Ansgar Dietrichs

But that's a minor constraint.

But it in itself does not give us a lower latency.

And this is why when you said at the top, like it's the biggest ever change, I was actually tempted to say, well, to me, that's true on the execution side of the blockchain, right?

Like same as with Bitcoin, how we said there's the consensus mechanism, proof of work in that case, in our case, proof of stake.

And then there's the actual processing of the blocks, Bitcoin transaction, Ethereum transactions, that kind of thing.

For the actual execution, for the transaction bits, the...

the ZKVM and the related changes really are the major story for the next, you know, five years.

We, in parallel, are also like now putting together this really, really exciting roadmap on the consensus layer side.

And like the latency, that's all a consensus layer story, right?

Because that's where basically the heartbeat of the blockchain is determined.

And so we have this separate process.

And you should probably, you know, this is maybe setting us up for a separate podcast episode.

You should bring someone on that's specifically focusing on that type of work at the E4 and or the broad ecosystem.

Because I think we have this really exciting roadmap there that's getting us to a much faster finality.

So right now, finality in Ethereum takes two epochs, that's 64 slots.

on average, two and a half epochs actually even.

So it's like long amount of time.

We're bringing this down all the way to basically single slot finality, two slot finality.

Like it's going to come down like orders of magnitude.

So that's super exciting.