
Halo: A privacy layer for stablecoins
AbstractHalo is a privacy layer for stablecoins unlocking the next private neobanks and applications that were blocked by the lack of anonymity and confidentiality of networks. Halo Network introduces a new extension a a privacy-preserving EVM chain purpose-built for stablecoin use cases. Halo combines the familiarity and composability of the EVM with the confidentiality of a UTXO-based privacy layer, allowing users to transact and build privately without sacrificing interoperability or liqui...
🧊Solana::Leader schedule
I have been diving into Solana and its Validator code realizing the incredible design behind the selection of Validators and block producers, so here is a small rundownWhat are Blocks?What are POW and POS?Solana Leader ScheduleSpecial Considerations to produce the Tastiest BlockOpen QuestionsSome ResourcesBlocks wat?Blocks containing transactions and state transition data lined on top of one another with cryptography securing their computational integrity is the foundation of blockchain aka c...
Musings on Price Discovery
Musings on Price discoveryWith a fading bull run comes the pressure to do a token generation event at high valuations because otherwise if you are a VC backed project with 8 figs in funding, you are cooked without a binance listing since you definitely know your tech is only valued at the number of CEX listings and shady market makers you can get for the launch. Jokes and criticism aside, I have been diving into the price discovery for a mix of work and my own interests in the past few months...
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Halo: A privacy layer for stablecoins
AbstractHalo is a privacy layer for stablecoins unlocking the next private neobanks and applications that were blocked by the lack of anonymity and confidentiality of networks. Halo Network introduces a new extension a a privacy-preserving EVM chain purpose-built for stablecoin use cases. Halo combines the familiarity and composability of the EVM with the confidentiality of a UTXO-based privacy layer, allowing users to transact and build privately without sacrificing interoperability or liqui...
🧊Solana::Leader schedule
I have been diving into Solana and its Validator code realizing the incredible design behind the selection of Validators and block producers, so here is a small rundownWhat are Blocks?What are POW and POS?Solana Leader ScheduleSpecial Considerations to produce the Tastiest BlockOpen QuestionsSome ResourcesBlocks wat?Blocks containing transactions and state transition data lined on top of one another with cryptography securing their computational integrity is the foundation of blockchain aka c...
Musings on Price Discovery
Musings on Price discoveryWith a fading bull run comes the pressure to do a token generation event at high valuations because otherwise if you are a VC backed project with 8 figs in funding, you are cooked without a binance listing since you definitely know your tech is only valued at the number of CEX listings and shady market makers you can get for the launch. Jokes and criticism aside, I have been diving into the price discovery for a mix of work and my own interests in the past few months...
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They are the most creative non-biological systems in the world. From deepfakes to musical scores from building architectures to new faces can be made with GANs. GAN stands for generative adversarial network. They come under RNN’s(Recurrent neural nets). GAN is a framework put forward by IAN Goodfellow and his team in 2014 and it has established itself as a subfield itself. Gans are some of the most fascinating pieces of software code I had ever seen.
They have a really peculiar structure in which two neural nets compete in a zero-sum game. The generator produces new results and the discriminator distinguishes between them and if it finds the result non-convincing concerning the real samples the results are rejected. The main goal is to produce convincing results which are close to training data and as they compete better and better results are found. Input can be changed to get incredible results. New artists are emerging who use gans to produce art which you probably will admire and may even think was made by some great artist. GAN’s are being widely used in many fields- from modeling the dark matter distribution to producing lasting structures. But the application of this tech that excites me the most is their ability to generate structures and models of things like cars, bridges, and buildings. These models won’t be built by labor but by 3d printers. Some structures have already been built which were half the weight and lower price than their old counterparts(human-made and designed). We can ask these neural nets to produce a car chassis half the weight and more strong and it might help us build a safer future. here is a link to the colab notebook where you can run code and listen to the music generated by gan itself-
https://colab.research.google.com/notebooks/magenta/gansynth/gansynth_demo.ipynb#scrollTo=rSgo0YiVUm17
I was unable to add an audio file to the newsletter So just shared the code.
Take a look at this picture and you will think why is it being shown in a blog post relating to AI. To your confusion ladies and gentlemen, it’s created by a Neural net. You might try hard now to find errors and good luck with that. No person to the record(as I read) has a face like this. This does draw a lot of criticism for future wars being caused due to deepfakes of politicians and fake ids. And once again its use and effect depend on how we use it. There is a great ted talk relating to this subject -
I really liked it and hope you did too. After the video and reading the blogpost I urge the reader to just put 1 minute into the thought of how GAN’s could help you.
PS: Sorry for posting it late. You can show me a gesture of appreciation by buying me a book so I can read and write more cool blogposts .
https://www.buymeacoffee.com/madhavgoyal
They are the most creative non-biological systems in the world. From deepfakes to musical scores from building architectures to new faces can be made with GANs. GAN stands for generative adversarial network. They come under RNN’s(Recurrent neural nets). GAN is a framework put forward by IAN Goodfellow and his team in 2014 and it has established itself as a subfield itself. Gans are some of the most fascinating pieces of software code I had ever seen.
They have a really peculiar structure in which two neural nets compete in a zero-sum game. The generator produces new results and the discriminator distinguishes between them and if it finds the result non-convincing concerning the real samples the results are rejected. The main goal is to produce convincing results which are close to training data and as they compete better and better results are found. Input can be changed to get incredible results. New artists are emerging who use gans to produce art which you probably will admire and may even think was made by some great artist. GAN’s are being widely used in many fields- from modeling the dark matter distribution to producing lasting structures. But the application of this tech that excites me the most is their ability to generate structures and models of things like cars, bridges, and buildings. These models won’t be built by labor but by 3d printers. Some structures have already been built which were half the weight and lower price than their old counterparts(human-made and designed). We can ask these neural nets to produce a car chassis half the weight and more strong and it might help us build a safer future. here is a link to the colab notebook where you can run code and listen to the music generated by gan itself-
https://colab.research.google.com/notebooks/magenta/gansynth/gansynth_demo.ipynb#scrollTo=rSgo0YiVUm17
I was unable to add an audio file to the newsletter So just shared the code.
Take a look at this picture and you will think why is it being shown in a blog post relating to AI. To your confusion ladies and gentlemen, it’s created by a Neural net. You might try hard now to find errors and good luck with that. No person to the record(as I read) has a face like this. This does draw a lot of criticism for future wars being caused due to deepfakes of politicians and fake ids. And once again its use and effect depend on how we use it. There is a great ted talk relating to this subject -
I really liked it and hope you did too. After the video and reading the blogpost I urge the reader to just put 1 minute into the thought of how GAN’s could help you.
PS: Sorry for posting it late. You can show me a gesture of appreciation by buying me a book so I can read and write more cool blogposts .
https://www.buymeacoffee.com/madhavgoyal
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