Endgame: Proof of Governance
Thank you to Hasu, Mike Neuder, Konstantin Lomashuk, Sacha, Josh Bowen, Tomasz Stańczak, Chris Hager, and Toni Wahrstätter for great conversations around this topic.IntroductionThis post expands upon my conversation with Hasu in our first episode of Uncommon Core 2.0 as well as my talk at Modular Summit. I’ll cover the following:Proof-of-stake (PoS) - The key motivations for PoS and its relevant properties are often deeply misunderstood, particularly “economic security” and “decentralization....
Endgame: Proof of Governance
Thank you to Hasu, Mike Neuder, Konstantin Lomashuk, Sacha, Josh Bowen, Tomasz Stańczak, Chris Hager, and Toni Wahrstätter for great conversations around this topic.IntroductionThis post expands upon my conversation with Hasu in our first episode of Uncommon Core 2.0 as well as my talk at Modular Summit. I’ll cover the following:Proof-of-stake (PoS) - The key motivations for PoS and its relevant properties are often deeply misunderstood, particularly “economic security” and “decentralization....
The Rollup Multiverse
Thank you to Patrick McCorry and Kobi Gurkan for the invaluable feedback and review.IntroductionI like rollups so I’m writing another thing, sorry. I’m pretty sure it’s helpful because I’ve gotten a ton of value out of these myself. Just writing it all down and talking to people like Patrick and Kelvin who have amazing mental models has been awesome. There might be a double-digit number of people crazy enough to even want this level of intuitive understanding of these systems, but if you’re o...
The Rollup Multiverse
Thank you to Patrick McCorry and Kobi Gurkan for the invaluable feedback and review.IntroductionI like rollups so I’m writing another thing, sorry. I’m pretty sure it’s helpful because I’ve gotten a ton of value out of these myself. Just writing it all down and talking to people like Patrick and Kelvin who have amazing mental models has been awesome. There might be a double-digit number of people crazy enough to even want this level of intuitive understanding of these systems, but if you’re o...
Rollups Are L1s (& L2s) a.k.a. How Rollups *Actually Actually Actually* Work
Thank you Kelvin Fichter for the awesome discussions getting philosophical on rollups, and for review of this post. Also thank you for the cartoons and starting the bridge ≠ rollup crusade lately. Thank you Mustafa Al-Bassam, Christopher Goes, James Prestwich, Nick White, & Cem Özer for feedback and related conversations as well. And a huge thanks to Toghrul Maharramov for review and fun back and forths! Especially since we disagreed on a bunch of stuff here :) Editor’s Note - The original po...
Rollups Are L1s (& L2s) a.k.a. How Rollups *Actually Actually Actually* Work
Thank you Kelvin Fichter for the awesome discussions getting philosophical on rollups, and for review of this post. Also thank you for the cartoons and starting the bridge ≠ rollup crusade lately. Thank you Mustafa Al-Bassam, Christopher Goes, James Prestwich, Nick White, & Cem Özer for feedback and related conversations as well. And a huge thanks to Toghrul Maharramov for review and fun back and forths! Especially since we disagreed on a bunch of stuff here :) Editor’s Note - The original po...
How To Do Lower-Case r research
IntroductionThis is my first shot at a “personal” post. I’ve been in crypto for just over a year, and somehow managed to trick people into thinking I know what I’m talking about despite lacking any of the knowledge, skills, or background I’d love to have. Some people have awesome backgrounds and do capital R Research, but I just embrace it and do lower-case r research. These are some of my personal reflections and ramblings. Mostly it’s my advice for how even as a newcomer to crypto, you can ...
How To Do Lower-Case r research
IntroductionThis is my first shot at a “personal” post. I’ve been in crypto for just over a year, and somehow managed to trick people into thinking I know what I’m talking about despite lacking any of the knowledge, skills, or background I’d love to have. Some people have awesome backgrounds and do capital R Research, but I just embrace it and do lower-case r research. These are some of my personal reflections and ramblings. Mostly it’s my advice for how even as a newcomer to crypto, you can ...
SUAVE, Anoma, Shared Sequencers, & Super Builders
Thank you to Rajiv Patel-O'Connor, Tarun Chitra, getsqt, Ben Fisch, Evan Forbes, Christopher Goes, and apriori for incredibly valuable insights, feedback, and review of this post. Thank you to Robert Miller, Hasu, Shea Ketsdever, Josh Bowen, and many others for great discussions around some of the topics here as well.IntroductionThis post further analyzes SUAVE and shared sequencers as a follow up to my last: Jon Charbonneau 🇺🇸 @jon_charb This is the complete guide to: - Sequencer dece...
SUAVE, Anoma, Shared Sequencers, & Super Builders
Thank you to Rajiv Patel-O'Connor, Tarun Chitra, getsqt, Ben Fisch, Evan Forbes, Christopher Goes, and apriori for incredibly valuable insights, feedback, and review of this post. Thank you to Robert Miller, Hasu, Shea Ketsdever, Josh Bowen, and many others for great discussions around some of the topics here as well.IntroductionThis post further analyzes SUAVE and shared sequencers as a follow up to my last: Jon Charbonneau 🇺🇸 @jon_charb This is the complete guide to: - Sequencer dece...
