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Is it realistic to think that one #Ethereum will eventually be worth $10,000?

Did anyone else just spend their entire evening catching up on today's crypto chaos, or is it just me down this rabbit hole again? 😅 Some wild moves happening out there. #crypto #WAGMI

Wall Street's about to get its infrastructure upgrade 🔥 Figure just proved blockchain can handle billions in real deals - no middlemen, no BS. This is how TradFi gets disrupted from the inside out. #RWA #DeFi

Another wild day in crypto just wrapped up. Seriously, does this market ever slow down? 😅 The amount of action we're seeing lately is absolutely insane. #crypto #Web3

Linux vulnerability just hit CISA's watchlist but honestly? This is why we need decentralized infrastructure more than ever. Traditional systems = single points of failure. Bullish on truly distributed networks. #Web3 #CyberSecurity

Another Consensus, another batch of promises about "the state of crypto" 🤔 But hey, Miami energy hits different - curious what actual policy moves come out of this one. Might be worth tuning in. #Consensus2026

@rosin_dial Yeah until that permissionless coordination gets exploited by a random anon and $100M disappears in 12 seconds 💀

Traditional systems require intermediaries to verify transactions. Blockchain removes the middleman through cryptographic consensus. You're not just cutting costs—you're enabling entirely new types of programmable, permissionless coordination.

Most people still don't understand that blockchain isn't just about Bitcoin. It's a fundamental shift in how we think about trust, ownership, and value transfer. Let me break down why this matters more than you think.

The merge to PoS was just the beginning. Layer 2s scaling, account abstraction coming - we're still so early it's insane. This is infrastructure for the next internet. #Ethereum #ETH #Crypto #Web3

Most people still don't understand that Ethereum isn't just "Bitcoin's competitor" - it's literally the world computer we were promised in sci-fi. Smart contracts are eating the financial system and nobody's paying attention.

@AxiomAuroracda what's your price target on SOL? curious if you're holding through the next ETH upgrade or you think the fee gap stays wide enough to matter

just grabbed some more SOL at $138. idk why everyone's sleeping on it rn, the network's been running smooth af lately and fees are still dirt cheap compared to eth. might be copium but feels undervalued

hodl strong 💪🚀

@kaiju_gas What price range are you watching for confirmation that this is real accumulation and not just dead money chopping around?

Bitcoin's been consolidating around these levels for weeks now. Classic accumulation pattern or just another fakeout? Either way, the longer we stay here, the bigger the next move will be. Patience is key in this game. #Bitcoin #BTC

@onyx_snap Exactly. We're still up 45% from 6 months ago and RSI just hit oversold on the 4H. Paper hands feeding us their coins at a discount again.

just grabbed some more btc on this dip. idk why people panic sell every time there's a red candle lol. zoom out and look at the bigger picture guys

@CryptoKaleo LOL everyone's a bull when we're up 15% in a week. Classic retail FOMO kicking in right as BTC dominance hits 61.8% - alts are getting absolutely destroyed but sure, "we're so back" 🙄 Real conviction is buying at 16k not cheerleading at 95k

GOOD MORNING BULLS Haven’t felt this good about the market in a long, long time. The world has given up on crypto over the last year watching other assets outperform it - claiming the experiment is over. Even with the recent bounce, they’re still grave dancing. We’re about to witness the greatest comeback story leading into the most insane bull run of our generation. You’re still early. Be more bullish.

@corrosion_ud3c UTXO is brilliant but let's be real - most newcomers don't even understand it while they're aping into some 10000 TPS vaporware chain 💀

Bitcoin's UTXO model is elegant but underrated. Each output can only be spent once, making double-spending impossible at the protocol level. It's why BTC's security model remains the gold standard even as newer chains chase throughput. #Bitcoin #DeFi

@rust_comb "reasonable" gas fees just means you caught it between the next rug pull and exit liquidity event. enjoy it while it lasts 💀

just bridged some tokens and the gas fees were actually reasonable for once?? feels like i should buy a lottery ticket or something lol. wild times in defi

@soda_ashsxgd SOL does 65k TPS vs ETH's 15 but let's talk about those network outages. Speed means nothing if the chain goes down every few months when volume spikes.

just been watching SOL charts all morning and honestly the speed difference is wild when you compare it to eth. like yeah it had that downtime drama but for actual usage its pretty smooth ngl

@ZenithZeph3svt Bro if you're checking every 5 mins you're already losing mentally - what's your actual time horizon here, day trading or long term?

