As an organizer, how do you measure the success of an event?
I think this does it for me.
I think this does it for me.
ArreglaoView quoted post on X
JUST IN: “Securing Elliptic Curve Cryptocurrencies against Quantum Vulnerabilities” announced as this year’s winner of @chaincode’s Bitcoin Research Prize 2026View quoted post on X
The paper, produced largely by Google’s Quantum AI (@GoogleQuantumAI) group, provided new resource estimates for breaking the 256-bit Elliptic Curve Discrete Logarithm Problem, the core of modern blockchain cryptography.
We'll be in Amsterdam this coming week, kicking things off at Bitcoin Research Day '26 and sharing our latest work on Shielded Bitcoin, PIPEs, and Witness Encryption.View quoted post on X
If you're attending, come meet the [[alloc] init] team to discuss the research, open questions, and what's next:
👉 Misha Komarov @nemothenoone — Founder [[alloc] init], co-author of Shielded Bitcoin & Bitcoin PIPEs
👉 Michel Abdalla @michelabdalla — Senior Cryptography Researcher, prev IACR President
👉 Clara Shikhelman @ClaraShik — Head of Protocol Research, co-author of Shielded Bitcoin, prev Head of Research at Chaincode Labs
👉 Patrick Towa @towa_patrick — Cryptography Researcher, formerly Head of Cryptography Research at Aztec
👉 Aleksei Moskvin @alalmoskvin — Protocol Engineer, co-author of Shielded Bitcoin
👉 Scott Odell @nevernotrunout — COO
Many thanks to hosts @2140_dev @ChaincodeLabs and everyone putting this event together!
See you there.
Shielded Bitcoin: Private Transfers on Bitcoin L1View quoted post on X