Shimarble

a living marble stone

[Shimarble @Shimarble2050]

I am coining the term: ai twitter

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[Shimarble @Shimarble2050]

this AI drama is starting to feel a lot like crypto lol

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

"THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA WILL NEVER ALLOW A RADICAL LEFT, WOKE COMPANY TO DICTATE HOW OUR GREAT MILITARY FIGHTS AND WINS WARS! That decision belongs to YOUR COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF, and the tremendous leaders I appoint to run our Military. 

The Leftwing nut jobs at Anthropic have made a DISASTROUS MISTAKE..." - President Donald J. Trump

[Shimarble @Shimarble2050]

@onsails bizarre world. write for the sake of writing and sharing thoughts, not the algo nor online persona.

I’m human before I’m a profile… online is a place I visit not where I live!

[Shimarble @Shimarble2050]

@Loopify accountants existed hundreds of years ago, today they use software instead of papers, they are still accountants.

AI prompt engineering won’t be a job, it’ll just be a skill everyone in those roles uses.

[Shimarble @Shimarble2050]

@coinbase brainrot based

[Shimarble @Shimarble2050]

brainrot based

[Coinbase 🛡️ @coinbase]

An overview of our Q4 and full year 2025 financial results.

With something extra to keep you focused.

[Shimarble @Shimarble2050]

lol

[Watcher.Guru @WatcherGuru]

A live look at the crypto market

[Shimarble @Shimarble2050]

@VitalikButerin a unique value is a no brainer, why does this even need to be taught

[Shimarble @Shimarble2050]

@Ledger gn

[Shimarble @Shimarble2050]

@quionie feels good anyway, for the sake of posting

[Shimarble @Shimarble2050]

I don't know who needs to hear this but

crypto should go regional. we should have very localized products with global rails.

[Shimarble @Shimarble2050]

we need less products and more real users in crypto

[nairolf @0xNairolf]

we need less tokens and more products in crypto

[Shimarble @Shimarble2050]

@VitalikButerin wild how one post can tilt roadmaps overnight

very centralized behavior

[Shimarble @Shimarble2050]

an industry preaching decentralization…

yet one opinion shifts the whole room in hours.

that’s a scary foundation

[vitalik.eth @VitalikButerin]

There have recently been some discussions on the ongoing role of L2s in the Ethereum ecosystem, especially in the face of two facts:

* L2s' progress to stage 2 (and, secondarily, on interop) has been far slower and more difficult than originally expected
* L1 itself is scaling, fees are very low, and gaslimits are projected to increase greatly in 2026

Both of these facts, for their own separate reasons, mean that the original vision of L2s and their role in Ethereum no longer makes sense, and we need a new path.

First, let us recap the original vision. Ethereum needs to scale. The definition of "Ethereum scaling" is the existence of large quantities of block space that is backed by the full faith and credit of Ethereum - that is, block space where, if you do things (including with ETH) inside that block space, your activities are guaranteed to be valid, uncensored, unreverted, untouched, as long as Ethereum itself functions. If you create a 10000 TPS EVM where its connection to L1 is mediated by a multisig bridge, then you are not scaling Ethereum.

This vision no longer makes sense. L1 does not need L2s to be "branded shards", because L1 is itself scaling. And L2s are not able or willing to satisfy the properties that a true "branded shard" would require. I've even seen at least one explicitly saying that they may never want to go beyond stage 1, not just for technical reasons around ZK-EVM safety, but also because their customers' regulatory needs require them to have ultimate control. This may be doing the right thing for your customers. But it should be obvious that if you are doing this, then you are not "scaling Ethereum" in the sense meant by the rollup-centric roadmap. But that's fine! it's fine because Ethereum itself is now scaling directly on L1, with large planned increases to its gas limit this year and the years ahead.

We should stop thinking about L2s as literally being "branded shards" of Ethereum, with the social status and responsibilities that this entails. Instead, we can think of L2s as being a full spectrum, which includes both chains backed by the full faith and credit of Ethereum with various unique properties (eg. not just EVM), as well as a whole array of options at different levels of connection to Ethereum, that each person (or bot) is free to care about or not care about depending on their needs.

What would I do today if I were an L2?

* Identify a value add other than "scaling". Examples: (i) non-EVM specialized features/VMs around privacy, (ii) efficiency specialized around a particular application, (iii) truly extreme levels of scaling that even a greatly expanded L1 will not do, (iv) a totally different design for non-financial applications, eg. social, identity, AI, (v) ultra-low-latency and other sequencing properties, (vi) maybe built-in oracles or decentralized dispute resolution or other "non-computationally-verifiable" features
* Be stage 1 at the minimum (otherwise you really are just a separate L1 with a bridge, and you should just call yourself that) if you're doing things with ETH or other ethereum-issued assets
* Support maximum interoperability with Ethereum, though this will differ for each one (eg. what if you're not EVM, or even not financial?)

From Ethereum's side, over the past few months I've become more convinced of the value of the native rollup precompile, particuarly once we have enshrined ZK-EVM proofs that we need anyway to scale L1. This is a precompile that verifies a ZK-EVM proof, and it's "part of Ethereum", so (i) it auto-upgrades along with Ethereum, and (ii) if the precompile has a bug, Ethereum will hard-fork to fix the bug.

The native rollup precompile would make full, security-council-free, EVM verification accessible. We should spend much more time working out how to design it in such a way that if your L2 is "EVM plus other stuff", then the native rollup precompile would verify the EVM, and you only have to bring your own prover for the "other stuff" (eg. Stylus). This might involve a canonical way of exposing a lookup table between contract call inputs and outputs, and letting you provide your own values to the lookup table (that you would prove separately).

This would make it easy to have safe, strong, trustless interoperability with Ethereum. It also enables synchronous composability (see: https://t.co/9jy6v1X6Fw and https://t.co/gZmu3YjebM ). And from there, it's each L2's choice exactly what they want to build. Don't just "extend L1", figure out something new to add.

This of course means that some will add things that are trust-dependent, or backdoored, or otherwise insecure; this is unavoidable in a permissionless ecosystem where developers have freedom. Our job should make to make it clear to users what guarantees they have, and to build up the strongest Ethereum that we can.

[Shimarble @Shimarble2050]

@KhanAbbas201 late enough

[Shimarble @Shimarble2050]

gold is the new memecoin

[Brian @BrianInCrypto]

I’m incredibly bearish crypto neobanks.

The old guard (@stripe, @PayPal, @brexHQ, @tryramp, @Venmo) will add stablecoin support WAYYYY faster than you can convert customers.

The only ways to compete here are to penetrate regions they have not or build something much more intricate and onchain. Your 3.6% APY isn’t going to convince anyone to move funds.

If anything you might be a stop gap until the big players build support.

🪦🪦

[Shimarble @Shimarble2050]

@CoinMarketCap wat?

[Shimarble @Shimarble2050]

the final straw

[Noble @noble_xyz]

https://t.co/HhZMTnvrqB

[Shimarble @Shimarble2050]

timelines, let’s see what you’ve got

[Nikita Bier @nikitabier]

We are revising our developer API policies:

We will no longer allow apps that reward users for posting on X (aka “infofi”). This has led to a tremendous amount of AI slop & reply spam on the platform.

We have revoked API access from these apps, so your X experience should start improving soon (once the bots realize they’re not getting paid anymore).

If your developer account was terminated, please reach out and we will assist in transitioning your business to Threads and Bluesky.