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unfortunately, i was among those laid off from the @ethereumfndn in the last round. over 8+ years, it was a hell of a ride and a genuine joy to work with all my colleagues across three teams (mist browser, python tooling, protocol support) while at the EF; their blend of humility and ambition will continue to inspire my approach to work. immensely grateful to have landed with the protocol support team last year, to whom i pitched my little side project, Forkcast. it felt like a real spark from the start, but Forkcast has grown into something i'm deeply proud of: a tool that is relied on by Ethereum's stewards to understand and react to their complex world. i wake up and go to bed thinking about the nuanced social challenges that Forkcast attempts to tame. the work is meaningful and demands the wide range of technical and non-technical skills i've developed over a 12-year software career. its difficult to imagine stepping away. fortunately, i don't have to just yet. starting with the next three months, i'll be an independent contributor to Forkcast and the ethereum/pm repo, with support from the EF. during that period, i'll also explore what comes next for me, possibly including spinning out Forkcast. the platform makes good sense to me as an independent observer of Ethereum core development and i'd like to hear from individuals and orgs in the ecosystem that want to support that work. gratitude to those that have already reached out to start conversations. DMs open if you want to chat about the future of Forkcast or ways we might work together.

Announcing Ethlabs: a non-profit R&D lab for Ethereum and ETH Our mission is to make Ethereum the settlement layer of the global economy. The internet became global because shared protocols created a common language between networks. Private systems remained useful, but bounded. Finance is approaching a similar moment. As value, assets, and markets become digital, the world needs shared settlement infrastructure. Ethereum is uniquely positioned to become that shared base layer, the neutral foundation on which users, institutions, and agents can transact without intermediation. What we believe: • We believe credible neutrality matters. Ten years of uptime and the lowest counterparty risk. Ground that cannot be pulled away by any one country, institution, company, or person. • We believe ETH matters. The most valuable, programmable store of value. A decade of broad distribution, deep liquidity in onchain markets, and maximally trustless asset on Ethereum. • We believe DeFi matters. Markets, liquidity, credit, exchange, and coordination, open to anyone. • We believe adoption matters. Principles do not change the world until people benefit from them. We sit between two worlds: real usage from the builders at the frontier, and the protocol that has to support it. We work with users, applications, wallets, L2s, infrastructure teams, institutions, ETH holders, core devs and researchers, then turn what they actually need into protocol work, shared standards, infrastructure, and shipped products. Ethlabs is independent but Ethereum is a shared project. We are one node in a much larger network of stewards. This is the multi-node future. We have spent the better part of the past decade contributing to Ethereum core research and development. We are opinionated and transparent. We move with urgency, learn in public, and course-correct when we’re wrong. We are building a lean, talent-dense team for people who want to do the most important work of their careers: join@ethlabs.org

After taking a few weeks off, I'm excited to kick off @ETHConf next week talking about what it will take to make Ethereum reasonably necessary for the world 😄 If you're around NYC next week and want to chat about this, my DMs are open 📭 See you there!