Ansgar Dietrichs

Agents, AIs are coming on chain today.

So I think it's important that we basically just...

we are a continuously scaling blockchain and it is our responsibility to, under the hood, make that happen and use whatever both traditional and magical future ZK means necessary to make that happen.

I will say, because you said no one else will be able to do that, I actually think it's one of those areas where there's, again, natural synergy between Ethereum and the EVM L2 ecosystem.

I think one thing that, for example, we didn't talk about at all, but that I'm very excited about is that, like,

Again, similar to how the initial jump to non-real-time ZKVM came mostly driven by the L2s, I think now that we are driving from the L1 side this move to real-time ZKVMs, the L2s will also be huge beneficiaries of this because they will also just become the...

gain the ability of real-time settlement.

So that means also say all the like bridging pain across the L2 ecosystem, right?

Like, oh, in principle, it takes either I use a mint and burn bridge or it takes like seven days for my asset to move across chains.

All of this will disappear, right?

It's going to be a few seconds for any asset to move from any L2 to any other, any real-time ZK EVM proven L2 to any other real-time ZK EVM proven L2 through the Ethereum L1 or of course into or out of the Ethereum L1.

So I think it's yet one of these cases where,

The fact that if you're part of the Ethereum family, we're like, this is kind of, this is the ecosystem that really has this principled approach to things.

You get all of these benefits for free.

You're basically, you are on the principled architectural path.

And I think that has always been our competitive advantage.

And I think,

While doubling down on the competitive advantage, I think we really are already trying very hard.

I think we have to keep trying even harder to close where maybe we've had the competitive disadvantage, which is, I think, that Ethereum in the past has sometimes been a bit too much in this pure research mode and, like, maybe discounting the type of activity that already existed and saying, ah, that's just sandbox, whatever, like...

The real world adoption will come later and then we'll start focusing on it.