Episodes

  • MERRY GRINDMAS! (feat. Santa Nixo)

    MERRY GRINDMAS! (feat. Santa Nixo)
    Dec 25 2024
    On Ep. 74 of Infinite Jungle, Christine speaks with Nixo, who works on the Protocol Support Team at the Ethereum Foundation, about her highlights from 2024 and hopes for the Ethereum ecosystem in 2025. Nixo also shares updates about the new staker deposit CLI tool maintained by EthStaker and her perspective on the Ethereum gas limit debate. Christine shares a few predictions about what narratives will take hold on Ethereum next year and restates her convictions about Ethereum’s superpower as the world’s most decentralized and transparent general purpose blockchain. This is the last episode of Infinite Jungle Season 1. Be on the lookout for Season 2 in the new year! Guests: Name: Nixo Rokish Title: Protocol Support Team at the Ethereum Foundation and Former Executive Director of EthStaker X: https://x.com/nixorokish Show note links: EthStaker deposit CLI release notes (https://github.com/eth-educators/ethstaker-deposit-cli/releases) Christine’s take on the block gas limit debate (https://www.galaxy.com/insights/research/weekly-top-stories-12-06-24/) Timestamps: (00:02:20) Celebrating a new Ethereum deposit CLI (00:10:00) Debriefing the gas limit debate (00:28:48) Highlights from 2024, hopes for 2025 This episode was recorded on Friday, December 13, 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 by Galaxy Digital Holdings LP and its affiliates (“Galaxy Digital”) solely for informational purposes. View the full disclaimer at www.galaxy.com/disclaimer-galaxy-brains-podcast/
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    43 mins
  • ACDE #202: ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas…

    ACDE #202: ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas…
    Dec 24 2024
    On Ep. 73 of Infinite Jungle, Christine shares her takeaways on All Core Developers Execution (ACDE) Call #202, where Ethereum developers finalized Pectra Devnet 5 specifications. She also shares three outlooks for Ethereum in 2025 about Pectra, rollup adoption, and institutional adoption of $ETH. She discusses how a new regulatory environment next year could propel institutional adoption of ETH and how the large size of Pectra scope hints at increased risk in mainnet activation for the upgrade. This is the penultimate episode of Infinite Jungle Season 1. Be on the lookout for the final episode coming out tomorrow on Wednesday, Christmas Day! Show note links: ACDE #202 call writeup (https://www.galaxy.com/insights/research/ethereum-all-core-developers-execution-call-202/) Infinite Jungle episode 71 explaining the gas gossip limit dependency (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/acdc-147-eth-devs-pump-the-brakes-on-pumping-the-gas/id1728091874?i=1000680670086) Timestamps: (00:01:47) ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas (00:05:07) Pectra Updates (00:14:32) Prediction #1: Pectra in 2025 (00:21:09) Prediction #2: L2 Ecosystem Expands (00:23:27) Prediction #3: More Institutions Start Using Ethereum This episode was recorded on Friday, December 19, 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 by Galaxy Digital Holdings LP and its affiliates (“Galaxy Digital”) solely for informational purposes. View the full disclaimer at www.galaxy.com/disclaimer-galaxy-brains-podcast/
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    27 mins
  • BuilderNet: Ethereum’s First Collaborative Builder Network

    BuilderNet: Ethereum’s First Collaborative Builder Network
    Dec 18 2024
    On Ep. 72 of Infinite Jungle, Christine speaks with Robert Miller, Product Lead at Flashbots, and Lily Johnson, Rust Engineer at Astria Labs, about the launch of BuilderNet. BuilderNet is Flashbot’s latest product designed to enable collaborative block building on Ethereum. It allows third-party builders to create blocks based off shared private order flow. It also incentivizes users, wallets, and apps to share their order flow with BuilderNet and earn kickbacks from the MEV created from their transactions. Christine and Lily grill Robert about the design of BuilderNet, its timeline, and motivation. Guests: Name: Robert Miller Title: Product Lead at Flashbots X: https://x.com/bertcmiller Name: Lily Johnson Title: Rust Engineer at Astria Labs X: https://x.com/lobstermindset Show note links: BuilderNet docs (https://buildernet.org/docs) Relayscan data (https://www.relayscan.io/) Infinite Jungle episode about RollupBoost and EIP 7727 (https://www.galaxy.com/insights/podcasts/infinite-jungle/the-most-pressing-challenges-to-solving-the-mev-problem/) Timestamps: (00:02:43) How does BuilderNet compete in the MEV-Boost auction? (00:08:08) How does the BuilderNet MEV refund rule work? (00:11:33) Why did Beaverbuild join BuilderNet? (00:15:09) How do builders compete in BuilderNet? (00:19:31) How transparent is BuilderNet activity? (00:30:12) BuilderNet next steps This episode was recorded on Friday, December 13, 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 by Galaxy Digital Holdings LP and its affiliates (“Galaxy Digital”) solely for informational purposes. View the full disclaimer at www.galaxy.com/disclaimer-galaxy-brains-podcast/
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    42 mins
  • ACDC #147: Eth Devs Pump the Brakes on Pumping the Gas

