Dankrad Feist
Researcher at Tempo
Dankrad Feist is a researcher at Tempo and previously a researcher at the Ethereum Foundation working on the Ethereum . protocol, with a particular interest in cryptography, secure multi-party computing MPC, zero-knowledge proofs, and more. He is also an EigenLayer consultant.
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one fear i have is most of the people at the EF who "think differently" have now left for one of the other orgs. so in order to remain relevant beyond institutional / incumbent advantages, i really do think EF has to evolve for this new institutional environment, otherwise it runs the risk of being
> the funny thing about decentralization, is that community uprisings are the whole point agree to an extent, but also disagree. uprisings reflect that the people in power are disconnected from the desires of the plebs so what it frames here is a big disconnect between the people who control(led)
Last week @CertiK delivered and finalized their 2nd Ethereum Foundation grant relating to formal verification in zkVMs. This time the CertiK FV team experimented with zkVM circuit correctness proofs in Verus! More below 👇
CertiK Completes Second Ethereum Foundation Grant on Formal Verification in zkVMs Using Verus
We have now @tempo chain vaults live. $18M stablecoin vault TVL puts Tempo behind Berachain. What makes Tempo special is that its native onchain stablecoin is "pathUSD" which automatically routes to USDT, USDC or any stablecoin you may have. https://t.co/rnDdwyQooH
WLFI 半年进展：USD1 从稳定币走向交易、借贷与机构 WLFI @worldlibertyfi 半年一度的总结又来了，这次相较于半年前，有了特别多的实质性进展，主要包括 USD1 的发行规模、链上覆盖、借贷市场、交易场景和机构合规 一、USD1 供应量突破 53 亿美元，Solana 成为重要增长来源 2026 年上半年，USD1 供应量一度超过 53 亿美元，已覆盖 8 条以上区块链，相比单纯扩大跨链桥资产，WLFI开始强调 “原生发行”： USD1 成为 Tempo 上首个以 TIP-20 形式发行的稳定币 已宣布进入 MovaChain Aptos 和 Monad 也在
RT @stacy_muur: The Ethereum Foundation’s institutional privacy team just spun out into its own company. This just went on my list of high…
Major Project Updates: > The Ethereum Foundation spins out EthSystems to build private, confidential settlement layers for institutions. > Stripe's Tempo L1 introduces Receive Policies, letting users customize which tokens and senders an account accepts. > Jito will use fees from its JTX trading pl
the interesting thing to watch about EthLabs (as an org design nerd) is that it will be an experiment on how you can take largely a lot of the same people (i think almost everyone who works there now worked at the EF) and possibly achieve drastically different results and outcomes by giving them d
Corpo-chains like Base and Robinhood unfortunately won’t survive long term They don’t attract builders Instead each corporation is trying to launch their own L2 Stripe has Tempo Coinbase has Base Robinhood has RH chain etc The funny thing is that similar things happened with private blockchains