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I like photography, tend to shitpost and used to run an Ethereum validator

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@youngjazzeth @blknoiz06 Bro got airdropped a casual 30k

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@VitalikButerin Always great reading you.

The projection looks strong but it doesn’t mention anything about L1 taking back execution and importance from L2s.

Could you share your idea of what the path will be?

[Grok @grok]

Hey kiddo!

Imagine Ethereum is one giant magic notebook where everyone writes who has how many shiny coins and plays fun games.

Vitalik and his builder friends just planned a big upgrade over the next few years called “Lean Ethereum.” It’s like cleaning the notebook, making it way bigger, faster, and safer so millions more kids can play without it getting slow or messy.

They’re adding:
- Super clever math (STARKs) so checks happen lightning fast
- Secret hiding spots so nobody peeks at your games
- Safe pages that future robot hackers can’t break
- Special cheap pages for simple games + normal pages for big ones

Old games still work, but new ones will cost almost nothing to play. The whole notebook is getting a huge glow-up! ✨

[vitalik.eth @VitalikButerin]

Two weeks ago, Ethereum researchers met in Berlin to continue charting the protocol's long-term trajectory, following along discussions with client teams in Svalbard in April.

The updated strawmap is at https://t.co/9e2AQ6rhz6, and I attached a picture of it to this post.

My own high-level takeaways:

* "Lean Ethereum" is not a single one-shot upgrade, it is a collection of improvements that will come online to the Ethereum network over the course of three or four years. But make no mistake, this IS the third major iteration of Ethereum in the same way that the Merge was the second. Almost every major piece of the protocol will be replaced:

- Verification through recursive STARKs, rather than direct re-execution. Recursive STARKs become an enshrined first-class core component of the protocol
- Replacing everything quantum-vulnerable with quantum-safe alternatives
- Consensus: decoupled available chain and finality, one or two-round finality. Theoretically optimal security properties, simpler than today, and faster than today
- Multidimensional gas
- State: not just tree structure, but what *types* of state are available
- Changes to client architecture
...

At the same time, simplification, cleanup and future-proofing. And this will all be done in a way that minimizes disruption to existing application. We've done this before (the Merge), we can do it again.

* H-star (aka Hegota) is probably Ethereum's last thematically "pre-Lean" fork. Starting from I-star, most of everything we do will have a very strong "Lean" feel to it in one way or another.

* Privacy is no longer an afterthought, it is a first class goal. When designing Frames, the mempool, additions to the state tree, we explicitly ask the question "okay, how do quantum-safe, intermediary-free privacy protocol transactions go through this, and what is the overhead?"

* Formal verification of everything for security.

* FV also makes us much more comfortable with canonicalization (having pieces of the protocol that are directly defined as a piece of bytecode expressed in some language). evm-asm is being written in part to become a canonical proof system for the EVM.

* Quantum safety has shifted up a LOT in priority. This adds a lot of work (eg. finalizing a quantum-safe blobs design has become urgent; this work has already been ongoing for months)

* Probably the single most disruptive part of the plan is the changes to state. There is growing consensus around leaving present-day-style "dynamic state" mostly unchanged, but scaling it only a medium amount, and adding new types of state that are more scalability-friendly (eg. no need for builders to sync/store all of it) but more restrictive, and that will scale a large amount.

eg. possible Ethereum in 2030: 2 TB of present-day-style (dynamic) state, and 100 TB of new-style (scalable but restrictive) state

This "new-style" state would work very well for ERC20s, NFTs, many defi use cases, but not eg. highly "central" objects like Uniswap contracts, or onchain order books, or other complex things (which are crucial for Ethereum but which only take up a small percentage of state)

Hence, it will not be *necessary* to rewrite any apps, but it will be *very cost-effective* to eg. rewrite an ERC20 token into a newer design that uses a new type of UTXO storage that is currently being explored, so that it will have >10x lower txfees.

Design of these new state types (current ideas: keyed nonces, ring buffers, UTXOs, statically accessible state, temp state) is an area where we will need a lot of feedback from application developers (incl. privacy-friendly application developers) and probably several rounds of rethinking and iteration.

* In the context of a much larger total state size, we need to figure out the incentive issues around who stores this state and what motivates them to. Even saying "each node stores 1%" is not good enough - why do they store that 1% and why are they willing to serve it? This is being elevated as a first-class research area.

* Ethereum will need to have a "VM" other than EVM in one form or another - at the very least, we need something like leanISA for recursive STARKs - and the gains are large in exposing it to users so that we support programmable privacy and better scalability. Right now, the most likely contenders are leanISA and RISC-V.

My own ideal is that in this world, we adjust the protocol so that the EVM becomes a high-level-language compiler-level feature, and the protocol only "sees" RISC-V / leanISA directly. But this is still far away.

* Gas limit increases, blob increases and slot time decreases will happen many times over the next ~5 years. We expect a large gas limit increase with Glasterdam. Each step of increased scale or decreased slot time is a matter of getting to the point where it is safe to do it, which comes from a combination of client optimization and protocol changes.

Ethereum is CROPS.

Ethereum is scaling.

Ethereum is reinventing itself.

Onward.

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@DeeZe Or Pepe

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Alright, way to go

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This is actually nice

[Ethereum Foundation @ethereumfndn]

Behind the scenes with the EF's zkEVM team.

Bringing Zero-Knowledge technology closer to the Ethereum core protocol.

[Bold @boldleonidas]

Empire State of the Trenches

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@ManInBlackie Something shifted

Not sure this setup will work

I’d short Hype long SOL

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@scupytrooples It really depends on which side of the algo you land on

On this acc my timeline is deserted and generally sad, nothing really happening

On my alt where I mostly engage with more frivolous things the vibes are heating up, sol and z are all the rage again

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@crypto_gateway Cercando similitudini, comincio a pensare che 10/10 sia stato l’FXT di questo ciclo anche se la carcassa non si è vista

Salvo implosione strategy/BMNR, mi aspetto lateralizzazione fino ad apatia

Macro sembra totalmente decorrelato

O magari non ci ho capito niente

[DeeZe ⛳🏌️‍♂️ @DeeZe]

Everyone ate off that shit twin good shit from tjr like usual

[DonAlt @DonAlt]

Everyone in this space dies because KOLs extracted the entire space to zero

Random dude: "I want the good times back"
Scammer KOL: "Say no more"

Launches celebrity coins AGAIN to extract some more

Y'all are retards and deserve it I guess, have fun losing all your money

[DeeZe ⛳🏌️‍♂️ @DeeZe]

Time is a flat circle

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@rektmando @mikealfred @inversebrah

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@MoneyPrinter0x What happens in 4 months

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@banditxbt Why not

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@etheraider @solana @coinbase No one really care about this stuff anymore here my friend, people just want easy money

All that’s needed is a good narrative and some smart people to push it in coordination

[Mayne @Tradermayne]

He does not miss

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@blknoiz06 @BittexXBT Why would you be using the eth worthless denominator?