Alexios Atlas

Huge milestone unlocked: we've just surpassed 60,000,000+ QUICK burned 🔥🔥 Just to put that into perspective, that's: • 6.39% of the total supply • 7.64% of the circulating supply • Over $590,000 in value Burns for the QUICK token continue to accelerate, also increasing scarcity of the token. Couple that with the ongoing buybacks, and you've got the perfect storm. Dragons on a mission.

A very important document. Let's walk through this one "goal" at a time. We'll start with fast slots and fast finality. I expect that we'll reduce slot time in an incremental fashion, eg. I like the "sqrt(2) at a time" formula (12 -> 8 -> 6 -> 4 -> 3 -> 2, though the last two steps are more speculative and depend on heavy research). It is possible to go faster or slower here; but the high level is that we'll view the slot time as a parameter that we adjust down when we're confident it's safe to, similar to the blob target. Fast slots are off in their own lane at the top of the roadmap, and do not really seem to connect to anything. This is because the rest of the roadmap is pretty independent of the slot time: we would need to do roughly the same things whether the slot time is 2 seconds or 32 seconds There are a few intersection areas though. One is p2p improvements. @raulvk has recently been working on an optimized p2p layer for Ethereum, which uses erasure coding to greatly improve on the bandwidth/latency tradeoff frontier. Roughly speaking: in today's design, each node receives a full block body from several peers, and is able to accept and rebroadcast it as soon as it receives the first one. If the "width" (number of peers sending you the block) is low, then one bad peer can greatly delay when you receive the block. If width is high, there is a lot of unneeded data overhead. With erasure coding, you can choose a k-of-n setup, eg: split each block into 8 pieces so that with any 4 of them you can reconstruct the full block. This gives you much of the redundancy benefits of high width, without the overhead. We have stats that show that this architecture can greatly reduce 95th percentile block propagation time, making shorter slots viable with no security tradeoffs (except increased protocol complexity, though here the performance-gain-to-lines-of-code ratio is quite favorable) Another intersection area is the more complex slot structure that comes with ePBS, FOCIL, and the fast confirmation rule. These have important benefits, but they decrease the safe latency maximum from slot/3 to slot/5. There's ongoing research to try to pipeline things better to minimize losses (also note: the slot time is lower-bounded not just by slot latency, but also by the fixed-cost part of ZK prover latency), but there are some tradeoffs here. One way we are exploring to compensate for this is to change to an architecture where only ~256-1024 randomly selected attesters sign on each slot. For a fork choice (non-finalizing) function, this is totally sufficient. The smaller number of signatures lets us remove the aggregation phase, shortening the slots. Fast finality is more complex (the ultimate protocol is IMO simpler than status quo Gasper, but the change path is complex). Today, finality takes 16 minutes (12s slots * 32 slot epochs * 2.5 epochs) on average. The goal is to decouple slots and finality, so allow us to reason about both separately, and we are aiming to use a one-round-finality BFT algorithm (a Minimmit variant) to finalize. So endgame finality time might be eg. 6-16 sec. Because this is a very invasive set of changes, the plan is to bundle the largest step in each change with a switch of the cryptography, notably to post-quantum hash-based signatures, and to a maximally STARK-friendly hash (there are three possible responses to the recent Poseidon2 attacks: (i) increase round count or introduce other countermeasures such as a Monolith layer, (ii) go back to Poseidon1, which is even more lindy than Poseidon2 and has not seen flaws, (iii) use BLAKE3 or other maximally-cheap "conventional" hash. All are being researched). Additionally, there is a plan to introduce many of these changes piece-by-piece, eg. "1-epoch finality" means we adjust the current consensus to change from FFG-style finalization to Minimmit-style finalization. One possible finality time trajectory is: 16 min (today) -> 10m40s (8s slots) -> 6m24s (one-epoch finality) -> 1m12s (8-slot epochs, 6s slots) -> 48s (4s slots) -> 16s (minimmit) -> 8s (minimmit with more aggressive parameters) One interesting consequence of the incremental approach is that there is a pathway to making the slots quantum-resistant much sooner than making the finality quantum-resistant, so we may well quite quickly get to a regime where, if quantum computers suddenly appear, we lose the finality guarantee, but the chain keeps chugging along. Summary: expect to see progressive decreases of both slot time and finality time, and expect to see these changes to be intertwined with a "ship of Theseus" style component-by-component replacement of Ethereum's slot structure and consensus with a cleaner, simpler, quantum-resistant, prover-friendly, end-to-end formally-verified alternative.

