Mark Odayan

I've been wanting to write about rollups in Ethereum for a very long time, and this article represents finally delivering on that. research.2077.xyz/the-practi… We have a lot of work to do, but I hope that this helps drive something forward. If you wanna more about this, find me in Bangkok this coming week 🇹🇭👌

If you take emotion out of the equation (very hard for people, I know), it's not surprising Jensen is stepping down from a PUBLIC company. That is a lot to ask big shareholders to ignore... That doesn't have to take away anything from his tenure of taking Nvidia to the top, I'm sure they will be fine. Is unfortunate but completely understandable though

If people don't understand that Jensen Huang stepping down because of this is not out of the ordinary, then I'm sorry you are simply stupid and don't pay attention to anything ever. People have been forced to step down for far less. Having an affair with other people in leadership is a death sentence

I don't think most people actually know how horrible it is playing a game that is running on hardware not physically connected to your TV/computer Thankfully it's technically terrible at providing the experience because I also don't want to live in a world where we can't run games on our own hardware

I'm genuinely curious about how many Ethereum nodes North Korea runs. Likewise how many validators they have

I think that largely the work and vision of a lot of people at the heart of protocol engineering within Ethereum is aligned with building the most robust and resilient (secure) distributed system that is possible in the Byzantine setting AND is productive. The frontier is seeing how far we can get with securing useful open systems against byzantine behaviour and people have different ideas of where the fences should be at a minimum to guarantee system security which has some characteristics outside of the obvious ones that vary in definition (expectations around fairness, availability, privacy etc). What remains strongly appealing about Ethereum is how focused on the security aspect much of the protocol engineering folk are and hence showing what I consider to be a good understanding of the domain they are trying to build a productive system in. What does concern me about Ethereum is the sheer size of scope that comes with dealing with a network that has been live for over a decade. I do worry that we reach a point where there is too much complexity to focus on a lot of the foundational things (or that changing the foundational things comes at the detriment of what previously existed on the network), making it challenging to go forward. But maybe that just means that advancing Ethereum will take a lot of time, patience , focus and discipline.

Am constantly feeling like I don't use AI enough or at least well enough beyond coding agents and the odd MCP and sub-agent in coding envs. Constantly coming on this app and seeing a lot of people doing incredible things, be it building helpful tooling or augmenting their applied research. People are moving fucking fast out here, and the resourceful will be rewarded

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Finally got around to reading this. Prob the most mainstream spotlight ZK tech has probably ever received The fact that Anthropic are even putting out suggestions for enforcing regulations with SNARK verification is amazing. From something somewhat esoteric to potentially one day playing a pivotal role in regulation of the most disruptive technology rn is quite amazing anthropic.com/research/prova…

South Africa is in such an interesting place right now politically, there is serious competition for what seems like the first time since we became a democracy, what a time to be alive

Publicly to note, every right wing America supporter is a moron, especially those on my timeline. Please use your brains you were blessed with

There is going to be a massive amount of political egg on face in a couple of years