Happy 9th birthday, Ethereum! Looking forward to seeing what the next decade brings.

I interviewed vitalik.eth (and the 80,000 Hours Podcast does video now). Topics: • AI regulation disagreements are less about AI in particular, and more about whether you intuitively fear government power • Whether the social impact of crypto has been disappointing • Why

Review: museums of the future, Dubai and Tokyo vitalik.eth.limo/general/2024/0…

I think people will be surprised by how quickly "cross-L2 interoperability problems" stop being problems and we get a smooth user experience across the entire ethereum-verse (incl L1, rollups, validiums, even sidechains). I'm seeing lots of energy and will to make this happen.

Summary of Ethereum block-building research as of 2024-08-07: * Everyone agrees that having multiple actors contribute txs that must be included in the block is a good idea * Open debate on whether avoiding a "last mover" is possible It's good to see the progress! It feels like

I’m in Taipei with these brilliant individuals. Come to our talk tomorrow if you could use an optimistic take on the future of technology, collaboration, and democracy.. plurality.abs.io vitalik.eth ⿻ Audrey Tang 唐鳳 ⿻(((E. Glen Weyl/衛谷倫))) 🇺🇸/🇩🇪/🇹🇼 🖖

Added more M31 and binary field support to zorch: github.com/vbuterin/zorch Now you can write reasonably-performant STARK proving code that runs on your GPU, in python! Below is the full arithmetization of poseidon. I welcome others taking this and running with it.

Glad to see ZK Email starting to make major steps toward real world adoption. It feels like the different pieces of social recovery are coming together!

1/ 🚀 We just wrapped up an incredible Ethereum roadmap AMA with vitalik.eth! 🎉 Vitalik answered tons of live questions covering topics like DAS, solo staking, cross-chain innovations, zkEVMs, and various user-related EIPs. Full AMA: youtube.com/watch?v=is4huR…

Plurality philosophy in an incredibly oversized nutshell vitalik.eth.limo/general/2024/0…

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Updates from Josh Stark on EF spending. The key info is in this chart. The "new institutions" category basically means Nomic Foundation, Decentralization Research Center , L2BEAT 💗, 0xPARC etc - no World Economic Forum insect protein research here! More info has been and will be published; see thread.

This is a good post to poke through if you want more details on "the kinds of things that EF spends money on" (at least as far as grants go; internal teams obviously look different) $8.4m allocated to grants in Q2

Glue and coprocessor architectures: vitalik.eth.limo/general/2024/0…