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Evan Van Ness Profile picture
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Apr 20 • 7 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
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Vitalik has decided to spin out ecodev from EF

The decision was made fortnights ago when he tweeted something to that effect but was only announced internally a week ago.

The details of how it gets spun out are in flux

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Originally the rumors from many sources were that the entire right side of the org chart would spin out

Most people took this to mean the blue box (eco dev) and the red box (ecosystem unblocking) Image
However some people in eco unblocking literally work on Vitalik's pet projects, so it always seemed improbable that the entire red box would be spun out

I can confirm that some people in eco dev have already been fired and will not join the spinout
So what is actually happening with eco dev?

Many sources say that discussions are being had about merging the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance brand with eco dev and making it the "Ethereum adoption org" and getting years of funding from EF
EEA has always been a troubled org - it was not set up well & as such has not delivered value

Even as Ethereum is *THE* only choice for enterprise and the default for institutions...

The EEA has just a few dozen members remaining

It has 10x more ex-members than current members
It's a problem because no one wants to rug the managers who stuck their neck out to procure the EEA dues

But some of the original sins of the EEA setup hamstring the org (for example, many on the EEA board don't hold ETH or care if Ethereum wins)
@VitalikButerin seems to believe that the community wants eco dev

That's unclear to me

Everyone I talk to doesn't think eco dev is very effective (and there's also many rumors of conflicts of interest)

The eco dev team becomes 10x less effective the moment it is spun out of EF

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Mar 6, 2025
Ok, here's a thread with brief bios of each of the members of the Ethereum Foundation Silviculture Society, Vitalik's new inner circle

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Disclaimer: I put off this thread a couple days because it started to feel like work

Also because brief bio is complicated and it's basically inevitable that somebody gets annoyed at me for this

Transparency is not valued at EF these days

Silviculture is just forest management, and comes from the Dark Forest analogy Image
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Nov 13, 2024
ETHEREUM ROADMAP EXPLAINER FOR THE REST OF US, part 6

The last and final part: The Splurge

Grandiose name but Vitalik's tldr is: "fix everything else" Image
There is perhaps a bit of tension between the name "the Splurge" right after talking about the philosophical and technical need to keep the protocol simple.

But hey, some things are worth splurging on
WHAT IS THE SPLURGE REALLY?

Well it's a bit of a laundry list:

1. Account Abstraction, which is Ethereum lingo for smart contract wallets

2. Maybe some EVM stuff like modular arithmetic extensions

3. Multidimensional gas markets

4. Being open to cryptographic breakthroughs
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Nov 12, 2024
ETHEREUM ROADMAP EXPLAINER FOR THE REST OF US, part 5

The Purge

tldr: simplify the protocol, EIP4444/Portal Image
OK, welcome back, I'm going to go bit by bit just like I did for part 4.

I read it again and didn't think it came out quite as well as the first 3 parts

And part 4 was a rewrite anyway, so we'll see how this one goes.

Vitalik's intro emphasizes that the Purge is about simplifying the protocol

Historically I thought of the Purge as being more about EIP4444, which we'll get to in a bit

Maybe this is another bit which got retconned

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Nov 11, 2024
ETHEREUM ROADMAP EXPLAINER FOR THE REST OF US, part 4

The VERGE

tldr: Vitalik wants to SNARK _everything_ so even "the verge" is a misnomer
Unlike previous times where I wrote it all out and then tweeted them all, I am not going to do that this time

I'm just going to go one by one on the tweets. So maybe we'll get more errors, I don't know.

I don't want to lose hours of work again

Maybe a digression, but what do I mean when I say "vitalik wants to SNARK everything?"

It's long been clear that SNARKing everything is the long-term future of the Ethereum protocol

This is well known, but probably not well communicated outside of deep tech circles

So when I say "Vitalik" wants to SNARK everything, I'm not really making a claim about Vitalik per se, it's long been the goal
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ETHEREUM ROADMAP EXPLAINER FOR THE REST OF US, part 3

Welcome back, we will again attempt to dumb down Vitalik's blog post on "the Scourge" to the level that even an English major can understand it.

Vitalik was reaching for a rhyme with the Merge and the Surge, and scourge is what he came up with.

But the point is that Ethereum Proof of Stake is the first decentralized PoS and the one with by far the most economic activity and value on it.

It has a different set of problems than the "proof of stake" systems which came before it.Image
So what are the scourges?

1. liquid staking (Lido) and restaking (Eigenlayer***)

2. MEV

*** Eigenlayer did the proper thing by capping how much of Lido's STETH that it accepted. Image
When Ethereum turned off Proof of Work ("The Merge," see part 1 of my series), a consequence was that many stakers (also called "validators" or more generally "block producers" or "block constructors")

That is, there's a relatively small group of block builders who compete to find the block which is most profitable every 12 seconds to the staker who is responsible for that block.

This is called "proposer builder separation" in Ethereum lingo

I feel like there's lots of background to be said here and perhaps I am already too far into the weeds.

Basically we're worried that there are lots of centralization vectors around economies of scale just like there are in PoW

But we want to stay 10x more decentralized than PoWImage
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