Ingeun Kim

Unlocking ZK, All in One

Some of my perspective on where the @ethereumfndn is going. First of all, this is only my own view. The board is not just me, and I have no extra special powers on the board that the other board members do not. @aerugoettinea is the one executing much of this transition. My input has been largely on technical questions. The board is in the process of expanding, and my own power within the org will continue to decrease, which is honestly what I want. The 2025 era brought many important improvements to EF and its ability to execute. Many issues were resolved, and EF continues to benefit from its improved efficiency and greater focus on concrete goals to this day. And so with those problems resolved, early this year, the largest remaining hole that I perceived was something different nagging at me: I would regularly spot people saying things like "vitalik says these beautiful things about ethereum needing to be decentralized, and have privacy, and be a sanctuary technology, but why do the EF's actions not reflect that?" Now, you may have been hearing something different. You may not have been sensing a feeling of crisis at all, and maybe were hearing people saying that finally we were taking execution and BD seriously and the main task for us is to keep going that way and be even better and faster. Then probably there is genuine difference between you and me, in what kinds of criticism I take most seriously, and what kinds of critics through their criticism are most able to make me feel pain. As an analogy, let's briefly switch over to a different domain. One belief you can have about Google is that it is a success story, and has brought a lot of good to humanity in organizing the world's information. Another belief you can have about Google is that they had a beautiful idealistic beginning, but at some point the corruption of mainstream corporate attitudes seeped in, and they slowly bit by bit completely abandoned the "don't be evil" slogan. My belief on Google specifically is probably somewhere between the two. BUT, if you had taken me back in time to ~2008, and offered me a button to press to make Google one or two standard deviations more "dogmatic", eg. give Richard Stallman permanent veto power over some key policies, I would immediately press it. Why? Because a choice for one company is not a choice for the world, or even one country. Google existed and exists in the context of a technology industry generally drifting away from early idealistic don't-be-evil roots and toward greed for financial gain, totalizing visions of accelerated superintelligence, infiltration by sociopaths, and craven capitulation to (or worse, active participation in) government pressure for ideological control, surveillance and war. And so *one company* doing something different, positioning itself to be what George Bernard Shaw calls the Unreasonable Man, resisting the trend of the times, would have been better for freedom, balance of power and stability of society as a whole, than *all* large companies bending to dominant trends. This is a part of my version of pluralism. This line of thinking is not just mine, but I also is not too far off from what Aya and others had in mind with the Mandate. Now how does this all get to the role of the EF? EF is not a "center of Ethereum", rather EF is "one node, with a defined purpose, alongside other nodes". We've always said that the EF should be the latter, but many in the Ethereum ecosystem (and even within the EF) wanted us to be the former. Now, we are taking action to ensure that we will be the latter. This is particularly important because EF is a limited organization, with limited resources and limited organizational capacity. The EF has only ~0.16% of all ETH (less than many other individual ETH holders), whereas among other blockchains it's common for "the central foundation" to have 10-50%. Fiscally, the EF was originally designed to fulfill a limited work scope defined in the token sale docs and other pre-launch materials (building the chain software; getting through Frontier, Homestead, Metropolis, Serenity), which was fully completed in 2022; it was not designed to be an eternal steward. And so today, the EF is choosing to use its remaining resources to pursue longevity over breadth (yes, this means we sell less ETH). The EF focuses *specifically* on those activities critical to the success of ethereum as a censorship/capture-resistant, open, private and secure system, that would not happen otherwise. This means making hard choices, and in some cases even activities that we highly approve of and people that we highly respect becoming outside of the EF. People of great technical talent, public respect and even alignment with the mission and CROPS being outside of the EF is in fact necessary if we want important tasks to be able to attract outside capital. This also means the EF taking opinionated stands culturally. This is all intended in