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Taiko mainnet started preconf-ing blocks about an hour ago, after fixing some minor issues and now our based rollup seem fully functional, with 2-3 second block time. vitalik.eth Justin Drake More to come in the next 6 months.

Preconfirmations Are Live on Taiko! 🥁 20–30x faster. Same Ethereum values. Taiko Alethia mainnet just leveled up. This massive upgrade boosts our network’s performance without compromising Ethereum’s core principles. The new era of Taiko begins today!

I don't buy the "institutions will build alt-L1s bc they don't want to be dependent on Ethereum" thesis. It'll eventually be like saying "institutions don't want to be dependent on the internet". My bet: Within 2y they will pivot to being rollups

I am 100% aligned with almost all of what Tom Thomas (Tom) Lee (not drummer) FSInsight.com says here. Yes, Wall Street will stake because they currently pay for their infrastructure and Ethereum will replace much of the many siloed stacks they operate on (e.g. JPMorgam probably operates on several siloed stacks

after building in crypto for half a decade and spending the past 2 years deep on stablecoins we decided at codex to build our stablecoin chain as an etheruem L2 instead of an alt-L1 more soon as to why

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.

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Ethereum is scaling.

Yes! It would have been the route to achieve composability and thus shared liquidity with real network effects between L1 and L2s. Instead, ETH is now a memecoin dependent on Wall Street guys selling it via DATs.

Real-time proving at home is here. SP1 Hypercube proves 99.7% of Ethereum blocks in real time with just 16 RTX 5090 GPUs. Scaling the L1 is a reality.

🤯 two 5090s now prove every L1 EVM block 🤯 The ZKsync Airbender team pulled off something insane ahead of tomorrow's ethproofs.day demo. Mainnet proofs on two gaming GPUs. One box, ~1kW—basically a toaster. Props to robik (∎, ∆) zk/acc, Michael Carrili, MM, Alexander Vlasov.

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Solana was more expensive than Ethereum L1 for ~1 minute today Arbitrum (L2) was more expensive than Ethereum L1 for ~1 hour 13 minutes today

Stripe is now rolling out USD-settled stablecoin payments across Ethereum, Base, and Polygon

Stop getting manipulated by the "low gas = dead chain" narrative. This couldn't be further from the truth in Ethereum: 📉 ETH Gas: All-time Lows 📈 ETH Activity: All-time Highs That isn't bearish. It’s called scaling, and Ethereum is executing perfectly. Bookmark this.

Genuinely think Ethereum is going to have a banger year and the sentiment of this time period will be forgotten

1. Rocket Pool is a powerful contributor to @Ethereum node diversity. 2. The Rocket Pool Saturn 1 upgrade is coming February 9, 2026. 3. YOU can operate a RP validator with 4 Ether, this is huge.

RYAN SΞAN ADAMS - rsa.eth 🦄 ETH is a store of value and one of the most important apps on ethereum.

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