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Apparently I would rather talk about real-time decentralized systems all day (@Aptos & @shelbyserves) vs go to sleep. Tomorrow is going to be interesting.

Excited to see our investor @katie_haun advocating for financial privacy!
https://t.co/IAoAfEvDm3

I also believe in compliant confidentiality. It’s why we built compliant confidential transactions on @Aptos (https://t.co/ERWXCMNeFP) as an important feature for large-scale stablecoin adoption.

Shelby fun opinions

@shelbyserves interest is growing very fast and there are fantastic questions about the data lifecycle. My opinions below:

1) High-performance decentralized hot storage is a new category. The most important one that Shelby serves. It’s necessary for any real-time serving use case.

2) Data has a lifecycle. Working on data infrastructure at Meta for 7 years - we saw the server data would be highly accessed for the first 1-3 days, counting DAU for example. Then it would drop to less than 1/10 of the accesses and then after a retention period, move to archival storage or just be deleted. In the supercomputing space it was parallel file systems like Lustre, Panasys, GPFS, etc. were used for “scratch” storage. NFS might be the longer term storage. Shelby, in the fullness of time, should support the full data lifecycle.

3) Hot data in @shelbyserves should be cached and there should be incentives to supporting ultra low-latency reads and paying for in-memory costs.

4) There will be compute layers built on Shelby. The white paper describes several different use cases and approaches.

5) Shelby is for all devs. Large enterprises and small startups. All blockchains. Shelby is the answer for building real-time decentralized apps, for everyone.

The highest rated blockchain for stables is @Aptos. Fastest, most cost-effective, most scalable, and dependable.

https://cointelegraph.com/news/wyoming-stablecoin-pilot-aptos-sei

There was a saying at Facebook that the journey is only 1% finished. Crypto isn’t even at 1% yet.

@shelbyserves gives us access to the missing >99%

Another fun fact about @shelbyserves:
In a previous life at Facebook, @rpranav @bchochain @sitalkedia worked on the data infrastructure that processed more than > 1.5 exabytes per day on >100,000 machines.

Now we’re building a decentralized hot storage layer that will be even capable of more.

Shelby

Value exchange <> Value creation

A global trading engine trades everything. Crypto assets, RWAs, stables, and data.

@shelbyserves makes the possibilities endless:

1) Users license their data to anyone - With Shelby you’re in control of your data. No one can delete it except you. With high-speed hot serving you can allow a YouTube or another front end to share your content and pay you per read and/or a subscription.

2) Creator negotiate better take rates (e.g. 55% could be 90 or 100%) - With Shelby able to support real-time steaming, anyone can create their own content site/app and undercut others based on competitive payouts. Creators can easily create their own content sites.

3) Data can be traded - Content that generates revenue can be bought/sold and traded on the global trading engine as a completely new asset class.

@shelbyserves is a game-changer.

I’m convinced that decentralized infrastructure is the only technology for people everywhere to communicate, collaborate, and form unstoppable bonds with each other. Trustless transactions are one of the most powerful technologies in the world that is not even at 0.1% of its full potential.

Our world consists of countries that are aligned and odds with each other. Unshakable collaboration and trust is impossible in an environment where anyone can unilaterally cut ties in an instant.

@AptosLabs is and always will be innovating and building products toward this end.

Blockchain is the credibly neutral communication infrastructure that our world needs. Especially necessary during times of conflict. Scalable, unstoppable, decentralized network.

Aptos

90+ degrees in @expo2025japan and still 150k-200k per day visitors coming. Double digit percentage using the Expo wallet on @Aptos. Massive line of Expo wallet users with their soul bound tokens behind us. Congrats to our partners at @hashport_io and @seihakuyoshida!

90+ degrees in @expo2025japan and still 150k-200k per day visitors coming. Double digit percentage using the Expo wallet on @Aptos. Massive line of Expo wallet users with their soul bound tokens behind us. Congrats to our partners at @HashportNetwork and @seihakuyoshida!

There are no boundaries to decentralized technology. We’ll break them all.

Grateful for the chance to testify at today’s @HouseAgGOP hearing. I shared why digital assets go far beyond speculation - they’re powering a new kind of infrastructure: one that’s transparent, programmable, and accessible to all. Just as the U.S. became the hub for Internet-based innovation, I believe it will also lead the next era of the Internet—if we provide developers with clear, thoughtful guidance and responsible regulation.

