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It was great to jam! I enjoyed it as well. Happy to brainstorm any time!
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I don’t believe I have anything scheduled for it but @nounishprof I’ll find you at the venue! Thank you @borrowlucid.eth!
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Love the write up! This is a great summary @sushen
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As Vitalik states, smart contracts in Rust currently are less readable than in Solidity. (I know that I significantly prefer Solidity for smart contracts for this reason - they’re much simpler). But the benefit is that the zkVMs are effectively front-running this proposal, giving the crypto ecosystem a long lead time to develop better tooling for any languages that can compile to RISC-V
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This proposal from @vitalik.eth would be incredible for allowing smart contracts on Ethereum to expand to Rust and other languages: https://ethereum-magicians.org/t/long-term-l1-execution-layer-proposal-replace-the-evm-with-risc-v/23617 Zero knowledge virtual machines like @a16zcrypto’s Jolt, RiscZero, and Succinct’s SP1 use RISC-V, which opens the door for greater Ethereum compatibility with arbitrary Rust code, inheriting the tooling that is already being built around RISC-V
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Great question! For parasitic, I’d say cases where they capture large amounts of execution that would otherwise occur on L1 while paying much less than that to the L1 for settlement and DA. Onchain social or games don’t fall under this in my view, but large DEX swaps, significant value transfers, etc likely do As a result, for rollup specialization via customized appchains, they handle large amounts of execution that wouldn’t occur on L1 (gaming, social, at scale NFTs, high volume payments) while still contributing back to the L1 via settlement or DA. The execution wouldn’t have occurred on L1 because L1 doesn’t support the customizations these appchains need. As a result, it’s much clearer for them to be additive given that most of the value on the appchains is new value that wouldn’t have been captured by the L1
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I believe that rollups are extremely value additive to the EVM. Absolutely plays a huge role in standardizing Ethereum and its developer ecosystem. But their benefits for ETH as a token specifically are much less clear
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Yep, I do believe that appchains are the future and that they'll introduce more innovation than general-purpose L2s
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Agreed that chain abstraction + real differentiation (not just vibes) is key for the success of appchains Part of this is due to the fact that appchains are currently difficult to customize. When tokens were Bitcoin Core forks in 2014 pre-Ethereum, there wasn't much token customization besides block times/block sizes/consensus mechanism. But when tokens shifted from Bitcoin Core forks to Ethereum smart contracts, innovation increased a ton thanks to the orders of magnitude improvements in DX Our bet via @syndicate is that making customizing appchains as simple as writing smart contracts will introduce Bitcoin -> Ethereum levels of innovation at the chain level. Putting together some demos now to demonstrate this in a "Show don't tell" style way
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Rollups are only parasitic to ETH when they do the same thing as Ethereum Mainnet. As they become more customized and move away from “Ethereum but cheaper”, they’ll start to be additive. h/t to @raihan for the great conversation today
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I’ll post it on both networks!
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Wow, with the monitor you can get a full computer for $190. That’s pretty cool, especially if you offload heavier computation to other machines (Codespaces, CI pipelines, etc)
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Camel Up is undefeated in crypto circles 🐪
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I’ll be there!
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Ethereum public goods funding is alive and well. This is the real ETH alignment - supporting developers who are working day in day out to make the chain better
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Hardware wallet so not in any WC-connected wallets for me
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Cosmos got a lot of things right, but bootstrapping consensus is really hard
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Good question. It’s a bit different than most appchains because it’s not Turing-complete, so I view it as more akin to a cross between a DA layer and a storage layer. But in the sense that it’s a blockchain dedicated to an app, yes!
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The entire history of computing is one of vertical scaling -> horizontal scaling Large alt L1s/L2s -> appchains is inevitable
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Congrats @ted! 🎉 So exciting
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