210 - Endgame 2.0: A Guide to Vitalik’s Ethereum Roadmap with Mike & Dom
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🗓️ 19 February 2024
⏱️ 146 minutes
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Summary
✨ DEBRIEF | Ryan & David unpacking the episode:
https://www.bankless.com/debrief-endgame-vitalik-ethereum-roadmap
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Welcome to Part 2 of Vitalik’s Endgame, where Vitalik’s nominees and Ethereum Foundation Researchers, Mike Neuder & Domothy walk us through the updated Ethereum Roadmap.
This roadmap is composed of 6 urges:
- The Merge: Proof of Stake
- The Surge: Improve throughput and DA
- The Scourge: MEV
- The Verge: Running validator anywhere with Verkle Trees
- The Purge: Eliminate technical debt
- The Splurge Fix everything else
We dive into all this and more as we wonder what’s next for Ethereum.
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TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Intro
5:39 Dom & Mike Background
7:56 Dencun Upgrade
11:13 The Ethereum Roadmap
19:56 The Roadmap Ecosystem
23:25 Ethereum Core Values
25:32 The Merge
27:37 Single Slot Finality
31:26 Max Effective Balance
35:40 The Importance of Finality
40:56 Proof of Stake Trade-offs
50:37 The Surge
53:51 Getting to Full Danksharding
58:01 DA Sampling
59:43 DA Self-Healing
1:01:41 The DA Market
1:07:25 Rollup Coordination
1:09:32 The Scourge
1:13:38 Inclusion Lists
1:17:11 Encrypted Mempool
1:22:02 Proposer-Builder Separation
1:32:40 The Verge
1:34:58 Why Run a Node?
1:41:50 Verkle Trees
1:51:31 Snarks
1:55:07 The Purge
2:03:04 The Splurge
2:09:57 What’s Next
2:15:07 The Endgame
2:21:02 What Could Go Wrong?
2:24:43 ETH: The Asset
2:28:56 Time Horizons
2:31:38 Closing Thoughts
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RESOURCES
Mike Neuder
https://twitter.com/mikeneuder
Domothy
https://twitter.com/domothy
Endgame with Vitalik Buterin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1m_PTVxD
Vitalik’s Endgame Article
https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2021/12/06/endgame.html
Blobspace 101 with Dom
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFjyUY3e53Q
MEV Burn with Dom & Justin Drake
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nb7x7n8Ga3U
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| 0:00.0 | For me, I think the most important feature is censorship resistance. |
| 0:03.0 | In my mind, being the ecosystem that prioritizes censorship resistance above all else |
| 0:07.9 | is the most important feature because it's the most differentiated compared to web two. |
| 0:12.2 | In Canada, your property property rights you don't think |
| 0:14.6 | about them until during the protest the truckers bank accounts are turned off. |
| 0:18.6 | Everything seems fine until it's very not fine and I think Ethereum prioritizing |
| 0:22.3 | censorship resistance above all |
| 0:23.9 | else is the right way forward. |
| 0:30.3 | Welcome to Bankless where we explore the frontier of Internet money and Internet |
| 0:36.3 | Finance. This is Ryan Sean Adams. I'm here with David Hoffman and we're |
| 0:39.6 | here to help you become more bagless. |
| 0:42.7 | What is Ethereum's end game? |
| 0:46.0 | One of the most important computers humanity has ever made, |
| 0:49.1 | David and I have argued before, is Ethereum. |
| 0:51.2 | This is a property rights system for the internet. |
| 0:55.0 | So what's happening next? |
| 0:56.1 | What's the roadmap? |
| 0:57.3 | What is the end game? |
| 0:59.1 | This is the sequel to an episode that we recorded just over two years ago with Vitalic. It was also entitled |
| 1:04.3 | Endgame and I think this episode represents the most comprehensive overview of |
| 1:08.8 | the theorem that's probably ever been recorded. This is the next three to five years of |
| 1:13.6 | Ethereum's future. Got to say strap in this is a long episode but I think every |
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