On Ep. 62 of Infinite Jungle, Christine chats with Robert Miller, Product Lead at Flashbots, and Lily Johnson, Rust Engineer at Astria Labs, about the latest developments in the MEV space. Robert presents Rollup-Boost, a new platform for enabling various features on Layer-2 rollups such as fast confirmation times and transaction ordering rules. He explains the role of Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) in Rollup-Boost and how “shreds” on Solana inspired the design of Rollup-Boost. Lily presen...
Oct 30, 2024•36 min
On Ep.61 of Infinite Jungle, Christine talks about the main takeaways from All Core Developers Execution (ACDE) call #199. On the latest call, developers reconfirmed the decision to include EIP 7742 in Pectra as a pre-requisite for a blob capacity increase. They also debated the merits of doubling the Ethereum block gas limit. Christine explains what the block gas limit is and what concern were raised by developers about changing it. She also notes that developers are recalculating costs for BLS...
Oct 29, 2024•28 min
On Ep. 60 of Infinite Jungle, Christine interviews Keone Hon, Cofounder and CEO of Monad Labs. They speak about the technology behind Monad, an alternative Layer-1 blockchain. Keone explains the four key optimizations of Monad that will enable the network to scale the transaction throughput of Ethereum by 1,000x. He also explains how Monad is pursuing higher levels of decentralization than its competitors through various design decisions impacting the network’s architecture. Finally, Keone reaff...
Oct 23, 2024•45 min
On Ep.59 of Infinite Jungle, Christine talks about the main takeaways from All Core Developers Consensus (ACDC) call #144. On the latest call, Ethereum developers agreed to include a new EIP in Pectra, EIP 7742. This code change will enable the Consensus Layer (CL) of Ethereum to dynamically set the network’s target and maximum blob gas limit. The inclusion of this EIP in Pectra means it is likely that developers will also include a blob capacity increase in Pectra. However, developer did not ag...
Oct 22, 2024•37 min
On Ep. 58 of Infinite Jungle, Christine speaks with Adrian Brink, Co-founder of Anoma and Namada. Namada is a privacy-enhanced Layer-1 blockchain and Anoma is a generalized intent interface. Both projects are in development and have not yet launched on mainnet. Brink talks about the launch timeline for Anoma and Namada, as well as their respective utility in the crypto industry. Brink explains how intent-based systems represent a fundamental shift in blockchain architecture and how intents can s...
Oct 16, 2024•37 min
On Ep.57 of Infinite Jungle, Christine talks about the main takeaways from All Core Developers Execution (ACDE) call #198. Christine shares updates about the timeline for Pectra Devnets 3 and 4. She highlights two new EIPs that were discussed on the call for inclusion in the Pectra upgrade. EIP 7782 proposes reducing Ethereum slot times from 12 to 8 seconds to increase transaction and blob throughput. EIP 7783 creates a mechanism for client teams to gradually increase the gas target over time. T...
Oct 15, 2024•23 min
On Ep. 56 of Infinite Jungle, Christine chats again with Galaxy Blockchain Engineer Yorick Downe and Former Executive Director of EthStaker Nixo Rokish about the latest developments in the Ethereum staking ecosystem. Nixo speaks about her new role at the Ethereum Foundation as part of the Protocol Support team. She voices her opinion about how developers should refrain from including a blob throughput increase in Pectra due to a lack of sufficient data on the impact of such an increase on the so...
Oct 09, 2024•31 min
On Ep.55 of Infinite Jungle, Christine talks about the main takeaways from All Core Developers Consensus (ACDC) call #143. Christine shares updates about the timeline for Pectra Devnets 3 and 4. She dives into how the launch of the next devnet can inform the launch of the public Pectra testnet that developers are planning for Devcon and even thereafter, the activation of Pectra on public Ethereum testnets and mainnet. She estimates that an activation of Pectra on mainnet is more likely in March ...
