Is There a Benefit to Diversification of Execution?

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The original charting road map for etheorem was this idea of charted execution, wherelike etherium would eventually have 64 different, basically parallel evms running side by side. But it's extremely hardto consensus on this large amount of data. And so the first step to get there was saying, whele, we're going to have these chards not actually run operations, but they'll just store data. So i think you had it letting people kind of building for structure is really valuable. It's like enshrining execution in state. For these, you know, more scalable zones or shards like would mean there would be one design period and hopefully we coalesce on a good

Listen to conversations between two veterans of the crypto industry: Su Zhu, CEO and CIO of Three Arrows Capital, and Hasu, Strategy lead at Flashbots. Exploring the big ideas in crypto from first principles.

In this episode, Hasu sits down with two Ethereum Foundation researchers, Danny Ryan and Tim Beiko, to explore Ethereum's upcoming transition to PoS. Topics discussed include:

Why do blockchains need consensus?
How does PoW consensus work today, and how will it change after PoS?
What happens between the last block of PoW and the first block of PoS?
The role of client modularity and diversity
How to test for such an important upgrade

00:00 Intro and guests 03:02 Proof of Stake since 2017 08:18 PoS - Idea to production 12:24 Why do Blockchains need consensus? PoW & PoS Basics 22:21 Why switch to PoS? 37:03 The Merge - How does it happen? 45:14 The Merge - Unbundling of the Consensus & Execution layer 1:01:45 How do you test for such an important upgrade? 1:09:55 End

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