Welcome back to The Gwart Show! We’re re-joined by Max Resnick (@MaxResnick1) of the Special Mechanisms Group (@specialmech) to discuss Ethereum's potential shift towards faster block times and multi-proposer systems. He explores the implications for L2s, MEV, and market structure. The conversation covers Ethereum's comp21etitiveness with Solana, the future of DeFi, and the challenges of centralization in crypto.

Timestamps:

00:00 Start

01:06 Matt's background

02:47 ETH vibes right now

04:39 Consensus around new EIPs

09:47 Node burdens

13:22 What about the L2 roadmap

16:47 Did ETH just rug L2s?

18:11 The future of roll ups

21:25 Is Base extracting value from users?

24:25 What is the multi-proposer?

25:39 Community response

27:12 Outcompeted by Solana

29:50 Who doesn't agree?

30:43 Changes for block builders

32:21 What does ETH Foundation think?

33:01 Benefits of 2 sec block times?

35:15 Trading back to L1?

37:11 L1 value = MEV available

40:42 Yield APR & loan APR converge?

41:45 Is the end game 100% staked ETH?

44:56 Moral judgements leading development

45:47 Restaking

48:14 Why does ETH win against Solana?

52:06 Infrastructure vs apps

54:01 What apps are unlocks

54:44 Stablecoin chokepoints

1:01:12 MEV on Solana

1:06:50 Future of AMMs

1:07:12 Trusted execution environments

1:09:56 SUAVE

1:11:57 Service provider adoption of EIPs

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