Oct 08, 2024•32 min
On Ep. 54 of Infinite Jungle, Christine chats with Mirko Schmiedl, CEO and co-founder of Staking Rewards, about important developments in the crypto staking industry at large. Mirko highlights the impressive year-over-year growth of total value staked across all proof-of-stake blockchains. He alludes to forthcoming optimizations to the Staking Rewards website that will help users easily customize information and alerts about staking activity on the site. Mirko also talks about impressive develop...
Oct 02, 2024•31 min
On Ep.53 of Infinite Jungle, Christine talks about the main takeaways from All Core Developers Execution (ACDE) call #197, where founder of Ethereum Vitalik Buterin voiced his support for the inclusion of additional code changes in Pectra to increase Ethereum’s blob capacity. As background, blobs are a type of transaction on Ethereum that is usually priced more cheaply than regular user transaction. Blobs are designed to temporarily store arbitrary data on the network such as batched transaction...
Oct 01, 2024•33 min
ACD After Hours w/Pari and Marius Description: On Ep. 52 of Infinite Jungle, Christine chats with Parithosh Jayanthi, Developer Operations Engineer at the Ethereum Foundation, and Marius Van Der Wijden, Geth Developer at the Ethereum Foundation about ACDC #142. As participants of the ACD calls, Pari and Marius share their view on how they think the latest developer call went and what Ethereum stakeholders can expect next in the planning process for Pectra. Christine asks Pari and Marius for thei...
Sep 25, 2024•49 min
On Ep.51 of Infinite Jungle, Christine talks about the main takeaways from All Core Developers Consensus (ACDC) call #142. Developers did not reach a decision about how to split the Pectra hard fork into two separate upgrades. Despite the call moderator’s best efforts to rally consensus for strictly limiting the scope of the first Pectra hard fork, there was disagreement among call participants about how to split Pectra code changes. Christine summarizes the main disagreements about the Pectra s...
Sep 24, 2024•28 min
On Ep. 50 of Infinite Jungle, Christine chats with Steven Li, Head of Strategy at RISC Zero. They talk about the use cases for zero knowledge tech in the crypto industry and the adoption for RISC Zero’s zkVM product since its launch back in June. Steven explains the bottlenecks that exist with using the zkVM product and what improvements he envisions for it over the coming months. He also shares details about a new product that his team is building called “Boundless” that will improve the decent...
Sep 18, 2024•33 min
On Ep.49 of Infinite Jungle, Christine talks about the main takeaways from All Core Developers Execution (ACDE) call #196. Christine shares updates about the launch of Pectra Devnet 3. She also dives into the implications of splitting Pectra across two hard forks, an idea that developers are seriously re-evaluating to reduce implementation risks associated with the upgrade. She explains how this idea was brought up on the call, what feedback it immediately received from developers, and what deve...
Sep 17, 2024•35 min
On Ep. 48 of Infinite Jungle, Christine chats with Nixo Rokish, Executive Director of EthStaker, and Yorick Downe, Founder of CryptoManufaktur and Blockchain Engineer at Galaxy, about changes to the staking deposit CLI tool and the expected impacts of PeerDAS on home stakers. The staking deposit CLI is a tool for users operating their own validators to stake their ETH. safely and securely. It has long been overdue for an update, as explained by Nixo and Yorick. Despite efforts to improve the sta...
Sep 11, 2024•34 min
On Ep.47 of Infinite Jungle, Christine talks about the main takeaways from All Core Developers Consensus (ACDC) call #141. Christine highlights progress being made on Pectra, the next Ethereum upgrade. She also dives into an open question about the implementation of PeerDAS, the main code change that will enhance Ethereum’s scalability as a data availability layer for rollups. Developers are concerned that the current design of PeerDAS will negatively impact home stakers, users that are operatin...
