2025-06-13 –, 10 - Main Stage
Without clear goals for what our network should provide, we end up optimising for our means rather than for our ends. In this talk, I'll discuss the goals of our network — scale, hardness, verifiability and censorship-resistance — and how some of the means ("local building", "solo staking") should be re-evaluated in light of their contributions to these goals, given advances in protocol research.
Barnabé is the co-lead of Ethereum Foundation Research and enjoys thinking about protocols.