Dankrad Feist: Why I Joined Tempo This Year (And Why I Left the EF...)

The father of Danksharding just left Ethereum Foundation for Tempo.

In this episode, Dankrad Feist opens up about his decision to leave the Ethereum Foundation after years of pioneering research to join Tempo and focus on stablecoin payments.

From PeerDAS and Fusaka's data availability breakthrough to the L2 finality crisis everyone's talking about, Dankrad explains why Ethereum needs to adopt a wartime mentality and what it will take to compete in today's market.

We discuss:

- Why He Chose Stablecoin Payments Over Pure Research
- PeerDAS & Fusaka's Data Availability Breakthrough
- The L2 Finality Crisis Everyone's Talking About
- Stage Zero Rollups: Should We Be Worried?
- Which ZK-EVM Would He Pick? (He Doesn't Say)
- Ethereum's Massive Validator Set Problem
- Privacy Roadmap & The Return of Fundamentals

The Rollup