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@VitalikButerin· about 1 month agoRT @lightclients: As of today, all Ethereum execution clients support history pruning for pre-merge data. For mainnet, this means 300-500 GB less disk space required to operate a node. Learn more about what this means and how to take advantage the new functionality: https://t.co/4eXiSnbL9p
@VitalikButerin· about 1 month agoWhy I used to prefer permissive licenses and now favor copyleft https://t.co/aPGhY0Y0kX
@VitalikButerin· about 1 month agoUse @GrapheneOS.
@VitalikButerin· about 1 month agoRT @tkstanczak: https://t.co/uuEXhuozdH
@VitalikButerin· about 1 month agoRT @MSilb7: 4 years later and I finally experienced the benefits of an "L2 secured by Ethereum." I had ETH stuck on OP Mainnet in @coinbase's web3 mpc wallet for almost 3 years. I was waiting for OP Mainnet support, it never came, and now the product is sunsetting. I made a last ditch effort to try to send an L1 transaction that triggered an ETH transfer from my CB web3 wallet to a normal wallet on L2, and... IT WORKED
@VitalikButerin· about 1 month agoGood interview from Roman Storm. His trial is coming soon in 10 days. Privacy of messaging without backdoors is now widely accepted, and many in business and government regularly use tools like Signal. Given the extremely regular hacks of centralized databases that we see today, improving privacy in other domains (including payments, identity, AI) is not something to be "balanced" against security, it's a necessary _part_ of our security. I hope 🇺🇸can lead the way in making a more secure world with stronger freedoms and fewer data leaks a reality. The first step is sending a clear signal to developers that this important work is welcome. #FreeRomanStorm
@VitalikButerin· about 1 month agoRT @VitalikButerin: @WatcherGuru @cz_binance Also worth reiterating thanks for all the support from @sandeepnailwal @CryptoRelief_, who both funded important biomedical infra in India and returned a large portion of to Balvi to expand on its research and dev mission globally.
@VitalikButerin· about 1 month ago@_EMAgency @WatcherGuru @cz_binance >90% of everything that Balvi has funded is fully open source
@VitalikButerin· about 1 month agoRT @VitalikButerin: @WatcherGuru @cz_binance Appreciate your support for keeping humanity healthy and safe from airborne disease @cz_binance!
@VitalikButerin· about 1 month ago@WatcherGuru @cz_binance Also worth reiterating thanks for all the support from @sandeepnailwal @CryptoRelief_, who both funded important biomedical infra in India and returned a large portion of to Balvi to expand on its research and dev mission globally.
@VitalikButerin· about 1 month ago@WatcherGuru @cz_binance Appreciate your support for keeping humanity healthy and safe from airborne disease @cz_binance!
@VitalikButerin· about 1 month agoRT @RobinhoodApp: Vitalik’s in town. Join us in Cannes for a fireside chat with our crypto GM, @JohannKerbrat, the founder of Ethereum, @VitalikButerin, and the CSO of @offchainlabs, @ajwarner90. Tune in tomorrow at 7:45pm CEST on Robinhood X and YouTube.
@VitalikButerin· about 1 month agoRT @post_polar_: @tkstanczak shouting out @pcaversaccio Ethereum Cypherpunk Manifesto. https://t.co/zojCADry1i
@VitalikButerin· about 1 month agoRT @vdWijden: Over the last couple of days, all major @ethereum clients signalled that they consider a move to 45M gas per block safe. Please adjust your validators accordingly. Please update to the new releases to get the improvements and fixes that clients need to safely move to 45MGas ⬇️
@VitalikButerin· about 1 month agoRT @vdWijden: Geth v.1.16.0 finally ships the PBSS based archive node, you can have a geth archive node in ca. 1.9TB (down from 20+TB)🚀🚀 Queries against historical states (What was my balance at block X) are possible, proofs against historical states are not (yet) Great work by @Gary_Rong
@VitalikButerin· about 1 month agoDoes digital ID have risks even if it's ZK-wrapped? https://t.co/rye1q5G90G
@VitalikButerin· about 1 month agoDual governance isn't perfect, but it solves important problems: * Extra independent defense layer against the system taking particularly harmful actions * Explicit involvement of Ethereum users as stakeholders, as opposed to purely informal vibez-based "alignment" Great work!
@VitalikButerin· about 1 month agoRT @intmaxIO: It affords us the highest honour to proclaim the commencement of the Intmax mainnet. With the utmost respect and warmest salutations, we bid you welcome to Intmax. 1/8 https://t.co/kXJeN1pEPS
@VitalikButerin· about 1 month agoEF is matching donations
@VitalikButerin· about 1 month agoRT @zksync: Ready to prove Ethereum in seconds on a single GPU? Introducing ZKsync Airbender: The world’s fastest open-source RISC-V zkVM ⚡️ https://t.co/8OZBmhUjRo
@VitalikButerin· about 2 months agoRT @EFDevcon: BREAKING NEWS: All Devconnect participants can apply to the special visa program. We collaborated with the immigration office to make your visa application process smoother. Follow the steps in the second tweet: https://t.co/i8H1Fe0Xhm
@VitalikButerin· about 2 months agoEthereum L1 is the world ledger.
@VitalikButerin· about 2 months agoRT @post_polar_: this is the kind of headline i want to see for us:
@VitalikButerin· about 2 months agoRT @0xstark: if you care about onchain privacy and the freedom to write code, consider donating to Roman's defence every donation is being matched 1:1 by the @ethereumfndn, up to $750K https://t.co/JpajPkLqYQ
@VitalikButerin· about 2 months agoRT @tkstanczak: EF Treasury Defipunk submission form for the projects that would like to participate: https://t.co/XMqsvchMUc
@VitalikButerin· about 2 months agoRT @hwwonx: Privacy is normal, and writing code is not a crime.
@VitalikButerin· about 2 months agoRT @ethereumfndn: The EF is donating $500K to the legal defense of Roman Storm, and we will match up to a further $750K in donations from the community. Privacy is normal, and writing code is not a crime.
@VitalikButerin· about 2 months agoRT @OctantApp: We're excited to be cohosting d/acc Berlin this year with @VitalikButerin We've got an action-packed day tomorrow starting with a keynote by @julianzawist followed by @tkstanczak and @koeppelmannn Join us tomorrow 👇
@VitalikButerin· 2 months agoRT @vdWijden: You can't spell DeFi without EF 🚀🚀🚀
@VitalikButerin· 2 months agoIn addition to using these principles to choose which projects we work with, we plan to actively support projects eager to improve on decentralization, backdoor minimization/removal, privacy, open source, and making all these things additive to security. https://t.co/2M6cemFUWc
@VitalikButerin· 2 months agoAnd the transparency policy. Privacy is not about hiding everything, it's about having control over what and how you share. https://t.co/zCNQTP0srt
@VitalikButerin· 2 months agoEF treasury policy, key highlights:
@VitalikButerin· 2 months agoRT @ethereumfndn: Announcing the Ethereum Foundation Treasury Policy https://t.co/bU566m1zX5
@VitalikButerin· 2 months agoRT @hwwonx: Today, we released the Ethereum Foundation Treasury Policy. It outlines our approach to macroeconomics, the management of crypto and fiat-denominated assets, and reflects our commitment to transparency and cypherpunk values. [wow it's a thread 🧶]
@VitalikButerin· 2 months agoRT @dacc_kitchen: d/acc Discovery Day is coming to Berlin! Join us on June 11, 2025, at silent green for talks, panels, and discussions on decentralization, defense, and democracy in tech. Led by @VitalikButerin , co-hosted by @OctantApp https://t.co/WbYOcOAirD
@VitalikButerin· 2 months agoRT @tkstanczak: censorship resistance, security, privacy are fundamental properties of Ethereum, they apply to short term goals, long term goals, architecture, everything goals and directions are always built on top of these fundamentals
@VitalikButerin· 2 months agoRT @owocki: Tectonic Shifts are happening in Ethereum Public Goods Funding. 2025-2027 will look way different than 2022-2024! things that are changing: - roadmap updates in the Ethereum ecosystem - changes at the EF - new funding sources, old funding sources drying up - new AI tech - new ZK tech - stablecoin adoption - ethereum localism - L2s - onchain social - regulatory landscape, geopolitics ongoing evolution - PGF innovations like deep funding, deep gov, kickstarter protocol coming online... - as well as octant 2.0, gitcoin 3.0, evolutions at giveth, optimism, drips, cult, darkfi, protocol guild, and so on... - many more frontier innovations in mechanism design (too many to note) - what'd i miss? i am writing an essay to summarize the changes and hyperstition how we all work together to export more PGF to ethereum + then to the world. some prompts for yall: 1. what new innovative stuff are you excited about and why? 2. who's doing the coolest stuff in the frontier? at scale? what's special about them? 3. how to changes in the world/AI/ZK influence ethereum PGF? 4. how do we all work together on strengthening each other? the best takes get featured in my piece :)
@VitalikButerin· 2 months agoRT @hwwonx: The Ethereum Foundation's R&D team structure update: We're hopeful that this new structure will empower our internal teams to focus more clearly and drive key initiatives forward. Today, we also had to make some incredibly difficult decisions. Saying goodbye to talented and dedicated colleagues is heartbreaking. This decision does not reflect their value or contributions. Thank you to @TimBeiko, @ralexstokes, and @barnabemonnot for your leadership and effort in shaping the new Protocol cluster. And to other new leaders stepping up in this next chapter, we deeply appreciate your commitment.
@VitalikButerin· 2 months agoRT @VitalikButerin: You should join my crusade to make the official pronunciation of the letter W "dub" Every letter deserves a one-syllable name, W is today the sore exception. "dub" not sounding like w is fine, after all "aych" doesn't contain a h sound. (if we wanna fix that we could do "he" and "we", I'm willing to switch to that if it gets enough traction, but I predict that will be relatively much harder, would rather spend those points abolishing daylight savings time changes)
@VitalikButerin· 2 months agoYou should join my crusade to make the official pronunciation of the letter W "dub" Every letter deserves a one-syllable name, W is today the sore exception. "dub" not sounding like w is fine, after all "aych" doesn't contain a h sound. (if we wanna fix that we could do "he" and "we", I'm willing to switch to that if it gets enough traction, but I predict that will be relatively much harder, would rather spend those points abolishing daylight savings time changes)
@VitalikButerin· 2 months agoRT @VitalikButerin: my comment on UX was specifically about zk-snark UX I actually think @0xprivacypools UX is quite good! Of course it's far from what is needed for mass adoption, but it's at least as easy as @safe. Whereas on the devex side, @safe is still waaay easier than anything ZK (eg. where's the etherscan link that lets me verify circuit code, how hard would it be to make a hackathon clone of privacypools (compared with safe), how hard would it be for me to audit either thing) This is an example of what I mean by zk devex being the thing that's further behind compared to zk UX at the moment.
@VitalikButerin· 2 months agoRT @0xprivacypools: big name for a smol pool thank you for your trust @VitalikButerin priv/acc needs to start putting their money where their mouth is come on over and help fill this baby up https://t.co/R4I6xykqjc
@VitalikButerin· 2 months agomy comment on UX was specifically about zk-snark UX I actually think @0xprivacypools UX is quite good! Of course it's far from what is needed for mass adoption, but it's at least as easy as @safe. Whereas on the devex side, @safe is still waaay easier than anything ZK (eg. where's the etherscan link that lets me verify circuit code, how hard would it be to make a hackathon clone of privacypools (compared with safe), how hard would it be for me to audit either thing) This is an example of what I mean by zk devex being the thing that's further behind compared to zk UX at the moment.
@VitalikButerin· 2 months agoRT @A_Leutenegger: We’ve made a huge effort to change the existing paradigm against strong headwinds, but we’re getting there! @AragonProject roadmap based on @VitalikButerin 3 suggestions below: “Multi-level structures” ✅ Privacy with @zkMACI ⏳ AI ⏳ For multi-level structures you can already, no-code, deploy a DAO with multiple governing bodies, governing different permissions, in different processes and stages. For privacy we’re working with the legends at @zkMACI and can’t wait to share more soon! Finally for AI 🤖 we’ve been cooking an autovoter for gauges. We’ll keep pushing to change what we have the power and skills to change for @ethereum!
