I'm starting to worry that based preconfirmations lead to too much centralization pressure, creating a small oligopoly of shared sequencers and provers. Is this really better than centralized sequencers (which can also give preconfirmations)? At least the centralization here is per rollup and not global.

"Stakers don't care about real yield, they only look at nominal yields"

Why don't we all stake with Celestia and Polkadot then?

Amazing work on shipping Dencun!

Can't believe how smooth it went. Great work by all Ethereum client teams!

I wrote a new blog post explaining how RAI works, from the perspective of supply and demand for stablecoins:

https://dankradfeist.de/ethereum/2023/01/31/rai-crypto-experiment.html

Ethereum research will host a reddit AMA on Jan 11 at 1pm UTC

https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/107cqi8/ama_we_are_ef_research_pt_9_11_january_2023/

Dankrad Feist

@dankrad