Before building wireless networks (actually less than six months before first building Andrena with Princeton) I got completely sucked into cryptography because of homomorphic encryption. Funny enough, I wanted to build houseless poker and blackjack. Thankfully @yrschrade and the @ArciumHQ team have a much better vision than I did. I'd like to think there's a moment in everyone's cryptography journey where public key cryptography just clicks. You see its elegance and realize why the Internet relies on it, how powerful it is for securely sharing data. For me, the work Arcium is doing with FHE, ZKPs, secure MPC + more, feels like that next elegant leap in cryptography. If public key gave us scalable encrypted data sharing, then these techniques are the logical next step -- securely working on encrypted data. This tech is so foundational for the future of a better, decentralized Internet that fewer things are as important. Arcium's technique towards building the encrypted supercomputer for the world finds itself at this interestinct intersection of computational demand, practicality, and necessity. It truly is an honor to help them build this vision with the Black Box. And I'm stoked to see a world where your HTTPS lock is upgraded to a purple Arcium lock that lets you know your data never left your device.

Very few folks genuinely understand how to make IBRL a reality. One of the things I love most about the @solana ecosystem is that it attracts the best and brightest who actually know how to make meaningful progress here. Saying I'm "excited" to partner with @pipenetwork doesn't quite capture it. @DavidRhodus and the Pipe team are more like kindred spirits, driven by the same deeply technical vision. When it comes to the content delivery stack for billions of users, Pipe operates literally one hop above us, right after the network layer. They're relentlessly obsessed with optimizing their layer, just as we are with ours. And because our layer directly hands off packets to theirs, this partnership is uniquely important. It means we have to execute flawlessly so Pipe's code can achieve peak performance. There's a specific piece of the DAWN Black Box purpose built exactly for this: the virtualization and network layer. Our system virtualizes workloads and passes data directly to applications using zero-copy networking. This ensures that the Pipe team can have confidence that on our end, bandwidth is maximized and latency minimized, down to the hardware level. I'm eager to dive deeper into this tech because as IBRL gains importance, every application serious about it will have to run something similar to what we've built. The Black Box isn't just a platform for convenience. It's a platform for performance.

I'm so excited for this. After reading AI 2027 over the weekend, I'm so long on user-owned AI. It's gotta happen or there will be some serious risks down the road. Honored to team up with @inference_net and help bring power back to users. 10 total partner announcements coming.

Its home on my bookshelf is ready

As toly would say: 🤯🤯🤯 Meet Dawn's Black Box, powering a new internet owned by you

Just like the iPhone was the gateway to the world of mobile apps, the Black Box will be the gateway to the world of DePIN, self-hosted apps, consumer-IoT, and more.

sorry gang

You guys don’t see all of the silly stuff behind every single detail, but literally everything has a funny story behind it. And the story behind the voice actor is the funniest one by far. We should’ve had a camera crew film us during the making of all the content. More to come.

DePIN builders take note. If your product doesn’t offer a better experience through: (1) your engineering or (2) the downstream effects of decentralization you’ve got an uphill battle.

We’re excited to share that LongFi Solutions has officially acquired the @relaywireless Platform which has been serving wireless network builders for years. A new chapter begins → 🧵