@VitalikButerin· 2 months agoRT @RAILGUN_Project: The @ethereumfndn has staked 50,000 $RAIL. https://t.co/Cg3a1CiUft The EF can now take part in RAILGUN governance and claim active governor rewards from protocol fees. RAILGUN is and always will be a technology aligned with Ethereum values.
@VitalikButerin· 2 months agoI get the convenience benefits but I also see risk from going in this direction. We need more sophisticated software that is chosen by the user and incentive-aligned with the user to stand in between the user and apps and stand up for the user's interests, not less. In-app wallets generally should be viewed as solving the easy onboarding problem. The desired final destination should go beyond browser extension wallets in the opposite direction, eg. a browser that forces UIs to be on IPFS, does security checks, does the crypto-specific equivalents of Brave removing trackers from everything
@VitalikButerin· 2 months agoI think (i) getting to stage 1 and then stage 2, (ii) getting <= 1h native withdrawal times, (iii) having bypass channels for censorship resistance, are all more important for L2s than decentralizing the sequencer. I've been heartened to see how much progress there has been on (i) this year. The whole point of the construction of doing an L2 instead of a separate L1 is that you're leveraging the decentralization of the underlying L1, and adding scaling and sequencing properties (eg. intmax-style privacy, ultralow latency, sandwich/frontrun protection) on top. There are gains from max-decentralizing every layer, but users/apps that care about that might as well just work directly on L1 (or on R1-style neutrality-maxxing rollups)
@VitalikButerin· 2 months agoNordics are walking back the cashless society initiative because their centralized implementation of the concept is too fragile. Cash turns out necessary as a backup. Ethereum needs to be resilient enough, and private enough, to be able to credibly play this kind of role. https://t.co/WDZxk7Cnxf
@VitalikButerin· 3 months agohttps://t.co/D05fOtthyo
@VitalikButerin· 3 months agoA fun math aside, on the idea of splitting a large zk proving workload between multiple provers. Suppose you have N provers, and you have a proving workload that you split into N parts (so, one part per prover). You require provers to pre-register, but registration is open-access. Suppose you have a constant fault rate (eg. 1/5 of registered provers fail). Provers expect to complete in one round (eg. 3s). If one prover fails, other provers have to come in and re-prove that load. How many rounds does it take for the entire workload to get proven? Answer: log*(N) (yes, that's the iterated-log function) Why: In the first round, you go from N unproven workloads to N/5 unproven workloads In the second round, each remaining workload gets assigned 5 provers, so per-workload failure rate becomes 1 in 5^5. So you go to N / 5 / 5^5 unproven workloads In the third round, each remaining workload gets assigned ~5^5 provers, so failure rate is 1 in 5^(5^5). So you go to N / 5 / 5^5 / 5^(5^5) unproven workloads
@VitalikButerin· 3 months agoThe work of teams like MACI, also https://t.co/Wy6p7Wftsz, https://t.co/hO2b3653mu and others, is important. Along with privacy in finance and privacy in comms, we need privacy in governance. (In fact, we need the former two in part because finance and comms *are* governance)
@VitalikButerin· 3 months agoRT @VitalikButerin: More generally, perhaps a core theme of the next wave of democracy will be less "transparency and accountability" and more deliberate indirection and room for (pluralistic, aggregated) individual conscience. (this applies to DAOs too; eg. see NounsDAO https://t.co/Wy6p7Wftsz)
@VitalikButerin· 3 months agoMore generally, perhaps a core theme of the next wave of democracy will be less "transparency and accountability" and more deliberate indirection and room for (pluralistic, aggregated) individual conscience. (this applies to DAOs too; eg. see NounsDAO https://t.co/Wy6p7Wftsz)
@VitalikButerin· 3 months agoIMO UN resolution votes should be secret ballot. Each country can choose (and replace) their own representative, but once the choice is made, what the representative does is up to their own conscience. Less "pressuring" by great powers, more seeing how people really think. https://t.co/2FoVA8SNbP
@VitalikButerin· 3 months agoRT @VitalikButerin: 1. This is average case, not worst case. We need real-time worst case for safe L1 use 2. Not formally verified 3. ~100 kW to prove. Proving is a 1-of-n trust model, but even still, perhaps we want proving doable at home (~10 kW) 4. We wanna 10-100x the L1 gaslimit So, truly amazing work by @pumatheuma and team, but definitely still a few steps to the final destination.
@VitalikButerin· 3 months ago1. This is average case, not worst case. We need real-time worst case for safe L1 use 2. Not formally verified 3. ~100 kW to prove. Proving is a 1-of-n trust model, but even still, perhaps we want proving doable at home (~10 kW) 4. We wanna 10-100x the L1 gaslimit So, truly amazing work by @pumatheuma and team, but definitely still a few steps to the final destination.
@VitalikButerin· 3 months agoRT @SuccinctLabs: Real-Time Ethereum Proving is here. INTRODUCING: SP1 Hypercube https://t.co/F1LgrHVJVo
@VitalikButerin· 3 months agoRT @alpeh_v: The novel thing we are doing is in the peer to peer network, the novel thing is in the principles, the thing that build a trillion dollar asset class is the soul, the attempt to do new things better
@VitalikButerin· 3 months agoRT @lex_node: Ethereum will not abandon self sovereignty to take scaling shortcuts, this is what sets it apart.
@VitalikButerin· 3 months agoRT @BlockTempo: 以太坊跑不跑得起，已不是技術問題，而是階級問題？ 當以太坊持續尋找擴展主網效能的路時，有一個經常被忽略、但至關重要的問題浮上檯面：一般散戶還能自己跑節點嗎？ Vitalik 在 Ethereum Research 發表的新文，就聚焦在這點，「怎麼讓普通人，依然能跑得起節點？」 以太坊的擴展策略其中一環，是提高區塊的 gas limit，簡單說就是每個區塊可以處理更多交易、更多資料。問題是，這會讓節點必須處理和儲存的資料量暴增，對硬體要求越來越高，變成一種技術與金錢的門檻。 節點不只是區塊鏈的「檢查員」，還是用戶保護自己隱私和抵抗審查的最後防線，只能靠外部 RPC 讀資料，這些服務就可能成為單點故障、監控你行為、配合封鎖的風險點。 @VitalikButerin 提出了一系列「讓節點輕量化」的想法：從短期的 EIP-4444（只保留最近 36 天的歷史資料）開始，到中期推動無狀態驗證（讓節點不用存整份狀態也能驗證區塊），最後進化出一種新型態節點部分無狀態節，這讓節點變得更像是個人化、可調的「區塊鏈私服」
@VitalikButerin· 3 months agoHow to make Ethereum L1 scaling more friendly to users running local nodes for personal use: https://t.co/881XRJLpI0
@VitalikButerin· 3 months agoWelcome to the stage 1 gang @Starknet!
@VitalikButerin· 3 months agoRT @TheDevanshMehta: we've hosted 4 distilled human judgment challenges on @PondGNN ever since vitalik wrote "AI as the engine, humans as the steering wheel" back in Feb David has been a star participant in these contests so i read his writeup with curiosity as the first empirical results on the approach 5 key issues 1/ after a competition ends, the community should be able to recreate the leaderboard without depending on organizers basically we need a commit-reveal structure to make public any scripts used to generate datasets, ground truth & model scoring 2/ the top 3 models might be good at majority of the data, but a niche submission fitting better with a subset of the data should still be rewarded any model giving some useful signal should be rewarded using approaches like SHAP, composite model etc . a plurality of models and metrics is more resistant to goodharts law than a few models dominating the leaderboard 3/ which leads directly to the challenge of reducing the incentive to game the system by making multiple submissions the trick here is not having artificial constraints such as limiting usage of external datasets but only fully enforceable ones to solve sybil, requiring detailed write-ups of model submissions & ideally having open source code with fully reproducible results by anyone invoking the model 4/ competitions need to reward the people who improve the competition opening up the design so the community can weigh in & get rewarded for finding bugs in the scoring script, discover data leakage & other issues impacting the validity of the competition 5/ eventually, being able to run such competitions without a central trusted party The host of the competition should use a committee or other community centric methods to conduct meta analysis on submitted models to detect bias or error and also to give feedback to participants overall, bringing these competitions fully onchain can address many of the issues eventually, the hope is to turn the entire structure into a new type of fully onchain DAO that gets powered by AI but has humans steering in the right direction accelerate
@VitalikButerin· 3 months agoRT @OctantApp: How can Ethereum fund the infrastructure it relies on? → Surfacing what matters • What principles, outcomes, or metrics should guide how funds are allocated? • What principles, outcomes, or metrics should guide how funds are allocated? • What does the ecosystem value? → A transparency dashboard • Aggregate ecosystem-wide funding data • Track contributions across shared infra → An ecosystem-wide support commitment Octant is closely aligned with this vision: a scalable growth engine that routes capital + revenue using DeFi for ecosystem growth and Ethereum as a whole, sustainably. Check out the full post by @sejal_rekhan and @TheDevanshMehta supported by insights from @audreyt, @julianzawist, @clesaege, @dwddao, @jchaskin22, and @owocki
@VitalikButerin· 3 months agoRT @TheDevanshMehta: just wrote up a monster post with @sejal_rekhan around how ethereums ecosystem can become self-sufficient & circular Some of these ideas have sat in my head for ages & grateful to Sejal for making the push to comprehensively write up an entire roadmap here's a 5 point TL;DR 1. There's limited appetite for a "shared treasury" to fund infrastructure as that feels like "donating" however there is a desire by ecosystems to contribute to repos that they depend on, which feels more like integrating revenue & cost centers For eg, @CurveFinance makes use of @vyperlang ; so funding them isn't a donation so much as making their own product more secure 2. Eligibility requirements is the hard question to solve for; what repos should even be allowed into an ecosystems funding round, whatever the mechanism may be? On what grounds could Curve include vyper in their funding stream but reject solidity? 3. There's need for an L2Beat style system tracking the extent to which DAOs, dapps & L2s are funding software they make use of it would be quite manual though, since answering questions like "does @arbitrum contribute more or @Optimism" isn't straightforward, since @prylabs is funded by offchain labs but needs to be accounted for similarly some of optimisms funding goes to growing dapps on their ecosystem (creating dependents) rather than their dependencies, so opinionated calls would need to be made on how much of the retrofunding gets counted in the leaderboard 4. We propose augmenting the pledge to, ,,1% airdrop to @ProtocolGuild , 2% revenue to your own dependencie" Some estimates of funding amounts if this pledge gets taken; - @ensdomains earned $31 million over 12 months, so $620k to their dependencies - @Securitize gave $25.4 million in dividends, 92% on ethereum, 2% of which would be $467,360 - @nounsdao is currently selling at ~2 ETH/day, 2% of which over a year would be 14.6 ETH to repos they depend on 5. Finally, how would we go about fairly allocating to repos? Step 1 is simply generating a dependency graph of all repos that make your revenue generating product work well Step 2 is giving weights to each dependency. QF, Deep Funding, Futarchy, PG style time weighting, metrics based retrofunding etc are some ways to obtain weights Step 3 is encoding a stream from revenue earned to your local dependency graph, thus creating reliable & recurring funding for teams that your project depends on Curious to actually see how these ideas pan out in practice! if you're building in public goods, pivot from seeking donations to self-interested systems where projects can easily pay for the software they rely on
@VitalikButerin· 3 months agoRT @gluk64: EVM DevEx is one of @Ethereum's strongest moats. {solx} is a chance to bring it to the next level via: 1) Faster language evolution 2) Eliminating the need for inline assembly 3) Solidity-to-RISC-V compilation 4) World-class LLVM tooling (e.g. VS Code debuggers)
@VitalikButerin· 3 months agoRT @ethereum: Pectra is live on Ethereum mainnet! - Smart account wallet UX features now active - L2 scaling data storage blobs increased by 2x - Validator UX improvements live Community members will continue to monitor for any issues over the next 24 hours.