It's very impressive to see such a united committee working so hard to advance U.S. leadership in the blockchain revolution.

See you tomorrow @houseagGOP for the committee hearing on American Innovation and the Future of Digital Assets: From Blueprint to a Functional Framework

Honored to be asked to testify in front of @houseagGOP for their committee hearing on American Innovation and the Future of Digital Assets: From Blueprint to a Functional Framework on 6/4 (Wednesday).

Market structure legislation is an important step forward and I’m looking forward to sharing how @AptosLabs and the broader L1 ecosystem can power this next era of the decentralized Internet.

https://t.co/vbG1jhDTQI

Time to don the suit again.

Die beste Zeit, um die Produkte zu entwickeln, die Web3 verändern werden, ist jetzt. Ich war noch nie so aufgeregt.

Ehre, von @NorthwesternEng über @Aptos und mein Bachelor- / Doktoratsstudium interviewt zu werden - insgesamt 9 Jahre.

Während einige denken, dass ein Doktortitel nicht so nützlich ist, habe ich gelernt, wie man lernt, die wissenschaftliche Methode und wie man harte Herausforderungen annimmt.

Als Bonus hatte ich Q-Sicherheitsfreigabe (d.h. geheimhaltungsbedürftig) - das war eine Erfahrung! Gesegnet, einen unglaublichen Doktorvater zu haben, der mich durch den Prozess begleitet hat.

Ehre, von @NorthwesternEng über @Aptos und mein Bachelor- und Doktoratsstudium interviewt zu werden - insgesamt 9 Jahre.

Während einige denken, ein Doktortitel sei nicht so nützlich, habe ich gelernt, wie man lernt, die wissenschaftliche Methode und wie man schwierige Herausforderungen angeht.

Als Bonus hatte ich die Q-Sicherheitsfreigabe (d.h. streng geheim) - was eine Erfahrung war! Gesegnet, einen unglaublichen Doktorvater zu haben, der mich durch den Prozess geleitet hat.

Herauszoomen, um hineinzuzoomen. Der globale Handelsmotor wird die Art und Weise, wie wir über die Möglichkeiten dezentraler Blockchains denken, radikal verändern.

Ich könnte nicht optimistischer sein, was die Zukunft angeht.

Depin hat zwei große On-Chain-Komponenten: Zahlungen und Koordination.

Zahlungen On-Chain können von Kunden an Depin-Dienstanbieter oder interne Zahlungen zwischen Dienstanbietern erfolgen. Zum Beispiel: WLAN-Zugang, der nach Minuten berechnet wird, Zahlungen für die Nutzung von Rechenleistung/Speicher, Zahlungen an Personen für das Teilen von Verkehrsdaten usw. Echtzeit-On-Chain-Zahlungen müssen äußerst zuverlässig, schnell und skalierbar sein. Deshalb rAPTr, Zaptos, Block-STM, Move und mehr.

In einem typischen verteilten System wird das Maschinenmanagement von einer Koordinationsschicht wie ZooKeeper oder etcd verwaltet. Koordinationsschichten unterstützen Führungswahlen, Führungsrotation, Datenmigration, verteilte Sperren und Failover bei Maschinenverlust. Ich hatte das Vergnügen, diese Infrastruktur viele Male neu aufzubauen - jedes Mal viel Spaß.

Ein dezentrales verteiltes System kann eine Blockchain für denselben Zweck nutzen. Diese Arten von Transaktionen sind jedoch in der Regel viel teurer im Vergleich zu ihren traditionellen Pendants. Zum Beispiel - Sie könnten einen dezentralen KI-Training-Cluster von Tausenden von Maschinen haben, die jede Sekunde ihren Status an die Blockchain melden.

Diese Skalierungs- und Datenprobleme sind schwieriger zu lösen, und deshalb sehen wir keine Depin-Apps, die versuchen, auf Blockchains zu koordinieren. Deshalb wurde Aptos für solch extreme Skalierung entwickelt und setzt weiterhin Grenzen mit Shardines und anderer Spitzentechnologie. Innovatoren werden hier ihre Anwendungen koordinieren.

Die globale Handelsmaschine ist die Basisschicht für alles, was Blockchains in der Zukunft tun werden. Es ist noch früh, aber der Weg ist klar beleuchtet und die Innovation kommt schnell.