A year ago, I wrote a post about Games and Blockchain. Admittedly, it was a reactionary post as I was pretty tired of the VC hype “A huge wave of AAA ...

Imagine you could let Darth Vader run a supercomputer with a gazillion TPS and he still couldn't corrupt the chain, while you can verify on a budget s...

There seems to be a common misconception that Ethereum only scales via L2s. I may harbour some blame for that for writing aggressively about L2 rollup...

In crypto, you’ll often find absurd “metrics” to chest thump about how one chain is better than other. I’d argue economic activity is the most importa...

For me, a “monolithic blockchain” is one where every user has to naïvely reprocess all transactions to verify integrity. The more transactions the net...

Crypto has always been the perfect storm of planning fallacy. Things take ten times longer than anyone expects. In mid-2020, Loopring, zkSync (later z...

When it comes to blockchain scaling, we have often ended up with reductive narratives like “TPS number go up gud”. Since then, we have evolved to care...

I have discussed about the various demand drivers for ether on Twitter and Reddit many times before. There was never enough material to expand it into...

I haven’t written a blog post about DAOs since 2016 or 2017. Unlike my rants about blockchain scalability, this is a discipline I do have expertise an...

I wrote a post in September about where blockchain apps make sense. A few months after that, Vitalik wrote a detailed post about a similar topic, whic...

Prompted by @dankrad, it's worth looking at the type of blockchain applications that make sense, and what sort of demand we're looking at. I largely a...

In a recent tweet thread, I showerthought about “premium execution layers”. Let’s take the thought experiment further… A premium execution layer is ex...

Sustainability can simply be defined as the protocol remains online, resilient to attacks, and usable under all conditions. Arguably, it also needs to...

I wrote a bunch of posts & comments on Optimism forums about first steps toward decentralizing and minimum viable decentralization earlier this year, ...

Disclaimer: everything here is pure speculative showerthought with many oversimplifications, none of this is to be taken seriously, I only hope there’...

Oisín Kyne has a pretty great thread about why app-specific rollups are better than app-specific L1s for most usecases. I haven’t written about rollup...

A common hopium promoted by crypto people is “we must decentralize everything and put it on a blockchain” which has resulted in bizarre memes like “we...

This topic has been well covered by StarkWare and recently Vitalik has a detailed post about layer 3s. So, do I have anything to add? I always thought...

Previously, I’ve discussed why Ethereum should cancel danksharding (or at least, do it only when it’s robust and battle-tested years down the line): 4...

There are many reasons why someone would want to go anonymous, pseudonymous, or both. Perhaps your orthonym (given name) doesn’t match your identity. ...