Incoming SWE @ Base | prev. Eth Protocol Fellow & CU Blockchain Club President
Joined August 2023
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practice run for the Franklin Templeton Research Competition at UBC
not sure if we will be tokenizing tung tung tung sahur anytime soon though...
@UBC_Conference @college_xyz
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Probably will need a similar severity of exploit on Ethereum before people take funding the protocol seriously.
It would be nice to learn from adjacent domains, but things are never so simple 😅
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Finally, FOCIL devnet-0. It took around 5 years to go from an insightful idea to an actual devnet. Advancing the most decentralized network takes a tremendous amount of work: exploring the design space to find a solution that solves the problem without sacrificing the properties Ethereum cares about, writing down the specification and building a prototype, iterating to improve the design, finding and handling edge cases, and the list goes on.
Just like being able to travel across a country using only cash, we sometimes take things for granted and forget that they might not be guaranteed. But we shouldn't. You should be able to do what matters most using only the protocol’s most basic functions.
FOCIL strengthens Ethereum as a freedom technology. It’s a big step forward but not a silver bullet. More features are in the pipeline.
🤖 Made with AI
LFG, my intern project got pushed to prod.
Dynamic Upgrades
We’re testing storing future hardfork activation timestamps in an L1 contract instead of hardcoding them in node binaries
Rolling new node software to every validator is slow. An L1 store lets us change an activation time in a pinch, like if something breaks right before go-live
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Why are the Labs so bad at securing their sandboxes? If they really think it could kill us all, run the eval on a truly airgapped machine. Idk maybe they are just lazy.
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Sko buffs
Universities with the most students registered for UBC 2026 so far 🎓
1. @txblockchain — 18 students
2. @cublockchain_ — 10
3. @oregonblock — 8
4. @Blockchain_GT — 8
5. @blockchainatumd — 8
Nov. 20–21 in Austin. Is your school next?
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Pelle retweeted
bullish on cu x bb.
huge thanks to @EliDubizh @neenanaikar and @siyasiyasiyaaa for the massive help these last few weeks.
thank you to @Internmom for the great photos and support.
and of course appreciation for all of @cublockchain_ :)
tldr; the @college_xyz effect.
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It is always fun to talk with like-minded people. Appreciate Leo for sharing insights and @christine_dkim for hosting a panel!
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Just published the case for ⚡️🎰 Quick Slots in Hegota.
TL;DR: build variable slot timing as a non-headliner alongside FOCIL. Do the perf work in the background. Go as fast as we safely can.
Worst case? Status quo + a properly benchmarked CL. Best case? The biggest UX upgrade in Ethereum's history.
Link below 👇
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FOCIL does improve censorship resistance.
It leverages multiple validators to reduce the influence that outsized parties can exert over transaction inclusion.
It prevents public transactions from being intentionally and arbitrarily delayed based on rules or preferences not specified by the protocol.
It adds checks and balances to ensure Ethereum remains credibly neutral.
Reducing slot time to 6 seconds decreases inclusion latency for most transactions, but it does not address the relative difference in inclusion time between censored and uncensored transactions. Without FOCIL, and assuming the same builder market structure, this relative gap would remain exactly the same regardless of slot duration.
If inclusion time were evaluated solely as a function of slot duration, Solana (400 ms slots) would appear approximately 30× more censorship resistant than Ethereum (12 s slots), which obviously makes no sense.
FOCIL and 6-second slot EIPs are complementary, not competing. We should not artificially oppose them, and we should ultimately ship both.
We also need zkEVMs, faster finality, and P2P networking improvements.
Imo, the discussions should focus on prioritization, resource allocation, and technical readiness (see here for FOCIL: teapaw.org/soispoke/status/200857…).
Please, let's stop equating FOCIL with censorship resistance; it’s more nuanced than that.
I disagree that halving slot time isn’t a game changer; it clearly is.
Also, let’s not conflate Lean Ethereum with zkEVMs: moving to 6-second slots doesn’t inherently make zkEVMs harder to ship; the assumption is that the gas limit is halved in tandem.
We should ship what’s most impactful now.
DeFi asked for shorter slots, and now Ethereum should deliver.
After ePBS in the next fork, 6-second slots are very doable, without harming decentralization or triggering an endless race to shorten slots further.