Sep 10, 2024•35 min
On Ep.46 of Infinite Jungle, Christine talks about the main takeaways from All Core Developers Consensus (ACDC) call #140. Show note links: https://www.galaxy.com/insights/research/ethereum-all-core-developers-consensus-call-140/ https://www.youtube.com/@EthereumProtocol https://www.galaxy.com/insights/research/ethereum-150-days-after-dencun/ Timestamps: (00:01:22) Pectra Devnet Updates (00:05:24) Pectra EIP Implementation Updates (00:12:34) PeerDAS Implementation Updates (00:17:56) Examining th...
Aug 27, 2024•34 min
On Ep. 45 of Infinite Jungle, Christine speaks with Drew Van der Werff, independent Ethereum researcher, and Alex Stokes, Ethereum Foundation Researcher, about commitment boost, an Ethereum validator sidecar that standardizes communication between validators and third-party protocols like MEV-Boost. Guests: Drew Van der Werff, independent Ethereum researcher https://x.com/DrewVdW Alex Stokes, Ethereum Foundation Researcher https://x.com/ralexstokes Show note links: https://github.com/Commit-Boos...
Aug 21, 2024•36 min
On Ep.44 of Infinite Jungle, Christine talks about the main takeaways from All Core Developers Execution (ACDE) call #194. Show note links: https://www.galaxy.com/insights/research/ethereum-all-core-developers-execution-call-194/ https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1RHV_W5p_2LRytWAHP5o_lVq84n68Asw-EPIT-LdO1Xc/ Timestamps: (00:01:03) ACDE #194 Updates (00:07:29) Background on EIP 7732 (00:09:35) What is Maximal Extractable Value? (00:15:20) The Main Concerns About MEV (00:21:00) Criticisms Abo...
Aug 20, 2024•38 min
On Ep. 43 of Infinite Jungle, Christine speaks with Chris Perkins, Managing Partner and President of CoinFund, and Andrew Baehr, Head of Product at CoinDesk Indices, about CESR, a daily benchmark rate that represents the annualized staking yield of Ethereum. Guests: Chris Perkins, Managing Partner and President of CoinFund https://x.com/perkinscr97 Andrew Baehr, Head of Product at CoinDesk Indices https://x.com/baehr Show note links: https://www.coindesk.com/indices/ether/cesr https://coinfund.i...
Aug 14, 2024•35 min
On Ep.42 of Infinite Jungle, Christine talks about the main takeaways from All Core Developers Consensus (ACDC) call #139. Show note links: https://www.galaxy.com/insights/research/ethereum-all-core-developers-consensus-call-139/ https://probelab.io/ethereum/discv5/2024-31/ https://bitnodes.io/ Timestamps: (00:02:11) Pectra Devnet Updates (00:06:05) PeerDAS Updates (00:07:28) EIP 7688 Updates (00:11:34) How Devs Decided to Delay a Decision on EIP 7688 (00:16:33) ACD Call Chairs and Their Role in...
Aug 13, 2024•35 min
On Ep. 41 of Infinite Jungle, Christine chats with Nixo Rokish, Executive Director of EthStaker, and Thorsten Behrens, “Yorick Downe”, Founder of CryptoManufaktur, about a new proposal to improve the viability of solo staking on Ethereum. Guests: Nixo Rokish, Executive Director of EthStaker https://x.com/nixorokish Thorsten Behrens, “Yorick Downe”, Founder and CEO of Cryptomanufaktur https://x.com/yorickdowne Show note links: https://www.galaxy.com/newsroom/galaxy-expands-blockchain-infrastructu...
Aug 07, 2024•35 min
On Ep.40 of Infinite Jungle, Christine talks about the main takeaways from All Core Developers Execution (ACDE) call #193. Show note links: https://www.galaxy.com/insights/research/ethereum-all-core-developers-execution-call-193/ Timestamps: (00:00:40) Show agenda (00:01:49) Pectra Devnet Updates (00:03:18) EIP 7702 Updates (00:05:26) EIP 6110 Discussion (00:11:43) New Engine API Method (00:13:30) EIP 7212 Discussion (00:15:33) New State Expiry EIP (00:19:33) EIP 4444 Updates (00:21:36) The Thre...
