James B

biz @eigencloud prev @nethermindeth @swrmlabs

[James B @jamvb_]

In 2025, @eigen_da started at the bottom and ended at the top.

Our team is small but extremely cracked and our view is simple:
we serve ambitious L2s when @ethereum blobs aren't enough.

A few highlights:

- Brought cloud scale for rollups and verifiable apps. Pushed 25 MB/s, then 100 Mb/s, then 1 GB/s.

- Went from near zero TVS to $2B, the most trusted altDA

- Worked with cutting-edge rollups @Celo @Mantle_Official @megaeth @risechain @fuel_network @Ronin_Network and others

- Released a beautiful blob explorer

- Pushed complex trustless integrations alongside @boundless_xyz and @SuccinctLabs

- Integrated with leading RaaS providers: @conduitxyz @Alchemy @Calderaxyz

- Collaborated with @l2beat to continue to expand on what security means for alt DA, and build towards it

Can't wait for the next 12 months!

[EigenCloud @eigencloud]

➡️ @eigen_da hit true cloud scale. 1GB/s throughput benchmarked across 100 operators in 10 countries. Now the leading DA protocol by total value secured.

https://t.co/6MN21bNEoH

[Hexidethmal @hexidethmal]

I do find it kind of hilarious that the a main criticism of Ethereum has been that it remains laser focused on the reasons blockchains exists at all

[James B @jamvb_]

@notsofast What is Trend research 🧐

[James B @jamvb_]

@donnoh_eth DA integrations are hard.

[MegaETH @megaeth]

Public Mainnet // 02.09.26

[Dan Smith @smyyguy]

MegaETH is running its stress test and doing over 20k TPS as an L2 leveraging EigenDA

[Joseph Young @iamjosephyoung]

ethereum daily TPS just hit an all-time high today.

mainly driven by Base, Polygon PoS, and MegaETH.

post-Fusaka ethereum ecosystem is scaling very effectively and rapidly. fundamentals always win.

[James B @jamvb_]

https://t.co/6WfGQSHMys

[James B @jamvb_]

Unreasonable goals for @eigen_da adoption
Day 1 status:

[James B @jamvb_]

In 2025, @eigen_da started at the bottom and ended at the top.

Our team is small but extremely cracked and our view is simple:
we serve ambitious L2s when @ethereum blobs aren't enough.

A few highlights:

- Brought cloud scale for rollups and verifiable apps. Pushed 25 MB/s, then 100 Mb/s, then 1 GB/s.

- Went from near zero TVS to $2B, the most trusted altDA

- Worked with cutting-edge rollups @Celo @Mantle_Official @megaeth @risechain @fuel_network @Ronin_Network and others

- Released a beautiful blob explorer

- Pushed complex trustless integrations alongside @boundless_xyz and @SuccinctLabs

- Integrated with leading RaaS providers: @conduitxyz @Alchemy @Calderaxyz

- Collaborated with @l2beat to continue to expand on what security means for alt DA, and build towards it

Can't wait for the next 12 months!

[EigenCloud @eigencloud]

➡️ @eigen_da hit true cloud scale. 1GB/s throughput benchmarked across 100 operators in 10 countries. Now the leading DA protocol by total value secured.

https://t.co/6MN21bNEoH

[Sharplink @Sharplink]

NEW: We just deployed $170M ETH with first-of-it’s-kind enhanced yield on @LineaBuild.

This combines native Ethereum yield, restaking rewards from @eigencloud and direct incentives from @LineaBuild and @ether_fi, all within an institutional-grade qualified custodian thanks to @Anchorage.

This is the most productive way to hold ETH with institutional-grade infrastructure. That’s the SharpLink edge.

[Quiver Quantitative @QuiverQuant]

Holy cow.

Yesterday, a new account on Polymarket made a massive bet that Maduro would be out of office by January 31st.

Today, the United States carried out strikes on Venezuela and captured Maduro.

The trader has now made over $400K.

Insider or lucky?

[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.

[Succinct @SuccinctLabs]

This year, we laid out an ambitious roadmap to scale Ethereum with ZK.

And we delivered.

2025 was the year of proofs over promises 👇

[Artem Chystiakov @Arvolear]

If you are using just Ethereum, you don't really understand how far ahead it actually is. Major hardforks once a year. One of the most vivid communities on the planet. Amazing development tooling. Cypherpunk vision. Fucking preserve it at all costs.

[marek.gwei @marek_]

https://t.co/md7roWvg6M

[James B @jamvb_]

MegaEth looking good here

[MegaETH @megaeth]

MegaETH is now live on the @eigen_da dashboard.

Dig in to the blobs posted and the data availability "heartbeat" of the chain as activity increases.

Track the Frontier

[James | Snapcrackle @Snapcrackle]

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[James B @jamvb_]

@web3_data @growthepie_eth Love what you all do. Major thank you.

[patrickogrady.xyz @_patrickogrady]

For some time, I've been watching for a DA construction that provides a formal and complete treatment of both "observation penalties" (rather than just the typical "alert" left to impl) and "DAS lite client recovery".

Turns out, you can pull that off at 1GB/s+ 👀

[marek.gwei @marek_]

Thanks to the Jello Hardfork, @l2beat has reclassified @Celo putting it at the top of the Validiums & Optimiums tab 🎉