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After years of underperformance, Ethereum is trying to change course, from scaling the layer 1 to potentially dumping the EVM. In this episode, Tarun Chitra and Max Resnick break down each of these new changes, analyzing the good, the bad, and the ugly.

Is this a reset that can save Ethereum’s market position and price? Or has the protocol given away too much for too long?

They dive into:

• Whether the gas limit increase changes everything
• What went wrong with Ethereum’s economics and solo staking politics
• Max’s view on “the single most important” change Ethereum needs to make
• How ETH could claw back value from layer 2s
• What Max would do if he ran Ethereum
• Whether this pivot is too little, too late

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Guests:

• Tarun Chitra, CEO and Co-Founder of Gauntlet
• Max Resnick, Lead economist at Anza

Links

• Unchained:
  • Ethereum Ecosystem Shifts Toward User Focus
  • Ethereum Developers Vote EOF Out of Fusaka Hard Fork
  • Vitalik Buterin Proposes Replacing Ethereum Virtual Machine
• The Block:
  • Vitalik and new Ethereum Foundation co-executive directors outline updated board structure, mission
  • Vitalik Buterin- and StarkWare-backed Kakarot reveals alternative Ethereum ZK stack, targeting real-time STARK proofs on Layer 1 by end of 2025
• CoinDesk: Ethereum Could Supercharge Transaction Speed to 2,000 TPS Thanks to Bold New Proposal
• Simplifying the L1 by Vitalik Buterin