Technical AMA - will respond to any technical Q about blockchains, vms, performance, privacy, security, tooling, open source etc.

Hoping to meet programmers or architects with similar interests at the frontier :)

cto & general partner @paradigm. working with /rust on /ethereum. building /reth and /foundry. https://gakonst.com

What's most holding back scaling up transaction throughput on EVM chains?  Slow clients (e.g. geth vs reth)?  Database bottlenecks (e.g. I/O limits of a single commodity NVME)? Lack of parallel execution / tx pipelining?  State growth?  All of the above?

Eng @ Coinbase, working on Base
https://bayardo.org

all of the above. if a chain committed to a state management policy with rent or expiry it could go vroom vroom on speed. Solana nodes for example all bootstrap from state snapshot, discard tx history older than a few days, and now are building a system for expiring / witnessed revival of state