I recently helped the new media team at @a16z bring some of their beautiful art to life. to be honest, it was one of the most fulfilling projects of my career. @bnslevin is truly one of the most talented directors/producers I’ve ever seen. and @chrstphrclark shot a level of footage I’ve never seen before. sadly timelines were tight and a lot was done over my weekend and Ben’s sleepless nights. but I’m incredibly proud to have had exposure to Ben’s ability to see and direct. what it takes to operate at their level is NOT easy. these are the times you have to show up and put your neck on the line. grateful for @bnslevin

Three years ago, we started the Clear Signing initiative as an open-source standard. Today, Clear Signing is becoming the industry default for transaction security. The Clear Signing Working Group brings together contributors from across the industry, all working towards a common goal of replacing blind signing with human-readable signing experiences, with the @ethereumfndn acting as a neutral steward.

Last week I travelled to the North Pole to film 100 core developers building Ethereum. But there was a twist... They had 5 days to build the first devnet for Glamsterdam, Ethereum’s next major upgrade, helping secure a $500 billion network. It was the most magical experience of my life. I’ve never experienced energy like it. It very quickly became, to me, the ultimate hackathon. With the stakes of Ethereum’s uptime. But how does anything stay together when no one is in charge? At one point @TimBeiko said: “we're about to turn 1 month of async work into 1 day”... From 4am technical drama (shit gets hot), To the most beautiful coordination between client teams, All the way to people really explaining why they do this. These are THE heroes you’ve never heard of. This is about the people keeping Ethereum alive. This is THE story. The people who have put a decade of work into Ethereum’s uptime. Full documentary coming soon.

WTF is Ethereum (Glamsterdam edition): more of your life is going to run through software your money your identity your messages your work your reputation your agents your access to institutions your ability to prove who you are and what you own the next internet will not just show you information, it will act for you it will move value and it will coordinate people, markets, apps, governments, even machines. in this world the question becomes: where does this internet run? inside closed platforms? inside private databases? inside systems you cannot inspect, cannot leave, and cannot meaningfully challenge? or on neutral infrastructure that anyone can verify, anyone can build on, and anyone can exit from? the latter is the ethereum bet the world needs powerful shared infrastructure but power without neutrality becomes capture power without privacy becomes surveillance power without security becomes fragility power without open source becomes dependence ethereum is trying to build the other path glamsterdam is an upgrade to ethereum that makes that path more credible ePBS changes how ethereum builds blocks today, part of block building depends on off protocol infrastructure and a very tight timing window glamsterdam brings more of that process into the protocol and gives execution more breathing room that matters because bigger blocks need time to move safely across the network block level access lists give ethereum a map of what a block will touch before the work begins right now, much of ethereum execution is like a kitchen where every chef has to wait in one line because nobody knows who needs which ingredient BALs give clients the shopping list up front that opens the door to parallel reads, better throughput, faster syncing, and eventually much more parallel execution gas repricing makes sure higher capacity does not poison the network blockchains have a memory problem when you create new accounts, contracts, or storage, that data can live in the network’s state for a very long time if ethereum raises the gas limit without pricing that properly, the network gets faster in the short term and heavier forever EIP 8037 is about making state growth pay its real cost ethereum can grow without making it impossible for normal people to run the network crypto people talk about gas limits, blobs, builders, validators, access lists, and state growth normal people care about something simpler can i own what is mine? can i leave if the platform turns against me? can i prove something without exposing everything? can i use digital money without asking permission from a private company? can the systems I depend on keep working when politics, markets, or institutions break? ethereum exists because those questions need serious answers Ethereum stands for PEOPLE has final say over their assets, identity, actions, and agents read that again in the age of AI agents will act for us wallets will become smarter software will negotiate, sign, pay, filter, recommend, and remember the internet is becoming more alive that makes the base layer more important, not less because when machines act for people, people need stronger guarantees about what those machines are allowed to do they need credible exits they need privacy they need open rules that is what ethereum is for it is the open rail underneath a more digital world the world is moving toward programmable money, AI agents, tokenized assets, digital identity, and institutions that operate onchain that future needs a base layer ethereum is fighting for that base layer to stay open the open path has to scale glamsterdam is ethereum scaling the open path and is doing it so that everything is still neutral still open still yours

The World Computer (@ethereum) is decentralized infrastructure for permissionless compute, communication, and association, and it naturally connects to builders who uphold those freedoms: open source projects, privacy and cryptography researchers, civil liberties defenders, educators and public-interest technologists, builders of resilient local communities, and the quiet maintainers of civilization who keep essential systems and traditions running.

A fact I feel like almost nobody knows: Ethereum's gas limit will be increased to ~200M after Glamsterdam, a huge increase from the 60M we have today. That’s a 3x+ of L1 execution capacity, with expectation of further doubling soons after that. Assuming no similar increase in demand, fees could stay near zero for years. This is the result of several innovations coming together at the right time: ePBS gives payloads more time, BALs let clients prefetch/parallelize execution work, and gas repricings make higher limits safe.

pulling focus for a week has made me realise why documentaries have teams of people but the fact this ‘can’ be a one man job is what inspires me the most and the truth is in tech if you really want to get into the nitty gritty, you need to bring out the best in people and you cannot be sticking huge arri alexas in faces’ if we want to tell these stories, this is the way

Interop this year was outstanding. Extremely exciting to see Ethereum scaling, expect at least 2x-3x after Glamsterdam. Core devs were very, very busy and yet they also managed to make progress on FOCIL for Hegota. Ethereum goes hard.