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Ethereum Gave Away Too Much for Too Long. Will Its Pivot Be Enough? - Ep. 829
Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 01:28:27
Publish Date: 2025-05-06 16:00:00
Description:

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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Timestamps:

  • 0:00 Introduction

  • ️ 2:05 Why Ethereum had to pivot and what triggered the urgency

  • 7:16 Why raising the gas limit could actually be a big deal

  • 9:12 Whether Ethereum devs are too idealistic

  • 19:02 How Solana managed to outperform Ethereum at the base layer

  • ‍ 24:09 Why Max feels Vitalik’s proposals focus on outdated technology 

  • 27:57 The growing gap between Ethereum research and its execution clients

  • 35:02 The ONE thing Max thinks Ethereum is doing well

  • ️ 40:38 Did “credible neutrality” push Ethereum down the wrong path?

  • 48:23 Will the new Ethereum R1 rollup succeed? 

  • 52:53 What the new updates mean for layer 2s and their value proposition

  • 1:02:58 Whether ETH is finally due for a price reversal

  • 1:09:12 Why Ethereum should take a page from Trump’s strategy playbook


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