Emin Gun Sirer@el33th4xor · 1 天前观点输出Very sorry that this is happening in Paraguay. Hate to point this out, but crypto fixes this.
Specifically, assets such as AVAX and BTC are decentralized and require no trust in third parties. No one can take or freeze your AVAX without your consent.
Further, these assets are limited. There will only be 720m AVAX ever created. It's designed to be a rare resource; it cannot be inflated away.
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Emin Gun Sirer@el33th4xor · 25 天前观点输出About a decade ago, @soumyab8 and I built a system to prevent precisely these kinds of attacks. The core idea was that commands issued to actuators (eg fridges) would have to furnish a safety proof that they fulfill the user's desired policy, thus preventing an attacker from wreaking havoc even if they have compromised a centralized controller.
The reviewers back in the day thought it was too far fetched. Hah.
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Emin Gun Sirer@el33th4xor · 27 天前赛道影响The Avalanche roadmap doesn't have to wait for AI. Our community has been delivering updates consistently ever since the inception of the chain.
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Emin Gun Sirer@el33th4xor · 28 天前市场影响The debate on the threat AI poses for crypto is mostly just wankery.
We will see AI exploit systems-level bugs far before ECDSA falls. We will see AI discover bugs in systems code, libraries and wallets that enable attackers to steal billions of dollars long before we have to worry about cryptosystems failing wholesale due to new math.
Sure, there's definitely a non-zero possibility that ECDSA might fail wholesale, and the ramifications would be systemic -- all balances on such a chain would be in question. That's why Hoseeb's backup crypto proposal is sensible. Namely, build an alternative cryptosystem onto which one could shift should ECDSA doomsday arrive one fine morning. That's an approach that we will be exploring for Avalanche.
But our focus regarding AI's impact on blockchains ought to center on vulnerabilities in existing software first and foremost. If you think that, say, Ripple's (or insert any other high value low use chain here) under scrutinized code contains no 0-day bugs, difficult for humans to spot but easy for AI to identify, then you're deluded.
My take on this issue, as with all other issues, is pragmatic and oriented towards what matters most today. That said, in the tail risk category, hash-based crypto is really interesting, and we have an active group exploring hash-based alternatives to ECDSA.
Emin Gun Sirer@el33th4xor · 28 天前政策影响Avalanche supports both the UTXO and the EVM account model. The account model has turned out to be incredibly useful overall, but isn't designed cleanly enough to limit state growth. The UTXO model has some security and (possibly) tax efficiency advantages, but is cumbersome and error prone.
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Emin Gun Sirer@el33th4xor · 29 天前赛道影响The most sensible take so far on the risk AI poses to public let cryptography, and what chains should do about it.
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Emin Gun Sirer@el33th4xor · 2026/10/01观点输出Community-built businesses are seeing incredible success on Avalanche.
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Emin Gun Sirer@el33th4xor · 2026/10/01政策影响The latest Avalanche upgrade introduced Continuous Execution (CE), a new way to improve the performance of blockchains by taking advantage of parallelism. It’s exciting technical stuff that you should know about so you understand what makes Avalanche so fast, or if you're not using Avalanche, what you're missing out on.
Avalanche has always had an architecture that takes advantage of coarse-grained parallelism. Namely, Avalanche L1s capture parallelism via separate chains, where unrelated groups of activities can execute independently of each other, without having to wait for or congest shared resources.
This was a huge step forward when we introduced it 6 years ago. Compared to older, single-chain systems, this multichain architecture enabled Avalanche to offer infinite capacity. A game doesn't have to compete with DeFi on Avalanche, whereas on single chain systems, even an NFT offering would cause problems by creating congestion and bumping transaction fees.
While this took advantage of the largest source of parallelism and enabled Avalanche to be one of the fastest chains in the first place, there are further opportunities for improvement, and Continuous Execution taps into the next greatest source of parallelism, namely, the overlap between consensus and execution within a single chain.
The two most expensive activities in any blockchain are consensus, that is, the work required to get all of the participants to agree on what happened and when, and execution, the work required to actually process those transactions and update the state of the system.
Traditionally, these two activities have taken turns.
Continuous Execution allows Avalanche to overlap them. While the system is achieving consensus on one set of transactions, it is simultaneously executing previously agreed-upon transactions.
Think of the chain as a jet. Execution is flight, transactions are the fuel, and consensus is refueling.
Before CE, the jet had to land every time it needed to refuel. The chain would execute, stop to perform consensus work, execute again, then stop again.
Continuous Execution changes that. Now the jet can refuel while it is still in the air.
Consensus and execution happen concurrently, so the chain no longer has to constantly switch between the two. The flight becomes continuous, with no unnecessary interruptions or mode switching.
To put this in perspective, before CE, Avalanche validators were spending somewhere between 20 to 60 milliseconds per block on verification, sometimes even as high as 150ms.
CE dropped that down to an average of 2 milliseconds of wall clock time with negligible variance.
And this is especially important because verification happens at each step during gossip dissemination. It isn’t simply 40 milliseconds saved once. That time was being incurred on every hop as a block spread through the network.
There is also a deeper technical point here. The work that previously had to happen in consensus goes from potentially unbounded computation to linear in the number of transactions. We achieve this by taking advantage of the monotonicity of gas prices under maximum load, so the execution thread is never forced to pause due to estimation errors.
We’ve always prided ourselves on bringing the best of science to blockchain technology, on being pragmatic, and on attacking the highest-yield opportunities first.
With Continuous Execution built on top of the multi-threaded Avalanche architecture, Avalanche has taken advantage of the two biggest sources of parallelism: coarse-grained parallelism across separate chains, and the overlap between consensus and execution within a single chain.
For Avalanche, consensus and execution no longer need to operate in bursts, constantly stopping and waiting on each other, it just keeps going with no dead time.
Emin Gun Sirer@el33th4xor · 2026/09/30赛道影响Another exciting milestone for Avalanche.
#1 RWA market cap growth.
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Emin Gun Sirer@el33th4xor · 2026/09/29观点输出You might have heard of Goldman Sachs.
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