Zaki Manian

Zaki Manian

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@iqlusioninc. @sommfinance. interoperable blockchains with @cosmos. smart contract for all with @agoric he/him. shape rotato

DeFi Lending’s Trust in Custodians Fuels Systemic Risk
SocialApr 20, 2026

DeFi Lending’s Trust in Custodians Fuels Systemic Risk

The Defi lending protocols(and lenders) rejecting cryptographic proof and relying on RPCs, custodian wrapped assets, small quorums is a big part of how we got here.

By Zaki Manian
Simulation-Enabled AI Powers Next-Gen Agentic Wallets
SocialApr 15, 2026

Simulation-Enabled AI Powers Next-Gen Agentic Wallets

Having simulation tools built into AI layer is absolutely the key thing for agentic wallets I think Aomi cracked it

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AI Wallets Will Replace DeFi Vaults Within Six Months
SocialApr 6, 2026

AI Wallets Will Replace DeFi Vaults Within Six Months

My take is vaults get entirely replaced by wallet that enable controlled to Ai agents within 6 months. There is a zero reason to aggregate capital under a manager now. You can provide risk and modeling endpoints that agents buy intelligence...

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Agents Will Drive ZKP Adoption for Computational Claims
SocialMar 31, 2026

Agents Will Drive ZKP Adoption for Computational Claims

I expect that a big user of ZKP proofs is going to be agents making claims about computations to each other

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Global Lottery Could Sustain Long-Term Ethereum Development
SocialMar 26, 2026

Global Lottery Could Sustain Long-Term Ethereum Development

It’s really unfortunate that RANDDAO didn’t work. I think a provably fair global lottery would be a great way of funding Eth development long term

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Open‑Source LLM Terminal Replaces Warp, Superset, Ghostty
SocialMar 16, 2026

Open‑Source LLM Terminal Replaces Warp, Superset, Ghostty

In the last 24 hours, I built a LLM coding terminal manager that's good enough to replace warp/superset/ghostty as a daily driver. It's got a bunch of half implemented features like Sprites integration, Dev containers for sandboxing, a Claude Code plugin...

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ICS‑20 Wrapped Tokens Unlikely Long‑Term IBC Solution
SocialMar 14, 2026

ICS‑20 Wrapped Tokens Unlikely Long‑Term IBC Solution

I really wonder if ICS-20 will ultimately not be the long term place where IBC succeeds. ICS-20 (wrapped tokens) is a weird standard. Cause you can do trading with cross chain intents and financial institutions probably aren’t going to want or need...

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Specialized Compute Models Offer Cheaper Attention in LLMs
SocialMar 12, 2026

Specialized Compute Models Offer Cheaper Attention in LLMs

This is kind of insane LLM research. It postulates a world of specialized compute models with cheaper attention embedded with an LLMs weights.

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Cosmos Hub Must Host On‑Chain Liquidity, Not Osmosis
SocialMar 12, 2026

Cosmos Hub Must Host On‑Chain Liquidity, Not Osmosis

Some takes: Cosmos needs to have onchain liquidity for its core assets or IBC is dead. The Hub needs to play a central role in the onchain liquidity. TVL narrowly matters on Osmosis. Probably only for BTC, stables, and related assets. But...

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Formal Verification and AI Agents Uncover Many Bugs
SocialFeb 25, 2026

Formal Verification and AI Agents Uncover Many Bugs

I have one of my Claudes using Quint by @informalinc to validate the design and implementation of https://t.co/M7sTWFDySv and it's going great. Finding tons of bugs . Formal verification and AI agents really go well together.

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Zcash Remains Unrivaled in Shielded, Scalable, Post‑Quantum Bitcoin
SocialFeb 21, 2026

Zcash Remains Unrivaled in Shielded, Scalable, Post‑Quantum Bitcoin

Why would ZSA’s compete favorably with solutions from Aleo, Aztec , Payy, Fairblock , Arcium that have richer solutions to the same problem domain? As shielded , scalable, post quantum Bitcoin, Zcash has no credible competitors.

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Ledger Should Upgrade to Newer Secure Enclave
SocialFeb 19, 2026

Ledger Should Upgrade to Newer Secure Enclave

I would be really nice if Ledger would make a device with a newer Secure Enclave

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Noble Shifts Toward Tempo‑style IBC for Stablecoin Synergy
SocialJan 20, 2026

Noble Shifts Toward Tempo‑style IBC for Stablecoin Synergy

Everyone has been asking “What does Noble leaving Cosmos mean?” It just means that Noble is becoming more like Tempo with an IBC flavor than the Cosmos SDK chain. This is a path towards improved CCTP support , better commonality with other...

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Helius Showcases Solana Features, Jumpstarting New Apps
SocialDec 25, 2025

Helius Showcases Solana Features, Jumpstarting New Apps

By exposing the unique features possible on Solana , Helius bootstrapped applications that used them. Lesson in this

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