if you want to catch up with all the progress on native rollups, go watch the recording of my *1 hour* presentation for ethproofs #5 !!

lean ethereum thread: PQ workshop (Cambridge, UK) started hours ago. this thread will be updated with presentation recordings (and slides) as they occur 🧵

A spectacular example of Orwellian doublespeak from the UK Home Secretary: "Just because you have a freedom doesn’t mean you have to use it at every moment of every day." In fact the ability do something whenever you want is practically the definition of a freedom.

At MIT, the only course I ever dropped was signal processing. The DFT math was too intimidating. It’s so easy to just type fft() in MATLAB and move on. Years later, I finally did DFT by hand. ✍️ If you are also afraid of DFT, I hope this helps! ⬇️ Download:

Progress toward real-time proving for Ethereum L1 is nothing short of extraordinary. In May, SP1 Hypercube proved 94% of L1 blocks in under 12 seconds using 160 RTX 4090s. Five months later Pico Prism proves 99.9% of the same blocks in under 12 seconds, with just 64 RTX 5090s.

A GKR tutorial: vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025/1…

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ZKsync has been doing a lot of underrated and valuable work in the ethereum ecosystem. Excited to see this come from them!

In new work with Angus Gruen, we show that the 𝘶𝘱-𝘵𝘰-𝘤𝘢𝘱𝘢𝘤𝘪𝘵𝘺 proximity gaps conjecture (Ben-Sasson–Carmon–Ishai–Kopparty–Saraf) is not true. This affects the security analysis of most zkVMs deployed today. eprint.iacr.org/2025/2010

[New] On ReedSolomon Proximity Gaps Conjectures (Elizabeth Crites and Alistair Stewart) ia.cr/2025/2046

Ethproofs call 6 just wrapped! Over 200 joined a deep dive into proximity gaps, the mathematical core of modern hash-based SNARKs. 6 new papers in 6 days reshaped our understanding of these gaps - both breakthroughs and refutations that sharpen what’s provable and what remains

Galaxy brain resistance: vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025/1…

lowercase snarks Words like laser, scuba, radar began uppercase. LASER — Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation SCUBA — Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus RADAR — RAdio Detection And Ranging When a technology matures and becomes reliable, trusted,

what a year :)

Before we start this Zero-Base Physics Challenge, you need one core concept: Physics isn’t hard. It’s stacked. Miss the lower layers → the upper layers feel impossible. So this is not a “24-week deadline course.” This is 24 layers (an academic roadmap). Learn in the right

I thought physics was hard. Turns out it was just out of order. L1 done.

In 1952, chemist Rosalind Franklin captured an image that changed science forever. Photo 51. A single X-ray diffraction image that revealed the true structure of DNA. She didn’t speculate. She didn’t guess. She measured. Her data showed that DNA wasn’t random. It followed a

Ethereum Protocol Studies is back for 2026 with new content tracks in Cryptography and Lean Consensus/zkEVM, plus a self-paced learning platform. Program starts Feb 23rd. Open, permissionless, free.

Introduction to lean Ethereum w/ Justin Drake👇

Protocol study group starts today. See you at the kickoff.