Pablo Deymonnaz

[LambdaClass @class_lambda]

Ethlambda (@ethlambda_lean) is a post-quantum Ethereum consensus client built on one principle: less is more.

Less than 10k lines of Lean code. One active devnet. One clear roadmap. Everything in the open.

Progress page is live.

[Pablo Deymonnaz @pablodeymo]

Un resumen de lo que fue nuestra participación en el Interop de Ethereum de la semana pasada.

[ethrex @ethrex_client]

The recap from @ethereum covered Soldøgn from the ecosystem's side. Here's ours: what our first interop looked like from inside the team, and what we're taking home from a week above the Arctic Circle.

Huge thanks to @ethereumfndn for the week.

[ethrex @ethrex_client]

Our first interop, and what a week. The team shipped on every devnet from day one, launched on benchmarkoor, contributed to ePBS, BALs, and EIP-8037 breakout rooms, and also FOCIL, targeting to participate on its first devnet.

Huge thanks to every team that made us feel at home above the Artic Circle.

Full recap from our side coming later this week.

[Fede’s intern 🥊 @fede_intern]

I'm very proud to announce that @ethrex_client is now one of the fastest @ethereum clients, right behind @Nethermind, which still leads by a small margin.

A little over a year ago, we set out to provide the market with an smaller, simpler and reliable alternative to reth. I believe we've achieved exactly what we set out to do.

We just pushed a PR that improved performance by 25% in the last few hours. The image shows numbers from the last 6 hours of @ethPandaOps mainnet testing.

We built all this with the top notch talent at @class_lambda in just one year, without any AI assistance. Last week we incorporated @claudeai into our workflow, and we believe it will significantly enhance our decision making and accelerate results further.

@alignedlayer is developing, with our help and @3miLabs, a new RISC-V zkVM that I believe will be simple, well-documented, and one of the fastest on the market.

Thanks to the @ethereumfndn for its help and support but particularly to all the partners and employees of @class_lambda that have been working very hard for this to happen.

If you can, please give the dinosaur Ethrex a star on GitHub and join the Telegram!

[SEED Latam 🚀 🔊 @SEEDLatam]

→ Un objetivo directo: mostrar lo que ya se construye en las aulas, compartir programas educativos y conectar talento con el ecosistema global.

Durante cuatro días, La Rural reunió a docentes, investigadores, estudiantes y referentes Web3.

[Fede’s intern 🥊 @fede_intern]

Community is not a group of people clapping in agreement. It’s the opposite. It’s a group of different people with conflicting interests trying to find the best outcome for everyone. The fact that there is strong debate in CT is good.

I’ve been thinking a lot about what has happened to @ethereum over the last two years: the slowdown in execution, the loss of confidence, and the shrinking influence across the industry. Things have improved recently, and Buenos Aires Devconnect was miles ahead of Bangkok Devcon, but the core problem remains unresolved. The initiatives proposed so far are voluntaristic and depend on a few individuals rather than structural changes. I just launched my blog and I’m writing a longer essay with concrete examples and a more philosophical angle. This is the first draft of the core thesis.

At the center of everything there is a contradiction: harmony vs competence.

The leadership thesis, and @VitalikButerin, is simple: power corrupts, so the only safeguard is preventing anyone from gaining power. I understand the concern. But the solution is where we diverge.

At one point many important people of Ethereum even stopped tweeting. Their answer has been to prioritize harmony above all else. That’s why the protocol barely changed after the Merge and why the gas limit stayed low. If nothing can change, no new actors can emerge. The mission became: avoid disruption, avoid conflict, avoid the rise of a new corrupt leader.

From there you get alignment politics instead of open debate. Advancement through proximity and approval rather than measurable execution. The mechanism becomes social, not technical. It’s the opposite of what made Linux succeed. Linux thrived because Linus Torvalds only cared about code quality and the best ideas winning.

This has a tragic consequence: when you suppress discussion and reward alignment out of fear of new leaders emerging, you destroy the conditions for new blood to arise. Innovation slows down to preserve harmony.

Progress requires conflict, science advances through disagreement, engineering through iteration, and markets through competition. Ideas and people HAVE to collide to find the best idea possible. Systems that suppress conflict stagnate because hierarchy replaces merit. @ameensol has been saying something similar but I don't agree with his take about the fact that this is related with socialism. To me the core problem is the destruction of the feedback loop between decisions taken by leaders and the outcomes they get.