Aug 06, 2024•34 min
On Ep. 39 of Infinite Jungle, Christine chats with Lucas Kozinski, Founding Contributor of Renzo, and Zack Pokorny, Research Analyst at Galaxy, about the risks and rewards of liquid restaking. Guests: Lucas Kozinski, Founding Contributor of Renzo https://x.com/LucasKozinski Zack Pokorny, Research Analyst at Galaxy https://x.com/ZackPokorny_ Show note links: https://www.renzoprotocol.com/ https://www.galaxy.com/insights/research/the-risks-and-rewards-of-restaking/ This episode was recorded on Fri...
Jul 31, 2024•36 min
On Ep.38 of Infinite Jungle, Christine talks about the main takeaways from All Core Developers Consensus (ACDC) call #138. Show note links: https://www.galaxy.com/insights/research/ethereum-all-core-developers-consensus-call-138/ https://www.galaxy.com/insights/research/making-sense-of-blockchain-modularity/ https://github.com/ethereum/pm/issues/1114 This episode was recorded on Friday, July 26, 2024. ++ Follow us on Twitter, @glxyresearch, and read our research at www.galaxy.com/research/ to le...
Jul 30, 2024•40 min
On Ep. 37 of Infinite Jungle, Christine chats with Matt Cutler, CEO and Co-Founder of Blocknative, about base fee volatility. Show note links: Matt’s Modular Summit presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqJ5oicJOME&t=15074s [3:57:29-4:12:21] Blocknative blog post on base fee volatility: https://www.blocknative.com/blog/how-self-built-blocks-unintentionally-introduce-base-fee-volatility Ethernow, Ethereum Mempool Explorer: https://www.ethernow.xyz/mempool/all Mallesh Pai and Max Resni...
Jul 24, 2024•33 min
On Ep.36 of Infinite Jungle, Christine talks about the main takeaways from All Core Developers Execution (ACDE) call #192. Show note links: https://www.galaxy.com/insights/research/ethereum-all-core-developers-execution-call-192/ This episode was recorded on Friday, July 19, 2024. ++ Follow us on Twitter, @glxyresearch, and read our research at www.galaxy.com/research/ to learn more! This podcast, and the information contained herein, has been provided to you by Galaxy Digital Holdings LP and it...
Jul 23, 2024•35 min
On Ep. 35 of Infinite Jungle, Christine chats with Sean Anderson, Software Engineer at Sigma Prime about the Pectra upgrade. Show note links: https://sigmaprime.io/ This episode was recorded on Friday, July 12, 2024. ++ Follow us on Twitter, @glxyresearch, and read our research at www.galaxy.com/research/ to learn more! This podcast, and the information contained herein, has been provided to you by Galaxy Digital Holdings LP and its affiliates (“Galaxy Digital”) solely for informational purposes...
Jul 17, 2024•35 min
On Ep.34 of Infinite Jungle, Christine talks about the main takeaways from All Core Developers Consensus (ACDC) call #137 and her takeaways from attending the 7th annual Ethereum Community Conference (EthCC). Show note links: https://www.galaxy.com/insights/research/ethereum-all-core-developers-consensus-call-137-writeup/ This episode was recorded on Friday, July 12, 2024. ++ Follow us on Twitter, @glxyresearch, and read our research at www.galaxy.com/research/ to learn more! This podcast, and t...
Jul 16, 2024•32 min
On Ep. 33 of Infinite Jungle, Christine chats with Sal Qadir, Founder and CEO of Bullpen, about technical developments on Solana and his thoughts on Ethereum’s rollup-centric roadmap. Show note links: https://x.com/BullpenFi https://www.galaxy.com/insights/research/ready-layer-one/ This episode was recorded on Friday, June 28, 2024. ++ Follow us on Twitter, @glxyresearch, and read our research at www.galaxy.com/research/ to learn more! This podcast, and the information contained herein, has been...
Jul 03, 2024•32 min
