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Francesco Piccoli

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Co-Founder & CEO @almanax | Ex Head of Product @ AnChain AI | UC Berkeley engineering 📍 NYC
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Welcoming @steve3.eth to the @almanax team!

Steven was previously on the crypto team at Mastercard and built blockchain applications that touched millions of users.

Excited to have him on the team to help us build the first AI Security Engineer!
Thanks to everyone who came to @almanax and Hadron’s holiday party last night.

Great vibes and great people from the NYC blockchain scene. We’ll host another one after the holidays
Our Blockchain Holiday Party with Hadron Founders Club is happening tomorrow in NYC.

RSVP here, solid crew of founders, investors, and operators in the space:
https://partiful.com/e/3zKNJWefU01H9WdWuLh3
Gala night with Arête, love a good occasion to dress up.
On stage last night.
Interview coming out in 2 weeks.
Today @almanax is announcing the launch of the Web3 Security Atlas, an open-source initiative designed to track vulnerabilities, exploits, and security best practices across the Web3 ecosystem.

Supported by founding partners AnChain.AI, TRM Labs, Hypernative and support from the Stellar Development Foundation and a few other industry leaders, the Web3 Security Atlas will focus on Solana, Ethereum, Base, and Stellar.

Security is the backbone of trust in decentralized ecosystems. The W3SA represents a collaborative effort to raise the bar on security standards and drive innovation in an industry that has historically been plagued with catastrophic hacks. AI is demonstrating significant potential in identifying exploitable code. We believe this initiative can serve the Web3 security industry in the same way that ImageNet has revolutionized computer vision.

PR: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20241210167277/en/Almanax-Launches-Web3-Security-Atlas-An-Open-Source-Initiative-to-Strengthen-Web3-Security
We're hosting a holiday party in NYC on December 18th with @almanax and Hadron Founders Club.

If you're in the city and want to join us drop a comment below and I'll send you an invite.
In retrospect, it was inevitable
Intimate dinner last night in Tribeca with some of the best folks in blockchain.
/NYC
Christmas season has started here in New York
/NYC
Sweat analysis will be in the next iteration of wearable devices.
I wear an Oura and a Whoop and they’re just scratching the surface when it comes to human biomarkers monitoring.

https://www.nature.com/articles/nature16521
We discovered an issue in Vitalik’s code, and he paid us a bounty for it through @bountycaster.

Who would have imagined that our very first bug bounty client would be none other than the inventor of Ethereum himself?

It took us just 20 seconds to identify an issue in code he personally wrote — without any prior context.

Some of you might recall the tweet he posted earlier this year.
We ended up building exactly that.
Sundays are for homemade lasagna
Just finished this, suggested read on the topic of longevity
playing around with @super, pretty clean UX. Good job @woj.eth
New day, new paper.

We work closely with Zhuo, he came up with an interesting classification for smart contract bugs, distinguishing them between "machine auditable" and "machine unauditable".

"Machine" in this case doesn't take LLMs into consideration.
https://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/zhan3299/res/ICSE23.pdf
Good recent paper from Apple on LLMs reasoning capabilities. Their claim is that it still looks more like sophisticated pattern matching, which makes sense intuitively.

We found it to be a pretty robust and intellectually honest evaluation.
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2410.05229
G-Eval is a framework presented by the cognitive research team at Microsoft that uses chain-of thoughts (CoT) and a form-filling paradigm for NLG evaluation. Metrics like BLEU and ROUGE have historically had low correlation with human judgements.
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.16634
got a feeling /papers-please is soon going to be my favorite channel.

@v @nadav @rubinovitz need some papers?
These are the messages I strive for and that make our day at @almanax!

Coming from a beta user who is a crypto OG and has led blockchain security at many large companies.