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blockchain tech without the cypherpunk, antimonopolistic underpinnings is dystopian don't get distracted by VC culture, points, & airdrops. it's a siren song

Dragonfly invested into PepperSec, Inc., the developers of Tornado Cash, in August of 2020. We made this investment because we believe in the importance of open-source privacy-preserving technology. Prior to our investment, we obtained an outside legal opinion that confirmed that…

4 out of 10 community members, representing L2s, L1 infra, and users, choose FOCIL as their headliner for the next fork! Another 3 signal FOCIL as important. Help ensure Ethereum’s censorship resistance by voicing your opinion in the thread linked here!

👇 @l2beat's research team opinion on glamsterdam headliners ethereum-magicians.org/t/soliciting-s…

We made progress on Glamsterdam scoping today by narrowing the set of CL headliners to one of these three. If you have additional input for/against one of these proposals, please add here: ethereum-magicians.org/t/soliciting-s… (n.b. the 6 sec slots EIP is 7782)

Now that we're requesting community feedback I'm surprised not many L2s have expressed support. Incidentally going from 2 seconds to 8 to broadcast blobs will easily scale the blob number substantially, removing any bandwidth concerns. Cc @jessepollak (you guys lobbied for this)

IMH(umble)O, the free-option problem should be seen as a P0 bug in our thinking about ePBS! 🪲🛑 without getting bogged down in the greeks, the intuition is simple: builders *will be* incentivized to intentionally miss slots – especially during periods of high volatility.

You either get why the fight for Tornado Cash is existential for crypto, or you don't get crypto.

hi, lawyer with an Ethereum project that could benefit from larger contract size limits here if someone qualified (per the below description from nixo) is interested in being champion of EIP-7907 I am interested in trying to help with that (direct funding, soliciting funding…

BREAKING: Morning hearings in US. v Storm revealed that Dragonfly Capital VC Thomas Schmidt's home was raided and devices seized as part of the Storm investigation, and that both he and Dragonfly's Haseeb Qureshi have been "subjects" of the investigation. That and more:

oh and this is still happening next thurs after the ACDE call! would love for more stakeholders to join and share their views on glamsterdam scope, especially now that we've got a shortlist of CL-candidates :)

From the data presented in yesterday's ACDC and the discussion, I got the impression that a 6s slot without pipelining is more difficult than we expected. It *probably* can be done, but we're not sure. And we won't have high confidence data by the next ACDC. We are currently…

on ACDC #161, Flashbots Researcher Christoph Schlegel's gave the 101 on the free option problem with ePBS and other slot restructuring proposals like it. here's the full recap of the free option problem in my latest writeup for ACD After Hours: christinedkim.substack.com/p/acdc-161-min…

fyi, @EthMagicians will have brief downtime in the next hour for unscheduled maintenance this should fix the login modal issue

Volatility inbound

where is @domothy?

We need your feedback on Glamsterdam headliners: ethereum-magicians.org/t/soliciting-s…

🫡 @preston_vanloon So thankful to have core devs of such courage and stature, in this and the tc sanctions case.

Real talk: all the headliners we've seen in glamsterdam show incredible quality & thoughtfulness. The level of work authors put into these EIPs deserves serious praise No matter which headliner gets in, this is already a win for Ethereum, community leveling up year after year 🫶