@VitalikButerin· 3 months agoRT @ethereum: upgrade in progress . . . activating Pectra @ epoch 364032 // 10:05:11 UTC
@VitalikButerin· 3 months agoExpanded this into a post https://t.co/E5D10XtVSP
@VitalikButerin· 3 months agoRT @ethereumR1: Hi @VitalikButerin @ethereumJoseph :) https://t.co/3y5VFapS6w
@VitalikButerin· 3 months agoHere is a simplified mathematical model that shows when to move to stage 2. Assumptions: * Each security council member has an independent 10% chance of "breaking" * we treat liveness failure [refusal to sign or keys inaccessible] and safety failure [signing a wrong thing or keys hacked] as equally likely * Goal: minimize chance of the protocol breaking given the above assumptions * Stage 0 security council is 4-of-7, stage 1 is 6-of-8 Note that these assumptions are very imperfect. In reality, security council members have "common mode failures": they could collude, or all get coerced or hacked the same way, etc. This makes stage 0 and stage 1 both less secure than they appear in this model, and so moving to stage 2 is optimal somewhat earlier than the model implies. Additionally, note that the probability of the proof system breaking can be reduced greatly by making the proof system itself a multisig of multiple independent systems (this is what I advocate in https://t.co/Z5N81HiiNi ). I suspect all stage 2 deployments for the first years will be like this. WIth all this in mind, here's the chart. X axis is probability of the proof system breaking. Y axis is probability of the protocol breaking. As proof system quality increases, the optimal stage shifts from stage 0 to stage 1, then stage 1 to stage 2. Doing stage 2 with a stage-0-quality proof system is worst of all. TLDR: @l2beat should ideally show proof system audits and maturity metrics (ideally of the proof system implementation, not the rollup as a whole, so we can reuse) along with the stage.
@VitalikButerin· 3 months agoA good reminder that stage 2 is not the only thing that matters for security: the quality of the underlying proof system matters too.
@VitalikButerin· 3 months agoPrivacy was always the true alpha. https://t.co/oD3If4l62k
@VitalikButerin· 3 months agoRT @pcaversaccio: Complexity is the bridge to simplicity. It always has been. Ethereum _overall_ is bloated, in its current form, with complexity (this goes beyond the L1 itself; just look at smart contract codebases these days...). So it's time to bridge over to simplicity. Agreed. Look, IMHO, too often in this crazy industry, we pour endless time & energy into building overly complex systems, and dude what do we do? We even celebrate it. Let me give you a reality check: complexity is NO fucking badge of honour folks; it's in _most_ cases a hard liability. It slows us down, makes systems harder to trust (and to maintain), and pushes mainstream adoption further out of reach. It's very much time we flip this narrative. Simplicity isn't boring, it's super powerful if you think about it for a bit. Let's start cheering for it!
@VitalikButerin· 3 months agoCaring about simplicity is, like decentralization, a short-term cost for the sake of benefits that do not appear immediately. But in the long term, it will be worth it. Let's make each part of the ethereum spec a place where things like this can happen: https://t.co/1yIiWfAbH8
@VitalikButerin· 3 months agoWe can also simplify the protocol by making sure that sub-protocols are shared as much as possible: there should ideally only be one way we do X, across the consensus, execution and other layers. Potential targets: erasure coding, serialization, trees. https://t.co/HIvYtORBtu
@VitalikButerin· 3 months agoOne of the best things about Bitcoin is how simple it is. This simplicity has lots of benefits. Let's bring those benefits to Ethereum. https://t.co/YwmVaOCPlP
@VitalikButerin· 3 months agoSimplifying the L1 https://t.co/fVbQCkheX9
@VitalikButerin· 3 months agoRT @TheVladCostea: The Future of Bitcoin & Ethereum with @VitalikButerin (Bitcoin Takeover Podcast S16 E24) https://t.co/GUXYB4P128
@VitalikButerin· 3 months agoRT @gakonst: EVM devs: why do you use Solidity and not Vyper? Go deep in your answer, reflect on your past decisions when starting a new project.
@VitalikButerin· 3 months agoRT @rudolf6_: Fixing crosschain UX re-introducing: chain-specific addresses aka “interoperable addresses” users type an address (alice@my_favorite_L2.eth), click once, and their wallet/dapp automatically handles the rest (+ bridging) across chains ⬇️ the latest from the L2 interop working group, @DeFi_Wonderland, & many contributors across Ethereum
@VitalikButerin· 3 months agoWelcome to the full-EVM stage 1 gang @base!
@VitalikButerin· 3 months agoExciting to see @Scroll_ZKP become the first full-EVM ZK stage 1 rollup!
@VitalikButerin· 3 months agoAnd my personal focuses (and non-focuses) for 2025. Should be predictable from things I've done and written, but it's worth re-stating explicitly. https://t.co/XvSFbvlEUp
@VitalikButerin· 3 months agoRT @ajwarner90: Lots of talk about the new Ethereum roadmap prioritizing the L1 and what that means for rollups. Here are my thoughts as someone who is all-in on growing Arbitrum and the L2 landscape and also cares about Ethereum: - Above all else I care about Ethereum leadership prioritizing winning. The more focused Ethereum is, the easier it is for me to do my job. - I want Ethereum to operate with a business sense. The biggest mistake Ethereum made in the last few years imo was giving L2s a 90%+ profit margin business. Ethereum already has a difficult job as there is billions of venture capital invested trying to outperform it. WIthout earning revenue it becomes even harder for Ethereum to compete. - If the L1 needs to scale to accomplish the two points above I am fine with it. I expect there to be an abundance of blockspace, and Arbitrum is well-positioned to capture demand for opinionated blockspace with Arbitrum One as its core hub. - I think Ethereum should prioritize attracting the issuance of assets. This is where it clearly has PMF above all else from a business perspective. - The Arbitrum DAO holds tens of millions of dollars worth of $ETH today. It collects most of its revenue in $ETH. Arbitrum wants Ethereum to do well. - Even if you scale the L1, continue to work with the L2s. Many L2 teams contribute meaningfully to the success of Ethereum both on a technical and business development level. For example, @OffchainLabs is also the primary contributors to @prylabs one of the core components that makes Ethereum work. - Embrace diversity of design. Ethereum is not going to remain decentralized and clear beat Solana and others as a monolithic chain. The area where Ethereum is lightyears ahead of anyone is on embracing diversity of execution environments and opinionated blockspace. Embrace Rust on @arbitrum, Cairo on @Starknet and all of the other experimentation happening. Ethereum's best years are coming up, but it will require passion, dedication, fierce competitive spirit while also remaining true to its core value propositions. I am here for it.
@VitalikButerin· 3 months agoTwin goals of EF: 1. Usage of Ethereum - but usage of a type where users are actually benefiting from Ethereum's underlying properties 2. Resilience and decentralization of Ethereum - viewed holistically, focused on addressing points of weakness anywhere in the stack https://t.co/nkZdzWUKx5
@VitalikButerin· 3 months agoRT @AyaMiyagotchi: @VitalikButerin and I wrote this to share why the EF exists and what’s next—real-world usage & deeper resilience. With @hwwonx & @tkstanczak co-leading EF’s next chapter, we're also counting on the community to reach those goals
@VitalikButerin· 3 months agoRT @ethereumfndn: 8/ Lastly, an update about the structure of the EF management team and board, and the functions of each. https://t.co/3fnu8w1hZq
@VitalikButerin· 3 months agoRT @ethereumfndn: 5/ Second, from our new Co-Executive Directors, @hwwonx and @tkstanczak, an update on their focus areas and plans for how to achieve the EF’s vision in the short and long term. https://t.co/is2LkptMUN
@VitalikButerin· 3 months agoRT @ethereumfndn: 2/ First, from @AyaMiyagotchi and @VitalikButerin: a restatement and update on the EF’s vision, principles and values for this new era. https://t.co/kdqOMDyu2i
@VitalikButerin· 3 months agoRT @ethereumfndn: 1/ Today, we’re excited to share three updates from the EF board and management team.
@VitalikButerin· 3 months agoRT @nero_eth: Ethereum's execution layer scaling roadmap is on track: - Continuous Gas Limit Increases (EIP-7935) - History Expiry (EIP-4444) - Delayed Execution (EIP-7886) - Block Access Lists (EIP-7928) - Block-Level Warming (EIP-7863) Here's a short thread with additional context👇
@VitalikButerin· 3 months agoRT @robertwiblin: A new legal letter aimed at OpenAI lays out in stark terms the money and power grab OpenAI is trying to trick its board members into accepting — what one analyst calls "the theft of the millennium." The simple facts of the case are both devastating and darkly hilarious. I'll explain for your amusement. The letter 'Not For Private Gain' is written for the relevant Attorneys General and is signed by 3 Nobel Prize winners among dozens of top ML researchers, legal experts, economists, ex-OpenAI staff and civil society groups. (I'll link below.) It says that OpenAI's attempt to restructure as a for-profit is simply totally illegal, like you might naively expect. It then asks the Attorneys General (AGs) to take some extreme measures I've never seen discussed before. Here's how they build up to their radical demands. For 9 years OpenAI and its founders went on ad nauseam about how non-profit control was essential to: 1. Prevent a few people concentrating immense power 2. Ensure the benefits of artificial general intelligence (AGI) were shared with all humanity 3. Avoid the incentive to risk other people's lives to get even richer They told us these commitments were legally binding and inescapable. They weren't in it for the money or the power. We could trust them. "The goal isn't to build AGI, it's to make sure AGI benefits humanity" said OpenAI President Greg Brockman. And indeed, OpenAI’s charitable purpose, which its board is legally obligated to pursue, is to “ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity” rather than advancing “the private gain of any person.” 100s of top researchers chose to work for OpenAI at below-market salaries, in part motivated by this idealism. It was core to OpenAI's recruitment and PR strategy. Now along comes 2024. That idealism has paid off. OpenAI is one of the world's hottest companies. The money is rolling in. But now suddenly we're told the setup under which they became one of the fastest-growing startups in history, the setup that was supposedly totally essential and distinguished them from their rivals, and the protections that made it possible for us to trust them, ALL HAVE TO GO ASAP: 1. The non-profit's (and therefore humanity at large’s) right to super-profits, should they make tens of trillions? Gone. (Guess where that money will go now!) 2. The non-profit’s ownership of AGI, and ability to influence how it’s actually used once it’s built? Gone. 3. The non-profit's ability (and legal duty) to object if OpenAI is doing outrageous things that harm humanity? Gone. 4. A commitment to assist another AGI project if necessary to avoid a harmful arms race, or if joining forces would help the US beat China? Gone. 5. Majority board control by people who don't have a huge personal financial stake in OpenAI? Gone. 6. The ability of the courts or Attorneys General to object if they betray their stated charitable purpose of benefitting humanity? Gone, gone, gone! Screenshotting from the letter: (I'll do a new tweet after each image so they appear right.) 1/
@VitalikButerin· 3 months agoRT @pumatheuma: By the way, the recent @VitalikButerin proposal around replacing the EVM with RISC-V was based on results we found in this paper about the 800x provability overhead of EVM in SP1. Some numbers from the paper: https://t.co/PHAY5Y4eAS
@VitalikButerin· 4 months agoRT @NethermindEth: REAL decentralization. With Gigagas. Surge testnet is live in Stage 2! A based rollup template showcasing trustless scaling true to @Ethereum principles. 1 Ggas per second capacity via Nethermind Client, on a fully open-source stack you can use today. Get started now: - Add to wallet - Bridge Hoodi ETH - Start experimenting Check out our docs: https://t.co/SiiX1VzSaX Explore our Github: https://t.co/iYq6cdVCgb
@VitalikButerin· 4 months agoRT @BanklessHQ: LIVE NOW - Ethereum’s Strategic Pivot: The Plan to Restore Dominance @ethereumfndn researchers @dankrad and @adietrichs join @TrustlessState and @MikeIppolito_ to discuss @ethereum's identity crisis—and how it’s turning the ship around. They break down Ethereum’s cultural and organizational challenges, the pivot toward L1 growth, and the evolving role of the Ethereum Foundation under new leadership. The conversation covers the future of base and native rollups, L2 alignment, and why Ethereum’s unique values still matter in a competitive landscape. -------------- TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Intro 5:42 Top Problems with Ethereum 12:33 Lack of Growth in Ethereum Layer 1 27:49 Ethereum’s Roadmap Dilemma 38:08 Layer 1 Scaling Progress 39:08 Ethereum L1’s Value Proposition to L2s 48:44 Base and Native Rollups Explained 57:25 Canonical EVM in a Rollup World 1:01:26 Vitalik’s Vision for L1 Scaling 1:05:59 ZK Scaling Becomes Real 1:08:12 Fast Block Times and DeFi 1:16:59 The Evolving Ethereum Core Culture 1:22:38 Other Interesting Changes 1:26:41 Ethereum’s Direction Feels Different Now 1:30:09 Closing and Disclosure
@VitalikButerin· 4 months agoRT @pumatheuma: New @VitalikButerin blog post on replacing the EVM with RISC-V in the long-term. I am a huge fan of this direction for Ethereum's execution layer. Today, RISC-V zkVMs like SP1 are the clear endgame solution for "ZK-ifying" Ethereum and quickly becoming the de-facto solution for ZK EVM. But as Vitalik cites in this post, our research at Succinct shows that the EVM is an extremely inefficient ISA for ZK proving. This proposal to migrate the execution layer directly to RISC-V can be viewed as migrating to "native" code for a ZK world as opposed to living in an interpreted world that imposes between 100-1000x overhead. By replacing EVM with RISC-V for the execution layer, we can up the gas limit on L1 by orders of magnitude (assuming optimization of other bottlenecks like a more zkVM friendly state merkleization format), while preserving verifiability. Link to full blog post below.