    ACDC #147: Eth Devs Pump the Brakes on Pumping the Gas
    Dec 17 2024
    On Ep.71 of Infinite Jungle, Christine shares her main takeaways from ACDC #147. Notably, on this call, one of the main discussion topics was not about the Pectra upgrade. It was about community efforts to increase the Ethereum block gas limit. Though prominent community figureheads advocated for an increase, developers on this week’s call surfaced concerns about a little-known technical limitation on the consensus layer that would make a significant increase to the block gas limit unsafe for the network. Rather than address this limitation, developers decided not to change the protocol and instead communicate to the community that a doubling to the gas limit should not be pursued at this time. Christine advocates for why this situation was a “close call” for the stability of the Ethereum protocol and why developers need to “slow down” when it comes to advocating for and making changes to the network. Show note links: ACDC #147 Call Notes (https://www.galaxy.com/insights/research/ethereum-all-core-developers-consensus-call-147/) Ethresearch post on the technical considerations to increasing the block gas limit (https://ethresear.ch/t/on-increasing-the-block-gas-limit-technical-considerations-path-forward/21225) PumptheGas website (https://pumpthegas.org/) Timestamps: (00:01:04) Summary of the Ethereum gas limit debate (00:08:32) What developers decided to do about the gossip limit (00:17:00) Concerns about Ethereum protocol complexity (00:20:47) Why EIP 7742 was removed from Pectra This episode was recorded on Friday, December 13, 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 by Galaxy Digital Holdings LP and its affiliates (“Galaxy Digital”) solely for informational purposes. View the full disclaimer at www.galaxy.com/disclaimer-galaxy-brains-podcast/
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    33 mins
  • Can ETH Solo Stakers Handle the Heat? Why More Blobs Won’t Hurt Them

    Can ETH Solo Stakers Handle the Heat? Why More Blobs Won’t Hurt Them
    Dec 11 2024
    On Ep. 70 of Infinite Jungle, Christine chats with founder of ProbeLab, Yiannis Psaras, about a data-driven study his team conducted on Ethereum node bandwidth availability. The study (linked in the show notes) measured the bandwidth availability of 70% of online and reachable nodes in the Ethereum network. It found that the mean available bandwidth for nodes stayed between 18 to 23 mbps, indicating that nodes do have additional capacity for packaging more blobs into blocks. Yiannis supported the decision by Ethereum protocol developers to include a blob capacity increase from 3/6 to 6/9 target/max blobs per block in the Pectra upgrade. Finally, he shared improvements that could be made to Ethereum’s P2P network to alleviate bandwidth constraints and enforce geographic decentralization of nodes. Guests: Name: Yiannis Psaras Title: Founder, ProbeLab X: https://x.com/yiannisbot Show note links: Probelab study on Ethereum node bandwidth availability (https://ethresear.ch/t/bandwidth-availability-in-ethereum-regional-differences-and-network-impacts/21138) EthPandaOps study on performance of home stakers (https://ethresear.ch/t/block-arrivals-home-stakers-bumping-the-blob-count/21096) Codex node crawler for Ethereum (https://ethresear.ch/t/crawling-the-ethereum-discv5-network-fast/20962) Infinite Jungle episode mentioning Probelab data and analysis (https://www.galaxy.com/insights/podcasts/infinite-jungle/acdc-139-the-role-of-acd-call-chairs-in-ethereum-governance/) Probelab website (https://probelab.io/) Timestamps: (00:01:09) What does ProbeLab do? (00:03:59) How Probelab measured Ethereum node bandwidth availability (00:07:49) Differences in upload vs download bandwidth availability (00:11:16) Comparing bandwidth of solo stakers vs professional stakers (00:15:32) How the Probelab study compares other studies on Ethereum node bandwidth (00:18:20) Study recommendations to save node bandwidth (00:24:50) How geography impacts node bandwidth This episode was recorded on Friday, December 6, 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 by Galaxy Digital Holdings LP and its affiliates (“Galaxy Digital”) solely for informational purposes. View the full disclaimer at www.galaxy.com/disclaimer-galaxy-brains-podcast/
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    31 mins
  • ACDC #146 & ACDE #201: 2 New EIPs in Pectra, How Did This Happen?!

