Max is leaving Ethereum, and we have the details. On this Gwart Show special filmed at Pubkey in NYC, Max and Eugene join Gwart to go through Max’s decision to leave Ethereum dev shop Conensensys in favor of a Solana client which frankly we don’t know how to spell or pronounce. We go through Ethereum’s major problems basically one-by-one in this 1.5 hour show, finishing with a Holiday Special game of ‘cooked or not cooked’ narratives.

Follow our guest on Twitter: @MaxResnick1 @0xshittrader

00:00 Start

00:32 Quitting ETH

02:38 Other people quitting?

04:08 Did you always doubt?

06:20 Execution layer

07:51 ETH Foundation blinders

09:51 New role in Solana?

11:42 Leadership in SOL vs ETH

14:10 Launching an L2 on ETH

16:58 Jitter

18:38 More rollups, more problems

21:48 Does SOL end up w/ L2s?

24:54 Solana is a real ETH competitor

26:11 MEV research on SOL

33:32 Is a meme sandwich really a sandwich?

36:06 Does SOL take MEV seriously?

37:37 Cooked or not cooked?

37:47 Intents

41:27 Interoperability

44:27 L2s functionally becoming l1s

46:46 ZK tech

52:21 Allowing innovation is the killer app

55:24 Nodes faster than tradfi

57:55 Ultrasound money... LOL

1:05:40 MEV kings will be Citadel

1:08:04 Forcing tradfi to play our game

1:09:50 Bitcoin cooked?

1:10:40 Memcoins cooked?

1:12:26 Depin cooked?

1:13:51 Prediction markets cooked?

1:18:06 Hype cooked?

1:20:10 Time boost cooked?

1:24:28 Futarchy cooked?

1:31:06 Future of Solana

1:33:02 Is Solana gonna win

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