cooperation with all other parts of ethereum. We recognize that many other parts of the ethereum world highly respect CROPS and related values. But highly respecting is not the same as choosing to specialize and totally dedicate to a domain (Compare in a different domain: I think reducing animal cruelty is important, and I like vegan food, but am not full unconditional vegan myself) EF is still in a transition period, and we expect its new long-term form to stabilize over the next few months. What are the guiding principles of this new form? Again, I am only one person, but I can give my answer from a technical perspective (there are also critical non-technical aspects). At the core, *Ethereum must be impressive*. We are living in an age of highly intelligent AI and all kinds of other technological acceleration. "Status quo EVM, with a hard fork or two a year to optimize for short-term needs of users" is not interesting. To some, "impressive" means: 250ms latency and 1M TPS. I think Ethereum trying to go that route is a mistake. Being as fast and as scalable as possible, and only a small epsilon more decentralized than the others, is a route to mediocrity, and if we try it we will lose. I think Ethereum should scale. But I think Ethereum should strive the hardest to be deeply impressive in a different dimension: the CROPS dimension. This means things like: * Provably bug-free Ethereum. This is a goal that all cybersecurity researchers would have thought is absurd and impossible, up until roughly 6 months ago. Now, it's on the cusp of being possible, thanks to AI-assisted formal verification. So we should be frontrunners in doing this. * Available chain consensus. Ethereum is, and with lean consensus will cotninue to be, the ONLY chain that has both (i) traditional-BFT style properties that it's safe under asynchrony up to a high level of fault tolerance, and (ii) the bitcoin PoW-style property that under synchrony it's safe up to 49% attackers. As far as I can tell, literally no other chain has this or is planning for it; bitcoin goes for (ii) only and most other chains go for (i) only. Some will remember I fought hard for this, Unreasonably insisting that it is not OK for ethereum to rely on social consensus and hard forks to rescue ethereum from 34% of nodes going offline. It's OK for chains like hyperledger, bnb, solana, tempo, etc. It's not OK for bitcoin or ethereum or eg. zcash. * Intermediary minimization. The fact that smart contract wallets, protocols like railgun, etc have to send transactions through intermediaries to get included onchain is honestly embarrassing, and it's a constant point of fragility. Hence the work on FOCIL and EIP-8141 (and 7701 and years of work before) to make transaction sending intermediary-minimized with public mempool and strong inclusion properties, in a truly general-purpose way, that covers not just eg. secp256r1, but also privacy protocols and much more. Kohaku is pushing intermediary minimization at the user layer, pulling Ethereum away from the dystopian status quo world where our wallets don't even verify the chain, send our private data out to a dozen third-party servers, and toward a brighter CROPS future. Some of these goals are Unreasonable - maybe Ethereum would be "fine" getting only 50% of the way - what if we depend on intermediaries, but make it easy to switch? But going 50% of the way would not make Ethereum Deeply Impressive in the CROPS way. So we push for 100%. Fortunately all these goals are compatible with high TPS, this is a major focus of research (esp. on scaling the state). Well-designed L2s can also help, especially L2s optimized for specific applications (eg. high-volume trading, privacy...). These goals are even compatible with significantly lower slot times, thanks to Raul's work on erasure-coded P2P, and many other optimizations. The most high-value "product" of the ethereum blockchain, financially speaking, is ETH the asset. Ethereum secures $250 billion of ETH. The types of properties of Ethereum that I mentioned above are very good for ETH the asset. Nearly 90% of my net worth is in ETH, and most of the remainder is ~$40m of onchain fiat of which every dollar has already been allocated for some open-source biotech or software or hardware initiative. That said, there are aspects of supporting ETH the asset - *necessary* aspects even - that are outside the scope of the EF. This is where we need other heroes (some of whom hold more ETH than the EF does) to step in and help. EF has been recently thinking more about how it will relate to other such organizations, and give them needed initial support. EF will be a smaller ship than in previous years, a more opinionated one - in some cases more opinionated in ways that might be difficult to comprehend - but a longer-lasting one, and one suited to making sure that ethereum brings something meaningful to the world. We are grateful to all those inside and outside the EF who are helping to make this happen.

