Aayush Giri

Shielded Labs is doubling down on engineering to help keep Zcash users and holders safe. @AayushStack has joined our Zero team as a Forward Deployed Engineer. Welcome aboard, Aayush! forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/s…

Today I call upon the blockchain industry to calmly begin planning for "bunker mode". My personal recommendation is to set in motion a controlled mass migration of assets to fresh addresses, i.e. addresses whose pubkeys remain hidden behind a hash. Holders, starting with large and sophisticated ones, should consider moving the bulk of their funds to addresses that have never signed a transaction. And when they do sign one, they should also move remaining funds to a new address (possibly generated from the same seed phrase). Don't rush. While I believe there is cause for action a rushed migration would do more harm than good. Don't panic either. Moving assets to protected addresses is a simple, preventative step which does not require new cryptography or new wallets. IMO it is now reasonable to brace for the possibility that ECDSA breaks before qday, in the worst case in months not years. By "break" I mean fast private key recovery (e.g. in one week) on available hardware (e.g. a large GPU cluster). Recent days have been humbling for human mathematical intuition. Long-held, unquestioned hypotheses have fallen. This includes the n log(n) bound for integer multiplication and the 3SUM conjecture. In hindsight, May's unexpected disproof of the Erdős unit distance conjecture was our warning shot. Yesterday's OpenAI drop made it clear that mathematical superintelligence is upon us. They say there are weeks where decades happen. We are about to live through weeks where centuries of mathematical progress happen. Could our magic 64-byte ECDSA signatures be too good to be true? Was it just security through obscurity all this time? Elliptic curves feel especially vulnerable to superintelligence. Curves carry rich structure, with room for fancy tricks like Schoof, Frobenius, pairings. (By contrast, hashes are designed to minimise algebraic structure.) Separately, as Ewin Tang can attest, an efficient quantum algorithm sometimes foreshadows an efficient classical one. We should be open to the possibility of a classical counterpart to Shor that breaks elliptic curves and RSA at once. Also noteworthy is the striking under-representation of cryptographic breakthroughs among the 722 mathematical results OpenAI published. I've witnessed first-hand the US government censoring academic quantum cryptanalysis results. Backroom interventionism is my base case. I urge large, sophisticated actors to lead by example. Project11's "risq list" (bitcoin-risq-list.projecteleven[.]com) is a great tracker of exposed BTC pubkeys. Binance, Bitbank, Robinhood, Bitfinex, and Tether have an opportunity to harden their cold storage. Next month I'll address institutions in London in a live Q&A (forum.ethereuminstitutional[.]org/london-2026). Again, please do not rush. Wallets holding under 50 BTC enjoy partial cover from "Satoshi's shield", i.e. his 20K exposed addresses that hold 50 BTC each. Load-bearing signers like oracles and L2 security councils should consider rotating ECDSA pubkeys with every signed message and/or multi-signing with a hash-based schemes like SPHINCS. Exiting bunker mode safely will require post-AI cryptography. My inclination is to go all-in on hash-based cryptography and avoid structured mathematical assumptions entirely, whether from curves, lattices, or isogenies. A single battle-tested hash (e.g. from the SHA or BLAKE families) yields plausible post-AI security. The Ethereum roadmap on strawmap[.]org fully embraces hash-based cryptography with end-to-end formal verification as a response to the quantum threat. Those timelines must now be revisited and accelerated in light of mathematical superintelligence. I'll be pushing for maximum defensive acceleration.

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I'm 30 solo founder from France 🇫🇷 no job, no freelancing, no client work just me grinding daily since April 2025, when I started here with: - 10 followers - 0 network - 0 post / 0 photo/video of myself online - 0 product built By the end of 2025 I – created my company – posted on X, LK, Reddit, TikTok for the first time – recorded myself in English – posted guitar playing videos + BiP videos – launched my first SaaS (8 live now) – made my first internet money – traveled outside of Europe – jumped on calls with strangers you might know me as the guy who branded the Mac he didn't have yet (maybe that's what will remain lol), so here's more about me, hoping it inspires you: I always wanted to be a game dev but was rubbish in maths/physics, failed, and ended up getting a Master's degree in English studies (with a research paper on AI, that already seems so outdated lol) then complete shift to web dev, started from zero → one year later I was creating a web app for a huge British company as a solo, fullstack dev that's mostly what's still helping me finance my journey, even though I've just been burning savings every single month since anyway that contract ended in April 2025 ; I was going to do freelancing, but I found this indie community here and started watching @marclou's vlogs I had no idea where to start but I still started I've never loved coding, I've only ever loved creating stuff thanks to it - and that's what I'm addicted to 🎸 I play guitar (got my first one 20 years ago) 🎶 I've recorded probably more than a hundred songs over the last 15 years 🎮 I love gaming, I used to spend 10 hours a day not coding but playing, not much time anymore now (toxic trait: I believe I could've turned pro on CoD4) 🖥️ Now creating things online, from SaaS to web apps to mobile apps to random tools to games (I even ranked #51 / 900+ in the VibeJam) and now going all-in on the BrandMyLaptop.com marketplace "I haven't got THE product that could help me blow up and that would make me want to focus on 100%" - that's what I said on my birthday 10 months ago ; but now I do!!! this BrandMyMac auction has completely changed my journey in the span of a few days it's the first time I felt, while building it, "I know this is a banger, it's obvious it can work, it must already exist" the rest is history: ✅ 13M views in 2 weeks (10.3M with one post) ✅ +3k followers in the last 2 weeks ✅ unlocked monetisation on X and got paid $1,300 ✅ I made $15k in 3 weeks = I made $16k over the last 1.5 years (different perspective right?) ✅ started the whole "BrandMy..." trend all that took +14k posts, 8 SaaS & 2 mobile apps that kinda flopped ($200 MRR all combined atm), a crazy amount of reps (made 100 daily vlogs then stopped cos they felt useless) if you think I pulled that recent money, impressions, success or whatever out of nowhere, you're wrong. and it's not your fault there's no way for you to know what it took to get to that point and this is the point of this post, might as well re-introduce myself to the new 3k followers (welcome and thanks), instead of just saying "let's connect" lol anyway, grateful for all these moments, your support, and the amazing people I've met 🙏🏼 and I'm proud for starting this journey, believing in myself, and challenging myself more than ever still long way to go before being able to chill out making revenue passively 💪🏼 thank you all ❤ (some posts illustrating my journey below 👇🏼)