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Many people throughout the Ethereum ecosystem have brought up the concept of "Ethereum alignment". This can include values alignment (eg. be open source, minimize centralization, support public goods), technological alignment (eg. work with ecosystem-wide standards), and economic alignment (eg. use ETH as a token where possible).

Vitalik Buterin discussed the ideal Ethereum wallet, focusing on key features such as cross-Layer 2 transactions, enhanced security, and privacy protection. He emphasized how the wallet could seamlessly handle multi-chain and cross-Layer 2 transfers, improve user experience, and support decentralized identity and data storage. Additionally, he highlighted the necessity of integrating privacy features, such as ZK-SNARKs for private transactions, as well as robust security to counter threats like phishing.

The article analyzes the necessity of increasing L1 gas limits, particularly in the value of key use cases such as censorship resistance, cross-L2 asset transfers, and large-scale exit mechanisms. Through concrete examples and mathematical calculations, the article demonstrates that even in an L2-dominated world, a 10x scalability of L1 still holds significant value. This analysis not only supports the short-term necessity of L1 scalability but also provides valuable references for Ethereum's long-term technical roadmap.

Ethereum's scaling strategy has evolved from sharding and layer 2 protocols to a rollup-centric approach. The current roadmap proposes a division of labor between L1 and L2: L1 serves as a robust foundation layer, while L2 is responsible for ecosystem expansion. Recent achievements include EIP-4844 blobs increasing L1 data bandwidth, and multiple EVM rollups reaching stage 1. Future goals include achieving 100,000+ TPS, maintaining L1 decentralization, ensuring some L2s inherit Ethereum's core properties, and maximizing interoperability between L2s. Key research areas include data availability sampling, data compression, and cross-L2 interoperability.

With AI unlocking innovation at the application layer, the answer feels pretty clear: apps, apps, and more apps (of course with a bit of infra thrown in. I mean, this is still crypto ). We're already starting to see this shift from the infra cycle to the app cycle play out. AI will simply turbo-charge it.

This article explores the key objectives of The Scourge phase in Ethereum's future development, analyzing the issues that need to be addressed, its connection to existing research, and the related trade-offs involved.

In the article, Vitalik outlines several key reasons why it is important to start explicitly considering L1 + cross-L2 support, wallet security, and privacy as essential foundational features of the ecosystem stack, rather than building these things as plugins that can be individually designed by each wallet.

This article discusses the Ethereum "Merge" and explores the areas for improvement in the technical design of Proof of Stake, as well as the potential ways to achieve these improvements.

There has for a long time been interest in the concept of multi-dimensional gas, and with EIP-4844 we actually have multi-dimensional gas working on Ethereum today. This post explores the benefits of this approach, and the prospects for increasing it further.

In the last day, we finally saw blobs spike up in volume and the fee market activate as the blobscriptions protocol start.

This article provides an explanation by Vitalik on the workings of Plasma, challenges faced by NFTs, challenges faced by the EVM, and how Proof of Validity can mitigate many of these issues.

Vitalik has proposed some optimizations for the current Ethereum staking mechanism, providing a reference path for further reducing centralization and consensus load on Ethereum.

Ethereum client teams working together to ship the Pectra devnet. Given this greater technical capacity, one important question to be asking is: are we building toward the right goals?

This article provides an in-depth analysis of the latest trends in the cryptocurrency market, with a particular focus on the shifting capital flows and market changes between Bitcoin and altcoins. It covers the introduction of Bitcoin ETFs, the involvement of institutional investors, and the influence of macroeconomic factors, while also shedding light on the growing disconnect between the Bitcoin and altcoin markets.

This article explores the intersection of cryptocurrency and artificial intelligence, including how decentralized cryptocurrencies balance centralized artificial intelligence. AI can help identify fake information and fraudulent behavior, but care must be taken to avoid abuse of power. AI can also be part of game interfaces and rules, but challenges from adversarial machine learning should be noted.