Bankless' David Hoffman joins Matt and Nic for a special episode to cover Ethereum's highly-anticipated Merge. In this episode:

• How David came to Ethereum and the Bankless origin story
• The story behind the Bankless DAO
• Whether David would ever consider focusing on other blockchains
• What could cause David to abandon Ethereum
• The Coinbase OFAC filtering debate
• Why proposer-builder separation might make validator-driven censorship harder
• Filtering transactions at the pool layer versus undertaking a 'Treasury Activated Soft Fork'
• Under what conditions would social slashing of major validators make sense?
• How embedded is the social slashing consensus into Ethereum's social fabric?
• The significance of the new supply dynamics stemming from the Merge
• Is the unlock something to worry about?
• Is there a 'crowding out' effect from staked Ether becoming a risk free rate?
• Does MEV pose a concentration risk post Merge?
• Are MEV-driven yields for stakers perverse?
• Is MEV an inescapable feature of richly stateful blockchains
• Why the notion of Certified-Toxic-MEV-free blocks might emerge
• How is Ethereum's roadmap determined?
• What's the deal with the Surge, the Verge, the Purge, and the Splurge?
• What are the strongest narratives coming out of the Merge?
• Probabilities of the Merge success
• Why the Merge may not be fully priced in

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Intro and outro music: Daniel Allan's Collage #344