@VitalikButerin· 4 months agoRT @gakonst: https://t.co/UGCAaJAlh9 if you liked VB's RiscV post you'll love this repo we've been slow cooking over the last few months...started by @leonardoalt & recently pushed forward by @0xrusowsky.
@VitalikButerin· 4 months agoRT @ladislaus0x: 🧵This week's EF Research update brings you: * A deep dive on 3-Slot-Finality (3SF) * Execution Dependencies in Ethereum blocks * A paper on accountable liveness * Blob gossip & validation before & after PeerDAS * Delayed execution (EIP-7886) annotated specifications Find all posts & papers in the thread below
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@useteller· over 1 year agoRT @VitalikButerin: Degen communism: the only correct political ideologyhttps://t.co/CpFdMGCsJg
@cryptonews· over 1 year ago🔎 @VitalikButerin outlines the next phases of "The Purge," which aims to streamline the #Ethereum protocol by reducing data storage requirements.#VitalikButerin $ETHhttps://t.co/xsIjPWkmKX
@Geode_Finance· over 1 year agoRT @VitalikButerin: @dimabuterin Ethereum should be a clean and beautiful protocol. Getting there requires short-term pain, but the long-term unknown-unknown effects of achieving that goal are all on the upside.
@sassal0x· over 1 year agoRT @VitalikButerin: A quick note on next steps in Ethereum protocol simplification and node resource load decreases (aka "the Purge"):https://t.co/BAebCGrisB
@JoshuaRSS3· over 1 year agoIf you are interested in decentralized social, @thefireflyapp is a must for you to try out.https://t.co/X6ArrEX0G2One of the core promises of decentralized social media is interoperability - it’s likely that we will have multiple open social protocols, instead of just one, to survive and thrive for the future open internet.To make it work, we need a truly open tech stack - from posting and storing to accessing and interacting.Firefly is one of the few apps that captures such vision and to quote @VitalikButerin, “we should support them!”Disclaimer: Part of the @thefireflyapp features are powered by @rss3_; @thefireflyapp is built by @realMaskNetwork which is a long time supporter of @rss3_; and yes I love the people (@suji_yan, @TheYisiLiu, @yuan_brad, and many more) behind it :)
@Fiskantes· over 1 year agoRT @VitalikButerin: Polymarket is predicting that blobs (~125 kB) will cost ~0.001 ETH.Today, 125 kB calldata costs ~30 gwei per gas * 16 gas per byte * 125000 gas ~= 0.06 ETHAnd if you think polymarket's guess that blobs will be 60x cheaper is over-optimistic, you can use the market to hedge! https://t.co/vUwJInNhCP
@MetisL2· over 1 year agoExcited to see the journey from #ETHTaipei to #ETHSeoul with Metis! Last week, our CTO @thegoodboss shared the stage with @VitalikButerin, @jbaylina, @karl_dot_tech and @dr_zircuit discussing scalability and the future of crypto. A transformative dialogue that set the stage for what's next. Read more: https://t.co/SYZ1DkN1ab🌟 This week, the spotlight was on our DC, Elena Sinelnikova, delivering a keynote at #ETHSeoul. With Vitalik front and center, witnessing the evolution of Metis, it's clear: the future of layer 2 decentralization is not far fetched, with Metis pioneering the launch of the first ever decentralized sequencer for an #Ethereum layer2.💡 From panels to keynotes, witnessing these engagements gives a glimpse into the promising future of Metis. It’s not just about being seen, it’s about being recognized for shaping the future of the #Layer2 space.
@ledgerstatus· over 1 year agoReally nicely said by @VitalikButerin https://t.co/0iAiuzqvIP https://t.co/se3Lgmaxbm
@TeddyCleps· over 1 year agoFounder of $ETH publicly supporting $MASK@VitalikButerin recently started using their WEB3 social aggregator @thefireflyapp Obviously still long and strong, insanely undervalued project
@NeopinOfficial· over 1 year ago🌟 @VitalikButerin from @Ethereum is currently delivering a speech on "Dencun: where we go from here," live on stage at @eth_seoul_ ! 🌟NEOPIN has been at the forefront of advancing the Ethereum ecosystem in Korea by introducing the first $ETH liquidity staking and derivatives product in Korea. Stay tuned as we continue to build on #Ethereum!#NEOPIN $NPT #ETHSeoul
@kaiynne· over 1 year agoRT @VitalikButerin: The only "crypto villain from a previous era" who deserves a path to redemption is Mark Karpeles @MagicalTux - precisely because he's the only one who's not clamoring for attention asking for one. He's just quietly doing interesting stuff.Compare his twitter with a weaker soul: https://t.co/GMthqQcUtg
@GameSwift_io· over 1 year agoSpying on @VitalikButerin was worth it.GameSwift is incubating @doginhood_io, shaping the new direction for #memecoins, just like in the vision of Ethereum's founder himself.
@wearecultdao· over 1 year agoRT @MrOmodulus: One of @VitalikButerin personal moral rules is "if there is a class of people or groups you dislike, be willing to praise at least a few of them that do the best job of satisfying your values". Wow. This whole time Vitalik has wanted to #talkaboutcult… & he didn’t even know it. https://t.co/CHzKJRYnu5
@MrOmodulus· over 1 year agoOne of @VitalikButerin personal moral rules is "if there is a class of people or groups you dislike, be willing to praise at least a few of them that do the best job of satisfying your values". Wow. This whole time Vitalik has wanted to #talkaboutcult… & he didn’t even know it. https://t.co/CHzKJRYnu5
@PanParagraf· over 1 year agoWhat if I told you that we frontrunned @VitalikButerin vision and been stealth-building 'RobinHood Games,' like memecoin powered by @GameSwift_io ?@doginhood_io is exactly what Vitalik says is the future of memecoins. 200 IQ move. https://t.co/Vb1eLuR8RU
@DeGateDex· over 1 year agoRT @dank55495370: Love my grid strategy on the only stage 2 order book dex @DeGateDex @VitalikButerin Had a nice channel the past 24 hours. Not sure how much longer before we move though 🧐 my guess is up 1400+ trades in 24 hours without thinking about it! https://t.co/iFsHpDFck1
@loopringorg· over 1 year agoRT @VitalikButerin: Going beyond scaling, applications that are built today need to be built with "2020s Ethereum" in mind. Here's what this means: https://t.co/AmOnwizRHT
@dank55495370· over 1 year agoLove my grid strategy on the only stage 2 order book dex @DeGateDex @VitalikButerin Had a nice channel the past 24 hours. Not sure how much longer before we move though 🧐 my guess is up 1400+ trades in 24 hours without thinking about it! https://t.co/iFsHpDFck1
@richardchen39· over 1 year agoRT @VitalikButerin: What else could memecoins be? https://t.co/8ZVhwkVwLy
@WClementeIII· over 1 year agoRT @VitalikButerin: What else could memecoins be?https://t.co/8ZVhwkVwLy
@DogelonMars· over 1 year ago"The two Methuselah Foundation and the Dogelon Mars community seemed to develop a positive-sum relationship" Our success in furthering life extension research wouldn't be possible without @VitalikButerin , @mfoundation , and the efforts of all Dogelon Martians 🫡 To Mars!!!! ✨
@Irenezhao_· over 1 year agoThanks honey @VitalikButerin https://t.co/RDQ2w63vgQ
@boxmining· over 1 year ago@Irenezhao_ Is @VitalikButerin your new bf ?
@Nodereal_io· over 1 year agoRT @VitalikButerin: Ethereum has blobs. Where do we go from here? https://t.co/P2cyf9sCwb
@pepecoins· over 1 year agoRT @VitalikButerin: What else could memecoins be? https://t.co/8ZVhwkVwLy
@pepecoins· over 1 year ago@VitalikButerin It's time fren, to make memecoins useful. https://t.co/AEiU6qzvZC https://t.co/p8qYj9JmNN
@DragonTyrantERC· over 1 year ago@VitalikButerin Thanks for mentioning us. We will try our best to be the perfect coin the world deserves. $TYRANT https://t.co/ZC7eQtSyEd
@TimBeiko· over 1 year agoRT @rudolf6_: Recap of Verkle Implementers Call #15: the latest updates on The Verge, and the work towards removing the state growth/access bottlenecks 👇This week’s agenda:1. Client team updates2. Testing updates3. Cryptography perf improvements4. Summary of discussions from ETHTaipei5. Testnet relaunch(quick shoutout to @notnotstorm for the awesome graphic and framing, taken from their presentation at today’s ACDE.. highly recommend watching the recording of their full presentation)===1. Client team updates@gballet and @ignaciohagopian for @go_ethereum:Continued work on improving the testing around the conversion process (the process that actually converts all state from MPT over to Verkle). Working with Spencer from the testing team and have made solid progress. Also working on the testnet relaunch. Prior to launching the full testnet, to save some time and DevOps resources, we will first dump some test blocks and see if others can execute it.@gajpower for @EFJavaScript:EthereumJS has been trying to run the blocks and test cases provided by Geth, prior to launching the next testnet. Found and fixed a few issues in EthJS. Next up is to re-verify that it can pass the tests.@jasoriatanishq for @nethermindeth:Working on the gas model with Guillaume and Gajinder. Also implemented an optimization in the cryptography library. Now focusing on implementing the actual transition in Nethermind.Daniel for @ethnimbus:Made some good progress on handling integration into the Nimbus client. Just doing a basic integration to start things off. Will likely be able to join the testnet in the next few weeks.@kt2am1990 for @HyperledgerBesu:Preparing Besu to join the testnet. Completed gas cost modifications. Also made some changes in order to have the circular buffer for blockhash. And made some modifications to the trie key generation, as well as some performance stuff in order to optimize the communication between the Java side and the native side.===2. Testing updatesSpencer from the testing team joined to give a quick update on the testing side of things:We now have the transition tool, which generates a test and verifies that the Verkle tree post-state is as expected. This is done using a subcommand that Guillaume added to Geth. The subcommand is used to generate a Verkle tree and compare against the Verkle tree generated by the transition tool. Still some optimizations to do, as right now it takes about 2 mins to generate a single test, and we need to try to get it down to around 1 sec.As a next step: we want to try and complete not just the filling of the test, but also the consumption of the test. Continued work on the testing front over the coming weeks and months!===3. Cryptography perf improvements in VerkleNext up, @ignaciohagopian took some time to walk through some exciting performance improvements he’s been working on regarding multiscalar multiplication (MSM) in Verkle. See Ignacio’s doc here: https://t.co/lryQhNDKzZ, which was motivated in part by previous work by @GottfriedHerold from the EF cryptography team.Also for extra background (somewhat unrelated), see this paper from @paradigm and Georgios for a bit more info on MSMs in the context of zk proofs: https://t.co/ohBupZexqbThe basic idea is exploring how we can use some clever cryptography and precomputations to speed up the performance of Verkle in Geth’s crypto library, but the core ideas apply to any crypto implementation of Verkle. Why are MSMs important? Well it’s a bit of math we have to do in several areas with Verkle. e.g. when we do the actual migration from the Merkle Patricia Tree to Verkle Trees. Also more generally when calculating tree keys or updating tree nodes.This work has potential to improve performance in several areas where MSMs are used, including as mentioned in the actual migration of historic state from the existing MPT over to Verkle at the time of the upgrade. Recommend watching the recording / reading the full doc for those interested in the full deep dive.===4. Summary of discussions from ETHTaipeiNext up, @gballet shared a summary of some conversations from ETHTaipei, and potential updates to the Verkle spec/EIPs. This included some conversations with @jbaylina and @VitalikButerin mostly around three EIPs: 4762 (gas cost updates), 2935 (historical block hashes in state), and 7545 (proof verification precompile). Quick summaries of each: With EIP-4762: the goal is to keep the gas costs unchanged as much as possible, post-verkle. We will update the EIP to make sure this is clear and easy to understand.With EIP-2935: discussed with @jbaylina whether 256 blocks is enough. They would rather have 2 weeks worth of blocks available, rather than just 256. Still tbd and more discussions need to happen on the best way to go about achieving our goals here.With EIP-7545: L2s are in favor of this change, as they want to update their contract to use the precompile, rather than rushing to update their contracts at the moment when the fork happens. What they would like is a precompile that is agnostic to the proof format, that they can just pass a blob to. And then the contract is aware of whether the fork has happened or not. Ideally this EIP gets included in Prague, rather than waiting to ship it with Osaka (which is the fork that will contain Verkle).===5. Testnet relaunchLast up, thoughts on the new testnet rollout. @gballet wanted to see if any questions from other client teams on the test blocks he produced, prior to the launching of the full testnet. We decided to continue discussion of this topic offline, as it was better suited for more of a pair programming type session :)That’s it for this week’s call! Check or head over to the Eth R&D Discord (verkle-trie-migration channel) to stay up-to-date
@DeGateDex· over 1 year agoWe’re humbled to be mentioned by @VitalikButerin as one of the five L2s to have reached at least Stage 1 maturity on @l2beat . And one of only two at Stage 2. Fundamentals matter, we keep building.
