Infinite Jungle

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...

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...

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...

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://w...

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,...

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 Et...

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...

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 b...

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...

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 ...

On Ep.32 of Infinite Jungle, Christine talks about the main takeaways from All Core Developers Consensus (ACDC) call #136. Show note links:  https://www.galaxy.com/insights/research/ethereum-all-core-developers-consensus-call-136/ 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...

On Ep. 31 of Infinite Jungle, Christine chats with James Prestwich, Researcher at Init4 Tech, an Ethereum-focused research collective, about execution extensions (ExEx), client diversity, and the future market share of Ethereum. Show note links: https://www.paradigm.xyz/2024/05/reth-exex https://x.com/init4tech https://x.com/_prestwich This episode was recorded on Friday, June 21, 2024. ++ Follow...

On Ep.30 of Infinite Jungle, Christine talks about the main takeaways from All Core Developers Execution (ACDE) call #190. Show note links:  https://www.galaxy.com/insights/research/ethereum-all-core-developers-execution-call-190/ https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/pull/8677 https://boards.greenhouse.io/galaxydigitalservices/jobs/5174070004 This episode was recorded on Friday, June 21, 2024. ++ Foll...

On Ep.29 of Infinite Jungle, Christine talks about the main takeaways from All Core Developers Consensus (ACDC) call #135. Show note links:  https://www.galaxy.com/insights/research/ethereum-all-core-developers-consensus-call-135/ This episode was recorded on Friday, June 14, 2024. ++ Follow us on Twitter, @glxyresearch, and read our research at www.galaxy.com/research/ to learn more! This podcast...

On Ep. 28 of Infinite Jungle, Christine chats with Head of Firmwide Research at Galaxy Alex Thorn about the latest slew of ETH ETF approvals in the U.S. Christine also invites co-founder of MakerDAO Rune Christensen to discuss next steps in MakerDAO’s Endgame vision. This episode was recorded live at the CoinDesk Consensus conference in Austin, Texas on Friday, May 31, 2024. This episode was recor...

On Ep.27 of Infinite Jungle, Christine talks about the main takeaways from All Core Developers Execution (ACDE) call #189. Show note links:  https://www.galaxy.com/insights/research/ethereum-all-core-developers-execution-call-189-writeup/ This episode was recorded on Friday, June 4, 2024. ++ Follow us on Twitter, @glxyresearch, and read our research at www.galaxy.com/research/ to learn more! This...

On Ep.26 of Infinite Jungle, Christine talks about the main takeaways from All Core Developers Consensus (ACDC) call #134 where Ethereum developers agreed to include PeerDAS in the Pectra upgrade but with one small caveat; PeerDAS will be activated on a separate epoch from other Pectra EIPs. Links:  https://www.galaxy.com/insights/research/ethereum-all-core-developers-consensus-call-134/ This epis...

On Ep. 25 of Infinite Jungle, Christine chats with Robert Miller, Product Lead at Flashbots, about MEV product development for Layer-2 rollups. Links: https://www.galaxy.com/insights/research/mev-the-rise-of-the-builders/ https://www.galaxy.com/insights/research/mev-how-flashboys-became-flashbots/ This episode was recorded on Friday, May 17, 2024. ++ Follow us on Twitter, @glxyresearch, and read...

On Ep.24 of Infinite Jungle, Christine talks about the main takeaways from All Core Developers Execution (ACDE) call #188 where Ethereum developers discussed the pros and cons of adding a default minimum priority tip requirement in execution layer clients. Show note links:  https://www.galaxy.com/insights/research/ethereum-all-core-developers-execution-call-188/  This episode was recorded on Frid...

On Ep.23 of Infinite Jungle, Christine chats with Uri Klarman, Co-Founder and CEO of bloXroute Labs, about the Department of Justice’s charges against two brothers for their hack of MEV-Boost relay software. Show note links:  https://www.galaxy.com/insights/research/mev-how-flashboys-became-flashbots/ https://www.galaxy.com/insights/research/mev-the-rise-of-the-builders/ https://www.galaxy.com/ins...

On Ep. 22 of Infinite Jungle, Christine chats with Galen Moore, Global Communications Lead at Interop Labs, about the Axelar Network, how it works, and the importance of permissionless blockchain interoperability protocols. Show note links:  http://axelar.network/blog/roadmap-2024-jan   http://axelarscan.io http://axelar.network http://docs.axelar.dev https://twitter.com/axelarnetwork This episod...

On Ep.21 of Infinite Jungle, Christine talks about the main takeaways from All Core Developers Execution (ACDE) call #187 and why decision-making about EIP 3074 is an important case study for understanding Ethereum’s decentralized governance process. Show note links:  https://www.galaxy.com/insights/research/ethereum-all-core-developers-execution-call-187/ https://ethereum-magicians.org/t/eip-7702...

On the twentieth episode of Infinite Jungle, Christine chats with Nixo Rokish, Executive Director of EthStaker, and Thorsten Behrens, “Yorick Downe”, Founder and CEO of Cryptomanufaktur, about a new crypto project targeting solo stakers called Heroglyphs and the implementation details of MaxEB. Show note links:  https://github.com/Finallyt/Heroglyph/blob/main/Heroglyphs%20-%20Unclassified.pdf http...

On the nineteenth episode of Infinite Jungle, Christine talks about the timeline for the first Pectra devnet and ongoing research for implementing a confirmation rule for node operators to confirm the canonicity of blocks on Ethereum faster. Show note links:  https://www.galaxy.com/insights/research/ethereum-all-core-developers-consensus-call-133/ https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-7549 https://ar...

On the eighteenth episode of Infinite Jungle, Christine chats with Danno Ferrin, an independent Ethereum protocol developer, about an upgrade to the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) called EOF.   Guest: Danno Ferrin, Independent Ethereum Protocol Developer https://twitter.com/shemnon Show note links:  https://github.com/ipsilon/eof/blob/main/spec/eof.md This episode was recorded on Friday, April 26,...