    ACDC #146 & ACDE #201: 2 New EIPs in Pectra, How Did This Happen?!
    Dec 10 2024
    On Ep.69 of Infinite Jungle, Christine shares her main takeaways from ACDC #146 and ACDE #201. Over the course of two developer calls, Ethereum developers agreed to include two new EIPs in the Pectra upgrade. Christine explains what these EIPs do and the decision-making process that led to their inclusion this late into the upgrade planning process. She also discusses how the latest additions to Pectra impact the upgrade’s mainnet activation timeline. Show note links: ACDC #146 Call Notes (https://www.galaxy.com/insights/research/ethereum-all-core-developers-consensus-call-146/) ACDE #201 Call Notes https://www.galaxy.com/insights/research/ethereum-all-core-developers-execution-call-201/) Report on blob base fee volatility (https://www.galaxy.com/insights/research/ethereum-150-days-after-dencun/) Timestamps: (00:02:22) EIP 7691, Blob throughput increase (00:03:25) EIP 7623, Increase call data cost (00:05:12) EIP 7762, Increase minimum blob base fee (00:07:38) Decision-making on EIP 7691 (00:09:42) Decision-making on EIP 7623 (00:14:19) Decision-making on EIP 7762 (00:20:09) Pectra Timeline This episode was recorded on Friday, December 6, 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 by Galaxy Digital Holdings LP and its affiliates (“Galaxy Digital”) solely for informational purposes. View the full disclaimer at www.galaxy.com/disclaimer-galaxy-brains-podcast/
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    26 mins
  • ePBS Office Hours w/Potuz and Terence

    ePBS Office Hours w/Potuz and Terence
    Nov 27 2024
    On Ep. 68 of Infinite Jungle, Christine chats with Prysm developers Terence Tsao and “Potuz” about their efforts to prepare EIP 7732, enshrined payload block separation, for the Fusaka upgrade. They discuss the benefits of EIP 7732 for Ethereum’s decentralization and censorship resistance, as well as some of the open questions and concerns related to the proposal. Finally, they discuss the likelihood of the EIP’s inclusion in Fusaka and the EIP’s next steps in the Ethereum governance process. Show note links: https://hackmd.io/@potuz/Bkcwd5hG1x https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-VwYHq1FA4 Timestamps: (00:01:24) Potuz and Terence’s Devcon 2024 takeaways (00:04:36) What’s the main selling point of ePBS? (00:05:53) How ePBS improves node bandwidth constraints (00:09:42) How ePBS offers CPU advantages and better censorship resistance guarantees (00:16:53) How ePBS removes the need for a trusted relay (00:20:12) How much will builders have to stake in ePBS? (00:23:59) How ePBS helps dapps capture MEV from high value blocks (00:26:37) What are slot auctions? (00:30:17) What are the blockers to ePBS in Fusaka? (00:37:00) How should developers resolve disagreements about what EIPs to include in Fusaka? This episode was recorded on Friday, November 22, 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 by Galaxy Digital Holdings LP and its affiliates (“Galaxy Digital”) solely for informational purposes. View the full disclaimer at www.galaxy.com/disclaimer-galaxy-brains-podcast/
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    44 mins
  • Learnings from Devcon 2024: Decentralization Matters

    Learnings from Devcon 2024: Decentralization Matters
    Nov 26 2024
    On Ep.67 of Infinite Jungle, Christine shares her main takeaways from Devcon 2024. She shares her thoughts on the Beam Chain announcement and native rollups. She explains why the most compelling ideas shared at the conference were not related to Ethereum’s technical roadmap or ZK innovations, but rather ideas about the values and beliefs grounding the Ethereum ecosystem. Christine makes the case for Ethereum’s new North Star post-Merge to be building Ethereum and Ethereum-based technologies with decentralization and credible neutrality as top of mind over and above other objectives like scalability and mass adoption. Show note links: https://www.galaxy.com/insights/research/weekly-top-stories-11-15-24/ https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2023/11/27/techno_optimism.html https://www.galaxy.com/insights/research/learnings-from-devcon-2024/ Timestamps: (00:03:14) The Beam Chain Announcement (00:14:13) Introducing Native Rollups (00:22:38) d/acc Day at Devcon (00:27:43) Ethereum’s North Star as Values and Beliefs Not a Technical Roadmap (00:35:07) Pectra Testing Call Updates (00:38:09) Infinite Jungle Programming Notes This episode was recorded on Friday, November 22, 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 by Galaxy Digital Holdings LP and its affiliates (“Galaxy Digital”) solely for informational purposes. View the full disclaimer at www.galaxy.com/disclaimer-galaxy-brains-podcast/
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    40 mins