Ethereum

one of the things i love about the ethereum space is what seems like the never ending rabbit holes of specialty.

I like crypto nerd snipes, please forgive me in advance.

for example, you can spend a  entire week diving into the details of a particular da scheme and still barely scratch the surface!

ethereum related topics i’m tracking with close interest

- danksharding
- inclusion lists
- execution tickets
- zkEVMs
- ePBS (PEPC too)
- verkle trees
- rollup sequencers
- re-staking (still a newbie on this one)

i think verkle i underrated by the community a bit just because its a complex topic. still learning myself. 

stateless clients is super cool and removes the state growth brick wall bottleneck iiuc.

not all of the thing list have to be enshrined or in protocol some of these goodies like distributed building or rollup interop can be built by anyone. this is the very exciting part of the rollup centric roadmap. minimal viable enshrinement.

once inclusion lists and 4844 are done ethereum could credibly wait to do any more updates until the final post quantum  upgrade. 

third parties could permissionlessly innovate on top of a secure and somewhat ossified base layer.

i dont think this is a baseline scenario
but i point out to note how robust and perhaps anti-fragile ethereum is. 

economic sustainability is helpful
and critical but social sustainability even more so.

ethereum has an incredible community of developers, builders, researchers, content curators, event organizers, public goods funders and capital allocators…

as log as the social layer continues to grow there is no stopping continued adoption.

i also left out some 🤯 nerdsnipes. 

- account abstraction
- history expiry
- mev burn 
- multi-dimensional 1559
- distributed block builder
- rollup interop 
- single slot finality