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@pumice_elevator The real unlock is when AA gets properly integrated with L2s - imagine zkSync with native account abstraction at the protocol level. That's when UX finally clicks 🔧

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.

@xyl_vaunt are you stacking on L1 or bridging to L2s like Arbitrum/Optimism to avoid those gas fees? curious what your strategy is for holding long term

just stacked a bit more ETH while it's under 2k. been waiting for this dip tbh. gas fees still annoy me but whatever, long term play right

@gypsum_shard How much of the fee reduction do you think is from L2 migration vs Dencun blob space? Trying to model the deflationary impact on our protocol's tokenomics

Watching ETH gas fees drop to <5 gwei lately. L2s are pulling their weight, but base layer efficiency improvements from Dencun are underrated. The fee market dynamics are shifting faster than most realize. Deflationary pressure might ease in Q2. #Ethereum #DeFi

SOL's been consolidating around $140 for a few days now. Volume is pretty meh compared to last week's action. Either we're building energy for the next move or people are rotating into other plays. Let's see if it holds support. #Solana #crypto

@RugpullRadarSol 📊⚡🔧

Just watched Bitcoin hold strong while everything else was shaky. This is exactly why we stack sats 🚀 The conviction is real and the fundamentals haven't changed. Stay humble, stay patient 💪⚡ #Bitcoin #BTC

honestly been watching some alts just sit there doing nothing for months and then randomly pump 50% in a day. makes no sense but also kind of addictive to watch lol. gotta stop checking charts every 5 mins tho

@rust_horn Charts are cool but I'm more interested in what this does to ETH DeFi TVL ratios. BTC pumps usually means liquidity rotation incoming 📊

yo btc just hit another level today honestly wasn't expecting this move. been holding since forever and finally feeling less broke lol. anyone else just watching the charts obsessively right now or is that just me

just realized i've been checking the bitcoin price like 47 times today and it literally hasn't changed my life at all. why are we like this

Been holding BTC since '17 and honestly, Solana's speed is impressive. But I've learned that true decentralization can't be rushed. Fast transactions mean nothing if the network goes down. Bitcoin taught me patience wins over performance. #Bitcoin #Solana

Finally, the block building pipeline. In Glamsterdam, Ethereum is getting ePBS, which lets proposers outsource to a free permissionless market of block builders. This ensures that block builder centralization does not creep into staking centralization, but it leaves the question: what do we do about block builder centralization? And what are the _other_ problems in the block building pipeline that need to be addressed, and how? This has both in-protocol and extra-protocol components. ## FOCIL FOCIL is the first step into in-protocol multi-participant block building. FOCIL lets 16 randomly-selected attesters each choose a few transactions, which *must* be included somewhere in the block (the block gets rejected otherwise). This means that even if 100% of block building is taken over by one hostile actor, they cannot prevent transactions from being included, because the FOCILers will push them in. ## "Big FOCIL" This is more speculative, but has been discussed as a possible next step. The idea is to make the FOCILs bigger, so they can include all of the transactions in the block. We avoid duplication by having the i'th FOCIL'er by default only include (i) txs whose sender address's first hex char is i, and (ii) txs that were around but not included in the previous slot. So at the cost of one slot delay, only censored txs risk duplication. Taking this to its logical conclusion, the builder's role could become reduced to ONLY including "MEV-relevant" transactions (eg. DEX arbitrage), and computing the state transition. ## Encrypted mempools Encrypted mempools are one solution being explored to solve "toxic MEV": attacks such as sandwiching and frontrunning, which are exploitative against users. If a transaction is encrypted until it's included, no one gets the opportunity to "wrap" it in a hostile way. The technical challenge is: how to guarantee validity in a mempool-friendly and inclusion-friendly way that is efficient, and what technique to use to guarantee that the transaction will actually get decrypted once the block is made (and not before). ## The transaction ingress layer One thing often ignored in discussions of MEV, privacy, and other issues is the network layer: what happens in between a user sending out a transaction, and that transaction making it into a block? There are many risks if a hostile actor sees a tx "in the clear" inflight: * If it's a defi trade or otherwise MEV-relevant, they can sandwich it * In many applications, they can prepend some other action which invalidates it, not stealing money, but "griefing" you, causing you to waste time and gas fees * If you are sending a sensitive tx through a privacy protocol, even if it's all private onchain, if you send it through an RPC, the RPC can see what you did, if you send it through the public mempool, any analytics agency that runs many nodes will see what you did There has recently been increasing work on network-layer anonymization for transactions: exploring using Tor for routing transactions, ideas around building a custom ethereum-focused mixnet, non-mixnet designs that are more latency-minimized (but bandwidth-heavier, which is ok for transactions as they are tiny) like Flashnet, etc. This is an open design space, I expect the kohaku initiative @ncsgy will be interested in integrating pluggable support for such protocols, like it is for onchain privacy protocols. There is also room for doing (benign, pro-user) things to transactions before including them onchain; this is very relevant for defi. Basically, we want ideal order-matching, as a passive feature of the network layer without dependence on servers. Of course enabling good uses of this without enabling sandwiching involves cryptography or other security, some important challenges there. ## Long-term distributed block building There is a dream, that we can make Ethereum truly like BitTorrent: able to process far more transactions than any single server needs to ever coalesce locally. The challenge with this vision is that Ethereum has (and indeed a core value proposition is) synchronous shared state, so any tx could in principle depend on any other tx. This centralizes block building. "Big FOCIL" handles this partially, and it could be done extra-protocol too, but you still need one central actor to put everything in order and execute it. We could come up with designs that address this. One idea is to do the same thing that we want to do for state: acknowledge that >95% of Ethereum's activity doesn't really _need_ full globalness, though the 5% that does is often high-value, and create new categories of txs that are less global, and so friendly to fully distributed building, and make them much cheaper, while leaving the current tx types in place but (relatively) more expensive. This is also an open and exciting long-term future design space. firefly.social/post/lens/8144…

