Long Island Blockchain retweeted
Ok I just read through vitalik’s paper and if the vision he outlined is executed the implications are absolutely insane especially for the app layer.
The paper is basically Eth’s plan on how they will enable computation off chain with Eth verifying the result (ensuring computation occurred and what it did etc etc).
Now what this means is the definition of “onchain” itself changes, because instead of every part of an app having to execute inside a smart contract you can push a huge amount of complexity elsewhere and still inherit ethereum’s guarantees, this really does open up a huge amount of design space especially for DeFi.
For example with lending you could have really sophisticated systems analysing collateral, liquidity, borrower behaviour and market conditions offchain, with multiple solvers or execution systems competing to produce the best outcome, like the cheapest liquidation route, best refinancing rate, best collateral swap or best way to match borrowers and lenders all while the protocol only accepts outcomes that satisfy its rules.
So basically a lot more of the smart stuff behind a financial product can happen outside the smart contract, while Eth still acts as the final layer that checks the rules were followed and makes sure the money moves exactly as it should.
The MEV implications here are quite interesting too because more economic activity happening before settlement means more value moves upstream into who gets the information first, who computes the best outcome and what gets presented to Eth.
But the thing I’m most bullish on is what this does to the TAM of Eth just because this vision means ethereum doesn’t have to be fast enough to do everything itself it just has to be able to verify everything that matters.
And that’s an enormous difference.
It’s literally a world computer.
The cryptographic world computer:
vitalik.eth.limo/general/202…
My attempt to express in somewhat concise terms the true meaning of basically everything planned to happen to Ethereum starting from the fork after Hegota. It's really not just a blockchain anymore. It's a hybrid architecture that combines together blockchains and modern cryptography, to enable much more powerful properties.
FOCIL, EIP-8288, Lean consensus, state management, formal verification, advanced mempool improvements (including privacy), and the longer-term specter of obfuscation all mentioned.
Long Island Blockchain retweeted
I have long seen Ethereum as more than a blockchain in the original sense of the word. Vitalik confirms it: what began as a shared programmable ledger is becoming a general-purpose engine for private, verifiable computation at scale. Anyone who has watched Ethereum closely will not be surprised.
The more interesting insight relates to a common belief we accepted for 11 years: that decentralization came with inefficiency. We accepted the handicap while never deviating from the principles. It was the price of neutrality.
Vitalik now argues that belief is about to invert because advances like parallel storage, parallel proving, and signature aggregation in the mempool let thousands of nodes share the work instead of repeating it.
Decentralization turns from a cost into a performance advantage. But don't be fooled. Ethereum earned that advantage the hard way, over 11+ years, when decentralization paid almost nothing and cost everything. Yes, these techniques are public, but the years of experience getting there are not.
xitter.cf/VitalikButerin/status/…
The cryptographic world computer:
vitalik.eth.limo/general/202…
My attempt to express in somewhat concise terms the true meaning of basically everything planned to happen to Ethereum starting from the fork after Hegota. It's really not just a blockchain anymore. It's a hybrid architecture that combines together blockchains and modern cryptography, to enable much more powerful properties.
FOCIL, EIP-8288, Lean consensus, state management, formal verification, advanced mempool improvements (including privacy), and the longer-term specter of obfuscation all mentioned.
Long Island Blockchain retweeted
Nethermind 2.0.0-rc brings flat-state archive mode, cuts full-history storage to 2.1 TB
Archive node operators can now store the complete Ethereum history in significantly less disk space while syncing faster, reducing barriers to running full nodes.
ethernews.org/story/nethermi…
Long Island Blockchain retweeted
Ethereum's most consequential monetary decision is being dressed up as a math problem. So much for the idea that perfect theory equals common sense.
Stoked to be an @aztecnetwork sequencer!! 🚀🚀🚀🚀
Long Island Blockchain retweeted
you can outsource your thinking
but you cannot outsource your understanding
Long Island Blockchain retweeted
This is quite an impressive experiment. Vibe-coding the entire 2030 roadmap within weeks.
