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Luke Parker

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Luke Parker

@kayabaNerve

Lead Developer of @SeraiDEX. Tweets rants about cryptography and cryptocurrency 🔥 (inactive) Also on @[email protected].

USA

Joined October 2017

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Luke Parker
@kayabaNerve
Jul 8, 2022
I'm happy to finally announce my own work, Serai!
Serai DEX
@SeraiDEX
Jul 8, 2022
Announcing Serai: A new decentralized exchange for Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Monero. reddit.com/r/Monero/comme… Join us on Discord to participate in building the most usable decentralized and secure exchange! discord.com/invite/mpEUtJR…
Luke Parker
@kayabaNerve
May 17, 2024
Deanonymization of the Dero Network gist.github.com/kayabaNerve/b7… TL;DR An insecure message encryption protocol enables breaking message, amount, receiver, and sender (on wallets with a recent patch) privacy, even if the sender doesn't explicitly specify a message.
Deanonymization of the Dero Network
From gist.github.com
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Luke Parker
@kayabaNerve
Jan 12, 2025
The implementation of Generalized Bulletproofs I did for Monero has been audited! github.com/cypherstack/ge… > Overall, we find that the implementation is well written and appears suitable for its intended purpose. One step closer to the entire set of FCMP++ libs being audited.
GitHub - cypherstack/generalized-bulletproofs-code: Review of a Generalized Bulletproofs implemen...
From github.com
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Luke Parker
@kayabaNerve
Nov 8, 2024
@THORChain removed their bug bounty program, which received multiple reports of critical severity, from @immunefi in favor of a self-hosted solution. I believe this was done as part of ghosting me and my critical severity submission after Immunefi ruled I should be paid ~270k USD
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Luke Parker
@kayabaNerve
Aug 12, 2025
Replying to @OrangeFren
A 6 re-org does not mean a '51% attack' was successful. In that case, we'd see unbounded-depth re-orgs/no blocks mined by any other mining pool (assuming the adversary censors other mining pools, as this one does). It does mean an adversary with a high amount of hash got lucky.
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Luke Parker
@kayabaNerve
Nov 30, 2024
As I said at Monerotopia, I planned to have my work on the FCMP++ libraries done at the end of the month. repo.getmonero.org/monero-project… With that, I am announcing I am stepping back from work on Monero. gist.github.com/kayabaNerve/e5… I will continue to work on Serai.
repo.getmonero.org
FCMP++ Development (!448) · Merge requests · monero-project / CCS Proposals · GitLab
layout: fr title: Full-Chain Membership...
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Luke Parker
@kayabaNerve
Mar 18, 2025
I'm proud to have done this work! The implementation was done a couple years ago at the start of Serai and it's finally proven secure! Happy it's moving forward.
Serai DEX
@SeraiDEX
Mar 18, 2025
Our Monero multisig protocol was proven secure! FROSTLASS is a FROST-inspired protocol applying its techniques to Monero's CLSAG. It achieves constant per-participant upload, linear computation, and identifiable aborts, enabling large-scale decentralized threshold multisigs.
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Luke Parker
@kayabaNerve
Oct 16, 2025
After ~4 years of development, THORChain has created the latest iteration of their proposal to integrate Monero. It includes: - Rebuilding everything from scratch - Deploying to a testnet - Funding dev on a non-FOSS wallet Not included: - Any info on how it would work - Mainnet
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Luke Parker
@kayabaNerve
Apr 25, 2024
My CCS to develop FCMP++s (Full-chain Membership Proofs for the current RingCT protocol) was merged! :D ccs.getmonero.org/proposals/fcmp… I'm very hopeful the corollary CCS for the various audits also gets merged soon.
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Luke Parker
@kayabaNerve
Jul 26, 2025
There's a mining pool making a ton of noise by threatening the decentralization of Monero (claiming they'll gain 51% of hash power and effectively soft fork to be the sole mining pool allowed) and ugh. It's disgusting and tiresome.
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Luke Parker
@kayabaNerve
Jan 5, 2025
An anonymous developer, Tay, has found the output commitments (hiding the amounts) for the invalid BP+s invalid present on the Zephyr blockchain. For each of the three TXs, the difference is 16 million $ZEPH. The official supply is ~6.4 million.
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Luke Parker
@kayabaNerve
Jun 24, 2023
My talk, announcing my work on full chain membership proofs for #Monero $XMR, is live! youtu.be/IAcdRZSsIQo?t=… Just skip about ten minutes in.
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Luke Parker
@kayabaNerve
Aug 8, 2025
I made a meta-issue to discuss ways to change Monero to improve its resistance to bad actors. Included are both hard forks *and* less-invasive soft forks which would ideally improve Monero. If you have legitimate, novel ideas, I'll be happy to incorporate them. Link vvv
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Luke Parker
@kayabaNerve
May 4, 2024
I don't like posts that go "Here's 10 reasons why MYBAGS is going to revolutionize cryptocurrency and also solve world hunger" Even when there's something interesting happen, I don't like the exaggerated language. I'm also wondering if we're in a Monero Renaissance.
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