how to raise the gas limit, part 2 ⛽⛽

1. the goal = raise the gas limit
2. the approach = use lots of data
3. the focus today = 𝐇𝐈𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐑𝐘 𝐆𝐑𝐎𝐖𝐓𝐇

very excited to release our latest research on the LARGEST + LEAST DISCUSSED factor holding back Ethereum's gas limit

Powerful primitive for building basically any off-chain infra

1/ Introducing Blur on Blast!

Trade Blast NFTs. Earn Blast Points and Gold.

Beyond the Stripe payments announcement, it might be less known that they already support fiat on-ramp (eg buy ETH w/ credit card on Metamask via Stripe).

Even better UX with Stripe Link which pre-fills payment info for those already in network.

stripe.com/use-cases/cryp…

Stripe Sessions giving Berkshire Hathaway’s annual meeting a run for its money as the Woodstock for Capitalists

We're so back

Big news everyone

reth leading the way on scaling to 1 Ggas/s

excited to work closely with them on Base 🛡️ to achieve this broadband moment for crypto

eth/acc

Today, we're launching the latest Security Alliance initiative, and it's going to change crypto security forever. It's called SEAL-ISAC, and this is why we need it

Today, we are excited to open source Reth Alphanet.

Reth AlphaNet is an OP Stack-compatible testnet rollup that maximizes Reth performance and enables experimentation of bleeding edge Ethereum Research.

Uniswap has been fighting for the core principles of crypto since they launched. To me, they stand for the idea that immutable peer-to-peer financial technology is not only possible, but inevitable. That it can win.

It’s unfortunate that the SEC is forcing them to take that…

Honored to share that Monad Labs has raised $225M in funding from Paradigm and other leading investors. Thank you for this incredible vote of confidence. 💜

The funding provides our team with ample resources to bring Monad, the Parallel EVM L1 blockchain, to life.

Excited to support Keone Hon ⨀ James Eunice | Monad and the rest of the team Monad ⨀

I’ve been writing a lot of sci-fi set in posthuman worlds lately, and thinking about new types of conflict that might open up. Some ideas in comic form (with explanations and examples below):

Introducing Farcaster Actions

Farcaster Actions are like Chrome Extensions for a social network.

Developers can build actions that users can install to their Farcaster app in a few taps via a frame. Works on mobile and web

Links in next tweet.

What’s going on?

When I was in middle school I qualified for Nationals at MathCounts

and I remember distinctly watching defi guy 🔥🦅 (CEO of Ellipsis), absolutely destroy in the Countdown round

That was when I realized I was very very good at math, but I was not Eugene

1/ We're excited to announce our $20M Series A led by Paradigm, to further our mission of building a sustainable DeFi ecosystem.

Q: What matters most for L2s accruing value back to ETH L1?

- Using ETH as a gas token?
- Using ETH DA rather than Alt DA?
- ETH being used as 'money' on the L2 (e.g. for minting NFTs)?
- L2 calling itself ETH-aligned 😬?
- Something else?