从从非洲走私黄金到连接比特币和卡尔达诺

作为加密货币领域的长期常客，Sovryn 和 BitcoinOS 创始人 Edan Yago 在很小的时候就意识到了金融主权的重要性。

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 创始人 Edan Yago 是加密领域的长期常客，他从小就认识到金融主权的重要性。

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

从 9 岁到 11 岁，埃丹·亚戈 (Edan Yago) 将母亲藏在衣服里的黄金从南非走私出去。

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."

种族隔离政府实施资本管制，以在国际制裁中稳定兰特。当局正在追捕他的一些家人，并将他们定为“恐怖分子”。

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

“我们最终被迫离开南非，”亚戈在接受 CoinDesk 采访时表示。

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

他的家族有暴政的历史：一些亲戚在大屠杀中幸存下来；其他人则没有。

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.

这种背景，加上他在神经科学和数据科学方面的教育，使他开始了比特币的职业生涯，比特币的价值主张是政府无法轻易没收财富，中央当局无法否决交易。

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

“我自始至终的重点都是努力开发实现更大主权的工具，”亚戈说。

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 自称为“比特币加速主义者”，是去中心化比特币借贷和交易平台 Sovryn 的创始人，并且正在构建 BitcoinOS，这是世界上最大的加密货币的“汇总”堆栈，旨在处理更多交易和更复杂的操作，例如智能交易。区块链无法处理的合同。

Technical achievements

技术成果

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 实现了在比特币主网上验证零知识证明的里程碑。 “这是一件大事，”亚戈说。 “我们正在构建一个平台，允许对比特币进行汇总，从而使我们能够在不对智能合约进行任何更改的情况下维护比特币的安全性，建立可扩展性和隐私性。”

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

目标是“将比特币转变为一个操作系统，而不仅仅是一个用于交易比特币的系统。”

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.

他的团队目前正在与一家名为 Emurgo 的公司合作，将 Cardano (ADA) 转变为比特币的智能合约层。根据 CoinDesk 的数据，该区块链的原生 ADA 代币是第 11 大加密货币。

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.

根据周四的公告，第一个技术步骤将是将 BOS Grail 桥与 Cardano 的开源生态系统集成，以允许“使用 BOS 基于 ZK 的 BitSNARK 验证协议对 BTC 和比特币资产进行去信任桥接，从而将比特币无与伦比的流动性引入 Cardano”。

A crypto OG

加密货币与

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.

十多年来，Yago 一直是区块链领域的常客。 2013 年，在加利福尼亚州圣何塞举行的早期比特币会议上，他提出了“基于加密货币的政治区”的想法。该项目催生了洪都拉斯的三个经济特区；他们目前正在与当地政府进行法律斗争。这个概念是巴拉吉·斯里尼瓦桑网络国家的先兆。

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.

此后的几年里，早期采用者的远大愿景被后来的进入者对烛台图和兰博基尼的痴迷所掩盖。 “整个加密生态系统面临的挑战是，它是高尚的理想主义与最具投机性的赌场内容的混合体，这是一件很难驾驭的事情，”Yago 告诉 CoinDesk。

Still, he sees a silver lining in the sleaze.

尽管如此，他还是在这些肮脏的事情中看到了一线希望。

"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.

“虽然受意识形态驱动的人们很容易完全拒绝模因币、中心化交易所和所有正在发生的胡言乱语，但事实是，这是人们真正发现如何更好地控制自己的财务生活的入门药物。”雅戈说道。

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，他正试图恢复与加密货币历史上最令人厌恶的章节之一相关的想法。

ICOs redux

带回 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，他希望组建一个“成熟的 DeFi 和加密货币公司联盟，以带回首次代币发行时代”。

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.”

正如当时的 CoinDesk 专栏作家 David Z. Morris 去年所写的那样，2017 年的 ICO 热潮是一场“欺诈和诈骗行为的狂欢”，但它也“为许多加密货币的成功故事提供了资金”。

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.

亚戈表示，不再需要通过中心化实体发行代币。正确的方法是通过去中心化自治组织（DAO）——这些组织不仅仅是名义上的去中心化。

“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.

“想象一下，如果大型集体或 DAO（例如六个项目）聚集在一起说‘这对我们保护用户的隐私很重要，因此我们一起推出加密应用程序或项目，’”他说。 “美国证券交易委员会可以尝试找出谁应该受到指责。这就是秘密。我们不需要直接对抗。” Tornado Cash 联合创始人 Alexey Pertsev 的被捕并没有阻止 Yago，因为“Tornado Cash 仍然有效”，他说。

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

朝鲜也没有使用龙卷风现金洗钱。亚戈说：“如果你没有造成人员伤亡，那么你就不是在战斗。拥有言论自由的开放社会的代价