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18. The evolution of Prysm with Preston Van Loon

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Preston is an Ethereum Core Dev and co-founder at Prysm Labs.

  • Early “ETH 2.0” history and the shift to proof-of-stake

  • Pre-merge anxieties and how Prysm navigated the merge

  • What it’s like to build a consensus client

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    Timecodes

    0:00 Intro

    2:26 Preston’s journey

    9:49 Prysm’s beginnings

    13:01 The turning point for Prysm

    15:16 Prysm V1

    18:09 Ethereum speck history

    27:05 Client Diversity

    32:33 Post merge

    37:36 Offchain Labs acquires Prysm

    42:10 Preston’s learnings and advice

    44:47 How devs can contribute to the space

    47:24 Follow Preston

    47:53 Outro


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