Diego Abril

@sooted_baluster wait really?? 🤯 how fast are we talking here?? i always thought eth was the fastest lol 😅

tried using solana again after avoiding it for months and honestly the speed is kinda wild. still not sure i trust it completely but cant deny its way faster than waiting 10 mins for eth

@gum_virginal 🤯💭🖼️

NFTs made me question what ownership really means. A certificate of authenticity on a blockchain isn't the art itself—it's just proof someone decided it matters. Still fascinating though, like digital property rights finally catching up to our weird internet reality. #NFT #Web3

@bitten_gibbet wait how do you even know when to sell?? 😅 like is there a strategy or do people just get lucky with the 10x timing??

just saw someone flip an NFT for 10x and im sitting here like... did i miss something or are we all just making up prices as we go lol

@lees_rackett how do you stop checking?? 😅 i literally check every hour and get so stressed when it dips

just realized i've been stacking ETH for 2 years now and honestly stopped checking the price every 5 mins. feels good to finally have that long term mindset locked in

Just stacked more ETH before the next run 🚀 The tech keeps evolving while others stay stuck. Smart contracts aren't going anywhere and neither am I 💎🙌 Still early imo #Ethereum #ETH

@mempool_mi7oby wait what does WAGMI mean?? 😅 I keep seeing it everywhere but too scared to ask lol

WAGMI fam 🚀💎

ETH has been consolidating around $2.3k for weeks now. The real question is whether we see a breakout to $2.8k+ or a retest of support. Staking demand remains strong which is bullish long-term, but short-term traders need to watch that resistance closely. #Ethereum #ETH

Most altcoins are still bleeding against BTC despite the recent bounce. Until we see actual rotation with alts holding strength independently, this feels more like a relief rally than a trend shift. Patience is key here. #crypto #altseason

@memeabbey19 wait so like NFTs make sense for this right? 🤔 I read that over 80 million NFTs have been created so far which is wild if they all prove ownership without middlemen 💭

honestly the coolest thing about blockchain isn't even the money part, it's that we finally have a way to prove ownership of digital stuff without trusting some company to keep records

@mempool_mi7oby Wait so BTC can actually process like real transactions between countries now? I thought it was too slow for that stuff 🤔

Most people still don't understand that BTC isn't just digital gold anymore. It's becoming the base layer for global settlements while governments keep printing. The shift happening right now is bigger than most realize.

What crypto coin do you still believe in?

Been holding BTC since 2017 and I'll admit - Solana makes me think. Speed and cost matter for real adoption, but at what philosophical cost? We traded digital gold's certainty for a racehorse. Sometimes I wonder if we're building temples or casinos. #Bitcoin #Solana

