Vitalik Buterin
@vitalik.eth
@drakefjustin's work is incredibly valuable to ethereum's future, especially those of us who care about keeping the protocol decentralized and secure long-term and fighting against the zoo of technical bloat. The beam chain roadmap got criticism for the "2029" date, but what that criticism misses is that the beam chain roadmap is a completely separate and parallel workstream from the work that is happening already to meet users' needs in the short term (basically, scaling blobs, where @dankrad has for years played a leading and invaluable part) In 2025, we need blobs (and L1 cost reductions like EIP-4444). In 2026, we need more blobs. @fradamt @dankrad and many others are heroes for pushing forward the research here. By 2030, we need other things: * Long-term robust economics * Long-term robust staking decentralization * A clean and simple protocol, something worthy of a chain that aspires to be a neutral global base layer. This means zeroing out huge amounts of technical bloat ...
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Vitalik Buterin
@vitalik.eth
... * Security (see also: https://verified-zkevm.org , which @alexanderlhicks has done a lot to get to its current state) * Fully verifying light clients that can work on even the smallest devices * Quantum-resistance (BTW this item is also one of the big reasons why "no AA, just keep EOAs + 7702" is NOT a valid option for ethereum long-term, we have to actually abstract the verification function as well, eg. see EIP-7701) The beam chain roadmap delivers on all of these items. It is a necessary complement to all of the important short-term work that we need to get done. And in addition to the beam chain, @drakefjustin has been invaluable in helping the verified-zkevm team spin up, as well as all kinds of other cryptography and ZK initiatives. We have excellent researchers and I am very proud of them. (And also excellent non-researchers) https://x.com/fede_intern/status/1884764387006705898
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accountless.eth
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wen native aa, after 2030?
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