Ethereum cannot remain global, open, and relevant while avoiding debate. Harmony without productive conflict becomes centralization. Avoid conflict and you avoid improvement; avoid debate and you avoid new talent.

Vitalik wrote on March 1st, 2025: "What Ethereum needs is a lot of young blood who share the cypherpunk vision. All OGs are jaded. It’s on the next generation now." He’s right. But the reason this is happening is because of the incentive structure created by the leadership itself.

Like in Brave New World, systems built to numb conflict only work if there is no outside competition. Ethereum no longer lives in a world without rivals. The crisis at the end of last year and start of this year happened because Solana was winning market share. Ethereum has to adapt to this reality.

The idea that power corrupts is true, but it is also historically used by leaders to gatekeep, prevent renewal, and retain power.

The funny thing is that I agree with Reth and @paradigm on the roadmap priorities. In that sense, I’m closer to their views than to the historical EF leadership. I always believed that if Ethereum doesn't acclerate we will lose. The difference is that I believe these debates must happen inside Ethereum rather than in another L1, openly, and we need to push for structural change.

Pointing these things out has a cost. One of the latest defenses against our arguments has been claiming we seek attention or that we are troublemakers. Some of the people we used to talk with also stopped answering. Gladly many, if not most actors, started telling us that we are right but they can't say things openly because this has a cost for them too.
This only proves the point: there is a culture of preventing debate to maintain the status quo. Anyone who knows us knows we defend what we believe, right or wrong, not for attention or financial motivation. We’ve worked across multiple industries without issue and with long-term clients. We care about productivity and delivery, period.

When people join Lambda they read @RayDalio's ideas. Dalio believes the highest performing organizations run on idea meritocracy driven by radical truth and radical transparency. Everyone speaks openly, nothing is hidden, the best ideas win regardless of hierarchy. Mistakes and disagreements are embraced because being challenged is the path to improvement. Suppressing truth out of fear of social consequences is the greatest tragedy that prevents excellence. I believe Ethereum is suffering from exactly this.

At @class_lambda we believe in @ethereum as the unbiased verifiable computer. We believe this mission is bigger than any person. And we will fight for what we think is right. If you want to be a global protocol and you want new cypherpunk blood then accept the fact that they will criticize you and debate openly rather than avoiding it.

[UBA Investigación @UBAInvestiga]

La UBA en Devconnect

Invitados por los amigos de @SEEDLatam y con la colaboración de @ingenieriauba y @Exactas_UBA tuvimos dos charlas de lujo:

@pablodeymo presentó las novedades del primer Centro de Criptografía y Sistemas Distribuidos de la Universidad.

[ag @theagnft]

@class_lambda @EFDevcon @pablodeymo @UBAInvestiga sounds amazing cant wait to see the talent blossom

[Pablo Deymonnaz @pablodeymo]

@AguuMg Thanks Agus!

[LambdaClass @class_lambda]

Today at @EFDevcon, @pablodeymo presented the Cryptography and Distributed Systems Research Center in a special session with @UBAInvestiga. A national initiative designed to unlock the talent we have in Argentina. Proud to be contributing to it.

[LambdaClass @class_lambda]

4/ At 2 PM @pablodeymo unveils the Cryptography & Distributed Systems Research Center, alongside @UBAInvestiga.

[UBA Investigación @UBAInvestiga]

Este jueves estaremos participando en
@EFDevcon con dos charlas imperdibles de investigadores de la @ingenieriauba y @Exactas_UBA
Para obtener entradas sin cargo y descuentos, podés escribirnos por DM o seguir el enlace en Historias en nuestro IG: https://t.co/DJchfutVM2

[UBA Investigación @UBAInvestiga]

@EFDevcon @ingenieriauba @Exactas_UBA @dfslezak @pablodeymo @SEEDLatam @fede_intern @WillyDuran65 Agradecemos la invitación y trabajo conjunto a:
@EFDevcon @SEEDLatam @dfslezak @pablodeymo @fede_intern @WillyDuran65

[UBA Investigación @UBAInvestiga]

Junto al Centro de Criptografía y Sistemas Distribuidos y la UBA, formaremos parte de Devconnect ARG 2025, el evento internacional que reunirá a la comunidad de Ethereum en Buenos Aires.

Del 17 al 22 de noviembre en La Rural.