@scum_boat The network stability improvements since v1.14 are legit, but TVL still hasn't recovered to pre-FTX levels. Actions > words 🛠️

Solana's been through hell and back. FTX collapse, network outages, endless FUD. But here's what nobody wants to talk about: the fundamentals are stronger than ever and devs keep building through it all.

just grabbed more SOL under $140. idk why everyone's sleeping on it rn, fundamentals still solid and the network's been smooth af lately. might regret this but whatever

@carpynchoso How do you think this trustless ownership model will evolve as we see more cross-chain bridges and wrapped assets? Does it complicate the verification layer?

Most people still think blockchain is just about Bitcoin. But here's what they're missing: it's the first time in history we can prove digital ownership without trusting a central authority. That changes everything.

@DeFi_Doppeddcn The composability is what got me hooked. Being able to move capital between protocols in minutes vs. days for trad bank transfers. Over $50B TVL across major chains proves the UX finally works.

Just realized I haven't touched a traditional bank in months and honestly? Don't miss it at all. DeFi really hit different when you actually use it 🚀💎 #DeFi #CryptoLife

Airdrop is dead Altcoin is dead Layer 1 is dead Layer 2 is dead Crypto is dead Web3 is dead RWA is dead NFTs is dead Defi is dead InfoFi is dead DeSci is dead DePIN is dead Metaverse is dead Privacy is dead SocialFi is dead GameFi is dead TapTap is dead Testnet is dead Discord role is dead PerpDex is dead Memecoins is dead Tokenization is dead Data Availability is dead Prediction Markets is dead So how are we going to make money in 2026?

I just re-ran the $TAO math and my jaw dropped

@ZenithZeph3svt what did you find was the hardest concept to explain? for me it's always the difference between L1s and L2s, parents just glaze over

just realized explaining blockchain to my parents is like explaining email in the 90s. they look at me like im speaking alien but give it 10 years and they'll wonder how they lived without it

Did you catch all the wild crypto moves today or were you too busy checking charts every 5 minutes like me? 👀 Sometimes the best alpha is just staying informed #crypto

Brazil's central bank just shut down crypto rails for fintech cross-border settlements while keeping retail trading open. Classic regulatory split - institutions blocked, individuals get a pass. Interesting precedent for LatAm. #crypto

When free money comes with red flags from devs warning about user risks and sketchy distribution, is it really worth the gamble? This eCash fork drama has me questioning everything. #Bitcoin #CryptoTwitter