tired: the empire did nothing wrong
inspired: the separatists (prequel trilogy) did nothing wrong

Network States

People who are interested in living in a long-term network state node (so, permanent location, not popup), what are some properties that you would like such a node to have?

Happy winter solstice!

(the moment of the solstice is technically exactly right now)

What I would love to see in a wallet:

https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2024/12/03/wallets.html

politics

I feel like I disagree with this approach to government efficiency:

https://x.com/DOGE/status/1860739165144367441

The examples listed are a tiny fraction of all spending. If a government _optimizes_ for "don't make oopses that look bad on twitter", then it will end up missing a lot of valuable opportunities, and at the same time lots of actually-wasteful large-scale things will remain just because they look respectable.

You _want_ a VC-like approach on small-scale public funding, that is okay with large quantities of oopses, because its goal is to make sure it captures the 1000x opportunities. Concentrate prudence energy on the large-scale stuff.

PSA: my bluesky is https://bsky.app/profile/vitalik.ca , the other ones are all fake

Base

One part of L2 scaling is Ethereum increasing its blob capacity. The other part is rollups becoming more data-efficient. Good to see Starknet rising to the challenge.

Would love to see more EVM rollups increasing data efficiency too (see https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2024/10/17/futures2.html#3 )

https://x.com/Starknet/status/1858471396323836276

Ethereum

Watch the @bankless podcast with Roman Storm.
Then donate.
Privacy is an imperative for Ethereum. If the industry can't raise 2M$ for a legal case so critical to its own survival, I'm not sure what we are doing here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFhe9kSbLGs

Degen

GM Degens! We just hit 69k followers on X! If you’re not following yet, join the crew—though we all know Farcaster is where we hold it down. Still, always good to get normies aware of what we’re building. Let’s keep growing together! https://x.com/degentokenbase

devcon

Thank you to everyone who came to Home Base during /devcon 

Keep building

Vyper 🐍

The contract here is a sublinear staking contract: if you are in the whitelist (specified as an ERC1155 collection), then you can stake N coins, and get a return of N ** 0.75 coins per slot, for as long as the contract has coins to pay for it. There is a fundedUntil mechanism that ensures that if the contract runs out of money, every staker gets rewarded for every slot up to the fundedUntil timestamp, and the mechanism doesn't turn into a fractional reserve.

https://github.com/ethereum/research/blob/master/sublinear_staking/code.vy

Bounty of total 2 ETH for identifying any bugs / vulnerabilities in the contract and proposing specific fixes, if multiple issues are found the bounty will be split based on severity.

Amount: 2 ETH

@bountybot

This is a fascinating essay on education (that happens to be a tweet)

https://x.com/justinskycak/status/1858012912557633800

Listen to @jessepollak, @vitalik.eth, and others talk about Ethereum's rollup-centric future at /devcon 

Tune in live: youtube.com/watch?v=JMZcRMy-Oow

binghai

@binghai