After taking a few weeks off, I'm excited to kick off @ETHConf next week talking about what it will take to make Ethereum reasonably necessary for the world 😄 If you're around NYC next week and want to chat about this, my DMs are open 📭 See you there!

See you in a few hours, @ethconf 🗽

Ethereum core devs just met in the Arctic to shape Glamsterdam and Ethereum’s future ❄️ All the notes are public at soldogn.xyz. Ask your LLM what happened, and dive deep into any breakout discussions!

constantly impressed by the ethereum community's ability to coordinate a hundred developers from 12 companies on optimizing and upgrading the core code of a single platform that tens of thousands of developers are building on top of, all of whom w differing opinions & priorities it's wild that this works. not a single other blockchain has this many open source moving parts, contributors, & true decentralization make sure to check out the notes from the sessions! soldogn.xyz/resources

Interop this year was outstanding. Extremely exciting to see Ethereum scaling, expect at least 2x-3x after Glamsterdam. Core devs were very, very busy and yet they also managed to make progress on FOCIL for Hegota. Ethereum goes hard.

The scaling we're getting comes: - without increasing hardware requirements - bounding the state growth This is literally what we signed in for so many years ago

A fact I feel like almost nobody knows: Ethereum's gas limit will be increased to ~200M after Glamsterdam, a huge increase from the 60M we have today. That’s a 3x of L1 execution capacity, with expectation of further doubling soons after that. Assuming no similar increase in demand, fees could stay near zero for years. This is the result of several innovations coming together at the right time: ePBS gives payloads more time, BALs let clients prefetch/parallelize execution work, and gas repricings make higher limits safe.

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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 👋

Exciting announcement opportunity to collaborate with @longnow! Today we are launching Long Now Labs. Our inaugural Lab, Protocols of the Long Now, is a collaboration with the Protocol Institute. Read more apply here: longnow.org/labs/001

What does long-term thinking look like in practice? Introducing Long Now Labs, a collaborative space to test, prototype, and build long-term tools. Lab Series 001 is a collaboration with the Protocol Institute to investigate three aspects of civilizational durability that are being radically reshaped by frontier technologies. -> Lab 001.1: Book of Time - An open call to submit a concept for a new way of marking, experiencing, or making sense of time. -> Lab 001.2: Epistemic Cycles - Seeking an individual or team to investigate historical patterns of technological disruption that broke down society's ability to discern truth. -> Lab 001.3: Interspecies Protocols - Exploring the protocols needed to support interspecies ecologies. If you are a designer, researcher, writer, or technologist interested in the deep future, we want to hear from you. Submissions are now open. Learn more about Labs and how to apply: na2.hubs.ly/H059wn90

Congrats to the Long Now team on their new initiative! The Protocol Institute has partnered with the Long Now Foundation to help design its very first Lab – Protocols for the Long Now. It's a great time working with @denisehearn_ and @jameshome, who are bringing it to life.

The Protocol Institute launches today. I've spent the past three years contributing to its predecessor, Summer of Protocols, and I'll keep my Memory Research Group work going under the new institute's banner. I'm really excited to see where it heads from here.

The Protocol Institute just launched, studying how protocols shape civilization. Edge City has been part of this journey since 2024, hosting SoP sessions at our villages, including Edge Esmeralda and Edge City Lanna. Congrats to @TimBeiko, @vgr, @tmbr_ss, and the rest of the team!

Summer of Protocols is now the Protocol Institute, with @tmbr_ss at its helm☀️ Read the full announcement here: protocolized.summerofprotoco…

g(ACD)m, @nixorokish 🫡

Edge City is truly special: the mix of horizon-expanding programming, thoughtful community building and A execution make its event some of the most unique & worthwhile I’ve attended over the years ✨ Strongly recommend checking the next California one out if you can 😄

28 projects. 5 months. Fellows working directly with client and research teams across EF, Grandine, Erigon, Lighthouse, Lodestar, Nimbus, Prysm, Ream, Reth, and Besu.

Full recap: ps.ethereum.foundation/blog/…

Six cohorts in, and EPF just keep getting better.