Systems researcher & engineer · Previously research @ethereum.
Joined December 2011
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carlbeek retweeted
An exciting initiative is launching: The push for shorter slot times in Ethereum!
The idea: Instead of a one-time change, parameterize the slot time and treat it similar to the gas limit - continuous performance improvements over time.
And again a beautiful website!
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QuickSlots is the pragmatic way to get Ethereum to run much faster
carlbeek retweeted
ethereum goes faster
the QuickSlots ⚡️🎰 website is live, and I'm very proud of the design! take a look!
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QuickSlots is the pragmatic way to get Ethereum to run much faster
carlbeek retweeted
Ethereum, just faster.
the QuickSlots ⚡️🎰 website is live, and I'm very proud of the design! take a look!
quickslots.info/
QuickSlots is the pragmatic way to get Ethereum to run much faster
carlbeek retweeted
Being evil is cringe
It takes time to unpack the noise, but @CharlotteFang77 's "it's just art" excuse is the contemporary equivalent of the tasteless YouTuber "it's just a prank bro"
defense of plain bad parasitic memes
Being evil is cringe
carlbeek retweeted
EFer perspective: It doesn't seem productive to bring topics into the public space while they can still be resolved internally.
carlbeek retweeted
milady's core product is larp with the goal of growing the cult, it's entirely inward-facing. the entirety of the lore is self-referential and the gap between self-ascribed importance and actual influence is vast. the philosophy hasn't traveled any serious distance beyond the tiny ct bubble.
carlbeek retweeted
> 99% of the miladys i have seen have never shipped a real open source project in their life.
instead of simply owning it and saying "yes", there are all kinds of cope word salads now.
shipping nothing is spiritually pure now and not a failure. ahh im taste formating a noospheric phase shift.
carlbeek retweeted
You misunderstand the mechanics of what you’re calling LARP
Whether or not Miladys are all shipping (some are in a meaningful way so you’re being dishonest) the ethos of milady being vpl anti-IP freedom of information is inextricable from the symbol itself
It’s a Trojan horse for values that support you and EF directly so you don’t have to be mad and dismissive.
Don’t worry it won’t go away so you have plenty of time. But when you’re ready, read goldenlight
carlbeek retweeted
> they are hard core open source
99% of the miladys i have seen have never shipped a real open source project in their life. we dont need this LARP culture for cypherpunk values
here's why i love sporting a milady & think it embodies the ethereum builder ethos
1. they don't focus on price. in fact, they made it easy for anyone to create their own milady without spending money to buy one, which is different from every other PFP NFT project out there that wants nft price go up
2. their raison d'etre is cancelling cancel culture so they work on censorship resistance at the cultural level
3. they are hard core open source, not even the creative commons type where attribution is required but the purest form CC0 (what they call post authorship)
4. lending support to newcomers. no matter if you're OG or a beginner, if you ask for help amplifying content on the timeline, you have an army of milady's commenting and pushing your post to the top. this really mattered to me when i was starting out
5. Unapologetically Ethereum. No launching a memecoin on solana like pudgies
and finally my favorite, the milady way: either left curve or right curve, never middle
carlbeek retweeted
“Ethereum is a product/Ethereum is not a product” is a strawman imo. More important to me is how to make Ethereum development more user- and product-centric, for both protocol and non-protocol development. For one, the protocol has a roadmap, so product thinking applies here too.
Ethereum is also a platform, this is a viewpoint adapted to thinking about the services it provides, for the users (maybe infra) of these services. And thinking of it as a product also helps convey that work needs to happen on the adoption of its affordances.
Shipping MaxEB does not automatically consolidate validators. Shipping native AA does not automatically transform Ethereum accounts into superior accounts.
From my corner of the world, three places where product thinking are currently benefiting development and adoption:
- @corcoranwill and @_julianma are coordinating a strong outreach to possible users of the Fast Confirmation Rule, a rule derived from validator votes in the current protocol that provides strong guarantees of confirmation, towards faster user deposits and withdrawals in and out of L2s or other offchain services.
- @benjaminion_xyz is working to tailor the R&D, features and delivery of fast finality to the needs of its users and suppliers (validators). Get in touch!
- Our current interop work has benefited from multiple conversations with wallets, chains and users, with our efforts currently directed towards the interop-sdk developed with @Wonderland (see interoperable addresses in action here: interopaddress.com/ and the recent exciting news of the on.eth chain registration contract: xitter.cf/rudolf6_/status/203179… + h/t to the @unruggable_eth folks) and the Open Intents Framework developed with @OpenZeppelin and many others.
A final hat tip to @Butta_eth moving mountains to get more validators consolidated, a critical step towards faster finality xitter.cf/trent_vanepps/status/2…
There’s a lot more to build!
Right, who wants to talk about Fast Finality on Ethereum?
We're figuring out where the theoretical meets the practical: if finality matters to you, let's talk!
🏗️ Infrastructure: L2s, Bridges, Interop protocols
🏦 Liquidity: Exchanges, Staking pools, Apps
💻 Protocol: Client devs & researchers
❓ Others...
The Hard Questions:
- How fast is fast enough to make a difference? Is it quantifiable?
- Which trade-offs are ok? Economic safety <33%? Higher finalisation threshold? Lower fork-choice participation per slot? Slot length? Validator set cap?
- Where does FF sit among all our other priorities?
DM to set up a call - tell me who you are and why you care.
(Note: This is distinct from the fast confirmation rule - talk to @corcoranwill for that.)
carlbeek retweeted
you go deep, we'll go broad
I respect and appreciate the EF clarifying its focus and mandate so that others know what gaps to fill and which alternative threads to follow so we make maximal impact as a collective
At @Etherealize_io we'll stay the course and focus on rearchitecting institutional finance from the inside out
We are one piece of the diverse machine that will make the deepest and broadest impact possible
carlbeek retweeted
NEW in interop land for Ethereum: on.eth
on.eth allows L2s to register onchain (e.g. arbitrum.on.eth, optimism.on.eth) and for users/agents/dapps to create their own interoperable addresses on each L2
If you are a wallet or L2 and are not yet in touch, please do get in touch! (DMs open) More coming soon.
interopaddress.com for more info
and thank you ofc to ENS, Wonderland, Unruggable, and all the L2s/wallets plus many others pushing this forward 🫡
