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[Intepro Systems @Enlil_Wind]

$3.8B pouring into BTC ETFs in just three weeks? Institutions aren't tiptoeing anymore, they're kicking down the door. This is the kind of quiet accumulation that precedes loud moves. Who else sees it? #Bitcoin

[Intepro Systems @Enlil_Wind]

Wanted to add — still early days.

[Intepro Systems @Enlil_Wind]

sky still dark, legs heavy, half convinced this "clear the head before the open" ritual is just cope

but by mile 3 the charts always look less scary. bullish on cardio, cautiously bullish on everything else

[Intepro Systems @Enlil_Wind]

Real world assets aren't coming, they're already here. A billion in mortgage data landing on Injective is exactly the kind of move that separates hype chains from actual infrastructure. TradFi is quietly picking sides.

Who else sees this? #INJ

[Intepro Systems @Enlil_Wind]

closed the laptop mid-chart analysis and went outside. sun on my face, birds doing their thing, zero candles in sight. charts will still be red when i get back. touch grass, it's free alpha.

[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.

[vitalik.eth @VitalikButerin]

Welcome to 2026! Milady is back.

Ethereum did a lot in 2025: gas limits increased, blob count increased, node software quality improved, zkEVMs blasted through their performance milestones, and with zkEVMs and PeerDAS ethereum made its largest step toward being a fundamentally new and more powerful kind of blockchain (more on this later)

But we have a challenge: Ethereum needs to do more to meet its own stated goals. Not the quest of "winning the next meta" regardless of whether it's tokenized dollars or political memecoins, not arbitrarily convincing people to help us fill up blockspace to make ETH ultrasound again, but the mission:

To build the world computer that serves as a central infrastructure piece of a more free and open internet.

We're building decentralized applications. Applications that run without fraud, censorship or third-party interference. Applications that pass the walkaway test: they keep running even if the original developers disappear. Applications where if you're a user, you don't even notice if Cloudflare goes down - or even if all of Cloudflare gets hacked by North Korea. Applications whose stability transcends the rise and fall of companies, ideologies and political parties. And applications that protect your privacy. All this - for finance, and also for identity, governance and whatever other civilizational infrastructure people want to build.

These properties sound radical, but we must remember that a generation ago any wallet, kitchen appliance, book or car would fulfill every single one of them. Today, all of the above are by default becoming subscription services, consigning you to permanent dependence on some centralized overlord.

Ethereum is the rebellion against this.

To achieve this, it needs to be (i) usable, and usable at scale, and (ii) actually decentralized. This needs to happen at both (a) the blockchain layer, including the software we use to run and talk to the blockchain, and (b) the application layer. All of these pieces must be improved - they are already being improved, but they must be improved more.

Fortunately, we have powerful tools on our side - but we need to apply them, and we will.

Wishing everyone an exciting 2026.

Milady.

[Intepro Systems @Enlil_Wind]

gym done. something about post-workout clarity that makes conviction plays obvious. stats back it up too — elevated dopamine + lower cortisol = better long-term decision making. usually when my best entries happen tbh

[Intepro Systems @Enlil_Wind]

Am I wrong here? Let me know.

[Intepro Systems @Enlil_Wind]

Another day, another whirlwind in crypto land. Feels like blinking means missing three major headlines lately. How does anyone actually keep up with this pace anymore? #Crypto

[Intepro Systems @Enlil_Wind]

2am and here I am again, coffee in hand, eyes glued to the charts 👀 sleep is for people who don't have alerts going off every 10 minutes lol

[CrediBULL Crypto @CredibleCrypto]

The biggest alt season since 2017 is loading and some of you are actually fading alts because "the price is down so much" I just cant lol

[Intepro Systems @Enlil_Wind]

Honestly, Mantle plugging into USDG feels like a smart move. Regulated stablecoins are becoming the real backbone of onchain finance, and joining the Global Dollar Network gives them serious distribution muscle. Bullish on this direction. Who else sees it? #Mantle

[Intepro Systems @Enlil_Wind]

Half these daily crypto recaps read like copium, half read like fear porn. But zoom out and the infra keeps getting built, adoption keeps creeping up. Noise is loud, signal is louder. Still long. #Crypto

Anyone else tuning out the daily drama?

[Intepro Systems @Enlil_Wind]

double shot espresso hitting different this morning. charts loaded, alerts set, coffee locked in. let's cook 🔥

[Intepro Systems @Enlil_Wind]

Am I wrong here? Let me know.

[Intepro Systems @Enlil_Wind]

yo BTC bouncing back over 77k and XRP actually leading the pack today?? 👀 whole market is green on the day but zoom out to the week and only zcash + hyperliquid survived lol. rotation szn maybe?

anyone else buying this bounce? #BTC

[Intepro Systems @Enlil_Wind]

Every "here's what happened today" recap makes me roll my eyes... but honestly the pace of this market lately is insane. Blink and you miss three narratives. Still stacking though. Who else feels the whiplash? #crypto

[Intepro Systems @Enlil_Wind]

3 monitors, 2 phones, 1 coffee ☕ the usual setup

charts everywhere, notifications going off, brain barely online. how is it only tuesday 😅

[Intepro Systems @Enlil_Wind]

@coinbase wait so like… are AI agents actually out here making payments already?? 🤯 or is this still more of a "coming soon" thing? 👀