Ethereum’s Next Decade | Tomasz K. Stańczak, Ansgar Dietrichs, Dankrad Feist, & Danny Ryan

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🗓️ 4 December 2025

⏱️ 93 minutes

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This episode showcases four of the most important talks from our Bankless Summit event in Buenos Aires for Devconnect, each capturing how Ethereum is evolving as it enters the real world. Tomasz K. Stańczak reveals the EF’s new priorities around developer acceleration, founder support, institutional engagement, and unifying the L2 ecosystem. Ansgar Dietrichs explains why Ethereum is shifting from long-term exploration to near-term execution, detailing the plan to 3x L1 scale annually and accelerate real-time ZKVM progress. Dankrad Feist makes the case for a DeFi-centric L1 where Ethereum becomes the global liquidity layer for RWAs and high-value settlement. And Danny Ryan closes with a raw, personal account of building proof of stake, surviving an SEC scare, and why he still believes Ethereum can meaningfully reshape global finance. These talks matter because they chart the clearest picture yet of where Ethereum is heading, what the next decade requires, and how its core builders are steering it there. ------ 📣BANKLESS SUMMIT 2025 | SPONSORED BY M0 https://bankless.cc/m0 ------ BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS: 🔵COINBASE | ETH & BTC BACKED LOANS https://bankless.cc/coinbase-borrow 🪙FRAXNET | MINT, REDEEM, EARN https://bankless.cc/fraxnet 🦄UNISWAP | SWAP ON UNICHAIN https://bankless.cc/unichain 🛞MANTLE | MODULAR L2 NETWORK https://bankless.cc/Mantle 💤EIGHT SLEEP | IMPROVE YOUR SLEEP https://bankless.cc/eight-sleep ------ TIMESTAMPS & RESOURCES 0:00 Intro 4:19 Tomasz K. Stańczak Ethereum's Next 5 Years 28:00 Ansgar Dietrichs Scaling Ethereum 2026: Why & How? 53:22 Dankrad Feist | Ethereum's DeFi Centric Strategy 1:10:22 Danny Ryan | The Last 8 Years: Ethereum, Burnout, & Coming Back ------ Not financial or tax advice. See our investment disclosures here: https://www.bankless.com/disclosures

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0:00.0	Welcome to Bankless, and we've got a treat for you on the show today.
0:05.3	I'm here in the greatest city south of the equator, Buenos Aires, where over 10,000 people converged for Ethereum DevConnect.
0:12.6	A week-long conference distributed all over the city.
0:15.7	On the Tuesday of DevConnect, we hosted the Bankless Summit, where we gave 12 speakers the opportunity to deliver their best,
0:21.7	most educational, most passionate talk, the talk that they have just a burning desire to
0:26.7	espouse to the Ethereum community and therefore the world.
0:30.8	We are packaging up a curated selection of these talks into two episodes, one episode featuring
0:35.1	the talks from all the members of the Ethereum Foundation,
0:38.3	Tamash, Ansgar, Donkrad, and Danny Ryan. And another episode, which represents my four personal
0:43.5	favorites from the summit, talks from Che Katsver from FlashBots, Lincoln Murr from Coinbase,
0:48.0	Michael Dong from Brevis, and Luca Prosperi from M0. The Bankless Summit was done in partnership
0:54.1	with M0, the Universal Stablecoin Platform.
0:56.9	They sit at the intersection of cypherpunk crypto economics and the Treadfi explosion of interest in stable coins and stable coin infrastructure.
1:03.5	They were just fantastic partners to have at the summit and really helped the whole thing come together.
1:08.3	The episode that you're going to hear right now is the Ethereum Foundation episode
1:11.8	where Tamash gives the lay of the land around Ethereum. Donkrad Fice gives his proposed
1:16.9	strategy for Ethereum moving forward, his last talk as a member of the Ethereum Foundation before going
1:22.0	on to Tempo. Ansgar gives a technical talk how we scale Ethereum and Danny Ryan tells his personal hero's journey to where he is today at Ethereumize. So let's go ahead and get into all these incredible talks, but first, a moment to talk about some of these fantastic sponsors that make this show possible. You can now borrow USDC against your Ethereum and Bitcoin on Coinbase. Crypto-backed loans on Coinbase make assessing liquidity seamless for crypto-hoddlers.
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