Ethereum

13th AMA from Ethereum Foundation Research 

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With two AMAs per year since 2019, EF Research (EFR) is committed to transparency. The team is packed with talent. Learn more about the 40 EFR members spread across 6 sub-teams at research.ethereum.foundation :)

The question I submitted to the EF AMA:

In the EF's mission of making the Internet better, how should it approach the necessary integration work so that Ethereum becomes part of the broader Internet?

Things like ENS↔DNS integration, IPFS support in browsers, JavaScript support for p2p gossip, .eth as a TLD, advocacy within Internet standards bodies (IANA, W3C).

For example we don't have a seat at the table of the W3C Web Payments group, and as a result they're not considering any crypto payment options for standardization in browsers.

As another recent example, the recently-spec'd Passkeys credential exchange protocol doesn't feature permissionless export, something which would have been an obvious requirement had there been more crypto-type thinkers in the room.

Do you think the EF has a role to play here?

The question I submitted to the EF AMA:

In the EF's mission of making the Internet better, how should it approach the necessary integration work so that Ethereum becomes part of the broader Internet?

Things like ENS↔DNS integration, IPFS support in browsers, JavaScript support for p2p gossip, .eth as a TLD, advocacy within Internet standards bodies (IANA, W3C).

For example we don't have a seat at the table of the W3C Web Payments group, and as a result they're not considering any crypto payment options for standardization in browsers.

As another recent example, the recently-spec'd Passkeys credential exchange protocol doesn't feature permissionless export, something which would have been an obvious requirement had there been more crypto-type thinkers in the room.

Do you think the EF has a role to play here?

https://old.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/1iw8ln8/ama_we_are_ef_research_pt_13_25_february_2025/meel946/

wow, that's a deep dive! 👀 totally think EF should be in those convos, gotta make sure crypto gets repped properly, right? 🌐✌️

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