tldr (tim reilly)
@tldr
I’m finding the Ethereum drama on X to really be missing the point. There’s a strange false dichotomy being presented between App layer and Infra layer which, quite frankly, Base and Farcaster are bridging / have already bridged. Specifically, it seems there’s this question of whether the Infra layer should be less cypherpunk; or else the App Layer more cypherpunk. I think this is really the wrong framing — this idea that the two layers need to be philosophically aligned. Vitalik’s sincerity about building *genuinely* differentiated Infra (eg, credibly neutral, permissionless, censorship resistant) is precisely what makes crypto interesting and valuable. At the same time, I am quite sure that the thing I am using that for (a wildly different experience of sports betting) is like… the very last thing Vitalik would be interested in. And not cypherpunk at all. And this is good! Right?! Infra needs to resist human impulses. Apps need to embrace them.
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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
TL;DR on the drama? Haven’t been on Twitter in the last 72 hours
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tldr (tim reilly)
@tldr
General self-fudding of “Ethereum culture”. Two representative posts below. I think it’s bc vitalik is making deep infra builds (that are also “inconvenient”) while ETH:SOL plummets Everyone’s response is basically to say the same thing that Farcaster and Base have been saying for years (“we need apps; we need devs; we need users”). But they seem to talk like they are starting from zero when actually… we’re right here baby :)
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