Florian Bergmann

CEO CEO Degen @bowlineapp Earlier: Co-Founded @destimate, Started & 🦉6665

[Florian Bergmann @flobby]

@Nate_Google_ yt

[Florian Bergmann @flobby]

Finally hit my Claude and Codex limits, so I can officially call it a day.

[Matt Shumer @mattshumer_]

https://t.co/ivXRKXJvQg

[Florian Bergmann @flobby]

Yes, GDPR is annoying but a little enforcement would be great. There are at least 5 Newsletters I try to unsubscribe for 3 months and they just ignore it...

[Florian Bergmann @flobby]

🚀

[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.

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

Last quarter I rolled out Microsoft Copilot to 4,000 employees.

$30 per seat per month.

$1.4 million annually.

I called it "digital transformation."

The board loved that phrase.

They approved it in eleven minutes.

No one asked what it would actually do.

Including me.

I told everyone it would "10x productivity."

That's not a real number.

But it sounds like one.

HR asked how we'd measure the 10x.

I said we'd "leverage analytics dashboards."

They stopped asking.

Three months later I checked the usage reports.

47 people had opened it.

12 had used it more than once.

One of them was me.

I used it to summarize an email I could have read in 30 seconds.

It took 45 seconds.

Plus the time it took to fix the hallucinations.

But I called it a "pilot success."

Success means the pilot didn't visibly fail.

The CFO asked about ROI.

I showed him a graph.

The graph went up and to the right.

It measured "AI enablement."

I made that metric up.

He nodded approvingly.

We're "AI-enabled" now.

I don't know what that means.

But it's in our investor deck.

A senior developer asked why we didn't use Claude or ChatGPT.

I said we needed "enterprise-grade security."

He asked what that meant.

I said "compliance."

He asked which compliance.

I said "all of them."

He looked skeptical.

I scheduled him for a "career development conversation."

He stopped asking questions.

Microsoft sent a case study team.

They wanted to feature us as a success story.

I told them we "saved 40,000 hours."

I calculated that number by multiplying employees by a number I made up.

They didn't verify it.

They never do.

Now we're on Microsoft's website.

"Global enterprise achieves 40,000 hours of productivity gains with Copilot."

The CEO shared it on LinkedIn.

He got 3,000 likes.

He's never used Copilot.

None of the executives have.

We have an exemption.

"Strategic focus requires minimal digital distraction."

I wrote that policy.

The licenses renew next month.

I'm requesting an expansion.

5,000 more seats.

We haven't used the first 4,000.

But this time we'll "drive adoption."

Adoption means mandatory training.

Training means a 45-minute webinar no one watches.

But completion will be tracked.

Completion is a metric.

Metrics go in dashboards.

Dashboards go in board presentations.

Board presentations get me promoted.

I'll be SVP by Q3.

I still don't know what Copilot does.

But I know what it's for.

It's for showing we're "investing in AI."

Investment means spending.

Spending means commitment.

Commitment means we're serious about the future.

The future is whatever I say it is.

As long as the graph goes up and to the right.

[Ethereum @ethereum]

upgrade in progress . . .

activating Fusaka @ epoch 411392 // 21:49:11 UTC

[Florian Bergmann @flobby]

@CryptoPoseidonn You are supposed to serve it right?

[Florian Bergmann @flobby]

@wizardofsoho Not sure how conservative a trading strategy is that includes ‚fartcoin‘

[Florian Bergmann @flobby]

@ccssmnn add a lightweight llm 7b or less that you can run on your own infra to prequalify the request or limit the length in general?

[Florian Bergmann @flobby]

Explain this to a vibe coder. Good Luck out there! https://t.co/0tIjhnIiHl

[Florian Bergmann @flobby]

@elonmusk Those are numbers for a failed federal state within germany not the country…

[Florian Bergmann @flobby]

Our Multi-Agent AI System has surprising autonomy within boundaries. Every test run of new implementation could be like this video in action: https://t.co/Lo5iPBLx3N

[Ethereum @ethereum]

10 years of Ethereum.

[Florian Bergmann @flobby]

@moonbirds gm 🫡

[Florian Bergmann @flobby]

@fed_dem27675 :/ thats not fair, we’ve built a great product and are heads down in building and improving. but i have to agree: we are really bad a communicating on x properly. btw: if you can intro to SPL projects we are happy to talk to them

[bowline.app @bowlineapp]

Hey @dupe_solana ,

What about offering token-gated early access or special deals for your high-tier holders?
Super easy to set up with Bowline — no code needed.

Would love to show you how it works @ghoshal <3

#Believe

[Florian Bergmann @flobby]

Excited to host our upcoming @bowlineapp Space!
We'll be answering some of the top questions we've received over the past 24 hours since the $Bowline Token launch on @believeapp, sharing more about what we're building, and diving into our vision for web3.

#web3 #spl #solana

[bowline.app @bowlineapp]

https://t.co/zZsAb2T8Qr

[Florian Bergmann @flobby]

@NOTBIGKNOXYV2 @bowlineapp it is? https://t.co/BhTn88jztb

[Florian Bergmann @flobby]

Proud moment: looking back at everything we’ve built with @bowlineapp . A huge thank you to everyone who contributed over the years – from code to design to community, you’ve shaped something meaningful. 🙌

[Florian Bergmann @flobby]

@Kuruchimaru_NFT @AhmetDe19057750 sure