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Our most recent Variant Research Day covered the Future of Crosschain. Couldn't attend? Here are the takeaways.👇

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First, we convened 3 interop founders. Hot takes: Astria's Josh Bowen says devs needn’t restrict themselves to EVM; @acrossprotocol's Hart Lambur lays out why users just want to push buttons; and Hyperlane's @nambrot argues for more permissionless infra.

Building the mechanisms behind the market.

You can find the recordings from each talk + more takeaways from Research Day here:

You can find the recordings from each talk + more takeaways from Research Day here: https://blog.variant.fund/variant-research-day-future-of-crosschain

Last, Ellie Davidson of @espressosys joined @cairo to talk all about preconfirmations: what makes them so complex for validators, why they’re hard to price, and whether they represent a winner-take-all market.

Then, @specialmech engineer Max Resnick put forward his proposal for multi-proposer on Ethereum. The TLDR reason: censorship-resistance.