Ethereum Needs Dynamic Consensus for Finality and Progress
An excellent post explaining the importance of Ethereum having a dynamically available consensus, that both provides economic finality and ensures chain progress even under conditions where economic finality is impossible. https://t.co/wrtIRFnHpL
Ethereum Gains 12‑second Irreversible Confirmation Guarantee
A new fast confirmation rule mechanism lets you get a hard guarantee that Ethereum will not revert after one slot (12 seconds) Security assumptions are (i) supermajority honest, (ii) network latency under ~3s. So one step below economic finality, but very...
Simplify Ethereum Nodes: Rethink Beacon/Execution Separation
We should be open to revisiting whole beacon/execution client separation thing. Running two daemons and getting them to talk to each other is far more difficult than running one daemon. Our goal is to make the self-sovereign way of using ethereum have...
EF Mandate Reinforces Ethereum as Sanctuary Technology
This is the new EF Mandate. For many of you, the contents should be no surprise, and a clarification along the lines that we have been going and thinking for the past few months. But the clarification is nevertheless...
Deniable Emergency Triggers Could Deter Crime without Infringing Liberties
One tool that seems to me would lead to large wins for safety at very low cost to civil liberties, is that everyone should have easy and deniable on-hand ways of calling the police. Think: you pre-select a few secret words,...
Received Billion-Dollar Dog Tokens, Pulled Funds Amid Bubble
There are often posts mentioning that I donated a very large amount of funds to @FLI_org years ago and connecting me to various policy actions that they take. I thought I would make clear the record both on the nature...
Simplifying Institutional Ethereum Staking with One‑Click Distributed Nodes
The Ethereum Foundation is using DVT-lite to stake 72,000 ETH: https://t.co/V5x9TrdXoU My hope for this project is that in the process, we can make it maximally easy and one-click to do distributed staking for institutions. Choose which computers run your nodes, make...
Make Resolutions Habitual, Measurable, and Sustainable
I actually do the whole new year's resolutions thing, and it actually works. The key thing to understand is that humans are creatures of habit. Doing the same action you've already done regularly takes very little mental effort, whereas inserting a...
Rethink Democratic Tools as Authoritarianism Dampens Enthusiasm
One thing that it is worth re-thinking is our perspective on when, and how, it makes sense to build "democratic things". This includes: * DAOs and voting mechanisms in DAOs * Quadratic and other funding gadgets * ZKpassport voting use cases, incl freedomtool...
Prediction Markets Can Sharpen Our View of Future Possibilities
https://t.co/RdtKwnrGQR @slatestarcodex is making a great case for prediction markets being useful as an intellectual tool to help us understand the world and the possible near futures better. I would love to see prediction market projects doing more to optimize for this...
Ethereum’s Promise Unmet Amid Growing Surveillance and Control
Over the past year, many people I talk to have expressed worry about two topics: * Various aspects of the way the world is going: government control and surveillance, wars, corporate power and surveillance, tech enshittification / corposlop, social media becoming...
FOCIL Introduces Multi‑participant Block Building to Curb Centralization
Finally, the block building pipeline. In Glamsterdam, Ethereum is getting ePBS, which lets proposers outsource to a free permissionless market of block builders. This ensures that block builder centralization does not creep into staking centralization, but it leaves the question: what do...
Stani Kulechov On: Saving Six Months for a Computer, Dropping Out of High School, and Building AAVE
The interview with Stani Kulechov, founder of Aave, traces his journey from a modest Finnish upbringing to leading one of the world’s most successful decentralized finance protocols. Kulechov recounts how his father saved half a year’s wages to purchase a computer...
New Gas and Access List Upgrades Boost Ethereum Scaling
Now, scaling. There are two buckets here: short-term and long-term. Short term scaling I've written about elsewhere. Basically: * Block level access lists (coming in Glamsterdam) allow blocks to be verified in parallel. * ePBS (coming in Glamsterdam) has many features, of which one...
Stani Kulechov On: Saving Six Months for a Computer, Dropping Out of High School, and Building AAVE
Stani Kulechov grew up in a blue‑collar family where his father saved six months to buy their first computer, sparking a lifelong passion for code. He began programming at 13, left high school after one year to code full‑time, and...
