Nico Gallardo

Excited to announce that I’ve joined @OctantApp as a Community Lead! I spent last week with the leadership team in NYC and I’m extremely bullish on what’s next for Octant. The vision for v2 (codename Degens & Dragons) aligns extremely well with my previous work bringing degens and regens together. Octant v2 will take Ethereum PGF to the next level and I couldn’t think of a stronger team to manifest this vision. Reach out if you’d like to help us tame dragons (DeFi, L2s, DAOs), recruit degens and empower regens. I’ll be rocking my new pfp by @ccalovulcan in a couple days ⚗️ Yeet

@sodofi_ @MTSlive @liangsays huge! congrats

career update: i’ve joined @MTSlive as a full time host! after spending the last few weeks guest hosting, i knew this was a team i wanted to be part of. it’s a rare moment for technology and MTS is at the frontier of telling its story. grateful to work alongside @liangsays @ChrisJBakke @theojaffee @schisofrenia @netcapgirl @gbrl_dick @knowerofmarkets @komalravsharma and more. truly some of the most dedicated, talented people i've ever met. beyond excited to be part of this team and for all that’s to come ps. we're already live! come watch my first day hosting

I miss chatting with these folks. Been heads down for too long.

@BH1991 👀👀👀

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Octant crossed $9M in total public goods funding as its 12th round closed. 25 projects received 88 WETH, with Tor Project, rotki, L2BEAT, SEAL 911 and Solidity at the top. Results verified on-chain with a ZK proof. @OctantApp $GLM daotimes.com/octant-crosses…

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Two weeks ago, Ethereum researchers met in Berlin to continue charting the protocol's long-term trajectory, following along discussions with client teams in Svalbard in April. The updated strawmap is at strawmap.org, and I attached a picture of it to this post. My own high-level takeaways: * "Lean Ethereum" is not a single one-shot upgrade, it is a collection of improvements that will come online to the Ethereum network over the course of three or four years. But make no mistake, this IS the third major iteration of Ethereum in the same way that the Merge was the second. Almost every major piece of the protocol will be replaced: - Verification through recursive STARKs, rather than direct re-execution. Recursive STARKs become an enshrined first-class core component of the protocol - Replacing everything quantum-vulnerable with quantum-safe alternatives - Consensus: decoupled available chain and finality, one or two-round finality. Theoretically optimal security properties, simpler than today, and faster than today - Multidimensional gas - State: not just tree structure, but what *types* of state are available - Changes to client architecture ... At the same time, simplification, cleanup and future-proofing. And this will all be done in a way that minimizes disruption to existing application. We've done this before (the Merge), we can do it again. * H-star (aka Hegota) is probably Ethereum's last thematically "pre-Lean" fork. Starting from I-star, most of everything we do will have a very strong "Lean" feel to it in one way or another. * Privacy is no longer an afterthought, it is a first class goal. When designing Frames, the mempool, additions to the state tree, we explicitly ask the question "okay, how do quantum-safe, intermediary-free privacy protocol transactions go through this, and what is the overhead?" * Formal verification of everything for security. * FV also makes us much more comfortable with canonicalization (having pieces of the protocol that are directly defined as a piece of bytecode expressed in some language). evm-asm is being written in part to become a canonical proof system for the EVM. * Quantum safety has shifted up a LOT in priority. This adds a lot of work (eg. finalizing a quantum-safe blobs design has become urgent; this work has already been ongoing for months) * Probably the single most disruptive part of the plan is the changes to state. There is growing consensus around leaving present-day-style "dynamic state" mostly unchanged, but scaling it only a medium amount, and adding new types of state that are more scalability-friendly (eg. no need for builders to sync/store all of it) but more restrictive, and that will scale a large amount. eg. possible Ethereum in 2030: 2 TB of present-day-style (dynamic) state, and 100 TB of new-style (scalable but restrictive) state This "new-style" state would work very well for ERC20s, NFTs, many defi use cases, but not eg. highly "central" objects like Uniswap contracts, or onchain order books, or other complex things (which are crucial for Ethereum but which only take up a small percentage of state) Hence, it will not be *necessary* to rewrite any apps, but it will be *very cost-effective* to eg. rewrite an ERC20 token into a newer design that uses a new type of UTXO storage that is currently being explored, so that it will have >10x lower txfees. Design of these new state types (current ideas: keyed nonces, ring buffers, UTXOs, statically accessible state, temp state) is an area where we will need a lot of feedback from application developers (incl. privacy-friendly application developers) and probably several rounds of rethinking and iteration. * In the context of a much larger total state size, we need to figure out the incentive issues around who stores this state and what motivates them to. Even saying "each node stores 1%" is not good enough - why do they store that 1% and why are they willing to serve it? This is being elevated as a first-class research area. * Ethereum will need to have a "VM" other than EVM in one form or another - at the very least, we need something like leanISA for recursive STARKs - and the gains are large in exposing it to users so that we support programmable privacy and better scalability. Right now, the most likely contenders are leanISA and RISC-V. My own ideal is that in this world, we adjust the protocol so that the EVM becomes a high-level-language compiler-level feature, and the protocol only "sees" RISC-V / leanISA directly. But this is still far away. * Gas limit increases, blob increases and slot time decreases will happen many times over the next ~5 years. We expect a large gas limit increase with Glasterdam. Each step of increased scale or decreased slot time is a matter of getting to the point where it is safe to do it, which comes from a combination of client optimization and protocol changes. Ethereum is CROPS. Ethereum is scaling. Ethereum is reinventing itself. Onward.

