Ranvir Rana (@0xranvir) 's Twitter Profile
Ranvir Rana

@0xranvir

Building @witnesschain
Witnessing Reality

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linkhttp://witnesschain.com calendar_today03-10-2018 01:19:10

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Nakamoto's paper only contained one true innovation: The longest chain consensus protocol. Everything else: proof of work, digital signatures, and incentives are existing ideas integrated into a coherent system. The brilliance wasn't in specialization, but in synthesis.

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Fuel v1 was the first rollup, afaik, to ship with functioning fraud proofs and escape hatches—core components of rollup security that many had skipped. Exciting to see Fuel v2 and EigenDA work together!

Sreeram Kannan (@sreeramkannan) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Build the world’s first geo decentralized chain! Blockchains today have no way of knowing whether nodes are geo decentralized or not. Therefore they cannot guarantee that nodes will be geo decentralized. Witness Chain provides a decentralized oracle for location which can be

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The cost of deploying a globally distributed node network is significantly higher for centralized actors than for decentralized communities. Witness Chain PoL enables arbitrary incentive mechanisms that can ensure geographically diverse node distribution, leading to a diverse CR

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The dollar was once backed by gold in Fort Knox—now, it’s backed by trust in U.S. state machinery: contracts, courts, aircraft carriers. DeFi is bound to make a similar leap: From inefficient overcollateralization → to trust in a unified pool of slashable, redistributable

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Terms and conditions bound by code are the only way to guarantee privacy. Easier said than done. It can't be all on-chain. You need the entire stack to comply with privacy and verification rules — including compute (inference), storage (model and context), browsing (TLS), and

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The best infra is the kind you forget is running. EigenCloud is the economic security under the radar that makes AVS-es like Witness Chain function with trust. #EigenLayer #Crypto #DePIN #AI

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Great article on the utility of stablecoins in optimizing existing cross-border systems. Money transmitters need to maintain a buffer of local currency. The size of the buffer is proportional to the latency of SWIFT-based international transfers. Stablecoins reduce this

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Inside the Watchtower - Each node double-hats as detective (challenging others) and witness (proving itself). Backed by EigenLayer security makes falsifying coordinates more expensive than telling the truth. #EigenLayer #Web3 #Web3AI #Watchtower

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EigenCloud is a leap — For cloud infra: unlocks verifiability For crypto: unlocks new class of apps Proof of Location is the core primitive for EigenCloud — powering compliance, low-latency access, and trust-minimized edge coordination Witness Chain x EigenCloud

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A lot of apps can’t be built in crypto - limited by scalability and programmability A lot of apps outside crypto can’t move to the traditional cloud - think core banking, trading, etc. - blocked by a lack of verifiability, security, and insured guarantees EigenCloud solves both

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This article highlights the fundamental bottleneck of the crypto utopia: DYOR We cannot expect a typical casino-going user to parse code and documentation to realize that posting multisigs of off-chain compute on-chain and calling them "VRF" does not constitute true randomness.

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Classic tyranny of majority or perception of such. Either way, bad for trust in the markets Can be solved by committing to an AI adjucator at the time of creating the bet Verifiable AI like this would be trivial to build on platforms such as EigenCloud

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A controlled perimeter is a necessary evil for tradFi tokenization; we just need to ensure the perimeter operators are provably trustworthy. Recent debate over Robinhood’s walled garden illustrates the point: access controls are not mere obstacles but mechanisms for KYC and

A controlled perimeter is a necessary evil for tradFi tokenization; we just need to ensure the perimeter operators are provably trustworthy.

Recent debate over Robinhood’s walled garden illustrates the point: access controls are not mere obstacles but mechanisms for KYC and
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This is powerful: the idea that programmable intelligence requires programmable institutions deeply resonates with what we have been building at Witness Chain One key piece in programmable institutions is location intelligence; not just knowing where something is, but being able