resistance we have been preaching is starting to be tested.
Anons will be doxxed.
Freedom coders are being/will be arrested.
It will be worse than the PGP/encryption era wars due to the moneyness of crypto
- BREAKING:
The Ethereum Merge has been scheduled for TTD 58750000000000000000000
This is approximately Sept 15-16th
The Merge is officially scheduled 📆
- Changing airplane engine mid-flight gonna happen right before our eyes, innit?
#ETHPoS
- Current crypto PMF is “adding friction “
Oh, you want to buy XYZ?
Well, first you have to take your dollars and buy XX and then you can do YZ, with an added responsibility called “governance”
But that will change - of that i'm sure!
- If markets do prefer duopolies, the Lens and FC are the two.
All previous attempts at chain/web3 social media attempts dont seem to have captured so much of peoples {dev} time and imagination
- Lovely weekend
- Henlo lens