szee.eth @sz__dev

It doesn’t matter how many people memes “onboard” if the people they attract are literally perpetual gamblers that quickly blow all their capital gambling in what is essentially a rigged casino. Those people are forcefully off-ramped due to blowing all their capital almost as soon as they are onboarded and have no long lasting impact whatsoever (except for making a few insiders on meme coins rich at their expense). They are not the ones that are going to provide meaningful, healthy capital flows that will ultimately lift and sustain this sector in the future. That capital comes from serious investors, not degenerate gamblers, and pushing bundled meme coins that rinse out retail again and again and again is not going to attract them- it’s only going to make it harder for them to take this space seriously.

As a software dev, do you remember those times where you couldn't figure out something the entire day, went to sleep and handled it in 5 minutes the next day? I think that every software engineer used to have this pride and a sense of accomplishment when they managed to solve a hard task, issue, build a complicated but beautiful website, or animation. This is now gone, as anyone can do it by nagging the LLM long enough until they solve it... Ok, in some cases, you still need to know how to navigate the LLM, but tackling hard challenges is a different story now. The challenge, the dopamine is gone, so I guess we need to find it somewhere else:)

It's time for ETH for glory. 10K is inevitable, and I don't think it takes as long as people think.

Two weeks ago, Ethereum researchers met in Berlin to continue charting the protocol's long-term trajectory, following along discussions with client teams in Svalbard in April. The updated strawmap is at strawmap.org, and I attached a picture of it to this post. My own high-level takeaways: * "Lean Ethereum" is not a single one-shot upgrade, it is a collection of improvements that will come online to the Ethereum network over the course of three or four years. But make no mistake, this IS the third major iteration of Ethereum in the same way that the Merge was the second. Almost every major piece of the protocol will be replaced: - Verification through recursive STARKs, rather than direct re-execution. Recursive STARKs become an enshrined first-class core component of the protocol - Replacing everything quantum-vulnerable with quantum-safe alternatives - Consensus: decoupled available chain and finality, one or two-round finality. Theoretically optimal security properties, simpler than today, and faster than today - Multidimensional gas - State: not just tree structure, but what *types* of state are available - Changes to client architecture ... At the same time, simplification, cleanup and future-proofing. And this will all be done in a way that minimizes disruption to existing application. We've done this before (the Merge), we can do it again. * H-star (aka Hegota) is probably Ethereum's last thematically "pre-Lean" fork. Starting from I-star, most of everything we do will have a very strong "Lean" feel to it in one way or another. * Privacy is no longer an afterthought, it is a first class goal. When designing Frames, the mempool, additions to the state tree, we explicitly ask the question "okay, how do quantum-safe, intermediary-free privacy protocol transactions go through this, and what is the overhead?" * Formal verification of everything for security. * FV also makes us much more comfortable with canonicalization (having pieces of the protocol that are directly defined as a piece of bytecode expressed in some language). evm-asm is being written in part to become a canonical proof system for the EVM. * Quantum safety has shifted up a LOT in priority. This adds a lot of work (eg. finalizing a quantum-safe blobs design has become urgent; this work has already been ongoing for months) * Probably the single most disruptive part of the plan is the changes to state. There is growing consensus around leaving present-day-style "dynamic state" mostly unchanged, but scaling it only a medium amount, and adding new types of state that are more scalability-friendly (eg. no need for builders to sync/store all of it) but more restrictive, and that will scale a large amount. eg. possible Ethereum in 2030: 2 TB of present-day-style (dynamic) state, and 100 TB of new-style (scalable but restrictive) state This "new-style" state would work very well for ERC20s, NFTs, many defi use cases, but not eg. highly "central" objects like Uniswap contracts, or onchain order books, or other complex things (which are crucial for Ethereum but which only take up a small percentage of state) Hence, it will not be *necessary* to rewrite any apps, but it will be *very cost-effective* to eg. rewrite an ERC20 token into a newer design that uses a new type of UTXO storage that is currently being explored, so that it will have >10x lower txfees. Design of these new state types (current ideas: keyed nonces, ring buffers, UTXOs, statically accessible state, temp state) is an area where we will need a lot of feedback from application developers (incl. privacy-friendly application developers) and probably several rounds of rethinking and iteration. * In the context of a much larger total state size, we need to figure out the incentive issues around who stores this state and what motivates them to. Even saying "each node stores 1%" is not good enough - why do they store that 1% and why are they willing to serve it? This is being elevated as a first-class research area. * Ethereum will need to have a "VM" other than EVM in one form or another - at the very least, we need something like leanISA for recursive STARKs - and the gains are large in exposing it to users so that we support programmable privacy and better scalability. Right now, the most likely contenders are leanISA and RISC-V. My own ideal is that in this world, we adjust the protocol so that the EVM becomes a high-level-language compiler-level feature, and the protocol only "sees" RISC-V / leanISA directly. But this is still far away. * Gas limit increases, blob increases and slot time decreases will happen many times over the next ~5 years. We expect a large gas limit increase with Glasterdam. Each step of increased scale or decreased slot time is a matter of getting to the point where it is safe to do it, which comes from a combination of client optimization and protocol changes. Ethereum is CROPS. Ethereum is scaling. Ethereum is reinventing itself. Onward.

@mert ahh boy soo happy I made the bot that needs the first tx of an address, and ohh boy it was so hard to get the tx but not anymore with this update BRAVOOOO HELIUS

@MetaMask fix your wallet first

@MetaMask fix your wallet first

@Gh0stAbz King is back

Finance + blockchain engineering is a lethal combo one can have

few more regime changes then up only

@BitBoyJay Legend🫡

It started as a bot. It turned into something else. What’s dropping next? You’ll hear the whispers soon. #solana #helius #tenches

I built the monster bot on Solana.

GOAT is back

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$ETH is about to explode Its your last chance☺️

Nothing makes me happier than watching my bot grind Just me, the logs, and pure execution perfection. Thanks @heliuslabs @guneysol

ETH right now is the biggest disconnect between fundamentals and retail sentiment i've ever seen