@evan_van_ness· over 1 year agoRT @rudolf6_: Recap of Verkle Implementers Call #15: the latest updates on The Verge, and the work towards removing the state growth/access bottlenecks 👇This week’s agenda:1. Client team updates2. Testing updates3. Cryptography perf improvements4. Summary of discussions from ETHTaipei5. Testnet relaunch(quick shoutout to @notnotstorm for the awesome graphic and framing, taken from their presentation at today’s ACDE.. highly recommend watching the recording of their full presentation)===1. Client team updates@gballet and @ignaciohagopian for @go_ethereum:Continued work on improving the testing around the conversion process (the process that actually converts all state from MPT over to Verkle). Working with Spencer from the testing team and have made solid progress. Also working on the testnet relaunch. Prior to launching the full testnet, to save some time and DevOps resources, we will first dump some test blocks and see if others can execute it.@gajpower for @EFJavaScript:EthereumJS has been trying to run the blocks and test cases provided by Geth, prior to launching the next testnet. Found and fixed a few issues in EthJS. Next up is to re-verify that it can pass the tests.@jasoriatanishq for @nethermindeth:Working on the gas model with Guillaume and Gajinder. Also implemented an optimization in the cryptography library. Now focusing on implementing the actual transition in Nethermind.Daniel for @ethnimbus:Made some good progress on handling integration into the Nimbus client. Just doing a basic integration to start things off. Will likely be able to join the testnet in the next few weeks.@kt2am1990 for @HyperledgerBesu:Preparing Besu to join the testnet. Completed gas cost modifications. Also made some changes in order to have the circular buffer for blockhash. And made some modifications to the trie key generation, as well as some performance stuff in order to optimize the communication between the Java side and the native side.===2. Testing updatesSpencer from the testing team joined to give a quick update on the testing side of things:We now have the transition tool, which generates a test and verifies that the Verkle tree post-state is as expected. This is done using a subcommand that Guillaume added to Geth. The subcommand is used to generate a Verkle tree and compare against the Verkle tree generated by the transition tool. Still some optimizations to do, as right now it takes about 2 mins to generate a single test, and we need to try to get it down to around 1 sec.As a next step: we want to try and complete not just the filling of the test, but also the consumption of the test. Continued work on the testing front over the coming weeks and months!===3. Cryptography perf improvements in VerkleNext up, @ignaciohagopian took some time to walk through some exciting performance improvements he’s been working on regarding multiscalar multiplication (MSM) in Verkle. See Ignacio’s doc here: https://t.co/lryQhNDKzZ, which was motivated in part by previous work by @GottfriedHerold from the EF cryptography team.Also for extra background (somewhat unrelated), see this paper from @paradigm and Georgios for a bit more info on MSMs in the context of zk proofs: https://t.co/ohBupZexqbThe basic idea is exploring how we can use some clever cryptography and precomputations to speed up the performance of Verkle in Geth’s crypto library, but the core ideas apply to any crypto implementation of Verkle. Why are MSMs important? Well it’s a bit of math we have to do in several areas with Verkle. e.g. when we do the actual migration from the Merkle Patricia Tree to Verkle Trees. Also more generally when calculating tree keys or updating tree nodes.This work has potential to improve performance in several areas where MSMs are used, including as mentioned in the actual migration of historic state from the existing MPT over to Verkle at the time of the upgrade. Recommend watching the recording / reading the full doc for those interested in the full deep dive.===4. Summary of discussions from ETHTaipeiNext up, @gballet shared a summary of some conversations from ETHTaipei, and potential updates to the Verkle spec/EIPs. This included some conversations with @jbaylina and @VitalikButerin mostly around three EIPs: 4762 (gas cost updates), 2935 (historical block hashes in state), and 7545 (proof verification precompile). Quick summaries of each: With EIP-4762: the goal is to keep the gas costs unchanged as much as possible, post-verkle. We will update the EIP to make sure this is clear and easy to understand.With EIP-2935: discussed with @jbaylina whether 256 blocks is enough. They would rather have 2 weeks worth of blocks available, rather than just 256. Still tbd and more discussions need to happen on the best way to go about achieving our goals here.With EIP-7545: L2s are in favor of this change, as they want to update their contract to use the precompile, rather than rushing to update their contracts at the moment when the fork happens. What they would like is a precompile that is agnostic to the proof format, that they can just pass a blob to. And then the contract is aware of whether the fork has happened or not. Ideally this EIP gets included in Prague, rather than waiting to ship it with Osaka (which is the fork that will contain Verkle).===5. Testnet relaunchLast up, thoughts on the new testnet rollout. @gballet wanted to see if any questions from other client teams on the test blocks he produced, prior to the launching of the full testnet. We decided to continue discussion of this topic offline, as it was better suited for more of a pair programming type session :)That’s it for this week’s call! Check or head over to the Eth R&D Discord (verkle-trie-migration channel) to stay up-to-date
@rudolf6_· over 1 year agoRecap of Verkle Implementers Call #15: the latest updates on The Verge, and the work towards removing the state growth/access bottlenecks 👇This week’s agenda:1. Client team updates2. Testing updates3. Cryptography perf improvements4. Summary of discussions from ETHTaipei5. Testnet relaunch(quick shoutout to @notnotstorm for the awesome graphic and framing, taken from their presentation at today’s ACDE.. highly recommend watching the recording of their full presentation)===1. Client team updates@gballet and @ignaciohagopian for @go_ethereum:Continued work on improving the testing around the conversion process (the process that actually converts all state from MPT over to Verkle). Working with Spencer from the testing team and have made solid progress. Also working on the testnet relaunch. Prior to launching the full testnet, to save some time and DevOps resources, we will first dump some test blocks and see if others can execute it.@gajpower for @EFJavaScript:EthereumJS has been trying to run the blocks and test cases provided by Geth, prior to launching the next testnet. Found and fixed a few issues in EthJS. Next up is to re-verify that it can pass the tests.@jasoriatanishq for @nethermindeth:Working on the gas model with Guillaume and Gajinder. Also implemented an optimization in the cryptography library. Now focusing on implementing the actual transition in Nethermind.Daniel for @ethnimbus:Made some good progress on handling integration into the Nimbus client. Just doing a basic integration to start things off. Will likely be able to join the testnet in the next few weeks.@kt2am1990 for @HyperledgerBesu:Preparing Besu to join the testnet. Completed gas cost modifications. Also made some changes in order to have the circular buffer for blockhash. And made some modifications to the trie key generation, as well as some performance stuff in order to optimize the communication between the Java side and the native side.===2. Testing updatesSpencer from the testing team joined to give a quick update on the testing side of things:We now have the transition tool, which generates a test and verifies that the Verkle tree post-state is as expected. This is done using a subcommand that Guillaume added to Geth. The subcommand is used to generate a Verkle tree and compare against the Verkle tree generated by the transition tool. Still some optimizations to do, as right now it takes about 2 mins to generate a single test, and we need to try to get it down to around 1 sec.As a next step: we want to try and complete not just the filling of the test, but also the consumption of the test. Continued work on the testing front over the coming weeks and months!===3. Cryptography perf improvements in VerkleNext up, @ignaciohagopian took some time to walk through some exciting performance improvements he’s been working on regarding multiscalar multiplication (MSM) in Verkle. See Ignacio’s doc here: https://t.co/lryQhNDKzZ, which was motivated in part by previous work by @GottfriedHerold from the EF cryptography team.Also for extra background (somewhat unrelated), see this paper from @paradigm and Georgios for a bit more info on MSMs in the context of zk proofs: https://t.co/ohBupZexqbThe basic idea is exploring how we can use some clever cryptography and precomputations to speed up the performance of Verkle in Geth’s crypto library, but the core ideas apply to any crypto implementation of Verkle. Why are MSMs important? Well it’s a bit of math we have to do in several areas with Verkle. e.g. when we do the actual migration from the Merkle Patricia Tree to Verkle Trees. Also more generally when calculating tree keys or updating tree nodes.This work has potential to improve performance in several areas where MSMs are used, including as mentioned in the actual migration of historic state from the existing MPT over to Verkle at the time of the upgrade. Recommend watching the recording / reading the full doc for those interested in the full deep dive.===4. Summary of discussions from ETHTaipeiNext up, @gballet shared a summary of some conversations from ETHTaipei, and potential updates to the Verkle spec/EIPs. This included some conversations with @jbaylina and @VitalikButerin mostly around three EIPs: 4762 (gas cost updates), 2935 (historical block hashes in state), and 7545 (proof verification precompile). Quick summaries of each: With EIP-4762: the goal is to keep the gas costs unchanged as much as possible, post-verkle. We will update the EIP to make sure this is clear and easy to understand.With EIP-2935: discussed with @jbaylina whether 256 blocks is enough. They would rather have 2 weeks worth of blocks available, rather than just 256. Still tbd and more discussions need to happen on the best way to go about achieving our goals here.With EIP-7545: L2s are in favor of this change, as they want to update their contract to use the precompile, rather than rushing to update their contracts at the moment when the fork happens. What they would like is a precompile that is agnostic to the proof format, that they can just pass a blob to. And then the contract is aware of whether the fork has happened or not. Ideally this EIP gets included in Prague, rather than waiting to ship it with Osaka (which is the fork that will contain Verkle).===5. Testnet relaunchLast up, thoughts on the new testnet rollout. @gballet wanted to see if any questions from other client teams on the test blocks he produced, prior to the launching of the full testnet. We decided to continue discussion of this topic offline, as it was better suited for more of a pair programming type session :)That’s it for this week’s call! Check or head over to the Eth R&D Discord (verkle-trie-migration channel) to stay up-to-date
@sriramk· over 1 year agoRT @VitalikButerin: Ethereum has blobs. Where do we go from here?https://t.co/P2cyf9sCwb
@ChainLinkGod· over 1 year agoRT @VitalikButerin: Ethereum has blobs. Where do we go from here?https://t.co/P2cyf9sCwb
@DuneAnalytics· over 1 year agoWhen @VitalikButerin quotes your #DuneDashboards 👀👀Link to the original analysis by @rob_0x is available here👉🏻 https://t.co/SXvPfaAZFn
@JihanWu· over 1 year agoRT @lan_business: Congratulations to Tom on achieving significant success with Ethscriptions. Vitalik's commendation of Blobscriptions is a true recognition of his relentless effort and exceptional innovation. At the same time, we extend our warmest congratulations to ETHS, as the innovation of blob marks the arrival of a new era in the Ethereum inscription ecosystem. BIT, as the CEX that first listed $ETHS, also offers Merlin staking services to the vast ETHS community users. https://t.co/Weu8HyLlTY @VitalikButerin @dumbnamenumbers #eths
@lan_business· over 1 year agoCongratulations to Tom on achieving significant success with Ethscriptions. Vitalik's commendation of Blobscriptions is a true recognition of his relentless effort and exceptional innovation. At the same time, we extend our warmest congratulations to ETHS, as the innovation of blob marks the arrival of a new era in the Ethereum inscription ecosystem. BIT, as the CEX that first listed $ETHS, also offers Merlin staking services to the vast ETHS community users. https://t.co/Weu8HyLlTY @VitalikButerin @dumbnamenumbers #eths
@JihanWu· over 1 year agoRT @VitalikButerin: Ethereum has blobs. Where do we go from here? https://t.co/P2cyf9sCwb
@Geode_Finance· over 1 year agoRT @VitalikButerin: Ethereum has blobs. Where do we go from here? https://t.co/P2cyf9sCwb
@THEProtocolERC· over 1 year ago69k for #BTC!🚀 Remember when 40k felt far-fetched? the top at 74k, and euphoria still very distant. $THE euphoria not yet reached. $THE journey ahead holds boundless potential. 🚀📈 $THE game is far from over.📈📈 #BTC #ETH #PEPE #MEMECOIN #DOGE #VitalikButerin https://t.co/JoJO5Dl9mK
@FlareNetworks· over 1 year agoAdversarial attacks on machine learning and how #Flare research's consensus learning addresses them.We'll look into the specific types of security threats in the world of ML that are highlighted by @VitalikButerin, and particularly concerning Decentralized AI community.✅Easy to follow for those unfamiliar with the original article.
