matt

the animals i've trapped have all become my pets and im living off of grass and the drippings from the ceiling

Looks like my talk in Denver really triggered the .eths. Here's the unfortuante truth that got them so riled up: ETH is failing to scale. It's not only failing to deliver on scaling the L1 which we knew already, it's also way behind on it's vision of scaling L2s. Base today does ~26 mgas/s and uses half of Ethereum blob capacity. Gigagas rollups are not coming any time soon, at least not on ETH DA. Even after Fusaka ETH DA capacity will only be enough to support 1/3 of a gigagas rollup. On the positive side i'm hearing through the grape vine that some of the more performance minded client times (reth, nethermind, erigon, etc) are gaining influence within core devs and there seems to be a renewed energy surrounding core development. My recomendations would be drop everything non critical and focus on 3 changes for the next 2 hard forks after Pectra: 1. Focus on shipping some verson of turbine, raptorcast, etc then shorten blocktime to 6 seconds (this is 100% possible after turbine ships) <- this one seems massively under prioritized atm. 2. Ship a fast finality gadget on L1 (ideally 1 slot not 3), replace LMD ghost if you have to. 3. Ship peerDAS and scale blob capacity to support multiple gigagas rollups. In addition ETH should adopt the minimum validator requirements of Monad which were very reasonable (100mb, 32gb, 2tb, latest gen ryzen CPU) and then use those to bench and scale gas limit rather than picking numbers out of thin air for blob capacity and gas limit.