Ethereum is starting from the endgame.

Episode 4 of TheCoordinate is a deep dive into Lean Ethereum: a clean-slate rethink of consensus, execution, and data availability.

I sat down with Justin Drake from Ethereum Foundation to unpack:

• need for the rewrite,
• rewrite items: post-quantum security + fast finality,
• endgame finality (3-slot -> 2-slot -> maybe 1-slot),
• slot anatomy, networking constraints, and the "SOL slots" meme,
• real-time ZK proving changing the execution roadmap,
• censorship resistance with FOSSIL,
• role of L2s in the world of Lean Ethereum,
• incentives across proposer, builder, prover, includer, attester.

If you’re building on Ethereum or trying to understand where the base layer is headed, this one is for you.