Hey, Bangladesh Nation. Welcome to another state of the nation episode where we talk about

something big that's just happened, given to the details of it. And David, what could

be bigger than the Ethereum merge five days ago? Proof of work was abandoned. Proof of

stake executed, implemented. We merged the proof of work chain and the proof of stake chain.

And we're here to talk about it. This is kind of a post game show, I think. Who do we have

on? What are we covering today? Of course, none other than Danny Ryan and Tim Beko, the two

lead coordinators of this whole entire merge effort, who have been just shepherding the many

parts of Ethereum to get this done. And there are many parts of Ethereum. So this coordination

effort was no small feat. And so these people have been, Danny and Tim have been at the

spearhead of this whole coordination effort. And so we're just going to talk about, what

are they feeling right now, post merge? I can also, what are they going to do next when

they have been thinking merge proof of stake beacon chain for the last, you know, over a

year now? What's on the horizon? And also, what drink did they drink after they merged?

So all of these super important questions and more when we finally get to Tim and Danny.

Yeah, these are the important questions, I think, David. And in addition to that, I think

we want to ask what the future of Ethereum is. So this is a major milestone. And now it's

in the rear view mirror. Where do we go next is the question. And I actually think one of

those areas we go next is we need to work on decentralizing our staking providers, in

particular, our staking pools. Wanted to give a shout out to our friends and sponsors

at Swell Network. They are a staking application, similar in some respects to rocket pool and

Lido with some differences though, David. What is a Swell Network and what can folks do if they're

interested in decentralizing staking pools with this new protocol? Yeah, Swell has joined the

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