@agoric· over 1 year agoRecording of the World of Chain Abstraction Panel at @buidl_asia 🔥🔥Mod:@zmanian Panelists:@VitalikButerin @ilblackdragon @DeanTribble @adrianbrink https://t.co/Bniumbeua7 https://t.co/7SqDUgP5jp
@agoric· over 1 year agoRT @Mandelliant: Closing question from @zmanian: "What challenge do you want to see chain abstraction tackle next?@ilblackdragon: the ultimate cross-chain DEX 💪@DeanTribble: making simple cross-chain scenarios easy @adrianbrink: MOAR CHIMERA CHAINS 😈@VitalikButerin: cross-chain exchange & payments
@Mandelliant· over 1 year agoClosing question from @zmanian: "What challenge do you want to see chain abstraction tackle next?@ilblackdragon: the ultimate cross-chain DEX 💪@DeanTribble: making simple cross-chain scenarios easy @adrianbrink: MOAR CHIMERA CHAINS 😈@VitalikButerin: cross-chain exchange & payments
@agoric· over 1 year agoRT @Mandelliant: Starting now! @zmanian @VitalikButerin @ilblackdragon @DeanTribble @adrianbrink https://t.co/VQVywFqbxB https://t.co/4DEarndb9x
@Mandelliant· over 1 year agoStarting now! @zmanian @VitalikButerin @ilblackdragon @DeanTribble @adrianbrink https://t.co/VQVywFqbxB https://t.co/4DEarndb9x
@NvirWorld· over 1 year agoThe conference and VC House of ICP Hacker House started on the 27th! Many things are prepared starting from the speeches of Dominic Williams (@dominic_w) and Vitalik Buterin (@VitalikButerin) at AM (GMT+9) at the BUIDL Asia venue. NvirWorld also participates in today's speech as a partner project.#ICPHouse #Conference #VCHouse @icphub_KR @dfinity https://t.co/aIW92DVGMA
@agoric· over 1 year agoTomorrow on the @buidl_asia Main Stage -@zmanian will be moderating The World of Chain Abstraction panel featuring @DeanTribble, @adrianbrink, @ilblackdragon, and @VitalikButerin 🧠Get the latest on chain abstraction from some of the most gigabrains in the space.https://t.co/WHaNkAezbvWhy is chain abstraction so important now? 🤔
@0xZeeve· over 1 year agoRT @yuvanksoni: Recently I got a chance to represent @0xZeeve & attend @eth_vietnam, it was wonderful meeting @hpdang, @manbirmarwah, @SKY_Sankalp, @dojimanetwork team, @VitalikButerin & many more wonderful developers and amazing founders. https://t.co/upa8dc0tov
@yuvanksoni· over 1 year agoRecently I got a chance to represent @0xZeeve & attend @eth_vietnam, it was wonderful meeting @hpdang, @manbirmarwah, @SKY_Sankalp, @dojimanetwork team, @VitalikButerin & many more wonderful developers and amazing founders. https://t.co/upa8dc0tov
@GnosisDAO· over 1 year agoRT @danftz: Today, a proposal to make the SAFE token transferable has entered the review phase of Safe governance.Should it be approved in the forthcoming governance vote, @safe will have a transferable token as early as April 23.The only steps left after today are the following:1. At least 3 delegates/Guardians need to signal the maturity of the proposal before April 1, 23:59 UTC2. Proposal needs to be submitted to Snapshot before April 2, 23:59 UTC3. Safe token holders need to vote in favour of the proposal on Snapshot during the voting phase (April 4 - April 15)4. Following the voting phase, there is a 3-day SafeSnap/Reality timeout period + 5-day cooldown period before the token contract can get unpausedAssuming all goes according to plan, the token is set to become transferable on April 23 🎉This would be a huge milestone for SafeDAO and the beginning of a new chapter on a journey that started more than 7 ½ years ago with @StefanDGeorge's initial commit to the Gnosis MultiSigWallet repo. That was on September 8, 2016!Two years later, in July 2018, the first audited version of the Gnosis Safe Contracts was released: Version 0.0.1, which included for the first time support for modules to extend functionality.In early 2022, @GnosisDAO then voted to spin out Gnosis Safe, which subsequently rebranded to Safe and announced a $100M raise at a $1.25B valuation. Investors included @1kxnetwork @paraficapital @blockchaincap @cbventures @LongHashVC, etc. Some time later, in September 2022, SafeDAO and the non-transferable SAFE token launched. An initial vote on enabling transferability which was initiated by me failed to get a majority of voting power behind it, and 5 milestones were agreed upon before voting again on making the token transferable.Those milestones have all been completed with the Safe Token Utility Framework being the last one earlier this year. With the token transferability now being so close, it's also worth looking into the adoption metrics for Safe, and they are nothing short of remarkable: it secures a staggering $125 billion in assets, and more than 7.5 million @safe smart accounts have been deployed. A significant portion of these accounts were deployed by @worldcoin, which sets up a Safe for each of their World App users.Beyond that, Safe smart accounts are also trusted by some of the leading figures in the Ethereum community: @VitalikButerin for example holds 243,000 ETH in his Safe, almost all of his holdings; @punk6529 is also an eager user of Safe and has shared some fantastic guides for it on his account.Read the proposal to unpause the SAFE Token Contract (Enabling Transferability) on the SafeDAO forum: https://t.co/6HkN2hfyBf
@danftz· over 1 year agoToday, a proposal to make the SAFE token transferable has entered the review phase of Safe governance.Should it be approved in the forthcoming governance vote, @safe will have a transferable token as early as April 23.The only steps left after today are the following:1. At least 3 delegates/Guardians need to signal the maturity of the proposal before April 1, 23:59 UTC2. Proposal needs to be submitted to Snapshot before April 2, 23:59 UTC3. Safe token holders need to vote in favour of the proposal on Snapshot during the voting phase (April 4 - April 15)4. Following the voting phase, there is a 3-day SafeSnap/Reality timeout period + 5-day cooldown period before the token contract can get unpausedAssuming all goes according to plan, the token is set to become transferable on April 23 🎉This would be a huge milestone for SafeDAO and the beginning of a new chapter on a journey that started more than 7 ½ years ago with @StefanDGeorge's initial commit to the Gnosis MultiSigWallet repo. That was on September 8, 2016!Two years later, in July 2018, the first audited version of the Gnosis Safe Contracts was released: Version 0.0.1, which included for the first time support for modules to extend functionality.In early 2022, @GnosisDAO then voted to spin out Gnosis Safe, which subsequently rebranded to Safe and announced a $100M raise at a $1.25B valuation. Investors included @1kxnetwork @paraficapital @blockchaincap @cbventures @LongHashVC, etc. Some time later, in September 2022, SafeDAO and the non-transferable SAFE token launched. An initial vote on enabling transferability which was initiated by me failed to get a majority of voting power behind it, and 5 milestones were agreed upon before voting again on making the token transferable.Those milestones have all been completed with the Safe Token Utility Framework being the last one earlier this year. With the token transferability now being so close, it's also worth looking into the adoption metrics for Safe, and they are nothing short of remarkable: it secures a staggering $125 billion in assets, and more than 7.5 million @safe smart accounts have been deployed. A significant portion of these accounts were deployed by @worldcoin, which sets up a Safe for each of their World App users.Beyond that, Safe smart accounts are also trusted by some of the leading figures in the Ethereum community: @VitalikButerin for example holds 243,000 ETH in his Safe, almost all of his holdings; @punk6529 is also an eager user of Safe and has shared some fantastic guides for it on his account.Read the proposal to unpause the SAFE Token Contract (Enabling Transferability) on the SafeDAO forum: https://t.co/6HkN2hfyBf
@steemhunt· over 1 year agoThe 17th #BrickSideChat is set for tomorrow! And yes, we have a lot of things to catch up on! 1⃣New Web3 project showcase! 2⃣@EthTaipei Meet-Up with Web3 Builders - any fun episodes? Selfie with @VitalikButerin? 3⃣New Web3 space joiners, Mungdi X friends! 4⃣The meme trend is gone. What will be the next trend in the Web3 space? RAW? 5⃣Rewarding time! 1 Building NFT for the lucky winner! See you tomorrow! 👉https://t.co/jQ6Ea07059
@KoinBasket· over 1 year ago🗞️#Bitcoin remains in demand among #Argentina as the #peso continues to lose value against the #U.S.dollar dropping from $0.0049/peso in March 2023 to $0.0012/peso.🗞️Institutional clients of #GoldmanSachs Asia Pacific arm are showing renewed interest in #BTC #Ether #cryptoassets🗞️#Polygon beta #zkEVM is back online after a ten-hour outage on March 23🗞️The #hackvc venture firm is reportedly raising $100 million for a fund aimed at seeding #cryptocurrency startupsSource: @CoinMarketCap @Cointelegraph @crypto Confused about crypto? We can help https://t.co/Uu5pUCHlYr#CryptoNews #BitcoinHalving #BitcoinETF #EthereumClassic #EthereumETF #Binance #blockchain #DigitalAssets #grokai #vitalik #XRP #XRPL #Dubai #VenomAirdrop #Decentralization #DAO #cryptotwitter #BEFIxBitget #SaitaChain #Crypto_AI #TRON #token #ADA #SolanaMemecoin @GoldmanSachs @AltCryptoGems @cryptoroverd @BTCTN @cryptonewshindi @BitcoinNewsCom @MarioNawfal @saylor @VitalikButerin @cryptoneo17 @CryptoNeoo @CryptoNews25 @btcnewsau @She1Edward @coinbureau @coinnewsdesk @CoinNews @CoinNews
@ecrivaine_k· over 1 year ago@asymetrix_eth @aztecnetwork @VitalikButerin @gxgexiao @EthExploring 最後，關於 https://t.co/nZfbGE4o0l，如果有同樣卡住比較多的朋友取不出來，可以找無比靠譜的 @gxgexiao 老師幫忙~🌸 https://t.co/bP6kq4o7oo
@ecrivaine_k· over 1 year ago@asymetrix_eth @aztecnetwork @VitalikButerin @gxgexiao @EthExploring 唯一奇怪的地方在於……取出來的 E 居然比存進去的多，本以爲歸零虧錢了，結果不僅 E 漲了，數量還變多了？和朋友討論都覺得不合理，但不論怎麽算，到底是取的過程中出了什麽bug，還是原理上有我至今沒理解到的地方，總而言之它都變多了😂
@ThunderCoreLab· over 1 year agoVitalik (@VitalikButerin) highlights that improving wallets and cross-chain asset swaps should be the highest priority for enhancing cross-chain UX, as discussed at @EthTaipei. #ThunderCore is on board! Progress made, more enhancements ahead. Ready for the bull market! 🐂 https://t.co/Re7nU9QUQE
@0xJiro· over 1 year agoRT @ThunderCoreLab: @VitalikButerin highlights that improving wallets and cross-chain asset swaps should be the highest priority for enhancing cross-chain UX, as discussed at @EthTaipei. #ThunderCore is on board! Progress made, more enhancements ahead. Ready for the bull market! 🐂 https://t.co/023Hits1e7
@ThunderCoreLab· over 1 year ago@VitalikButerin highlights that improving wallets and cross-chain asset swaps should be the highest priority for enhancing cross-chain UX, as discussed at @EthTaipei. #ThunderCore is on board! Progress made, more enhancements ahead. Ready for the bull market! 🐂 https://t.co/023Hits1e7
