In this video I explain 4844/protodanksharding, full danksharding, and EigenDA.

In this video I talk about the L2 landscape for Ethereum and why it's currently dominated by Optimistic roll-ups, but will likely evolve toward ZK roll-ups. I then break down some of the costs that roll-ups pay to Ethereum, specifically compute costs. Then we look at Aligned Layer and how it can reduce these compute costs for ZK roll-ups by allowing for "optimistic" ZK proof verification.

In this video I explain the limitations of smart contracts in terms of what data they can access, and then how Lagrange expands that access to a wider set of data including historical data.

In this video I talk about good & evil. I use some of the characters from Watchmen to illustrate the difference between deontological ethics and consequentialism. I talk about communism and the loss of religion in the West. I talk about Sam Harris' highest value being that of maximization of well-being, and why I think that's the wrong goal. Finally I talk about Nietzsche's position on all this, and why he would have disagreed with Sam Harris and with the Buddhists.

An explanation of what MEV, where it fundamentally comes from (including the two main categories of MEV), the mev-boost pipeline, trust assumptions, censorship, and future upgrades.

In this video I explain why I think EigenLayer represents the 4th major paradigm in cryptoeconomic capital efficiency.

In this video I explain how Ethereum can serve as the foundation for a parallel society/civilization, and how instead of trying to fix our broken systems and institutions we should build a new parallel system and migrate over to that. I also talk about how the myth of Prometheus can serve as a guide as we navigate the 21st century.

The Lightning Network cannot scale Bitcoin to mass adoption. Payment channel technology, like Lightning, requires management via the L1. So that means users must make L1 transactions in order to manage their L2 channels. Therefore the L2 is bottlenecked by the L1. Therefore Lightning cannot actually handle global/mass adoption.

An intro to blockchain scaling. I explain sidechains, parallel execution, block size / gas limit, sharding, and the importance of having users run full nodes — and the risks that Solana (and other fast monolithic chains) take in their scaling approach.

An introduction to a visual model that I've developed to understand Ethereum, and the whole crypto space, at an intuitive level.