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not an AI doomer but it costs me nothing to thank Claude every time just in case

Ethereum

silence centralised l2s, the benevolent dictator is talking 😀

silence centralised l2s, the benevolent dictator is talking 😀 

https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1834061075970683367

Quiet all the noise….what’s happening right now?

Today is the 1 year anniversary of the launch of the MetaMask Snaps platform. To say that the past year has been a whirlwind experience is an understatement. Time for a thread! 🧵

Fantastic year, and the team just keeps cooking. I especially loved the features that caught me by surprise, like supporting JSX for rendering custom UI, and supporting permissionless installation for many snaps.

But really what I love is how it's accelerating all sorts of development, in and outside of our company. Year 2 is going to be even more fun.

I just executed *seven* L1 ERC20 transfers for 1.75$ in gas...!

When I saw the MM estimate, I assumed there was a bug so 10x'd the txn gas limit just in case 😅

A Wallet is more than managing your keys

A Wallet is at the center of all your activity

Better Web3 UX starts with a better Wallet…. 

… this is why we need WalletConnect

stablecoins

Fantastic

https://castleisland.vc/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/stablecoins_the_emerging_market_story_091224.pdf

Founders

I did some SEO consulting for Craigslist back in the day

chillest clients ever

Craigslist is our biggest inspiration for Bountycaster. Small team but large impact in helping connect people peer to peer + profitable business

IMHO, L2Beat's/Vitalik's Stages are incomplete. For Stage 2, in addition, 

- Alternate sequencing triggered within 1 epoch (i.e. 6.4 minutes). Currently, Optimism is 12 hours, which is not acceptable (preferably, there's real-time distributed sequencing) 
- Security council has pause rights only; upgrades even for onchain provable bugs must go through governance, emergency path with >X% approval

Then, there should be an optional Stage 3, or Stage X, where:

- Based or based-like sequencing is mandated
- Security council is dissolved
- Smart contracts upgrades require >Y% (80%?) approval from the protocol's full governance, in addition to >30d delay

For big-tent high-value L2s like Arbitrum One, Stage 3 should be the target. For most, Stage 2 should be perfectly fine, and even Stage 1 enough for many lower-value app-specific L2s.

In the past, I've mentioned many times that upgrade rights to Security Council are not good enough for Stage 1, and that they should only come with freeze or pause rights. That's why I cannot recommend anyone use Arbitrum One or OP Mainnet despite being Stage 1 according to L2Beat. Glad to see that is the case for ZKSync. In addition, I'd like to see an elected Security Council for Stage 1, a unilaterally selected Security Council is also not good enough. (E.g. OP just held its first elections, hope ZKSync will do so soon) 

I have also expressed my opinion on some aspects of Stage 2 being not good enough, you can see that here: https://warpcast.com/polynya/0x6131e8f0

(Disclaimer: I hold some $ZK tokens and am a delegate for both ZK Nation and OP Collective)

In the past, I've mentioned many times that upgrade rights to Security Council are not good enough for Stage 1, and that they should only come with freeze or pause rights. That's why I cannot recommend anyone use Arbitrum One or OP Mainnet despite being Stage 1 according to L2Beat. Glad to see that is the case for ZKSync. In addition, I'd like to see an elected Security Council for Stage 1, a unilaterally selected Security Council is also not good enough. (E.g. OP just held its first elections, hope ZKSync will do so soon) 

I have also expressed my opinion on some aspects of Stage 2 being not good enough, you can see that here: https://warpcast.com/polynya/0x6131e8f0

(Disclaimer: I hold some $ZK tokens and am a delegate for both ZK Nation and OP Collective) 

https://x.com/TheZKNation/status/1834256567316705674

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