@cdixon· over 1 year agoRT @alive_eth: Today, we’re announcing that we’re leading @EspressoSys’ Series B ☕ Ethereum’s scalability end-game is all about rollups—potentially thousands or even millions of rollups, each one a mini-ecosystem or an application that is built on top of Ethereum’s bedrock of security. The ideas behind how this can work were first laid out by @VitalikButerin a few years back in his now-famous rollup-centric roadmap post. Since then, other ecosystem players like @zksync, @Optimism, and @0xPolygon have extended that vision with roadmaps for Hyperchains, the Superchain, and Polygon’s AggLayer. For the first time, there is a clear path that Ethereum can follow to reach a scale that supports millions of applications and billions of users. This plan, however, is not without its limitations. The biggest disadvantage of a rollup-centric future is the fragmentation of the Ethereum ecosystem. Today, on the Ethereum main chain, every application (i.e. smart contract) can seamlessly interact with every other application. In a world of millions of rollups, composability with applications will become harder. This is because each individual rollup is its own separate blockchain. They all share Ethereum’s security, but computation proceeds independently on each one. Each rollup is driven by what’s known as a “sequencer,” which today is a centralized party that performs all of the computation for a rollup on a server. Today, if an app on one rollup wants to interact with an app on another, it has to either go through the main Ethereum chain or a bridge. Both approaches are much slower and make it harder for developers to synchronize state across rollups (they are asynchronous solutions). In a better world, sequencers of different rollups would have a mechanism to cooperate with each other, giving developers and end-users a smoother, faster, and cheaper interoperability experience. The Espresso Team Before I tell you about @EspressoSys, I need to tell you about the people behind it. I have known @benafisch and @benediktbuenz since before I joined @a16zcrypto. It was early 2017, I was at Google Brain, and both Ben and Benedikt were Ph.D. students under @danboneh at Stanford, who I knew very well from my undergrad days. Thanks to Dan, we were all connected and were advising a new crypto company that would later go on to become @eco—which is now also an a16z crypto portfolio company. I remember being very inspired by both of their technical brilliance. For a brief moment, I was even tempted to pursue a Ph.D. in cryptography under Dan, as they were doing. What has always been most impressive to me about Ben in particular is his ability to think clearly at every level of abstraction—from the lowest-level cryptographic primitives, through every business and product consideration, and all the way to the broadest societal effects—for a new technology that he is building. I should have known it was inevitable for him to transition from his role in academia to that of a startup founder and CEO. As it turned out, I did not go on to get a Ph.D. Instead, I left Google and joined a16z to become a venture capitalist, which is almost the same thing, right? Shortly thereafter, I met @jillrgunter through crypto circles, and while she was at Slow Ventures, we became fast friends. What has always been so impressive to me about Jill is her insane ability to think strategically. She has the sharpest intuitions about how the world works and how people are likely to operate within it. So, it was impossible to not take note when she joined Ben, Benedikt, and @charleslu1 at Espresso in 2021. Along the way, through his work at Espresso, I have also gotten to know Charles. He is technically brilliant, like everyone else at Espresso, and also worked with Dan at Stanford. But most importantly, he is the perfect complement to Ben, Benedikt, and Jill because of his excellent operational capabilities. Espresso wouldn’t be the organization that it is without Charles. Last year, as some of the limitations of Ethereum’s rollup-based roadmap became clear, Ben and team pitched us the most compelling solution to the fragmentation problem that we had heard. Espresso Systems Espresso is building a decentralized network that acts as a coordination mechanism for rollup sequencers. It is a marketplace in which sequencers can both sell their blockspace and participate in a mechanism that unifies transaction sequencing across rollups. With Espresso, rollups will be able to sell the right to build their blocks to proposers bidding for them in the network. Those proposers can also simultaneously bid on multiple rollup blocks to become shared proposers for more than one chain at once. This allows rollups to continue to evolve independently while also interoperating more seamlessly with other rollups. At its core, crypto is a technology movement that builds tools for better human cooperation at a larger scale—especially when the cooperating parties mutually distrust one another. Espresso and Ethereum are the perfect embodiment of that ideal. We're very excited to be partnering with Ben, Benedikt, Jill, Charles and the Espresso team to help them bring to life a more seamless and interoperable future for Ethereum.
@litentry· over 1 year agoCheck out our video wrapping up @eth_vietnam 🇻🇳🙌 It was an honor to have @VitalikButerin at such a memorable event. Fantastic panel discussions and topics were shared while connecting with other leading projects in the industry!🤩 What was a key takeaway for you? Share your thoughts with us in the comment section below! 😉👇#ETHVN24 #Litentry #IdentityHub
@OKLink· over 1 year agoExciting times at #ETHTaipei2024 with #OKLink! 🚀 We are deeply engaged in the Ethereum ecosystem. @VitalikButerin captivated the audience with his profound thoughts on Merkle tree and the exciting future prospects for Ethereum 🌟 https://t.co/8fn55fiF9D
@alive_eth· over 1 year agoToday, we’re announcing that we’re leading @EspressoSys’ Series B ☕ Ethereum’s scalability end-game is all about rollups—potentially thousands or even millions of rollups, each one a mini-ecosystem or an application that is built on top of Ethereum’s bedrock of security. The ideas behind how this can work were first laid out by @VitalikButerin a few years back in his now-famous rollup-centric roadmap post. Since then, other ecosystem players like @zksync, @Optimism, and @0xPolygon have extended that vision with roadmaps for Hyperchains, the Superchain, and Polygon’s AggLayer. For the first time, there is a clear path that Ethereum can follow to reach a scale that supports millions of applications and billions of users. This plan, however, is not without its limitations. The biggest disadvantage of a rollup-centric future is the fragmentation of the Ethereum ecosystem. Today, on the Ethereum main chain, every application (i.e. smart contract) can seamlessly interact with every other application. In a world of millions of rollups, composability with applications will become harder. This is because each individual rollup is its own separate blockchain. They all share Ethereum’s security, but computation proceeds independently on each one. Each rollup is driven by what’s known as a “sequencer,” which today is a centralized party that performs all of the computation for a rollup on a server. Today, if an app on one rollup wants to interact with an app on another, it has to either go through the main Ethereum chain or a bridge. Both approaches are much slower and make it harder for developers to synchronize state across rollups (they are asynchronous solutions). In a better world, sequencers of different rollups would have a mechanism to cooperate with each other, giving developers and end-users a smoother, faster, and cheaper interoperability experience. The Espresso Team Before I tell you about @EspressoSys, I need to tell you about the people behind it. I have known @benafisch and @benediktbuenz since before I joined @a16zcrypto. It was early 2017, I was at Google Brain, and both Ben and Benedikt were Ph.D. students under @danboneh at Stanford, who I knew very well from my undergrad days. Thanks to Dan, we were all connected and were advising a new crypto company that would later go on to become @eco—which is now also an a16z crypto portfolio company. I remember being very inspired by both of their technical brilliance. For a brief moment, I was even tempted to pursue a Ph.D. in cryptography under Dan, as they were doing. What has always been most impressive to me about Ben in particular is his ability to think clearly at every level of abstraction—from the lowest-level cryptographic primitives, through every business and product consideration, and all the way to the broadest societal effects—for a new technology that he is building. I should have known it was inevitable for him to transition from his role in academia to that of a startup founder and CEO. As it turned out, I did not go on to get a Ph.D. Instead, I left Google and joined a16z to become a venture capitalist, which is almost the same thing, right? Shortly thereafter, I met @jillrgunter through crypto circles, and while she was at Slow Ventures, we became fast friends. What has always been so impressive to me about Jill is her insane ability to think strategically. She has the sharpest intuitions about how the world works and how people are likely to operate within it. So, it was impossible to not take note when she joined Ben, Benedikt, and @charleslu1 at Espresso in 2021. Along the way, through his work at Espresso, I have also gotten to know Charles. He is technically brilliant, like everyone else at Espresso, and also worked with Dan at Stanford. But most importantly, he is the perfect complement to Ben, Benedikt, and Jill because of his excellent operational capabilities. Espresso wouldn’t be the organization that it is without Charles. Last year, as some of the limitations of Ethereum’s rollup-based roadmap became clear, Ben and team pitched us the most compelling solution to the fragmentation problem that we had heard. Espresso Systems Espresso is building a decentralized network that acts as a coordination mechanism for rollup sequencers. It is a marketplace in which sequencers can both sell their blockspace and participate in a mechanism that unifies transaction sequencing across rollups. With Espresso, rollups will be able to sell the right to build their blocks to proposers bidding for them in the network. Those proposers can also simultaneously bid on multiple rollup blocks to become shared proposers for more than one chain at once. This allows rollups to continue to evolve independently while also interoperating more seamlessly with other rollups. At its core, crypto is a technology movement that builds tools for better human cooperation at a larger scale—especially when the cooperating parties mutually distrust one another. Espresso and Ethereum are the perfect embodiment of that ideal. We're very excited to be partnering with Ben, Benedikt, Jill, Charles and the Espresso team to help them bring to life a more seamless and interoperable future for Ethereum.
@taikainetwork· over 1 year agoThe #ETHTaipei 2024 is finally here! From keynotes with @VitalikButerin himself to a 40-hour coding spree, the ETHTaipei kicks off today to unleash a new era of blockchain in ******. ✨ Free to attend, with workshops, mentor sessions, and much more! See you there? https://t.co/r5BWFIsNjq
@VitalikButerin· over 1 year agoRT @EthTaipei: Are you ready for ETHTaipei?Join us on the exciting opening keynote by @VitalikButerin 🎉 🎉🎉Explore our agenda for insightful talks: https://t.co/SEePUtckkt 👀Live streams kick off at 10 a.m. UTC+8.Building F: https://t.co/ba3uOC0wbM,Building M: https://t.co/jimnhOSuIZ
@EthTaipei· over 1 year agoAre you ready for ETHTaipei?Join us on the exciting opening keynote by @VitalikButerin 🎉 🎉🎉Explore our agenda for insightful talks: https://t.co/SEePUtckkt 👀Live streams kick off at 10 a.m. UTC+8.Building F: https://t.co/ba3uOC0wbM,Building M: https://t.co/jimnhOSuIZ
@FideumHQ· over 1 year agoTop Cryptocurrency News This Week! 🗞️• #Bitcoin Mining Difficulty and Prices Peak as Halving Approaches• @Dr_CSWright is Not Bitcoin’s Creator, Satoshi Nakamoto• @VitalikButerin Advocates Layer-2 Focus for Ethereum's Future• @PeterSchiff Regret Not Buying $BTCUncover more on our blog.https://t.co/95hf9M4HKJ
@DoraHacks· over 1 year agoAlways want to show 🩷 to @VitalikButerin. Building MACI and aMACI is simply fun. https://t.co/K7eoA2dUg9
@ChefDora_· over 1 year agoAbsolute pleasure seeing @VitalikButerin and speaking to him about the progression of MACI and @DoraFactory‘s implementation! Full video to come soon! #ETHVietnam #BUILDATHON https://t.co/ebLPhBpBnl
@OKLink· over 1 year ago@VitalikButerin @xyzorong from #OKLink is engaged in a conversation with @VitalikButerin 👋 Perhaps they are exploring the potential changes following the #DencunUpgrade ? 🤔https://t.co/8SJ1L1y6NY Make sure not to overlook the essential data available on our theme page👆 https://t.co/Rdsvh0ZTM0
@OKLink· over 1 year ago@VitalikButerin shared insights on the intersection of #AI and Ethereum. What lies ahead? Let's eagerly await and witness the exciting developments.🛸 https://t.co/M25gDGMQ9c
@TimBeiko· over 1 year ago@ethereum @terencechain @parithosh_j @ralexstokes @danfinlay @VitalikButerin @0xPolygon @lightclients @mikeneuder @nero_eth @shemnon The last thing we agreed to was to cancel upcoming fork testing calls until we're farther along in the Pectra devnet testing cycle. And that was it! Next ACDE is set for March 28, 14 UTC — Euro friends, double check your local time ⏰!
