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Brendan Farmer
@bfarmer
works on ZK, prev mir
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    Brendan Farmer
    @bfarmer
    Oct 21, 2025
    Shameless plug - every zkVM running in prod (except @RiscZero ) runs on ZK tech built by our team at Polygon Zero - including @SuccinctLabs @openvm_org @brevis_zk etc. What’s more Ethereum-aligned than developing the ZK future of the entire protocol? Plonky2 and Plonky3 were
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    vitalik.eth
    @VitalikButerin
    Oct 21, 2025
    I really appreciate both @sandeepnailwal's personal contributions and @0xPolygon's immensely valuable role in the ethereum ecosystem. To recap: * Polygon hosts @Polymarket, which is probably the single most successful example of a "not just boring finance" app that has actually
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    Brendan Farmer
    @bfarmer
    Dec 22, 2021
    Controversial ZK opinion: optimizing for proof size below ~100kb - at the cost of prover time, recursion efficiency, and Ethereum compatibility - doesn’t make sense for blockchains. From this perspective, FRI-based schemes are more attractive than ECC-based SNARKs. 🧵
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    Brendan Farmer
    @bfarmer
    Dec 9, 2021
    We’re so excited to be joining @0xPolygon as Polygon Zero. This isn’t the end - we’re just getting started - but I want to recognize the people who have helped us get this far. 🧵
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    Brendan Farmer
    @bfarmer
    Dec 13, 2021
    This is why the Mir team joined @0xPolygon, to be part of a vibrant and growing developer ecosystem.
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    Alchemy
    @Alchemy
    Oct 20, 2021
    1/ We're excited to finally publicize metrics on some crazy growth we've seen in the @0xPolygon developer ecosystem! 🔥 Thousands of teams and applications are already built on Polygon, and the # of active developers is growing 2x every couple of months! 🧵👇
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    Brendan Farmer
    @bfarmer
    May 19, 2025
    The argument that REV doesn't matter because Bitcoin has no REV is a bad one. But there's a good argument that current REV is a bad proxy for expected future REV (and future aggregate economic value on a chain). Objectively, we can see this has been true for Ethereum and
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    Brendan Farmer
    @bfarmer
    Apr 5, 2022
    Besides Plonky2, @0xPolygonZero built Starky, the first recursive STARK implementation ever - and it's fast! (github.com/mir-protocol/p…). @0xPolygon is a ZK project.
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    Brendan Farmer
    @bfarmer
    Dec 23, 2022
    L2s like @0xPolygon zkEVM aren't just for scaling existing applications, but for enabling radically new ones. The set of applications that are viable on Ethereum L1 is limited. Apps must have: - high economic value - low computational complexity L2 changes this. 1/n
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    Brendan Farmer
    @bfarmer
    Jan 10, 2022
    I'm biased. BUT I think that this is the most significant ZK engineering achievement of the last two years. It's a privilege to work with @dlubarov @williamborgeaud Hamish, Nick, @jnabaglo and Brendan.
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    Polygon | POL
    @0xPolygon
    Jan 10, 2022
    1/5 Proud to present #Plonky2 - the world's fastest ZK scaling technology, built by @0xPolygonZero! 💫 Plonky2 is a recursive SNARK that is 100x faster than existing alternatives and natively compatible with #Ethereum. A 🧵 on why this is exciting…
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    Brendan Farmer
    @bfarmer
    May 30, 2024
    “zksync don’t be evil” challenge, difficulty: well, you know. Projects and people should be judged by their actions, not by what they claim to believe. Matter repeatedly acts in bad faith and tries to deflect attention from bad behavior. > Trademarks, however, exist to protect
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    ALEX | ZK
    Matter Labs (∎, ∆)
    @gluk64
    May 30, 2024
    Matter Labs is a zealous proponent of the libertarian, cypherpunk ethos and the values stated in the ZK Credo. We reject the very idea of “Intellectual Property”. Everything we create is released to the public under free open source licenses. Trademarks, however, exist to
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    Brendan Farmer
    @bfarmer
    Mar 11, 2025
    You don't hear as much about Solana REV justifying its market cap - this is because weekly REV is down 90% from ATH. I wrote about this a while ago (link below). The problem is that the types of activity that are great for generating REV (memecoin trading!) are generally
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    Brendan Farmer
    @bfarmer
    Dec 8, 2022
    On zk-rollups, rapid innovation, and optimizing for the right things. tldr: Sometimes being first can be a bad thing. Here’s how we think about the ZK landscape @0xPolygon 1/n
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    Brendan Farmer
    @bfarmer
    Jan 26, 2024
    New paper from Angus Gruen @0xPolygon on improvements to zerocheck! Angus joined us after finishing his math PhD at Caltech and we're extremely lucky to have him - he optimized our keccak circuit by 4x as an intern! eprint.iacr.org/2024/108
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    Brendan Farmer
    @bfarmer
    Dec 10, 2021
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    Brendan Farmer
    @bfarmer
    Aug 11, 2025
    Does Solana lack a North Star, and does it need one? As SOL/ETH continues to underperform, is the market telling us that it doesn't believe in Solana? Is Solana stuck between competing with Ethereum to be the best decentralized execution platform, and competing with Hyperliquid
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    Solana
    @solana
    Aug 9, 2025
    When they say the future of markets runs at 22 TPS but NASDAQ handles 2k trades per second
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