Sahil Wasnik

Building @DustProtocolApp & @zyndai | Prev @Tokamak_Network | MLH Fellow'23 | @NEARprotocol Incubator Fellow | 15+ Web3 Hacks Winner🏆

[Sahil Wasnik @0xSY3]

@HeyGen Hyperframes

[AyaCommunity @theayacommunity]

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[Swapnil @a_kraken_head]

We just open sourced a federated DNS for AI agents 🌐

Old registry: died at 500 agents 💀

New one (rewritten in Go): 10,000+ in parallel

Kademlia DHT, semantic search, cryptographic identity, gossip protocol, fully decentralized. Anyone can run a node.
https://t.co/oi4i9YzUPi

[Zynd AI @zyndai]

your AI agent works great.
nobody can find it. nothing can call it. it earns nothing unless you manually set up billing.
that's not a model problem. that's an infrastructure problem.

[Tokamak Network @Tokamak_Network]

Introducing Tokamak Private Channels on Ethereum. Run fully private transactions without leaving Ethereum. Secured by ZK proofs, compatible with existing dapps, and easy to build on with smart contracts only.
Watch Now: https://t.co/l7N61bg4Lk

[vitalik.eth @VitalikButerin]

There have recently been some discussions on the ongoing role of L2s in the Ethereum ecosystem, especially in the face of two facts:

* L2s' progress to stage 2 (and, secondarily, on interop) has been far slower and more difficult than originally expected
* L1 itself is scaling, fees are very low, and gaslimits are projected to increase greatly in 2026

Both of these facts, for their own separate reasons, mean that the original vision of L2s and their role in Ethereum no longer makes sense, and we need a new path.

First, let us recap the original vision. Ethereum needs to scale. The definition of "Ethereum scaling" is the existence of large quantities of block space that is backed by the full faith and credit of Ethereum - that is, block space where, if you do things (including with ETH) inside that block space, your activities are guaranteed to be valid, uncensored, unreverted, untouched, as long as Ethereum itself functions. If you create a 10000 TPS EVM where its connection to L1 is mediated by a multisig bridge, then you are not scaling Ethereum.

This vision no longer makes sense. L1 does not need L2s to be "branded shards", because L1 is itself scaling. And L2s are not able or willing to satisfy the properties that a true "branded shard" would require. I've even seen at least one explicitly saying that they may never want to go beyond stage 1, not just for technical reasons around ZK-EVM safety, but also because their customers' regulatory needs require them to have ultimate control. This may be doing the right thing for your customers. But it should be obvious that if you are doing this, then you are not "scaling Ethereum" in the sense meant by the rollup-centric roadmap. But that's fine! it's fine because Ethereum itself is now scaling directly on L1, with large planned increases to its gas limit this year and the years ahead.

We should stop thinking about L2s as literally being "branded shards" of Ethereum, with the social status and responsibilities that this entails. Instead, we can think of L2s as being a full spectrum, which includes both chains backed by the full faith and credit of Ethereum with various unique properties (eg. not just EVM), as well as a whole array of options at different levels of connection to Ethereum, that each person (or bot) is free to care about or not care about depending on their needs.

What would I do today if I were an L2?

* Identify a value add other than "scaling". Examples: (i) non-EVM specialized features/VMs around privacy, (ii) efficiency specialized around a particular application, (iii) truly extreme levels of scaling that even a greatly expanded L1 will not do, (iv) a totally different design for non-financial applications, eg. social, identity, AI, (v) ultra-low-latency and other sequencing properties, (vi) maybe built-in oracles or decentralized dispute resolution or other "non-computationally-verifiable" features
* Be stage 1 at the minimum (otherwise you really are just a separate L1 with a bridge, and you should just call yourself that) if you're doing things with ETH or other ethereum-issued assets
* Support maximum interoperability with Ethereum, though this will differ for each one (eg. what if you're not EVM, or even not financial?)

From Ethereum's side, over the past few months I've become more convinced of the value of the native rollup precompile, particuarly once we have enshrined ZK-EVM proofs that we need anyway to scale L1. This is a precompile that verifies a ZK-EVM proof, and it's "part of Ethereum", so (i) it auto-upgrades along with Ethereum, and (ii) if the precompile has a bug, Ethereum will hard-fork to fix the bug.

The native rollup precompile would make full, security-council-free, EVM verification accessible. We should spend much more time working out how to design it in such a way that if your L2 is "EVM plus other stuff", then the native rollup precompile would verify the EVM, and you only have to bring your own prover for the "other stuff" (eg. Stylus). This might involve a canonical way of exposing a lookup table between contract call inputs and outputs, and letting you provide your own values to the lookup table (that you would prove separately).

This would make it easy to have safe, strong, trustless interoperability with Ethereum. It also enables synchronous composability (see: https://t.co/9jy6v1X6Fw and https://t.co/gZmu3YjebM ). And from there, it's each L2's choice exactly what they want to build. Don't just "extend L1", figure out something new to add.

This of course means that some will add things that are trust-dependent, or backdoored, or otherwise insecure; this is unavoidable in a permissionless ecosystem where developers have freedom. Our job should make to make it clear to users what guarantees they have, and to build up the strongest Ethereum that we can.

[Sahil Wasnik @0xSY3]

@a_kraken_head Meanwhile

[Sahil Wasnik @0xSY3]

As DA, sequencing, zk proving, rollup frameworks and privacy layers all progress in parallel, the real magic will be how they connect.
A modular ecosystem just makes sense for where we’re heading.

[Devcon 8 | Mumbai, India 🇮🇳 @EFDevcon]

Devcon 8

Mumbai, India 🇮🇳

Q4 2026

[Apex777.eth @apex_ether]

The privacy goat @ameensol

[Swapnil @a_kraken_head]

I'm still thinking about my idea.
Drop what you guys are building 👇

[Sahil Wasnik @0xSY3]

@jagtap_shlok Fuck

[Sahil Wasnik @0xSY3]

@RichOffCryp @spreddterminal @Polymarket @PolymarketBuild Yes

[Sahil Wasnik @0xSY3]

#SpreddTheWord

[Spredd Markets @spreddterminal]

Why reinvent the wheel
when you can build on the best?

Introducing Spredd Terminal, powered by @Polymarket

The next evolution of multichain trading is here.

#SpreddTheWord

[Sahil Wasnik @0xSY3]

@TokamakZKPWorld proving truth without surrendering secrets

[Sahil Wasnik @0xSY3]

@ankitkokane @nexo__org Congrats boyzz🎉

[TOKEN2049 @token2049]

TOKEN2049 Singapore – wrapped

25,000+ across two electric days: market-defining talks, side quests, nonstop networking.

Thanks for powering the World’s Largest Crypto Event.

See you again in Singapore, 7-8 Oct 2026 👋

[Sahil Wasnik @0xSY3]

ETHTokyo 2025 🚀🇯🇵

[Sahil Wasnik @0xSY3]

@ConnectBhawna ETH or NEAR ? 🌚

[Prathamesh @prathamesh_io]

10 years, dozens of upgrades, 0 downtimes and 100% decentralisation

Forever bullish on ETH

Happy 10 years of Ethereum

We believe in someETHing 🫶