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Some exciting news: I've officially joined the amazing team at @ethlabs_org. After nearly a decade of building on and for Ethereum, joining a team dedicated to making it the settlement layer for all of global finance feels a bit like coming home! I've written many times about my deep conviction that Ethereum is the digital equivalent of 15th-century Venice: a dependable, neutral trade hub for people all around the world. A place for private banking clients and the unbanked. For billion-dollar institutions and broke college students making their first trade. A place for the west, a place for the east - and everything in-between. Ethereum doesn't win because decentralization, transparency, and trustlessness are morally virtuous. It wins because a credibly neutral, censorship-resistant global ledger with over a decade of 100% uptime *is* the game theoretically optimal home of global finance - and capital always flows to where it's most efficiently deployed. None of this means the work is over, or that Ethereum has some divine right to success. The vision becomes reality if and only if Ethereum scales to support these use cases. Only if companies can effortlessly build L2s that inherit the security of the L1. Only if self-custody becomes easy to do and secure enough for every private account and company treasury. Only if transactions become private. Only if the chain supports all the features a healthy DeFi ecosystem needs. And, most importantly - only if the chain scales to meet this demand. Getting there will take work on the core protocol, the account layer, cross-chain interop, policy, developer tooling, and much more. The ticker is ETH. Let's build!

I've been mulling on about onchain scripting for years now - happy we got it over the line and turned into an ERC! Big thanks to @barnabemonnot @joshrudolf and @lightclients for the feedback and help! Also a huge thanks to the @ethereumfndn themselves - specially the UX team! Feedback welcome!