@wordsgirljul they tried to wash the earthy flavour too much 😭

drinking matcha that tastes like dish soap :(

UEFA statement on the Balogun case: ⬇️ uefa.com/news-media/new…

I compared 5 crypto cards on the exact same purchase in Europe. Test #4 👇 Same store, same EUR 7.65, same minute. Here's the all-in cost after cashback: - @ether_fi : $8.48 - @Krak : $8.58 - @Plasma : $8.63 - @wirexapp : $8.82 - @KASTxyz : $9.03 Same grocery run, but a 6.5% gap between cheapest and priciest. It comes down to FX spread, fees and cashback. Etherfi took it on the best rate plus onchain cashback. KAST charged the worst FX and a low-value fee on top. What should I test next?

@gabe_onchain @sarahaehalim @art_tem_ @0xferit It was an a absolute pleasure working with you as well, Gabe! I’m sure you’ll crush it wherever you go

Oooo and yessss, I've just wrapped a 6 to 7 magical chapter at @OctantAp, and I'm grateful for everything I've learned & built there ++ and for the time I've gotten to work amongst legends who're genuinely inspiring, such as @nicnode, @sarahaehalim, @art_tem_, @0xferit, @juliopavila22,@GravenPrest, @WGogloza, and so many others. Thanks fam 🙏🙏🙏 Wishing y'all a good riddance 🫶 Annndd most of all, I'm grateful for @arlery, my direct lead (CMO), who taught me SOOO MUCH during those ~12/mo working together. You're one of the REAL GEMS this ecosystem has ++ I hope you'll stay in Ethereum & crypto long enuff so we all can keep learning from you. Ikyk, I'm a HUGEE fan!! All the best wishes for ya, Mashal 💝💝💝

＿＿＿＿＿＿ | I'm hiring | |＿＿＿＿＿＿| \ (•◡•) / \ / —— | | |_ |_ wait for it... ... (just a bit more 😁) 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁 i'm hiring a company to call me their employee !!! here's the JD: the hire: senior product marketer with a vertical on crypto, defi, web3 ++ all things AI & tech. type: full-time, remote --> about the hire (me): ~15 years in marketing, 5+ deep in crypto. --> i love writing, researching, talking to ppl, building things, and treating problems like chess puzzles ♟️ what you get: - six autonomous AI agents in prod, eval-gated, each with its own memory and evolving skill set, doing research, drafting, and comp. analysis. - continuously fine-tuned & customized claude code AI harnesses for specific workflows... cooking hardd🔥 - no user data on your team? np, i'll build the measurement layer myself - product educator (videos, writing (creative & technical), SEO/AEO, etc.) - growth & socials - product management & ops - a winner mindset (on and off the keyboard): ESWC Dota 2008, chess trophy ++ footvolley medals (amateur, ofc) ++ in DeFi --> a winning hackathon sub & a few bounties collected along the way. and last but not least, zero time spent managing my ego as i'm fully focused on output. what i want: - you say "ship it" more than "slow down" - gib me a seat in the product and eng. calls - you'd rather test fast and learn fast - you're building something you REALLY care about why you need me: In 2026, the primary skill is shifting from coding to architecture and agent orchestration. tl;dr: high agency, results & data-driven, obsessed with the work and the fundamentals of crypto and DeFi. DMs open. RTs welcome 🫶 PS, still feel a bit awkward on cam but working on skillifying that too <3

@OctantApp Vozinha!!

Friyay. Who are you rooting for today?

We’ve loved all our livestream cohosts. Who should we invite next time?

@candufaz @joinpeanut

y ahora, que hacemos los dependientes de Offramp? 😭

Thank you to everyone who participated in Epoch 12. Together, we’ve allocated 87.98 ETH to 25 incredible projects. Detailed retro on the round coming soon.

first @ethlabs_org , now @ethereuminsti couldn’t be more bullish

1/ Announcing Ethereum Institutional An independent non-profit dedicated to accelerating the institutional adoption of Ethereum, its L2s, applications and overall ecosystem.