We're officially live with @FlareNetworks! Join the livestream now to hear our Co-Founders walk through: • Liquid staking (stFLR) • V4 DEX & rewards migrations • Future SparkDEX updates x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

Tune into an exlusive livestream with Flare, where SparkDEX Co-Founders @AlexiAtlas and @0xMetavault will walk through updates and new features for our stFLR and V4 DEX launch. 📅 Tuesday, February 17 at 2:30 PM UTC

@QuickswapDEX Absolutely incredible!! Great to see Quick token staking (syrup) live again also 🙌

3,437,500 QUICK tokens were bought back over the last 7 days 🔥 Another huge buyback, 0.3436% of the token supply. Dragons bringing the heat.

📣 PSA for all LPs! SparkDEX V4 will be launching soon. While V3.1 will remain functional, SparkDEX will gradually migrate LP rewards to V4. Announcements will be made about rewards migrations. To learn more, stay tuned here on X.

3.46m eth queued for validator lockup during an 8.8% dump. zero validators exiting. that's 64,000 eth per day getting locked for the next 60 days vs 500 eth daily issuance. 128 to 1 supply removal ratio starting now. ethereum supply crunch hits different when everyone's bleeding.

ETHEREUM IS CLAIMING THE AI LAYER Silicon Valley is racing to build AI. Ethereum is quietly becoming the network AI will rely on. ERC-8004 pushes machine identity, coordination, and settlement onto Ethereum mainnet. If billions of AI agents start transacting, they won’t run on Big Tech servers. They’ll run on Ethereum. That’s massively bullish for Ethereum’s future. $ETH $BMNR @fundstrat

SparkDEX’s validator is now listed on Bifrost Wallet. Users can now delegate their FLR to SparkDEX’s validator directly from Bifrost Wallet. Delegating earns rewards and strengthens Flare’s network — no staking or locking required. Ball’s in your court, FLR holders 🏀

📢 UPDATE: Fusaka was just a stepping stone. Ethereum is gearing up for a massive scaling leap in 2026. Glamsterdam brings true parallel processing and pushes the gas limit to 200M from 60M today. We may see over 10k Ethereum TPS and 100k L2 TPS

Nov CPI released this am - Core CPI YoY 2.6% vs 3.0% - massive 0.40bp undershoot Inflation falling like a rock🪨 Positive YE rally: - equities $SPY $IWM $QQQ - crypto Bitcoin and Ethereum $BTC $ETH

Wrap SPRK into xSPRK, earn staking rewards. It's that simple. ~22.61% APR up for grabs. sparkdex.ai/stake/xsprk

🧠 Delegating your WFLR on SparkDEX isn't a giga-brain play — it's a no-brainer. Delegating earns you claimable rewards every epoch, which is every 3.5 days. Meanwhile, your tokens are you still yours to LP, stake, use in DeFi, receive FlareDrops, and participate in governance. Plus when you delegate to the SparkDEX provider, you're earning FTSO rewards with top-notch, reliable infra. sparkdex.ai/ecosystem/ftso…

Sky achieved a total of 92.2M SKY buybacks in 2025! Important note: SKY has no token emissions or incentives, and the SKY staking yield is paid via the buybacks from protocol net profit This is just the beginning, more to come in 2026

Our community asked for more ways to earn, so we built one 👷 With SparkDEX’s own FTSO provider now live, delegators can tap into a new avenue for yields. Powered by the same infra running Flare's #1 DEX and perps. Delegate, earn, and recycle into swaps, LP, or farms.

Spark and Sky each independently making good returns. The Star system is working.