we just made @ethrex_client again the fastest client in @ethereum. i've always said, lambda would deliver and push the boundaries of ethereum. after a couple of months focused on Glamsterdam hardening and Hegota prototyping, including hosting several public testnets for the most important EIPs coming in Hegota, we've turned our attention back to performance. this doesn't mean we're stepping away from that work, where we still have a lot to contribute. The early results are very promising. In just a couple of days, we brought block processing time down from ~40ms to ~26ms in mainnet, making ethrex the fastest client once again. The image below compares how we perform today (ethrex-baseline) with what we've been cooking (ethrex-testing). congrats @class_lambda, i'm proud of the team we've built. i love working with people that are way smarter than me. thanks @ethereumfndn for the constant support.

Congrats @bellolandia! Over 271k views in youtube in less than 24 hours for Electro Andes first episode!!! I'm proud of what we have built at @ergodicgroup. Argentina has amazing talent. youtu.be/KNNUhFe1i-0

Last week we presented Stabileo at the 29th Argentine Conference on Structural Engineering in Córdoba, Argentina. Our thesis is that AI should never generate numbers or geometry on its own. Instead, the agent acts as an orchestrator on top of a verified solver: AI handles intent and workflow, deterministic, verifiable software handles the engineering. The work was developed with Bautista Chesta, Raúl Bertero, Diego Kingston, well and me, bringing together UBA Engineering and LambdaClass. We also introduced Stabileo, our open-source structural engineering platform, to universities across Argentina. Several researchers and academics are already interested in contributing or using it. We have multiple companies alreadyh using it. stabileo.com/

the EF, sooner rather than later, will have a clash with a relevant part of core devs. some of the new entities/foundations will probably support core devs. ethereum has a clear governance problem that will be visualized thanks to three fronts: AI, post-quantum, and ZK. AI is making the size of the teams unnecessary, and it's removing funding from engineering projects. the quantum threat is moving faster than ever, and the solution is also moving faster than ever thanks to AI. web2 projects can migrate fast to a post quantum solution but that's not easy in blockchains. the third front, ZK, is gonna make most execution clients unnecessary. we will have one or two guest programs fully formally verified, and this will make most teams unnecessary. the problem is that a big part of core devs have little to no interest in pushing for the new solutions. the slower the better. less risk, leave a bunch of engineers unmanaged with almost unlimited capital for a decade and this is what you get. the EF, sooner rather than later, will have to push against those blocking what Ethereum needs. it's funny to me that a considerable part of CT believes the EF is still the problem to solve in Ethereum when it's the engineering core teams. the EF needs to be made even smaller and most of the engineering teams need to disappear.

With @class_lambda we're sponsoring the first Hardware Hackathon at Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, UBA. On October 23–24, teams of 4 will have two days to build and present a physical product. No hardware experience required: the event starts from the basics. Applications are open and the event is free. comcom.dc.uba.ar/hackaton/

i believe most engineering teams working on core ethereum will disappear over the next 3 years. there is no real money to be made there, and nowadays there isn't even that much status to gain from doing it. AI changed the landscape pretty fast because implementing a client is simply not as difficult as it used to be. i actually think this is good for ethereum users and stakers. most crypto engineering teams outside ethereum will disappear even earlier. lambda's biggest strategy is to just keep doing what we are doing while most people eventually vanish from crypto. there aren't many teams with lambda's combination of expertise in cryptography, compilers, security, consensus and performance, together with the connections we have across corporations and startups. we're finding different ways of making money from the connections and expertise we have across aligned and lambda. i also don't think there are going to be many fundamentally new use cases beyond the ones we already know. what will happen instead is that ethereum will become the financial backend for a large part of international payments and fx. there are almost no economic incentives to be a core dev, and i don't think donations from ETFs or similar mechanisms will fundamentally change that in the long run. the reason is that it doesn't make sense to keep pouring money into large groups of people that don't produce that much. most of the work that actually needs to be done is researching new ideas, testing them and implementing them well. the ethereum spec will likely end up being written in lean, and lean may eventually become one of the main implementations too. there won't be a need for so many independent engineering teams, apart from having enough competition to keep progress moving quickly. the problem today is that many of the existing engineering teams have very little incentive for the system to change too much or too fast. most people on CT believe the EF is the main thing blocking progress in ethereum. it's true that for a few years after the merge, i think research progress stagnated and we weren't bold enough outside of ZK research. most of my criticism towards the EF was related to its size and the fact that it never prioritized making the UX of ethereum better or spreading the gospel to corporations and governments. now there are multiple new organizations doing this, so we're fine. nowadays i believe engineering teams are the biggest bottleneck preventing ethereum from becoming faster and better. the EF is actually the one pushing things forward. most engineering teams have almost zero economic incentive for things to change dramatically. what ethereum needs is to accelerate the natural consolidation of these engineering teams so that we can push for bigger changes much more aggressively. i hope the EF and CT start realizing this. ethereum won't have a real competitor thanks to: - current network effects - formal verification - minimalism - post-quantum security - privacy - zk becoming stupidly fast, with proofs verifiable on basically any piece of hardware - lean ethereum: new consensus, faster p2p and faster finality, while supporting even more stakers and maximizing decentralization - propamms solving many of the problems around pricing assets and trading on a slower chain like ethereum i don't think solana, tempo, hyperliquid or robinhood have a chance against Ethereum if we just focus on the important things and do the inevitable: remove the bottlenecks that slow progress.