patrickogrady.xyz
@_patrickogrady
founder @commonwarexyz || previously @avalabs @coinbase @stanford || opinions are my own and will probably change
great podcast by people that know what they are talking about
How Things Work #4: The Quick Merkle Database (QMDB) and Fast Ahead-of-Formation Optimization (FAFO) Today, we discuss how QMDB and FAFO drive (unbelievable) scalability with @ryanzarick, @IsaacN0tNewton, and @Thomas_S_Kim from @LayerZero_Core. A log is all you need 🪄.
OH in slack about @commonwarexyz: "yeah, the repo's structure and commands hint at being designed by someone who knows what they're doing."
The next few months will get interesting. Lots of teams talking about a migration to commonware.
For as long as I can remember, teams have been asking us (@commonwarexyz) for reth support. On Monday, @SeismicSys reached out to let us know they built it (on their own/no help from us). Unreal. Looking forward to seeing where this goes 👀
Power of Open Source Awesomeness. @commonwarexyz will attract a lot of similar minded devs because of the quality of their work. Just being OS is not enough.. its gotta be good too.
For as long as I can remember, teams have been asking us (@commonwarexyz) for reth support. On Monday, @SeismicSys reached out to let us know they built it (on their own/no help from us). Unreal. Looking forward to seeing where this goes 👀
For as long as I can remember, teams have been asking us (@commonwarexyz) for reth support. On Monday, @SeismicSys reached out to let us know they built it (on their own/no help from us). Unreal. Looking forward to seeing where this goes 👀
Introducing Summit, a consensus client for Reth.
Decentralized thoughts on 2 round BFT in Simplex style With @ElodinStorm and Ling Ren decentralizedthoughts.github.io/2025-07-18-two…
To compete effectively with high-performance centralized blockchains, decentralized networks must deliver an equally responsive and seamless user experience. Achieving this demands overcoming persistent performance bottlenecks. QMDB and FAFO tackle the core challenges in storage…
How Things Work #4: The Quick Merkle Database (QMDB) and Fast Ahead-of-Formation Optimization (FAFO) Today, we discuss how QMDB and FAFO drive (unbelievable) scalability with @ryanzarick, @IsaacN0tNewton, and @Thomas_S_Kim from @LayerZero_Core. A log is all you need 🪄.
Why is The Signal launching now? Over the past few weeks I’ve previewed The Signal to small groups and explained its timing with what I call the “ZK Syzygy”—a recent convergence of zero‑knowledge breakthroughs that finally makes proving Ethereum finality practical. ZK is…
A log is all your need. Turns out you can just build a log db with hooks on CRUD and maintain arbitrary secondary indexes. It is as good as thor's hammer with extensions.
How Things Work #4: The Quick Merkle Database (QMDB) and Fast Ahead-of-Formation Optimization (FAFO) Today, we discuss how QMDB and FAFO drive (unbelievable) scalability with @ryanzarick, @IsaacN0tNewton, and @Thomas_S_Kim from @LayerZero_Core. A log is all you need 🪄.