🧪 Hacemos #CienciaEnLaUBA

[Fede’s intern 🥊 @fede_intern]

It was only a matter of time before @crecimientoar drew attention from Argentine media. Instead of talking about @EFDevcon they are talking about what's going on with Crecimiento. On Tuesday night, one of the country’s most influential political shows (@estoesblender @tomasrebord) explained the situation to the public.

Argentina is particularly sensitive to this topic. The $LIBRA case left a lasting impact, whenever crypto appears in mainstream media, many assume there is something suspicious behind it. This was not the case before LIBRA.

What happened with Crecimiento
- They built a movement and later formed a foundation to gain institutional credibility. We invested in many companies that came from that environment and collaborated with many people related to Crecimiento. A lot of valuable work was done, even if we had disagreements on some parts.
- From that foundation, they incubated a private, for profit company. Many people in their ecosystem didn't even know about it.
- They used the movement’s name and credibility to raise funds for that private company.
- This kind of lobbying and influence seeking is not legal in Argentina.
- They attempted to push for regulatory changes that would financially benefit them.
- They planned to issue a token and launch additional investment rounds during Devconnect.
- Multiple people raised these concerns directly and told them to stop. They chose to continue.

Why it matters
This situation now makes it harder to bring ministers, senators, universities, and business leaders into legitimate crypto and technology initiatives.

A national crypto movement in Argentina cannot be led by two foreign founders seeking to profit from regulatory changes. Argentina has strong nationalist elements across both right and left, ignoring that reality is a political and strategic error.

Instead of trying to silence criticism for explaining this to the English speaking world, the right question is: why did they continue down this path despite repeated warnings?

Some people think exposing problems creates more problems. It's the opposite. Problems don't go away by just hiding them under the rug.

I am not speaking to the press, but several journalists contacted me before and after I raised this issue in X. This matter is not going away, there will be more developments.

[Pablo Deymonnaz @pablodeymo]

Orgulloso de participar de esta iniciativa con dos facultades hermanas.

Felicitaciones Fede por el logro.

[Fede’s intern 🥊 @fede_intern]

Yesterday was an important day for me and for @class_lambda.

Twenty years ago I entered @UBAonline, the largest Spanish-speaking university in the world, with a community of more than 350,000 people, and consistently ranked among the top 100 universities globally.

Because of work travel and my professional life, after four years I had to stop studying. I became a college dropout, but I always loved the university and its chaotic public system. I came from a private French high school, so moving into a massive public university was a great experience, I had to learn to work with people very different from those I grew up with.

A few years ago I was invited to collaborate with @ingenieriauba. Together with professors and the community we designed the new Computer Engineering curriculum. I also helped create a Computational Thinking course for the 6,000 engineering students. I am deeply thankful to the community for asking me to contribute and for being open to new ideas.

Yesterday we inaugurated the Cryptography and Distributed Systems Research Center together with @class_lambda, @ingenieriauba and @Exactas_UBA. Work has already begun on ZK and Ethereum.

I want to personally thank:
- @WillyDuran65, Dean of @Exactas_UBA
- Alejandro Martínez, Dean of @ingenieriauba
- Raúl Bertero, Vice-Dean of @ingenieriauba
- @SebaCiva, Secretary of Research / Science & Technology at @UBAInvestiga
- @felipevegaterra, Director of @CBCUBA, where more than 100,000 students study, including those taking the Computational Thinking course I created
- @nethan_eth, head of @EFDevcon & Devconnect at @ethereumfndn
- @arantxazapico, cryptographer and researcher at @ethereumfndn
- @DrFrenchmen, cryptographer and researcher at @3miLabs

I also want to thank the current government for sending representatives, the opposition parties, as well as members of the banking sector, regulators, important senators, legislators, the business community and the cybersecurity community.

The support of the @ethereumfndn has been crucial in building a community of cryptography researchers in Argentina and LATAM. They have always been open, and they created the pathway for us to join @ethereum. We are deeply thankful to @VitalikButerin and to the EF in general for all the work they do in developing countries.

Finally, I want to thank my @ergodicgroup and @class_lambda teams, who have been working non-stop with me for the last decade. Also my partner @rj_aligned @diego_aligned @mauro_aligned at @alignedlayer that have been crucial in all this.

Thanks everyone!

[Fede’s intern 🥊 @fede_intern]

Este jueves 23 de Octubre a las 18:00 en Arenales 1371 lanzamos el centro de criptografia y sistemas distribuidos con autoridades de @UBAonline @Exactas_UBA @ingenieriauba y distintos representantes del arco político.

