co-founder and CEO of Caldera, said that Ethereum has evolved from an application development platform to a robust settlement and data availability layer for numerous rollups. "These scaling advancements will open the door to mass-market applications in areas such as decentralized physical infrastructure networks (DePIN), gaming, and social platforms." Katz attributes this evolution to Optimistic and ZK proofs, which allow applications to securely "rent" Ethereum's security at an afforda...