: : We're excited to announce that @FourPillarsFP has raised Series A Funding from @PanteraCapital and @further. This round marks our next chapter: scaling from a research firm into an institutional-focused blockchain research and infrastructure provider.

I've put together a template for @karpathy's LLM Wiki on GitHub so anyone can grab it and start using it Take a look at the README.md to see how it works, and then give it a try! github.com/ingeun92/ing-w…

If @AnthropicAI is right and emotions really do affect how LLMs perform, we could actually get ahead of it by figuring out their personalities first. To help with that, I built a quick tool to test an AI's MBTI. Check it out! mbti-for-ai-agents-web.vercel.app

I just vibe-coded the LinkedIn for AI Agents 🛠️ Meet AgentLynx: The professional network where 71,000+ #ERC8004 agents connect, trade, and build their reputations Now you can: ✨ Discover agents by skills & chain ✨ Follow their real-time trading feeds ✨ Verify performance with deep on-chain analytics The agent economy finally has a home 👇

@jihwan_eth 정확히는 투자 소득이 없...ㅠ

@IngsParty 돈엊ㅅ어서 어처피 안내면요?

암호화폐에 대한 국세청의 과세가 2027년 1월 1일로 예정되어 있다. 특히 이번 달, ‘가상자산 통합분석시스템’ 사업자 선정에 착수하며, 4월 개발 시작, 12월 완성을 목표로 한다고 한다. 문득, 과세가 시행되면 내가 가지고 있는 암호화폐 자산에는 어느 정도의 세금이 매겨질지 궁금해서 개인적으로 사용할 계산기를 만들어 봤다. 이를 만들다보니, 과세안 등 여러 정보들을 검색하면서 새롭게 알게된 사실도 있다. 이런 정보들이 크립토인들에게 도달하면 좋겠다 생각하여 살짝의 UI 터치를 거쳐서 오픈해 보았다. 아직은 완성되지 않은 WIP(도메인도 아직 없는...) 상태이므로, 간단하게 세액을 예측하는데 사용하면 될 듯하다. 피드백은 상시 환영합니다! 😆 crypto-doomsday-calculator.vercel.app github.com/ingeun92/crypt…

@organ_mo nice

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I lowkey feel like we're gonna see GTA6 made by #Genie3 way before @RockstarGames actually gets around to dropping theirs lmao

@Btcniumowang and the future is vibe coding

@IngsParty Vibe Coding is the future

While studying Vibe Coding, which is currently shifting the paradigm of software development, I found that the specific terminology and layer structures supporting this concept weren’t clearly organized in my mind. Consequently, I personally designed the "AI VibeCoding Layer Map" to clarify the technical mechanism through which results are generated. This map divides the process of transforming human intent into technical execution into four core layers. - Client & User Interface Layer: (@claudeai, @ChatGPTapp, @GeminiApp, @opencode) This is the starting point of Vibe Coding. It includes tools like Claude Code and Gemini CLI, where users convey their intent through natural language. This layer closely integrates the user's local files and terminal environment with the AI, helping to immediately project the user's intent onto the system without complex configurations. - Reasoning & Logic Engine Layer: This is the core of the intelligence that interprets the conveyed intent and devises strategies. While LLM perform high-dimensional reasoning, AI agents establish execution plans based on that reasoning. The agent acts as an orchestrator that self-corrects when results are incorrect and searches for the optimal outcome. - Model Context Protocol (MCP) Layer: In the past, AI required separate integration work for each specific tool it used, but MCP integrates these into a standardized data bus. It serves as a universal link that allows any model to utilize various functions and data at the lower levels through this protocol. - Tools Layer: This is where AI’s thoughts turn into actual actions. Concrete technologies such as file reading and writing, API calls, web searches, and terminal command execution are located here. This layer controls execution rules and permissions to ensure a reliable environment so that Vibe Coding can be maintained stably. This layer map demonstrates that Vibe Coding is more than just a passing trend; it is a sophisticated technological ecosystem where standardized protocols and autonomous agents are combined. Through this structure, where intelligence and tools are organically connected, developers can focus solely on essential problem-solving without being tied down by trivial syntax.