Entering Ethereum’s New Era | Tomasz Stańczak

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May 23, 2025

Tomasz Stańczak, Co-Executive Director at the Ethereum Foundation, sheds light on Ethereum's evolving culture and ambitious goals. He discusses the dominance of Ethereum in DeFi and the importance of scaling through innovative solutions. The conversation delves into real-time proving breakthroughs and how Ethereum can adapt to institutional challenges. Stańczak also highlights the need for community collaboration and engagement in shaping a user-friendly future for the platform.

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Ethereum's Ambitious Winning Vision

Ethereum aims to win everywhere due to its programmability, security, and global neutrality.
This broad appeal lays the foundation for it to succeed across multiple economic aspects.

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Ethereum Foundation's Culture Shift

Ethereum Foundation culture is evolving from research-focused to also embracing business development.
Institutions value Ethereum's privacy, censorship resistance, and neutrality, aligning with Ethereum's core values.

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Ethereum's DeFi and RWA Dominance

Ethereum's strength lies in DeFi, stablecoins, and real assets dominance within Layer 1 and Layer 2.
The challenge is continuous onboarding, great UX, and interoperability with traditional finance.

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In this episode, we’re joined by Tomasz Stańczak, Co-Executive Director at the Ethereum Foundation, to discuss Ethereum’s evolving culture, and product focus. We also dive into Ethereum’s DeFi and RWA dominance, scaling the L1, real-time proving breakthroughs, and Ethereum’s long-term vision.Thanks for tuning in!

Resources

Real-Time Ethereum Proving is here: https://x.com/SuccinctLabs/status/1924845712921264562

Justin Drake on Real-Time Proving: https://x.com/SuccinctLabs/status/1925306484281553262

Arkham is a crypto exchange and a blockchain analytics platform. Arkham allows crypto traders and investors to look inside the wallets of the best traders, largest funds and most influential players in crypto, and then act on that information.

Eligibility varies by jurisdiction. Users residing in certain jurisdictions will be excluded from onboarding.

Marinade is the premier staking delegation platform on Solana, bringing billions in liquidity and security to the Solana network, and connecting SOL holders to the best staking rates.

Since launching in 2021, Marinade has expanded their suite of products to provide solutions for both DeFi users and TradFi, including liquid and native staking, as well as direct enterprise integrations.

To learn more about Marinade, follow the link below: https://marinade.finance/?utm_source=blockworks&utm_medium=partnerships&utm_campaign=podcast

Citrea is the first zero-knowledge rollup to enhance the capabilities of Bitcoin blockspace and enable Bitcoin applications (₿apps). Citrea is optimistically verified by Bitcoin, offering the most Bitcoin-secured and native way to extend BTC’s utility to DeFi.

Learn more about Citrea: https://citrea.xyz/?utm_source=bellcurve&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=website_promo

Follow Citrea on X/Twitter for the latest on its journey to mainnet: https://x.com/citrea_xyz

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Timestamps:

(0:00) Introduction

(2:10) Getting Started at the Ethereum Foundation

(6:16) Culture of the Ethereum Foundation

(13:30) Ads (Arkham & Marinade)

(14:10) Should Ethereum Mimic Bitcoin?

(33:21) Ads (Arkham & Marinade)

(34:41) Ethereum's Lead in DeFi and RWAs

(42:12) Real-Time Proving

(50:53) Citrea Ad

(51:29) Scaling the L1

(53:17) The Fusaka Upgrade

(56:17) Will Circle Be Acquired?

(1:03:50) What is Tomasz Excited About?

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