從非洲走私黃金到連接比特幣和卡爾達諾

作為加密貨幣領域的長期常客，Sovryn 和 BitcoinOS 創辦人 Edan Yago 在很小的時候就意識到了金融主權的重要性。

A longtime fixture on the crypto scene, Sovryn and BitcoinOS founder Edan Yago learned the importance of financial sovereignty at an early age.

Sovryn 和 BitcoinOS 創辦人 Edan Yago 是加密領域的長期常客，他從小就認識到金融主權的重要性。

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From ages 9 to 11, Edan Yago smuggled gold, stashed in his clothing by his mother, out of South Africa.

從 9 歲到 11 歲，埃丹·亞戈 (Edan Yago) 將母親藏在衣服裡的黃金從南非走私出去。

The apartheid government had instituted capital controls to stabilize the rand amid international sanctions. Authorities were hunting some of his family members, whom it had designated as "terrorists."

種族隔離政府實施資本管制，以在國際制裁中穩定蘭特。當局正在追捕他的一些家人，並將他們定為「恐怖分子」。

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“We were eventually forced out of South Africa,” Yago told CoinDesk in an interview.

「我們最終被迫離開南非，」亞戈在接受 CoinDesk 採訪時表示。

His family had a history with tyranny: Some relatives survived the Holocaust; others didn't.

他的家族有暴政的歷史：一些親戚在大屠殺中倖存下來；其他人則沒有。

That background, coupled with his education in neuroscience and data science, led him to a career working in Bitcoin, with its value proposition of wealth that governments can’t easily confiscate and transactions that central authorities can’t veto.

這種背景，加上他在神經科學和數據科學方面的教育，使他開始了比特幣的職業生涯，比特幣的價值主張是政府無法輕易沒收財富，中央當局無法否決交易。

“My focus throughout has been on trying to develop tools for greater sovereignty,” Yago said.

「我自始至終的重點都是努力開發實現更大主權的工具，」亞戈說。

A self-described "bitcoin accelerationist," Yago is the founder of Sovryn, a decentralized bitcoin lending and trading platform, and is building BitcoinOS, a "rollup" stack for the world's largest cryptocurrency designed to process more transactions and more complex operations like smart contracts than the blockchain could handle otherwise.

Yago 自稱為“比特幣加速主義者”，是去中心化比特幣借貸和交易平台Sovryn 的創始人，並且正在構建BitcoinOS，這是世界上最大的加密貨幣的“匯總”堆棧，旨在處理更多交易和更複雜的操作，例如智慧交易。

Technical achievements

技術成果

In July, BitcoinOS achieved its milestone of verifying a zero-knowledge proof on Bitcoin mainnet. “This is a big deal,” said Yago. “We're building a platform which is going to allow rollups on bitcoin, and through that, allow us to maintain the security of bitcoin without introducing any changes to smart contracts, build scalability and privacy."

7 月，BitcoinOS 實現了在比特幣主網上驗證零知識證明的里程碑。 「這是一件大事，」亞戈說。 “我們正在建立一個平台，允許對比特幣進行匯總，從而使我們能夠在不對智能合約進行任何更改的情況下維護比特幣的安全性，建立可擴展性和隱私性。”

The goal is "transforming bitcoin into an operating system, not just a system for transacting bitcoin.”

目標是“將比特幣轉變為一個作業系統，而不僅僅是一個用於交易比特幣的系統。”

His team is now working with a company called Emurgo to turn Cardano (ADA), the blockchain whose native ADA token is the 11th-largest cryptocurrency according to CoinDesk data, into a smart contract layer for Bitcoin.

他的團隊目前正在與一家名為 Emurgo 的公司合作，將 Cardano (ADA) 轉變為比特幣的智慧合約層。

The first technical step will be integrating the BOS Grail bridge with Cardano’s open-source ecosystem to allow “trustless bridging of BTC and Bitcoin assets using BOS’s ZK-based BitSNARK verification protocol, bringing Bitcoin’s unparalleled liquidity into Cardano,” according to a Thursday announcement.

