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Sam Ragsdale
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Sam Ragsdale
@samrags_
CEO @merit_systems -- Open Agentic Commerce
Products: @poncho_ai @x402scan @agentcashdev
Retired zkVM guy @a16z
Joined May 2020
People should be able to airdrop tokens to their community without asking them to doxx their financial history. We built this using native Ethereum zk-proofs with supporting examples and libraries. github.com/a16z/zkp-merkl… Details 👇- Replying to @DudespostingWsThe cause: Malaysia’s president has flip-flopped granting residency status to the Chinese middle class buyers due to turbulent race relations between Malays and ethnic Chinese. These were the target buyers. Marketed as “Singapore’s lifestyle with Malaysian prices”
- Today I'm excited to announce that Merit Systems has raised $10M of seed funding from @a16zcrypto and @bcap to unleash Open Source Capitalism. Details below 👇
- We recently released our codebase for zero-knowledge merkle airdrops. The concept allows protocols to airdrop to their community, as authenticated by web2 credentials, without asking users to doxx their finances. We explore this idea in the following post. a16z.com/2022/03/27/cry…
- It’s labor intensive and personally invasive to provide private information to web2 platforms and financial institutions. We built zkDocs to improve these workflows via cryptographic commitments and zero-knowledge proofs. github.com/a16z/zkdocs More info👇
- After an incredible 3 years @a16zcrypto, I'm stepping back to pursue a new venture. It's been an amazing journey working with our portcos and pushing the space forward from deep in the infra stack through Jolt. 👇
- An APE token sandwich blew up on CT recently. The MEV bot did not in fact profit $2.5M at the expense of a naive user, instead it lost money. Others have explained this well but I thought I’d lay out what is going on here and how I explore MEV txs. 👇
- Today we're releasing Lasso 🪢 Lasso enables efficient lookups over massive (seriously, colossal) tables. That means a fast, comprehensible, and modular zkVM backend. 👇
- 1/ Merit is available today.Today, we’re introducing the Terminal. Pay anyone and any project on Github.
00:00 - The USPS was launched in 1775 to unify distant parts of the nation. Today @sproule_ and I are launching The Ethereum Postal Service to unify Ethereum with the original information highway. The EPS enables Ethereum contracts to send letters to the world.
