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Unto Labs | San Francisco, CA | ONSITE (Hybrid OK), REMOTE (US) | Full-Time Unto Labs is developing the Thru Layer-1 blockchain (https://thru.org) We recently announced $14.4 million in funding to make blockchains & digital assets useful for the world. Founded by Jump Crypto alumni and core contributors to the Solana protocol and the Firedancer client (https://github.com/firedancer-io/firedancer), we’re tackling fundamental scalability, performance, and usability challenges in distributed ledgers. Our runtime conforms to the RISC-V specification—moving away from domain-specific VMs, DSLs, and bespoke compiler toolchains that limit developer and institutional adoption. You can write smart contracts and programs in any LLVM compatible programming language and reason about a standard ISA in RISC-V. Components are developed in C for maximal c

Unto Labs | San Francisco, CA | ONSITE (Hybrid OK), REMOTE (US) | Full-Time Unto Labs is developing the Thru Layer-1 blockchain (https://thru.org) We recently announced $14.4 million in funding to make blockchains & digital assets useful for the world. Founded by Jump Crypto alumni and core contributors to the Solana protocol and the Firedancer client (https://github.com/firedancer-io/firedancer), we’re tackling fundamental scalability, performance, and usability challenges in distributed ledgers. Our runtime conforms to the RISC-V specification—moving away from domain-specific VMs, DSLs, and bespoke compiler toolchains that limit developer and institutional adoption. You can write smart contracts and programs in any LLVM compatible programming language and reason about a standard ISA in RISC-V. Components are developed in C for maximal c

Unto Labs | San Francisco, CA | ONSITE (Hybrid OK), REMOTE (US) | Full-Time Unto Labs is developing the Thru Layer-1 blockchain (https://thru.org) We recently announced $14.4 million in funding to make blockchains & digital assets useful for the world. Founded by Jump Crypto alumni and core contributors to the Solana protocol and the Firedancer client (https://github.com/firedancer-io/firedancer), we’re tackling fundamental scalability, performance, and usability challenges in distributed ledgers. Our runtime conforms to the RISC-V specification—moving away from domain-specific VMs, DSLs, and bespoke compiler toolchains that limit developer and institutional adoption. You can write smart contracts and programs in any LLVM compatible programming language and reason about a standard ISA in RISC-V. Components are developed in C for maximal c

Unto Labs | San Francisco, CA | ONSITE (Hybrid OK), REMOTE (US) | Full-Time Unto Labs is developing the Thru Layer-1 blockchain (https://thru.org) We recently announced $14.4 million in funding to make blockchains & digital assets useful for the world. Founded by Jump Crypto alumni and core contributors to the Solana protocol and the Firedancer client (https://github.com/firedancer-io/firedancer), we’re tackling fundamental scalability, performance, and usability challenges in distributed ledgers. Our runtime conforms to the RISC-V specification—moving away from domain-specific VMs, DSLs, and bespoke compiler toolchains that limit developer and institutional adoption. You can write smart contracts and programs in any LLVM compatible programming language and reason about a standard ISA in RISC-V. Components are developed in C for maximal c

Unto Labs | San Francisco, CA | ONSITE (Hybrid OK), REMOTE (US) | Full-Time Unto Labs is developing the Thru Layer-1 blockchain (https://thru.org) We recently announced $14.4 million in funding to make blockchains & digital assets useful for the world. Founded by Jump Crypto alumni and core contributors to the Solana protocol and the Firedancer client (https://github.com/firedancer-io/firedancer), we’re tackling fundamental scalability, performance, and usability challenges in distributed ledgers. Our runtime conforms to the RISC-V specification—moving away from domain-specific VMs, DSLs, and bespoke compiler toolchains that limit developer and institutional adoption. You can write smart contracts and programs in any LLVM compatible programming language and reason about a standard ISA in RISC-V. Components are developed in C for maximal c

Unto Labs | San Francisco, CA | ONSITE (Hybrid OK), REMOTE (US) | Full-Time Unto Labs is developing the Thru Layer-1 blockchain (https://thru.org) We recently announced $14.4 million in funding to make blockchains & digital assets useful for the world. Founded by Jump Crypto alumni and core contributors to the Solana protocol and the Firedancer client (https://github.com/firedancer-io/firedancer), we’re tackling fundamental scalability, performance, and usability challenges in distributed ledgers. Our runtime conforms to the RISC-V specification—moving away from domain-specific VMs, DSLs, and bespoke compiler toolchains that limit developer and institutional adoption. You can write smart contracts and programs in any LLVM compatible programming language and reason about a standard ISA in RISC-V. Components are developed in C for maximal c