根據週四的公告，第一個技術步驟將是將BOS Grail 橋與Cardano 的開源生態系統集成，以允許「使用BOS 基於ZK 的BitSNARK 驗證協議對BTC 和比特幣資產進行去信任橋接，從而將比特幣無與倫比的流動性引入Cardano」。

A crypto OG

加密貨幣與

Yago has been a fixture on the blockchain scene for more than a decade. In 2013, at an early Bitcoin conference in San Jose, Calif., he pitched the idea of a "cryptocurrency-based political zone." Three special economic zones in Honduras emerged from that project; they are currently fighting a legal battle with the government there. The concept was a harbinger of Balaji Srinivasan's network states.

十多年來，Yago 一直是區塊鏈領域的常客。 2013 年，在加州聖荷西舉行的早期比特幣會議上，他提出了「基於加密貨幣的政治區」的想法。該項目催生了洪都拉斯的三個經濟特區；他們目前正在與當地政府進行法律鬥爭。這個概念是巴拉吉·斯里尼瓦桑網路國家的先兆。

In the years since, the early adopters' lofty visions have been overshadowed by later entrants' obsessions with candlestick charts and Lamborghinis. “The whole crypto ecosystem’s challenge is that it's a mixture of high-minded idealism with the most speculative casino stuff and that’s a difficult thing to navigate," Yago told CoinDesk.

此後的幾年裡，早期採用者的遠大願景被後來的進入者對燭台圖和蘭博基尼的痴迷所掩蓋。 「整個加密生態系統面臨的挑戰是，它是高尚的理想主義與最具投機性的賭場內容的混合體，這是一件很難駕馭的事情，」Yago 告訴 CoinDesk。

Still, he sees a silver lining in the sleaze.

儘管如此，他還是在這些骯髒的事情中看到了一線希望。

"While it's tempting for ideologically driven people to completely reject memecoins, centralized exchanges and all the nonsense that's going on, the truth is that that is a gateway drug for people to actually discover how they can be more in control of their financial lives,” Yago said.

「雖然受意識形態驅動的人們很容易完全拒絕迷因幣、中心化交易所和所有正在發生的胡言亂語，但事實是，這是人們真正發現如何更好地控制自己的財務生活的入門藥物。

What's more, he is trying to rehabilitate an idea associated with one of the more unsavory chapters in crypto history.

更重要的是，他正試圖恢復與加密貨幣歷史上最令人厭惡的章節之一相關的想法。

ICOs redux

帶回 ICO

Yago said he wants to form a “coalition of established DeFi’s and crypto companies to bring back the initial coin offerings era.”

Yago 表示，他希望組建一個「成熟的 DeFi 和加密貨幣公司聯盟，以帶回首次代幣發行時代」。

As then-CoinDesk columnist David Z. Morris wrote last year, the 2017 ICO boom was an “orgy of fraud and scammy behavior” but it also “funded many crypto success stories.”

正如當時的 CoinDesk 專欄作家 David Z. Morris 去年所寫的那樣，2017 年的 ICO 熱潮是一場“欺詐和詐騙行為的狂歡”，但它也“為許多加密貨幣的成功故事提供了資金”。

It is no longer necessary to issue tokens through centralized entities, Yago said. The proper way is through decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) – ones that are decentralized in more than just name.

亞戈表示，不再需要透過中心化實體發行代幣。正確的方法是透過去中心化自治組織（DAO）－這些組織不僅僅是名義上的去中心化。

“Imagine if large collectives or DAOs, say six projects, come together and say 'This is important for us to preserve the privacy of our users so we are launching a crypto application or project together,'” he said. “The SEC can try and figure out who's to blame. That’s the secret. We don’t need to fight it directly.” The arrest of Tornado Cash co-founder Alexey Pertsev has not deterred Yago because “Tornado Cash still works,” he said.

「想像一下，如果大型集體或 DAO（例如六個項目）聚集在一起說『這對我們保護用戶的隱私很重要，因此我們一起推出加密應用程式或項目，』」他說。 「美國證券交易委員會可以試著找出誰應該受到指責。這就是秘密。我們不需要直接對抗。 Tornado Cash 聯合創始人 Alexey Pertsev 的被捕並沒有阻止 Yago，因為“Tornado Cash 仍然有效”，他說。

Neither has North Korea’s use of Tornado Cash to launder funds. “If you’re not taking casualties, you’re not fighting," Yago said. "The cost of an open society with freedom of speech

北韓也沒有使用龍捲風現金洗錢。亞戈說：「如果你沒有造成人員傷亡，那麼你就不是在戰鬥。擁有言論自由的開放社會的代價