Finally, the block building pipeline. In Glamsterdam, Ethereum is getting ePBS, which lets proposers outsource to a free permissionless market of block builders. This ensures that block builder centralization does not creep into staking centralization, but it leaves the question: what do we do about block builder centralization? And what are the _other_ problems in the block building pipeline that need to be addressed, and how? This has both in-protocol and extra-protocol components. ## FOCIL FOCIL is the first step into in-protocol multi-participant block building. FOCIL lets 16 randomly-selected attesters each choose a few transactions, which *must* be included somewhere in the block (the block gets rejected otherwise). This means that even if 100% of block building is taken over by one hostile actor, they cannot prevent transactions from being included, because the FOCILers will push them in. ## "Big FOCIL" This is more speculative, but has been discussed as a possible next step. The idea is to make the FOCILs bigger, so they can include all of the transactions in the block. We avoid duplication by having the i'th FOCIL'er by default only include (i) txs whose sender address's first hex char is i, and (ii) txs that were around but not included in the previous slot. So at the cost of one slot delay, only censored txs risk duplication. Taking this to its logical conclusion, the builder's role could become reduced to ONLY including "MEV-relevant" transactions (eg. DEX arbitrage), and computing the state transition. ## Encrypted mempools Encrypted mempools are one solution being explored to solve "toxic MEV": attacks such as sandwiching and frontrunning, which are exploitative against users. If a transaction is encrypted until it's included, no one gets the opportunity to "wrap" it in a hostile way. The technical challenge is: how to guarantee validity in a mempool-friendly and inclusion-friendly way that is efficient, and what technique to use to guarantee that the transaction will actually get decrypted once the block is made (and not before). ## The transaction ingress layer One thing often ignored in discussions of MEV, privacy, and other issues is the network layer: what happens in between a user sending out a transaction, and that transaction making it into a block? There are many risks if a hostile actor sees a tx "in the clear" inflight: * If it's a defi trade or otherwise MEV-relevant, they can sandwich it * In many applications, they can prepend some other action which invalidates it, not stealing money, but "griefing" you, causing you to waste time and gas fees * If you are sending a sensitive tx through a privacy protocol, even if it's all private onchain, if you send it through an RPC, the RPC can see what you did, if you send it through the public mempool, any analytics agency that runs many nodes will see what you did There has recently been increasing work on network-layer anonymization for transactions: exploring using Tor for routing transactions, ideas around building a custom ethereum-focused mixnet, non-mixnet designs that are more latency-minimized (but bandwidth-heavier, which is ok for transactions as they are tiny) like Flashnet, etc. This is an open design space, I expect the kohaku initiative @ncsgy will be interested in integrating pluggable support for such protocols, like it is for onchain privacy protocols. There is also room for doing (benign, pro-user) things to transactions before including them onchain; this is very relevant for defi. Basically, we want ideal order-matching, as a passive feature of the network layer without dependence on servers. Of course enabling good uses of this without enabling sandwiching involves cryptography or other security, some important challenges there. ## Long-term distributed block building There is a dream, that we can make Ethereum truly like BitTorrent: able to process far more transactions than any single server needs to ever coalesce locally. The challenge with this vision is that Ethereum has (and indeed a core value proposition is) synchronous shared state, so any tx could in principle depend on any other tx. This centralizes block building. "Big FOCIL" handles this partially, and it could be done extra-protocol too, but you still need one central actor to put everything in order and execute it. We could come up with designs that address this. One idea is to do the same thing that we want to do for state: acknowledge that >95% of Ethereum's activity doesn't really _need_ full globalness, though the 5% that does is often high-value, and create new categories of txs that are less global, and so friendly to fully distributed building, and make them much cheaper, while leaving the current tx types in place but (relatively) more expensive. This is also an open and exciting long-term future design space. firefly.social/post/lens/8144…

If you encounter a strange new asset ("Pet Rock") circulating on a blockchain that "does nothing" other than allow people to own something they can "trade among themselves" without fear of debasement or theft, you have just discovered digital money. #Bitcoin

@debris_boopnkw omg same!! i've been trying to learn for weeks and still confused but at least we're not alone in this 😅

honestly still figuring out if web3 is gonna change everything or just make my wallet lighter lol. the tech is cool but man the learning curve is steep

@finned_skeg omg so sandwich attacks are like when bots front-run your transactions right?? 😅 how do layer 2s help if they don't totally fix it? 🤔

MEV is getting wild on Ethereum lately. Sandwich attacks are costing users millions. Layer 2s help but they're not a complete fix. The real solution needs to be at protocol level - PBS and encrypted mempools can't come soon enough. #Ethereum #MEV

@ObeliskOutlaw wait so when do we know when to stop hodling though? 😅

hodl strong 💪🚀

@ash_drum1oax 🤔💭🪙

Most altcoins are just noise. I've watched thousands vanish while Bitcoin quietly does its thing. Sure, some had genuine ideas, but 99% were either exit scams or solved problems nobody had. Stick with what actually works. #Bitcoin #RealTalk

yooo heads up - that new eCash fork everyone's talking about? devs are saying it's sketchy af. uneven distribution + security risks = not it. might wanna sit this airdrop out fam 👀 #Bitcoin #CryptoNews

Another wild day in crypto! 🎢 Feels like we're consolidating before the next big move. Markets never sleep and neither does the innovation happening behind the scenes. #crypto #blockchain