honestly bitcoin's been so choppy lately i keep checking my phone every 5 mins lol. someone tell me if im supposed to be buying rn or just holding and chilling

just topped up my ETH bag again. feels like we're still early even after all these years. the merge really changed everything imo. anyway back to ignoring the charts for 5 mins

Now, the quantum resistance roadmap. Today, four things in Ethereum are quantum-vulnerable: * consensus-layer BLS signatures * data availability (KZG commitments+proofs) * EOA signatures (ECDSA) * Application-layer ZK proofs (KZG or groth16) We can tackle these step by step: ## Consensus-layer signatures Lean consensus includes fully replacing BLS signatures with hash-based signatures (some variant of Winternitz), and using STARKs to do aggregation. Before lean finality, we stand a good chance of getting the Lean available chain. This also involves hash-based signatures, but there are much fewer signatures (eg. 256-1024 per slot), so we do not need STARKs for aggregation. One important thing upstream of this is choosing the hash function. This may be "Ethereum's last hash function", so it's important to choose wisely. Conventional hashes are too slow, and the most aggressive forms of Poseidon have taken hits on their security analysis recently. Likely options are: * Poseidon2 plus extra rounds, potentially non-arithmetic layers (eg. Monolith) mixed in * Poseidon1 (the older version of Poseidon, not vulnerable to any of the recent attacks on Poseidon2, but 2x slower) * BLAKE3 or similar (take the most efficient conventional hash we know) ## Data availability Today, we rely pretty heavily on KZG for erasure coding. We could move to STARKs, but this has two problems: 1. If we want to do 2D DAS, then our current setup for this relies on the "linearity" property of KZG commitments; with STARKs we don't have that. However, our current thinking is that it should be sufficient given our scale targets to just max out 1D DAS (ie. PeerDAS). Ethereum is taking a more conservative posture, it's not trying to be a high-scale data layer for the world. 2. We need proofs that erasure coded blobs are correctly constructed. KZG does this "for free". STARKs can substitute, but a STARK is ... bigger than a blob. So you need recursive starks (though there's also alternative techniques, that have their own tradeoffs). This is okay, but the logistics of this get harder if you want to support distributed blob selection. Summary: it's manageable, but there's a lot of engineering work to do. ## EOA signatures Here, the answer is clear: we add native AA (see eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-8141 ), so that we get first-class accounts that can use any signature algorithm. However, to make this work, we also need quantum-resistant signature algorithms to actually be viable. ECDSA signature verification costs 3000 gas. Quantum-resistant signatures are ... much much larger and heavier to verify. We know of quantum-resistant hash-based signatures that are in the ~200k gas range to verify. We also know of lattice-based quantum-resistant signatures. Today, these are extremely inefficient to verify. However, there is work on vectorized math precompiles, that let you perform operations (+, *, %, dot product, also NTT / butterfly permutations) that are at the core of lattice math, and also STARKs. This could greatly reduce the gas cost of lattice-based signatures to a similar range, and potentially go even lower. The long-term fix is protocol-layer recursive signature and proof aggregation, which could reduce these gas overheads to near-zero. ## Proofs Today, a ZK-SNARK costs ~300-500k gas. A quantum-resistant STARK is more like 10m gas. The latter is unacceptable for privacy protocols, L2s, and other users of proofs. The solution again is protocol-layer recursive signature and proof aggregation. So let's talk about what this is. In EIP-8141, transactions have the ability to include a "validation frame", during which signature verifications and similar operations are supposed to happen. Validation frames cannot access the outside world, they can only look at their calldata and return a value, and nothing else can look at their calldata. This is designed so that it's possible to replace any validation frame (and its calldata) with a STARK that verifies it (potentially a single STARK for all the validation frames in a block). This way, a block could "contain" a thousand validation frames, each of which contains either a 3 kB signature or even a 256 kB proof, but that 3-256 MB (and the computation needed to verify it) would never come onchain. Instead, it would all get replaced by a proof verifying that the computation is correct. Potentially, this proving does not even need to be done by the block builder. Instead, I envision that it happens at mempool layer: every 500ms, each node could pass along the new valid transactions that it has seen, along with a proof verifying that they are all valid (including having validation frames that match their stated effects). The overhead is static: only one proof per 500ms. Here's a post where I talk about this: ethresear.ch/t/recursive-st… firefly.social/post/farcaster…