Ethereum’s collaborative culture is unmatched by the rest of the space Despite unsubstantiated memes about cabal, dogma, alignment, etc, Ethereum’s leadership are some of the most accessible people around, and the best ideas tend to get amplified regardless of who they come from

The more I think about RWAs, the less I understand the value for end users or blockchain networks. For end users, I've always viewed settlement assurances as the value prop (strong guarantee that inbound transactions won't get reversed). With RWAs that benefit doesn't exist

Which has higher prover TPS for a simple state machine: - native Poseidon hash SMTs - verifying a single batched verkle proof using non-native curve ops, for all the txns in the batch

sequencing = ordering = mev = money 🤑 I am a very smart finance bro Btw does anyone know what rollups are and why they have sequencers?

Brandolini’s law has been very relevant lately

Hi Peter, Cryptography knower here Not a single would-be crime will be prevented by this Hope this helps

so everyone agrees with all my controversial takes now? cool

Let's work together to formally verify zkEVMs! verified-zkevm.org Grant applications for Stage 1 will be opening asap.

c-node accountless Crypto always conflating market segments and coming up with scrambled ideas

the incentive to fragment liquidity is created by user preferences. they'd rather bridge and farm than have good UX. monolithic scaling would not have prevented it, because it's just part of the game that the users want to play.

I think I agree with this

Michael Saylor says Bitcoin is a unique asset, and that other cryptos are a "tech play". It's not so black-and-white, but he is directionally correct. Rather than succumb to bitcoin maximalism, we should have some new projects be less like tech plays and more like bitcoin.

this analogy is great, because we are literally adding more rows and columns to a 2D grid

You either believe crypto is a cypherpunk movement, social and political by nature, designed to break away from incumbent systems and institutions in favor of something more free or you want to seek acceptance from them but you can’t be both

Crytpo seems oblivious to the truth that innovative products are always cheap to build. This is because truly differentiated products offer users value much earlier in their development. Incumbents will almost always win when it comes to expensive r&d projects because they have