Day 8: Performances
No one commanded a stage like Prince. Every performance was electric, blending passion, precision, and pure showmanship.
What's your favorite Prince performance?
Day 6: Music Videos
Every visual was a world of its own. Bold, artistic, and ahead of its time, Prince’s music videos brought his vision to life in unforgettable ways. 🎬
Mike Flanagan's 'EXORCIST' film has already begun production, featuring an impressive ensemble cast consisting of Scarlett Johansson, Jacobi Jupe, Laurence Fishburne, Diane Lane, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Sasha Calle, John Leguizamo, Carl Lumbly, Kate Siegel, Carla Gugino, Rahul Kohli, and Hamish Linklater.
The Exorcist is scheduled to premiere in theaters on March 12, 2027.
Rare footage of Prince performing “Adore” in 2011, just in time to celebrate the one you adore. ❤️
Widely regarded by critics and fellow musicians as one of the greatest love songs ever written, “Adore” remains a masterclass in devotion, vulnerability, and timeless romance.
.@VitalikButerin just made a bold declaration: ETHEREUM HAS SOLVED THE BLOCKCHAIN TRILEMMA
He credits a new combination of technical upgrades that are working together to push the network’s scaling limit – without sacrificing decentralization or security.
Today, we’re exploring where Ethereum is headed next. 👇
~~ Article by @JackInabinet ~~
🔍 Ethereum’s Scaling Future
All networks make tradeoffs between decentralization, security, and scalability.
While peer-to-peer file sharing platform BitTorrent is highly decentralized and very scalable, it has no single source of truth that forms network consensus, providing weak security guarantees.
Although Bitcoin achieves strong decentralization and security guarantees, the network has an extremely slow throughput of approximately 7 transactions per second.
And while the Solana network delivers Bitcoin-like security at much faster speeds, the network’s hefty hardware requirements restrict participation to commercial-quality node operators, limiting decentralization.
The blockchain trilemma constrained the development of a balanced blockchain that simultaneously optimizes for decentralization, security, and scalability in each of these examples.
Yet, Vitalik Buterin believes Ethereum can achieve where others have failed using zkEVMs and PeerDAS.
🔒 What are zkEVMs?
Zero-Knowledge Ethereum Virtual Machines (zkEVMs) are a type of scaling solution that executes Ethereum transactions offchain and proves their correctness back onchain using cryptographic zero-knowledge proofs.
Instead of individually submitting transactions to the Ethereum L1, zkEVMs bundle thousands of transactions together in a proof, which accounts for the results of transactions while circumventing the need for blockchain computation. This design increases scalability by using offchain execution, while preserving Ethereum-grade security via onchain proof verification.
Vitalik characterizes contemporary zkEVMs as “alpha stage,” claiming they enjoy production-quality performance, but require safety work. He expects their full benefits to emerge over the next 4 years, with the first opportunities to run zkEVM nodes occurring sometime in the new year.
📡 What is PeerDAS?
Peer-to-Peer Data Availability Sampling (PeerDAS) is Ethereum’s latest leap in data scaling. It was adopted to mainnet on December 3, 2025, and served as the headline improvement of Ethereum’s recent Fusaka upgrade.
Rollups need to publish transaction data to Ethereum so the network can independently verify state transitions, and PeerDAS dramatically reduces the cost of making this data available by allowing nodes to sample small pieces of data from peers, rather than downloading entire data blobs.
PeerDAS (live today on mainnet) allowed Ethereum to increase the dedicated “blob” storage space for data availability with no changes to the hardware requirements for nodes that want to validate the Ethereum L1.
🧭 Where to Next?
Over the next four years, Vitalik believes that Ethereum can become the first network to fully conquer the blockchain trilemma. Such a breakthrough is not anticipated to be the outcome of a single sudden achievement; rather it is expected to be the gradual result of sustained progress over time.
Ethereum has already expanded data availability through PeerDAS, and while developers expect initial zkEVM node experiments to begin this year, Buterin doesn’t anticipate zkEVMs will become a dominant method of block validation until later this decade.
Although execution risk remains, should Vitalik’s scaling vision materialize, Ethereum could very well redefine what’s possible for decentralized systems, offering a model where security, decentralization, and scalability reinforce one another instead of competing.
🚨ETHEREUM HAS SOLVED A BLOCKCHAIN TRILEMMA
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.
READ BANNED BOOKS, THERE'S A REASON WHY THEY DON'T WANT YOU TO READ BANNED BOOKS, JUST ASK I’LL SHARE A LIST
8 Banned Books Every Men Should Read.
1. Animal Farm By George Orwell.