Unto Labs | Systems Engineer | San Francisco, CA | ONSITE (Hybrid OK), REMOTE (US) | Full-Time | https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/unto-labs/13df6bea-b253-4c80-ae05-5... We recently announced $14.4 million in funding to make blockchains & digital assets useful for the world. Founded by Jump Crypto alumni and core contributors to the Solana protocol and the Firedancer client (https://github.com/firedancer-io/firedancer), we’re tackling fundamental scalability, performance, and usability challenges in distributed ledgers. Our runtime conforms to the RISC-V specification—moving away from domain-specific VMs, DSLs, and bespoke compiler toolchains that limit developer and institutional adoption. Components are developed in C for maximal control over performance and resource usage. Interesting problems you’ll tackle: - Building and testing high-performa

Unto Labs | Systems Engineer | San Francisco, CA | ONSITE (Hybrid OK), REMOTE (US) | Full-Time | https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/unto-labs/13df6bea-b253-4c80-ae05-5... We recently announced $14.4 million in funding to make blockchains & digital assets useful for the world. Founded by Jump Crypto alumni and core contributors to the Solana protocol and the Firedancer client (https://github.com/firedancer-io/firedancer), we’re tackling fundamental scalability, performance, and usability challenges in distributed ledgers. Our runtime conforms to the RISC-V specification—moving away from domain-specific VMs, DSLs, and bespoke compiler toolchains that limit developer and institutional adoption. Components are developed in C for maximal control over performance and resource usage. Interesting problems you’ll tackle: - Building and testing high-performa

Unto Labs | Systems Engineer | San Francisco, CA | ONSITE (Hybrid OK), REMOTE (US) | Full-Time | https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/unto-labs/13df6bea-b253-4c80-ae05-5... We recently announced $14.4 million in funding to make blockchains & digital assets useful for the world. Founded by Jump Crypto alumni and core contributors to the Solana protocol and the Firedancer client (https://github.com/firedancer-io/firedancer), we’re tackling fundamental scalability, performance, and usability challenges in distributed ledgers. Our runtime conforms to the RISC-V specification—moving away from domain-specific VMs and bespoke compiler toolchains that limit developer and institutional adoption. Components are developed in C for maximal control over performance and resource usage. Interesting problems you’ll tackle: - Building and testing high-performance sub

For folks interested in the current state of the art on sandboxing, here is a stab one of my former coworkers did: https://github.com/firedancer-io/firedancer/blob/main/src/ut... He researched chromeos process virtualization, moby (docker upstream), and chrome tab isolation. It’s all done ebpf magic on top of seccomp at its core.

As an example, the Amazon implementation doesn't refer to gcc's[1] and clang's[2] "zero_call_used_regs" to zeroise CPU registers upon return or exception of functions working on crypto secrets. OpenSSL doesn't either.[3] firedancer _does_ use "zero_call_used_regs" to allow gcc/clang to zeroise used CPU registers.[9] As another example, the Amazon implementation also doesn't refer to gcc's "strub" attribute which zeroises the function's stack upon return or exception of functions working on crypto secrets.[4][5] OpenSSL doesn't either.[3] firedancer _does_ use the "strub" attribute to allow gcc to zeroise the function's stack.[9] Is there a performance impact? [6] has the overhead at 0% for X25519 for implementing CPU register and stack zeroisation. Compiling the Linux kernel with "CONFIG_ZERO_CALL_USED_REGS=1" for x64_64 (impacting all ke

It's much more than just performance they've thought about. Here are some of the secure programming practices that have been implemented: /* All the functions in this file are considered "secure", specifically: - Constant time in the input, i.e. the input can be a secret[2] - Small and auditable code base, incl. simple types - Either, no local variables = no need to clear them before exit (most functions) - Or, only static allocation + clear local variable before exit (fd_ed25519_scalar_mul_base_const_time) - Clear registers via FD_FN_SENSITIVE[3] - C safety */ libsodium[4] implements similar mechanisms, and Linux kernel encryption code does too (example: use of kfree_sensitive)[5]. However, firedancer appears to better avoid moving secrets outside of CPU registers, and [3] explains that libraries such a

The firedancer team at one of the better HFT firms wrote an AVX512 optimized implementation of ed25519 and X25519 that’s significantly faster than OpenSSL. https://github.com/firedancer-io/firedancer/pull/716 Ditto for sha256: https://github.com/firedancer-io/firedancer/pull/778 And sha512: https://github.com/firedancer-io/firedancer/pull/760 If you’re an optimization nerd, this codebase is wild.