Obviously such a thing built in two weeks without even having the EIPs has massive caveats: almost certainly lots of critical bugs, and probably in some cases "stub" versions of a thing where the AI did not even try making the full version. But six months ago, even this was far outside the realm of possibility, and what matters is where the trend is going.
AI is massively accelerating coding (yesterday, I tried agentic-coding an equivalent of my blog software, and finished within an hour, and that was using gpt-oss:20b running on my laptop (!!!!), kimi-2.5 would have probably just one-shotted it).
But probably, the right way to use it, is to take half the gains from AI in speed, and half the gains in security: generate more test-cases, formally verify everything, make more multi-implementations of things.
A collaborator of the @leanethereum effort managed to AI-code a machine-verifiable proof of one of the most complex theorems that STARKs rely on for security.
A core tenet of @leanethereum is to formally verify everything, and AI is greatly accelerating our ability to do that. Aside from formal verification, simply being able to generate a much larger body of test cases is also important.
Do not assume that you'll be able to put in a single prompt and get a highly-secure version out anytime soon; there WILL be lots of wrestling with bugs and inconsistencies between implementations. But even that wrestling can happen 5x faster and 10x more thoroughly.
People should be open to the possibility (not certainty! possibility) that the Ethereum roadmap will finish much faster than people expect, at a much higher standard of security than people expect.
On the security side, I personally am excited about the possibility that bug-free code, long considered an idealistic delusion, will finally become first possible and then a basic expectation. If we care about trustlessness, this is a necessary piece of the puzzle. Total security is impossible because ultimately total security means exact correspondence between lines of code and contents of your mind, which is many terabytes (see firefly.social/post/x/202565… ). But there are many specific cases, where specific security claims can be made and verified, that cut out >99% of the negative consequences that might come from the code being broken.
Two weeks ago I made a bet with @VitalikButerin that one person could agentic-code an @ethereum client targeting 2030+ roadmap. So I built ETH2030 (eth2030.com | github.com/jiayaoqijia/eth20…).
702K lines of Go. 65 roadmap items. Syncs with mainnet. Here's what I found.
Lido V3 is here...and stVaults are changing the game for Ethereum staking. We built a video series breaking down what they are, how to create them, and why they matter. Start here 👇 youtube.com/watch?v=O7BVUJnd… Congrats to the team @LidoFinance on the launch!
Long Island Blockchain is seeking to become Lido stVaults Identified Node Operator. More about us here: research.lido.fi/t/node-oper…
$31B flowed into BTC and ETH ETFs in 2025 with Ethereum gradually gaining share. Institutional demand for ETH exposure continues to build the case for professional validator operations. [theblock.co/post/383550](theblock.co/post/383550) #ETH
New CFTC chair sworn in. OCC signals banks can enter spot crypto trading. David Sacks calls SEC/CFTC picks a "crypto dream team." Regulatory clarity incoming—staking infrastructure should benefit. [cointelegraph.com/news/cftc-…](cointelegraph.com/news/cftc-…)
Institutions now hold ~11% of ETH supply while exchange balances hit record lows. Wall Street is building on Ethereum—they just aren't saying the name out loud. [cointelegraph.com/news/how-w…](cointelegraph.com/news/how-w…) #Ethereum
Long Island Blockchain retweeted
you cant write a better story than this for fusaka
on fusaka day
- seamless upgrade. chain works perfectly, reinforces the 0 down time narrative
- peerdas goes live. blob scaling 10x in next 6 months to support 1000s txns. reinforces l2 is scaling narrative
- chain finalization slows. prysm had a bug lighthouse becomes major client. reinforces client diversity narrative
- ethereum hits $3.2B arr. for 1 block, bc of the prysm issue. reinforces the revenue meta that ethereum can make revenue
0 downtime
l2 scaling
client diversity
revenue meta
all at once
Long Island Blockchain retweeted
Ethereum's blob fees are now millions of times higher than they were pre-Fusaka.
It sounds scary, but Fusaka actually fixed a broken blob pricing mechanism that set the blob fee to 1 wei (free).
L2s now pay a very small fee to use the L1 to store their data, instead of nothing!




















