Will Corcoran

There's a new chapter starting for the Protocol cluster. We're welcoming new leads and coordinators, and continuing our work toward Glamsterdam, Hegotà, and the Strawmap. More in the blog below 👇

@brucexu_eth tyvm!

@corcoranwill congrats!

There's a new chapter starting for the Protocol cluster. We're welcoming new leads and coordinators, and continuing our work toward Glamsterdam, Hegotà, and the Strawmap. More in the blog below 👇

Upgrading Finality - Edition 1 Check out the plan for bringing fast finality to Ethereum. Hosted on the the brand new and shiny EF Protocol Consensus website 😁 Lots of good stuff there! consensus.ethereum.foundation/blog/upgrading…

@poojaranjan19 Thanks @poojaranjan19 ! 🙏

@corcoranwill Congratulations, @corcoranwill !!

@raulvk Prolific. 🫡 Don’t. Go. Far. 🙏

Ethereum's roadmap got real in the last 12mo: PQ, scaling, latency, privacy, AA, minimization, hardness. A lot hinges on p2p networking. A few weeks ago I decided to leave the EF to keep advancing this layer from the outside. Last week was my last day; the end of a memorable chapter in the arena with some of the most principled, humble, and talented people in this space. The Protocol cluster is in great hands with @corcoranwill, @kevaundray, and @fredrik0x. The work continues, no time to skip a slot. Core Devs got pilled on ethp2p at interop, and so should you. 👇

🫡Thank you for everything @barnabemonnot ! I am so thankful for the time we had together at the EF and for how incredible you and @TimBeiko and @ralexstokes have been through out this handoff. All of your contributions set an incredible standard. We hope to make you proud 🫂

Excited to announce this evolution of Protocol, the @ethereumfndn teams stewarding, researching and developing the Ethereum protocol. After our re-launch of Protocol in June last year, @TimBeiko, @ralexstokes and I are now passing the torch to our talented colleagues @corcoranwill @kevaundray and @fredrik0x. They are taking on the task of delivering on Scaling, UX and Hardness objectives, with the protocol strawmap in their pocket (strawmap.org). --- It is also time to announce that I made the decision to leave the Ethereum Foundation, my home for the past 6.5 years ❤️ I am so grateful for this opportunity I had, to work with amazing individuals, on the most impactful project there is. Looking back from when I started (here it is -> x.com/barnabemonnot/…), it has been a wild ride from early EIP-1559 work, to the Merge, to MEV markets, to staking, finality, interoperability and UX; and from my beginnings in the Robust Incentives Group to co-leading Protocol for the past year. Over this past year, our Protocol priorities, particularly our "Improve UX" work, shifted my attention to nearer-term questions. Throughout, I've been excited to take on a more product-centric view. Making Ethereum's unique features more available to users today is on my mind; so is participating in the plurality of ways that Ethereum gets built. I'd love to hear from friends old and new about what excites them at the moment, and share where I'm at. Please reach out!

good summary. our formal verification work is vastly accelerating bc of all of this

It is time for the United States Postal Service to ban junk mail. Unsolicited spam calls are already prohibited by the FCC. Emails are heavily regulated by the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003. Junk mail is the majority of mail, 100 million trees per year. Enough!

@mauro_aligned The Mauro Method™️

It’s a sad thing I don’t track my biomarkers. Otherwise, we would already know about the effects and benefits of carbonara and espresso as pillars of a diet

imagine shipping bal-devnet-5 from here

@dionysuzx nice!!

you can now traverse Forkcast easily with vim keybindings! Forkcast should feel easier to navigate, check it out :)

@jchaskin22 @makhavannik 🫡

@makhavannik Biggest blocker is us We tolerate blacklistable money and call it progress We need to care

Horrible take “We cannot expect governments, corporations… to grant us privacy.” - Eric Hughes, A Cypherpunk's Manifesto Centralized stablecoins literally rely on corporations to not freeze you *Decentralized stablecoins are actually super cypherpunk $BOLD $fxUSD $crvUSD

🔐 New EIP-8250: Keyed Nonces for Frame Transactions 🔐 by @soispoke, @nero_eth, @lightclients and @VitalikButerin This replaces the single sender nonce with (nonce_key, nonce_seq), giving frame transactions independent replay domains. For privacy protocols, the key can be derived from a nullifier: concurrent withdrawals from a shared sender become possible, with inclusion atomically marking the nullifier spent. Target fork: Hegota Links below 👇

@TimBeiko 🐐🫡🙏

Yesterday, we wrapped up the Soldøgn interop: a week long core dev event focused on hardening Glamsterdam implementations to scale Ethereum securely ☀️ It was our most intense one yet. Teams used every hour of the midnight sun, ultimately converging on a 200M gas limit target after Glamsterdam, a more than 3x increase! Soldøgn also marked the end of my tenure at the EF & L1 R&D. As announced earlier this year, I'll be exploring frontier use cases for Ethereum. I could not have asked for a better way to wrap up the past 8 years: IMO this was our best interop yet. Thank you to everyone who made it so special ❤️‍🔥 I’ll be offline for the next month, then back in June, kicking things off at @EthConf! Please reach out then to chat about things that only Ethereum can make possible. Cheers 👋

Unironically putting this kid in charge of a US Sovereign wealth fund could fix our debt problems

cRYpo cAPiTaL oF tHe WOrlD

peer-to-peer 💪

Me: Grok make an image that represents sclerotic ineptitude .@grok :

@trent_vanepps @ProtocolGuild Thank you for everything, Trent 🫡 Your Devcon SEA talk was such an inspiration to me — and still is.

as of last friday, I no longer work at the EF nothing but respect for the brilliant people i worked with over the last 5 years on network upgrades + funding efforts I intend to continue working on @ProtocolGuild and Ethereum political economy as long as funding is available