Hey, Banclist Nation. Welcome to our special livestream. This is going to be a panel addition.

I think, David, this is going to be our dankest panel. Maybe the dankest episode. We have

ever recorded because we are talking about dank sharding today. And I got to be honest,

going to this episode, I'm not entirely sure what it means. Like, what is dank sharding?

But we'll ask some of the participants this and maybe David, you could describe the setup

of this panel and who's on it and how we're going to handle this episode.

Yeah, of course, you guys all know Tim Beco. He's the guy on the bottom of the screen. Tim

manages the all-core desk call and is coordinating the lead into the merge and beyond.

And we've had Tim Beco on before during he let a very technical EIP1559 panel and asked

the questions that Ryan and I are just not smart enough to ask. So this is one of those panels.

We're going to get as technical as possible. We have three fantastic panelists who are behind the

scenes. We've got Vitalik, Dankrat and Proto. Who are the minds behind dank sharding and

sharding in general and other Ethereum-related technologies. And Tim is going to be able to ask

questions that are the technical questions, the smart questions. But before we get there,

Tim, we just wanted to cover some high-level stuff. What is dank sharding? How to get its name

and just like, what does it mean for users?

Right. Well, first, yeah. Thanks for having me on, guys. So dank sharding and Proto dank sharding,

which we'll also get into our iterations over the sharding design for Ethereum. And we'll spend,

you know, the bulk of this panel discussing what they are with the trade-offs are and what not.

But at a high-level, sharding is a way for Ethereum to have more data pass through the

network. And because layer two solutions, like ZK roll-ups and optimistic roll-ups,

they produce it on a data. If we have a way for them to post that to the Ethereum network,

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