Welcome to Web 3 with A6 and Z, a show about building the next generation of the internet from the team at A6 and Z crypto that includes me, your host, Sonal Choxi. This show is for anyone seeking to

understand and go deeper on all things crypto and web 3. In last week's episode

we did an overview of proof of stake blockchains so in week's episode, we do a deep dive on all things Ethereum,

which this week makes a big move to Proof of Stake in the Merge.

But our conversation, while it certainly will go into the merge and share lots of in-depth

and behind-seeing details with one of the core developers and the bottom line on what changes

what doesn't, also goes well beyond the merge into a high-level overview of what comes next,

what's top of mind, and more. As a reminder, none of the following is

investment, business, legal, or tax advice. Please see A6cency.com slash disclosures for more important information,

including a link to a list of our investments.

But now let me introduce our special guest in this episode

is Tim Baco who runs the Core Dev's

calls and Protocol Support for Ethereum Foundation and before that was a

senior product manager at Consensus. Joining me to interview him we also have A6 and Z crypto head of research Tim Ruffgarden

who among other things before joining here led the economic analysis of EIP 1559 on

proposed changes to ethereal transaction fee mechanism for the

Ethereum Foundation and we also have Ali Yaya general partner at

A6 and C crypto who leads infrastructure as well as many other investments and

before joining a six and

he was also a software engineer researcher as well as core developer in

Google's open source machine learning library tensor flow in the long and

wide-ranging conversation follows, we take turns

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