[Pablo Deymonnaz @pablodeymo]

Hoy estuve en el Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires junto con autoridades y representantes de las demás Carreras de Ingeniería de la Facultad de Ingeniería - UBA en una jornada de orientación vocacional.
Estuvimos presentando las Carreras a los/las estudiantes interesados/as.

[Pablo Deymonnaz @pablodeymo]

En estas semanas comenzaron las clases en la @ingenieriauba y tuvimos la oportunidad de conocer a los/as estudiantes de Taller de Programación y Programación Concurrente.

¡Que sea un gran cuatrimestre para todos/as!

[fernandezdiego @fernandezdiego]

Ethereum needs users, and humanity has one of its fundamental technologies in Ethereum for an equitable, distributed, and censorship-resistant future.
We are here to help bridge that gap building agreements with governments and institutions in emerging countries.

Why?
Because most of the systems we rely on were never built for the digital world we live in.

Governments still rely on paper or disconnected systems.

Institutions still hold our data.

People still lose time — and opportunity — trying to prove who they are.

At Sovra, we believe identity is the root layer of trust.
And trust is the root layer of everything.

We’re building applications for real-world users and the necessary critical infrastructure to help the world move from slow, analog, or semi-digital processes to seamless, verifiable credentials that people truly own—across public services, private institutions, and even peer-to-peer.

This isn’t about crypto.

This is about fixing systems that are already broken — and giving people a new foundation to stand on.

Sovra is already live and in use.

We’re supporting governments in Nuevo León, 5.8m inhabitants (Mexico), Río Negro, 0.8m inhabitants, and Salta, 1.45m inhabitants (Argentina) — enabling them to issue secure, verifiable credentials that improve how they serve citizens. Millions of users will be onboarded in the upcoming months.

This is powered by @oscitylatam, now a Sovra company — recognized by the OECD as one of the most advanced digital government platforms in the world for its work with Nuevo Leon's government.

With OSCity and QuarkID, an open-source Digital Public Good protocol, gobeing discussedvernments can issue digital IDs,drivers licenses, and certificates through a seamless, user-controlled experience.

But we’re not stopping with identity.

Sovra is expanding to become a trust layer for financial access — enabling:
- Personal finance services built on identity
- Remittances and cross-border movement of value
-Lending based on verifiable data
- Reputation-backed credit without traditional asset collateralization models
- Real estate, Cars and companies registries

This is the next phase of our roadmap — and it’s already in motion.

We’re also growing beyond Latin America.
Several government and institutional partnerships are already being discussed across Africa and the Middle East, where the need for efficient, trusted infrastructure is just as urgent.

Our goal is simple:
To empower people with tools that work — whether interacting with a government, applying for a loan, or accessing services requiring trust.
This work requires the best technology — and the right partners.

That’s why we’ve teamed up with @class_lambda, one of the most respected technical teams in the world.
Together, we’re evolving Sovra into a sovereign, zero-knowledge-native platform rooted in Ethereum — leveraging the Ethrex execution client, @alignedlayer, @SuccinctLabs SP1, and @RiscZero zkVM prover.

We also believe that Based Rollups, courageously pushed by @drakefjustin, are the future of interoperability and scalability, and we will become one of them.

But more than the tech, we share a vision:
Decentralized, efficient, user-oriented apps that prioritize people over protocols.
We’re proud of this partnership.
And even prouder of what it enables.

We want to thank @ethereumfndn and @VitalikButerin for their continuous support, advice, and encouragement along the long journey that brought us up to this point and allowed us to project an ambitious and bright future.

I would also like to give a special thank you to @bankless for always giving me the chance to share ideas and help us divulge our vision.

We admire the work of projects like @etherealize_io. Our vision is strongly aligned: building public apps and critical infrastructure that empowers people and institutions.

I should spend pages thanking the talented professionals and amazing companies that help us transform ideas into reality. Please take this as recognition for all of you!

Our thesis is simple.
- People need a reusable, self-owned identity.
- Blockchain is a means to an end — not the end itself.
- If users have to know it’s Web3, the solution has already failed.

What matters is solving real problems, at a real scale, for real people.

Sovra is doing just that.
Identity is just the beginning.

We’re building the foundation for digital trust, financial access, and institutional transformation.
A new reality is being shaped.
And we’re shaping it together.