Armand Daigle

Blockchain Dev, Author, Engineer.
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[Armand Daigle @_Starmand]

All we need to do is collectively agree to help each other. That's all we need to do.

[Armand Daigle @_Starmand]

Your limit orders are filled but is your heart?

[Armand Daigle @_Starmand]

@DDelgattoNFL https://t.co/n3NBkTRPyI

[Michael Schwab @michaelschwab13]

Cam Smith the last 7 games.

.308 AVG
.400 OBP
.615 SLG
1.015 OPS
2 HR
4 RBI
3 BB
6 SO

[Armand Daigle @_Starmand]

@DDelgattoNFL He's like two big games away from having better stats than Isaac Paredes. I bet he's at or above 3 WAR by end of year, which would put him in top ten RFs. If you think a player like that needs to be sent down, then a third of the league needs to be sent down.

[Armand Daigle @_Starmand]

@DDelgattoNFL He's #18 in WAR for MLB RF: https://t.co/I6aCFFZKmB

Many MLB players are hitting worse than he is. He's been barreling the ball recently, with a ton of bad luck. Expected BA is .240: https://t.co/NrXDAWZ1Cj

Also, it's not like we have great RF options to start in front of him.

[Armand Daigle @_Starmand]

I assume everyone is AI now.

[Armand Daigle @_Starmand]

@SHL0MS Incredible. Thank you for your service.

[Armand Daigle @_Starmand]

The newest and Fourth Law of Thermodynamics is that you can't finish or accomplish something without bragging about it.

[Armand Daigle @_Starmand]

@johncrickett 10000000000000000000%

[Armand Daigle @_Starmand]

@mert “agreeing on information on a neutral protocol was already a solved problem before crypto (see: email)”

- ? Email is a neutral delivery protocol, not a neutral agreement protocol. Blockchain consensus and shared state are completely different and will excel in non-financial uses

[Armand Daigle @_Starmand]

@llamaonthebrink @mdudas 100%. Blockchains were 1st billed as distributed ledgers for P2P cash systems — a suffocatingly financial lens. The hyper-focus on "number go up" / APY has dimmed blockchain's ability to handle everything else. Shared State is the much better/bigger lens.

https://t.co/V3QhQq2pWf

[Armand Daigle @_Starmand]

@big_duca @n0homie I'd be interested to hear how many people complete a working version of this that is deemed good and worthy in under 1 hour.

[Armand Daigle @_Starmand]

@phil70i @big_duca This way makes a lot more sense. A lot of people are going to spend time on this and not be paid.

[vitalik.eth @VitalikButerin]

Now that ZKEVMs are at alpha stage (production-quality performance, remaining work is safety) and PeerDAS is live on mainnet, it's time to talk more about what this combination means for Ethereum.

These are not minor improvements; they are shifting Ethereum into being a fundamentally new and more powerful kind of decentralized network.

To see why, let's look at the two major types of p2p network so far:

BitTorrent (2000): huge total bandwidth, highly decentralized, no consensus

Bitcoin (2009): highly decentralized, consensus, but low bandwidth - because it’s not “distributed” in the sense of work being split up, it’s *replicated*

Now, Ethereum with PeerDAS (2025) and ZK-EVMs (expect small portions of the network using it in 2026), we get: decentralized, consensus and high bandwidth

The trilemma has been solved - not on paper, but with live running code, of which one half (data availability sampling) is *on mainnet today*, and the other half (ZK-EVMs) is *production-quality on performance today* - safety is what remains.

This was a 10-year journey (see the first commit of my original post on DAS here: https://t.co/Fa0jKFgObW , and ZK-EVM attempts started in ~2020), but it's finally here.

Over the next ~4 years, expect to see the full extent of this vision roll out:

* In 2026, large non-ZKEVM-dependent gas limit increases due to BALs and ePBS, and we'll see the first opportunities to run a ZKEVM node
* In 2026-28, gas repricings, changes to state structure, exec payload going into blobs, and other adjustments to make higher gas limits safe
* In 2027-30, large further gas limit increases, as ZKEVM becomes the primary way to validate blocks on the network

A third piece of this is distributed block building.

A long-term ideal holy grail is to get to a future where the full block is *never* constituted in one single place. This will not be necessary for a long time, but IMO it is worth striving for us at least have the capability to do that.

Even before that point, we want the meaningful authority in block building to be as distributed as possible. This can be done either in-protocol (eg. maybe we figure out how to expand FOCIL to make it a primary channel for txs), or out-of-protocol with distributed builder marketplaces. This reduces risk of centralized interference with real-time transaction inclusion, AND it creates a better environment for geographical fairness.

Onward.

[Armand Daigle @_Starmand]

@bentossell Appreciate your notes on this. One thing not mentioned is that 3 billion tokens is $6,000 in 4 months, according to your pricing plans. Lots of people can’t do that.

[Armand Daigle @_Starmand]

@binji_x GROSS

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@RobertJ585 @BrianRoemmele I think he’s oversimplifying. There won’t be an abundance of everything. There will always be some sort of problems and things to overcome. And in that, we will find purpose. And I know it’s shocking, but there is also purpose in celebrating how good life will be.

[Armand Daigle @_Starmand]

@farzyness @elonmusk It is thinking like this, and humans like you, that deter and will deter us from ever achieving any kind of social peace in the future. The power and status hungry must always feel a difference between what they have and what the rest has.

[Armand Daigle @_Starmand]

At 41, I finally realized that “cocktails” is a very weird word.

[Armand Daigle @_Starmand]

@Tomsha711 This spun out of control a long time ago.

[Armand Daigle @_Starmand]

@TaikiMaeda2 Taiki, I think it'd be good to widen your binoculars into the many non-financial use cases of Ethereum that will be just as impactful if not more to daily life than DeFi. Valuing ETH goes well beyond TVL and current revenue.