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Ethereum

Our dreams can offer insight into our deepest fears and desires. What’s a dream that stuck with you?

Ethereum's next network upgrade, Pectra, is coming to mainnet on May 7th, at epoch 364032 🎉

Pectra introduces EIP-7702, several improvements to validator UX, a doubling of the blob count (.oO!) and many other features! 

See the full announcement here:

Ethereum's next network upgrade, Pectra, is coming to mainnet on May 7th, at epoch 364032 🎉

Pectra introduces EIP-7702, several improvements to validator UX, a doubling of the blob count (.oO!) and many other features! 

See the full announcement here: https://blog.ethereum.org/2025/04/23/pectra-mainnet

The scent of fresh flowers can instantly uplift your mood. What’s your favorite bloom?

Base

Latasha just dropped 'Chaos' onchain

"Someone once told me in order to see my true self, I would have to set myself ablaze." - @callmelatasha 

Watch and mint: 

https://app.manifold.xyz/c/chaoslatasha

Just Frame It 🖼️

excited to share that selected teams for /just-frame-it will be able to build with @daimo Pay for free 🎉

it's great to have @dcposch.eth and team onboard 

witnessed the power of their sdk while building /betttr, a game changer for many use cases (not only payments!)

apply below 👇
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🔥 Proud to support the builders of Just Frame It!

Daimo Pay redefines mini app scaling—no more custom builds for every wallet or chain.

Build once, integrate Daimo Pay, and distribute everywhere: World App, Frame, and soon Opera Mini App.

Start now: pay.daimo.com 🚀

I haven't commented about rollups in several months, if not over a year, so I'm just a casual observer now...

Native rollups are pretty cool, and what I meant by "enshrined zkEVM bridge" a couple of years ago (except they've got a wider scope than zkEVMs)

However, they are not "enshrined rollups", as I wrote about them at least, which are in-protocol, L1 rollups

Overarching thought on rollups: there simply has not been anywhere enough demand to saturate 1,000+ chains by 2025 like I had expected in 2021. Including all L1s and L2s, there's maybe like 10, at most. I'm sure demand will grow, but not to the magnitude anyone expected. It would be prudent to factor in this lower terminal demand in infrastructure designs, instead of just "build it they'll come" hopium.

Showerthought EIP idea: 

Enshrined zkEVM Bridge

This will enable: 
- Type 1 (or Type 0?*) zkEVM rollups to deploy easily with no smart contract bug or governance risks
- Standardize interoperability, intercomposability and liquidity sharing between T1 zkEVM rollups

(1/4)

polynya

I haven't commented about rollups in several months, if not over a year, so I'm just a casual observer now...

Native rollups are pretty cool, and what I meant by "enshrined zkEVM bridge" a couple of years ago (except they've got a wider scope than zkEVMs)

However, they are not "enshrined rollups", as I wrote about them at least, which are in-protocol, L1 rollups

Overarching thought on rollups: there simply has not been anywhere enough demand to saturate 1,000+ chains by 2025 like I had expected in 2021. Including all L1s and L2s, there's maybe like 10, at most. I'm sure demand will grow, but not to the magnitude anyone expected. It would be prudent to factor in this lower terminal demand in infrastructure designs, instead of just "build it they'll come" hopium. 

https://x.com/apolynya/status/1629651981768990720

Podcasts

Dialectic with Jackson Dahl

Chris Paik is an investor and co-founder of Pace Capital.

Chris is all about intentionality and discovery.

He combines rigorous frameworks about incentives, people, and markets with an insatiable appetite for the new. He is a true original thinker.

We discuss his intentionality, approach to explanations, how culture follows a pendulum, the efficient market hypothesis and other frameworks for evaluating businesses and markets—including his newest on top-down vs. bottom-up companies, how he finds new stuff, the pros and cons of the internet and capitalism, Pace Capital’s values, and the inner-workings of Chris’s unusual mind.

Episode 6 is out now on all platforms, more links below: 

https://pods.media/dialectic/6-chris-paik-intentionally-in-search-of-the-new?referrer=0x9b902482E62Db8FC486C3f1acAA568006021DbEC

Chris Paik on incentives, capital, systems, and power:

"The world has two sides: a for-profit world and a non-profit world. There are entities that are trying to drive profits, and there are entities that are not trying to drive profits (governments, religions).

For-profit companies are really good at pushing the world to the way that it will be. They are very bad at being paternalistic. They’ll give people exactly what they want.

The non-profit side is really good at pushing the world into how it should be. It’s really good at being paternalistic. We as individual actors depend on the systems to imbue society with paternalism."

No matter how difficult, always remember: you are capable of more than you think. Keep pushing forward.

We often search for meaning in places where it was never meant to be found.

Fear might be a cage, but courage is the key that sets us free. Unlock your potential.

The world doesn’t owe us anything, yet we expect so much. Growth begins with self-awareness and patience.

mutedwhisper8

@mutedwhisper8