@varun_mathur· over 1 year ago🔥This is crazy, but we have achieved what many will consider as a ‘really intelligent and capable system’ without using GPT-4/OpenAI. In our research and experiments at @HyperspaceAI, we were able to get GPT-4 comparable results using a complex distributed system which spanned models from @MistralAI, local consumer devices, and @GroqInc. In the days ahead, we will be publishing a lot more about it alongwith making a developer-friendly platform available to use it out-of-the-box. The cat is out of the bag though. The major disruption event is here. The world does not need or have a sole dependency on OpenAI anymore for uber-intelligence: a swarm of agents running intelligently on a distributed network and making use of the fastest AI infrastructure and the most breakthrough open models, can succeed. This was intuition and theory before, but we know it now. Since we also already have the largest deployment of Mistral models on a consumer peer-to-peer network (over 5000 nodes so far), we are ready for madness. We will continuously grow this network, incentivize and secure nodes using @EigenLayer in the days ahead. The more this distributed network grows, the more smarter, cheaper and abundant it becomes. Here’s how we grow it:1) More nodes2) More stake3) More developers4) More agents5) More data6) More finetuned adapters7) More open foundation models.. and improving efficiency across the board.This open + distributed approach provides a better consumer experience. That’s the reason people will choose it. Thank you for supporting open/distributed AI: @ylecun @pmarca @cdixon @sreeramkannan @garrytan @arthurmensch @JonathanRoss321 @sundeep @EMostaque @ilblackdragon @sandeepnailwal @balajis @VitalikButerin @ClementDelangue @wagieeacc @GillVerd and others.
@Mercuryo_io· over 1 year ago@ETHGlobal @VitalikButerin @zksync @soultaker_eth @jjoemorgan Here's the legend! https://t.co/vdpPZy3TfT
@Mercuryo_io· over 1 year ago📸 @ETHGlobal Pragma London going strong! Quite a different energy than Denver but keeps the core stuff in sight – think Payments, Wallets, AA, SocialFi, Privacy, Data Availability. Oh, and everyone's pumped for @VitalikButerin! Powered by @zksync https://t.co/unIJLXyXbm
@RAILGUN_Project· over 1 year agoFORTY MILLION PRIVATE DOLLARYDOOS 💰🔗🔐 #RAILGUN #Ethereum #PrivacyMatters #DencunUpgrade #cryptocurrency @VitalikButerin 🗿 https://t.co/FJhWLJhGur
@TeddeF· over 1 year agoRT @IQWIKI: BrainDAO is building https://t.co/Uwh1P3MRrJ, the first AI model for smart contracts powered by the IQ token. 🧠 IQ Code is designed to be able to audit code for vulnerabilities helping solve what @VitalikButerin has called Ethereum's biggest technical risk.
@IQWIKI· over 1 year agoBrainDAO is building https://t.co/Uwh1P3MRrJ, the first AI model for smart contracts powered by the IQ token. 🧠 IQ Code is designed to be able to audit code for vulnerabilities helping solve what @VitalikButerin has called Ethereum's biggest technical risk.
@TeddeF· over 1 year agoRT @IQWIKI: BrainDAO is building https://t.co/Uwh1P3Nphh, the first AI model for smart contracts. IQ Code is designed to be able to audit code for vulnerabilities helping solve what @VitalikButerin has called Ethereum's biggest technical risk. https://t.co/wPWFOSd0w0 https://t.co/Ct3H2jpe2z
@IQWIKI· over 1 year agoBrainDAO is building https://t.co/Uwh1P3Nphh, the first AI model for smart contracts. IQ Code is designed to be able to audit code for vulnerabilities helping solve what @VitalikButerin has called Ethereum's biggest technical risk. https://t.co/wPWFOSd0w0 https://t.co/Ct3H2jpe2z
@THEProtocolERC· over 1 year agoEven as a baby, @VitalikButerin had a vision! $THE vision #theprotocol https://t.co/RdilOz9lSj
@crypto3am· over 1 year agoRT @VitalikButerin: Thread from 1.5 years ago on ERC-4337. Still very relevant today, important to understand why it works and how the different parts of the ERC flow directly from the problems that it solves.
@evacodes_com· over 1 year ago🚀Inspired by @VitalikButerin milestones, this framework provides a concise roadmap for evaluating the maturity and security of rollup projects. 🚀 Are you ready to elevate your #Blockchain #Development Journey with @evacodes_com ?! https://t.co/gP7CJYnkz4
@InnBioresearch· over 1 year agoRT @BAGAYAADAMA2: sera intéressant de jeter un coup d'œil sur le projet @InnBioresearch @binance @coinbase @okx @gate_io @HTX_Global @Bybit_Official @Poloniex @_RichardTeng @VitalikButerin @3orovik @adamscochran @JonathanFior Ils ont un très bon projet en cours
@BAGAYAADAMA2· over 1 year agosera intéressant de jeter un coup d'œil sur le projet @InnBioresearch @binance @coinbase @okx @gate_io @HTX_Global @Bybit_Official @Poloniex @_RichardTeng @VitalikButerin @3orovik @adamscochran @JonathanFior Ils ont un très bon projet en cours
@DragonTyrantERC· over 1 year agoInspired by ‘The Dragon Tyrant’, @VitalikButerin predicts that there’s a 55% chance for a 1,000-year lifespan after combining AI singularity, anti-aging research, and cryonics. Do you see this as a realistic possibility? https://t.co/Xt2svtuIFR
@THEProtocolERC· over 1 year agoRT @johnnystark79: Look, @VitalikButerin mentioned THE! @THEProtocolERC
@DragonTyrantERC· over 1 year agoYear of the Tyrant Dragon 🐉 @VitalikButerin
@johnnystark79· over 1 year agoLook, @VitalikButerin mentioned THE! @THEProtocolERC
@DragonTyrantERC· over 1 year agoHappy 30th Orbit around the star of our solar system @VitalikButerin. You preached and taught us that we live in a universe where code and philosophy entangle, you're the quantum superposition of a sage. Here's to more years of expanding our digital cosmos for eons to come 🐉 https://t.co/04e9L3frl2
@skiffprivacy· over 1 year agoRT @cptn3mox: Lasted article by @VitalikButerin calls out some key products (including a rolled-up USB cable). Jokes aside - this table shoutout was my biggest takeaway. @ensdomains @skiffprivacy @ethstatus @signinwitheth @eas_eth @ZupassProject @fleekxyz @LensProtocol @farcaster_xyz
@cptn3mox· over 1 year agoLasted article by @VitalikButerin calls out some key products (including a rolled-up USB cable). Jokes aside - this table shoutout was my biggest takeaway. @ensdomains @skiffprivacy @ethstatus @signinwitheth @eas_eth @ZupassProject @fleekxyz @LensProtocol @farcaster_xyz
@dimabuterin· over 1 year agoHappy birthday to @VitalikButerin! It's been awesome to know you these 30 years!! Thank you for being the amazing human that you are - for your bright ideas, your passion and leadership, your innocence and kindness, your joyful silliness! 🥳❤️ P.S. Two more years to the big 100000
@racefi_io· over 1 year agoRT @VitalikButerin: The promise and challenges of crypto + AI applications: https://t.co/ds9mLnshLU
@mobi_fi· over 1 year agoRT @VitalikButerin: Reminder: modern cars are highly networked computers and are a privacy nightmare. Very under-explored sector for privacy improvements. Some "fancy ZK" but also some plain boring "collect and track less stuff please". https://t.co/dWOga6SMcI
@smart_mesh· over 1 year agoRT @PartnerRweb3: 🚀Join the Phuket Blockchain Observation Series Twitter Space, a collaborative initiative by @FinstableCo , the exclusive organizer of the Phuket B2GC event, and @PartnerR_CN . This event brings together the Minister of Digital Economy and Society in Thailand @Prasertofficial and @VitalikButerin . The first session, we invite entrepreneurs from top universities such as PKU and Stanford, Anthony Chen from Finstable will satisfy all your curiosities about the Thai blockchain scene.🔥 #Web3 #Crypto #Blockchain 🌐Twitter Space Event Details: 🌟Host: Cherry Shi @shiqianyun - PartnerR, PKU & UC Berkeley 🌟Guests: Anthony Chen @FinstableCo - Deputy CEO of Finstable Shawn Yu @shawnleyu - MugglePay CEO, Stanford CS Feng He @deepbrainfeng - Deepbrain Chain & DeepLink Founder Henry Wang @HenryWang2021 - Founder CEO of SmartMesh & W3A Una Wang @UnaWCX - LingoAI Founder ⏲️Time: January 25, 2024, -22:00 (SGT) 🚀Space Link: https://t.co/ilomYhL11K
@TeamWinnaar· over 1 year ago@Dr_CSWright @ari_offchain @StevenNerayoff @VitalikButerin @X @BoringSleuth @digitalassetbuy I've set it up for all new blocks using @AlchemyPlatform and @mintBlue_com in about 10 mins. Will keep publishing the entire ETH blocks on BSV until my Zapier credits run out or someone funds it. Example https://t.co/pUPkE8G443
@PartnerRweb3· over 1 year ago🚀Join the Phuket Blockchain Observation Series Twitter Space, a collaborative initiative by @FinstableCo , the exclusive organizer of the Phuket B2GC event, and @PartnerR_CN . This event brings together the Minister of Digital Economy and Society in Thailand @Prasertofficial and @VitalikButerin . The first session, we invite entrepreneurs from top universities such as PKU and Stanford, Anthony Chen from Finstable will satisfy all your curiosities about the Thai blockchain scene.🔥 #Web3 #Crypto #Blockchain 🌐Twitter Space Event Details: 🌟Host: Cherry Shi @shiqianyun - PartnerR, PKU & UC Berkeley 🌟Guests: Anthony Chen @FinstableCo - Deputy CEO of Finstable Shawn Yu @shawnleyu - MugglePay CEO, Stanford CS Feng He @deepbrainfeng - Deepbrain Chain & DeepLink Founder Henry Wang @HenryWang2021 - Founder CEO of SmartMesh & W3A Una Wang @UnaWCX - LingoAI Founder ⏲️Time: January 25, 2024, -22:00 (SGT) 🚀Space Link: https://t.co/ilomYhL11K
@maariabajwa· over 1 year agoRT @VitalikButerin: Over $100m distributed in @Optimism RetroPGF round 3. Really impressed to see their ongoing commitment to funding public goods, helping devs and others contribute to Ethereum even if they lack a business model. Hope to see more projects doing QF and RPGF rounds in the future! https://t.co/JFGB1MNDDS
@TheBoringDAO· over 1 year agoRT @VitalikButerin: Make Ethereum cypherpunk again https://t.co/qEiOcZLEeg
@THEProtocolERC· over 1 year agoRT @THEDegenario_: $THE higher $TMNT goes $THE more bullish it is for @THEProtocolERC degens are just getting a taste of a Vitalik-inspired meme. this shit is huge, and soon they will realize that @VitalikButerin straight-up asked for a meme coin to be called $THE PROTOCOL https://t.co/ExG4jsomrr