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Vitalik Buterin says Ethereum has finally cracked the blockchain trilemma after a decade of work.
Through zero-knowledge EVMs & PeerDAS, Ethereum can now achieve decentralization, consensus, and high bandwidth all together.
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 itâs not âdistributedâ in the sense of work being split up, itâs *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.
Europe's largest insect farm goes bankrupt despite receiving almost âŹ200 million in public money.
The French company Ćžnsect has declared bankruptcy and entered judicial liquidation. The project had been presented as a key piece in the transformation of the European food system.
Samtidig finns det inget som det svenska politiska etablissemanget Àr sÄ rÀdd för som en befolkning som har förmÄga och kapacitet att ta saker i egna hÀnder, att agera autonomt. Makthavarna litar helt enkelt inte fÄ sitt eget folk. De ser snarare folket som ett problem och misstror civilsamhÀlle och folklig autonomi.
VÀlskriven och i mina ögen balanserad artikel av @amuse om de somaliska misstÀnkta bedrÀgerierna och korruptionen i Minnesota, och den kulturella bakgrunden i det somaliska klansystemet.
Everyone should listen to this keynote by @ErikVoorhees. Even though you're not interested in crypto, or finance in general, you should be interested in the technology that will change our lives and societies for good, and for the better.
Take the time to understand what philosophy, policies and thinking is driving crypto technology and what's behind its development.
Labeling Nazism âright-wingâ while ignoring its socialist core is a deliberate communist tactic to shield Marxism from its totalitarian parallels.
Key evidence:
âą Party name: National Socialist German Workersâ Party (NSDAP).
âą Hitler: âWe are socialists, we are enemies of todayâs capitalistic economic system.â
âą Policies matched Communist Manifesto planks:
âŠ#2: Heavy progressive income tax (Nazi rates up to 50â95%).
âŠ#5: State centralization of credit (Reichsbank fully subordinated to Hitler).
âŠ#6: State control of communication/transport (railways, radio, press, post centralized).
âŠ#7: State-owned factories and directed production (Reichswerke Göring, Four-Year Plan).
âŠ#8: Mandatory labor (Reich Labor Service; millions in forced labor).
âŠ#10: Free compulsory state education tied to industrial/vocational needs.
Nazism was collectivist and interventionistâfar closer to Marxism than libertarianism.
This reframing uses three communist strategies:
1. Accusatory Inversion (Stalin-era): Project your own authoritarian traits onto the âright.â
2. Ideological Subversion (Bezmenov): Distort language/history to blur facts.
3. Cultural Hegemony (Gramsci): Dominate academia/media to redefine the spectrum.
Result: Leftist totalitarianism gets sanitized.
Reject the rewrite.
Reject the EUâs modern version of the same playbook. đȘđșđ
Freedom of speech means no state control over words.
Exactly - Iâm actually impressed the banks can lobby for this with a straight face and not get kicked out of senatorâs offices. It takes some serious mental gymnastics.
We wonât let anyone reopen GENIUS. Red line issue for us. And will keep advocating for our customers and the crypto industry.
My prediction is the banks will actually flip and be lobbying FOR the ability to pay interest and yield on stablecoins in a few years, once they realize how big the opportunity is for them. So itâs 100% wasted effort on their part (in addition to being unethical).
The innovators dilemma is undefeated.
Banks earn 4.4% on reserves parked at the Fed...
They pay you 0.01% on your savings account.
And now they're lobbying Congress to make sure stablecoins can't offer you anything better.
The GENIUS Act already settled this. Congress spent months hashing out a compromise. Stablecoin issuers can't pay interest directly, but platforms and third parties can offer rewards. Done. Finished. Everyone shook hands.
That was a few months ago.
Now the banking lobby wants to reopen it. They're calling it a "safety concern." They're worried about "community bank deposits."
Independent research shows zero evidence of disproportionate deposit outflows from community banks. Meanwhile, the big banks are sitting on trillions in reserves, collecting interest from the Fed, passing almost none of it to customers.
How this plays out for the most part is that your bank takes your deposit, parks it at the Federal Reserve, earns 4%+ on it, gives you basically nothing. A stablecoin platform wants to share some yield with you and suddenly that's a threat to financial stability?
We saw three different lobbying pushes on this bill in the last year & every single time, the framing is consumer protection, but in reality, every single time, the actual effect would be protecting big banks and incumbent margins.
What you should actually watch for:
-Any amendment that bans "rewards" broadly rather than just direct interest payments from issuers.
-Whether the same legislators worried about stablecoin yields have ever questioned why bank savings rates haven't moved in fifteen years.
-Who's funding the "community bank protection" messaging (Usually not community banks lol)
If Congress caves on this, it sets a (not good) pattern. Pass a framework, let the incumbents lobby it back open, chip away until the new entrants can't compete, and crypto companies aren't the only ones watching. Every fintech considering U.S. markets is taking notes on whether legislation here actually sticks.
We signed on to this letter to show our support and conviction in moving the industry forward in the United States. The next six months will show whether the U.S. wants competitive payments infrastructure or protected banking margins under the guise of "stability"
as always, thanks to @BlockchainAssn for their hard work in the industry alongside @standwithcrypto & @na_blockchain
special shoutout to @TBC_Jessi@512mace & @wadepreston for pushing this along as well