Phase 3 will test our network’s ability to allow anyone to mint and burn non-native tokens. This will be the most important step in realizing our long-term mission of bringing encryption standards to all of web3.
Phase 2 stress-tests our network to handle as many nodes and transactions as possible. Highlights:
✅ 11k concurrent nodes, second only to Bitcoin’s 15,000 typical concurrent nodes
✅ 300k avg transactions per day
Given that history, our team's favorite line: “The Iron Fish core team has a mantra to make Iron Fish ‘the Apple of blockchains’—intuitive, easy to use and something that works right out of the box.”
's familiar emphasis on actual reporting, they selected 50 companies that could "be the most valuable businesses in their categories." Iron Fish was ranked the #2 crypto company in the world 👀
Most startups lists are crap. They are based on "buzz" or worse, paid for placement. @theinformation's 50 most promising startups is based on, you guessed it, reporting. Lots of it!
Here they are! #theinformation50https://theinformation.com/ti50?rc=hwneun
5️⃣ They all believe in the importance of privacy. But they're afraid that privacy in crypto will allow criminals to go unchecked. Keeping out criminals and protecting consumers is the mission of projects like
4️⃣ Many still think pseudonymity equals anonymity. Anecdotes about how easy it is to match digital wallets to the offline world help. If these professionals better understood that, they'd realize what we here at Iron Fish do: privacy is a consumer shield against financial crimes.
3️⃣ Most anti-financial crime professionals think crypto risk can be appropriately mitigated with the right controls. 80% agreed. Nearly 20% felt crypto was LESS risky than tradfi 👀
Great day 2 at ACAMS Las Vegas! Where else can you get @ironfishcrypto, @coinbase, @Anchorage, @trmlabs, and @WellsFargo together to talk about the future of crypto and how to mitigate financial crime risk.
@ACAMS_AML#aml#web3#Crypto#ACAMSVegas
is a community of 100k+ anti-financial crime professionals. Their flagship event is a 3-day conference in Las Vegas, drawing thousands of attendees, including tradfi and crypto, regulators and law enforcement. Here are our 5 biggest takeaways:
You probably didn't know that the Super Bowl of financial crime fighters happened earlier this month in Vegas. Thankfully, the takeaways won't be staying in Vegas: https://ironfish.network/blog/2022/10/25/acams…
Many of the early people into crypto found their way in for deeply personal reasons:
- families that fled dictatorships
- being obsessed with the math
- coming from cyberpunk / hacker roots
@leanthebean’s journey into crypto doesn’t disappoint! twitter.com/sequoia/status…
Many of the early people into crypto found their way in for deeply personal reasons:
- families that fled dictatorships
- being obsessed with the math
- coming from cyberpunk / hacker roots
For all crypto’s potential, there’s one thing it may need before going mainstream: Privacy.
@ironfishcrypto founder @leanthebean is working on it https://sequoiacap.com/article/elena-nadolinski-spotlight/…
Most startups lists are crap. They are based on "buzz" or worse, paid for placement. @theinformation's 50 most promising startups is based on, you guessed it, reporting. Lots of it!
Here they are! #theinformation50https://theinformation.com/ti50?rc=hwneun
Consumers should never have to worry about tech companies "keeping a promise" about encryption. It should be immutably encoded at the base layer. Forever. That's what we're building at Iron Fish.
Talked to Signal president @mer__edith about competing with iMessage, RCS, and facing down government pressure to break encryption. Oh, and what it's like to hire a new CEO. A really good episode of Decoder -> https://theverge.com/23409716/signal-encryption-messaging-sms-meredith-whittaker-imessage-whatsapp-china…
outlining the national security, cybercrime, and consumer protection risks that are caused by the lack of privacy on blockchains. You can read it on our blog.
TLDR 🧵👇#Crypto#web3#privacy
We’ve had some amazing community contributions for Iron Fish, but this one I think about a lot. How crazy that someone made a mural of Iron Fish in my hometown of Volgograd, Russia 🤯
Thank you so much again
It just so happens that the CEO of Iron Fish @leanthebean and I are from the same city, so we decided to improve our city and at the same time tell our residents about the existence of @ironfishcrypto#volgograd#privacy#art