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Oct 22, 2022

Oct 22, 2022

The Sustainability Checklist

For far too long, the narrative has been dominated by short-term solutions with unsustainable designs. It’s never too late to fight back…

May 13, 2022

May 13, 2022

Disaggregated blockchain layers & evading socioeconomic fragmentation

I have expressed regret multiple times this year for helping propagate the “modular blockchain” meme. There are two significant problems…

Apr 30, 2022

Apr 30, 2022

Updated thoughts on “modular blockchains”

I have been guilty of shilling the “modular blockchains” meme last year, of course alongside more influential players like Bankless…

Mar 25, 2022

Mar 25, 2022

Modular execution layers

You may have read about how execution layer can be separated from settlement & data availability. But an interesting trend is unfolding…

Mar 20, 2022

Mar 20, 2022

The Endgame bottleneck: historical storage

Currently, there’s a clear bottleneck at play with monolithic blockchains: state growth. The direct solutions to this are statelessness…

Feb 27, 2022

The Endgame bottleneck: historical storage

Feb 27, 2022

Optimistic rollups are brilliant (and the state of blockchains)

I have never written a post about “ORs vs ZKRs”. They are both great. My writing has been all about being against cripplingly inefficient…

Feb 19, 2022

Feb 19, 2022

How Ethereum scales: simplified

In short: Ethereum scales with rollups & data availability sampling. But what does that mean?

Feb 10, 2022

Feb 10, 2022

Danksharding

Alright, I’m compelled to do this. I don’t have much time, so this will be an oversimplified introduction to danksharding (featuring PBS +…

Jan 31, 2022

Jan 31, 2022

Rediscovering trust

Trust is a powerful feature, not a bug. It’s one of the fundamental tenets behind our species’ wild success. Some crypto utopians may argue…

Jan 10, 2022

Jan 10, 2022

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