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Ryan Sean Adams

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Ethereum's Last Big Upgrade: The zkEVM | Ansgar Dietrichs

And that allows for just work being constrained down to one block producer.

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Ethereum's Last Big Upgrade: The zkEVM | Ansgar Dietrichs

And then everyone else is just like, thumbs up, that is correct.

Bankless
Ethereum's Last Big Upgrade: The zkEVM | Ansgar Dietrichs

And we really like take off the brakes off of a blockchain system.

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Ethereum's Last Big Upgrade: The zkEVM | Ansgar Dietrichs

Now, the reason why Bitcoin wasn't built like this in the first place, the reason why Ethereum wasn't built or any other blockchain wasn't built like this in the first place was, you know,

Bankless
Ethereum's Last Big Upgrade: The zkEVM | Ansgar Dietrichs

Technological progress along cryptographic hashes also needed to mature.

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Ethereum's Last Big Upgrade: The zkEVM | Ansgar Dietrichs

Maybe you could like take everything that I just said and run with it, but also talk about just like the technological parallel path of cryptographic proofs as they've been progressing alongside blockchains.

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Ethereum's Last Big Upgrade: The zkEVM | Ansgar Dietrichs

Instruction, yeah.

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Ethereum's Last Big Upgrade: The zkEVM | Ansgar Dietrichs

I really like the idea of there has been this three parallel paths of computing, first starting with computers where they were first narrow and then we were able to make them generalized and then we were able to make them generalized and fast, which is where modern computers are now to this day.

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Ethereum's Last Big Upgrade: The zkEVM | Ansgar Dietrichs

And then we created blockchains, you know, virtualized ledger-based computers in the sky, decentralized systems.

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Ethereum's Last Big Upgrade: The zkEVM | Ansgar Dietrichs

They started narrow with Bitcoin.

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Ethereum's Last Big Upgrade: The zkEVM | Ansgar Dietrichs

And then we learned to generalize them with Ethereum.

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Ethereum's Last Big Upgrade: The zkEVM | Ansgar Dietrichs

And then we learned to generalize them and make them fast with many other smart contract chains.

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Ethereum's Last Big Upgrade: The zkEVM | Ansgar Dietrichs

And now we are doing the same thing with cryptography.

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Ethereum's Last Big Upgrade: The zkEVM | Ansgar Dietrichs

Started narrow with cryptography, learned to make it generalized, and now we are making them generalized and fast.

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Ethereum's Last Big Upgrade: The zkEVM | Ansgar Dietrichs

And that generalized and fast unlock on the computing tech tree of cryptography is now being able to be taken and bestowed into Ethereum, which is what we're going to talk about for the rest of this episode.

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Ethereum's Last Big Upgrade: The zkEVM | Ansgar Dietrichs

So now that we have the ZK EVM and it's in the Ethereum blockchain and it's up and running, what does that actually change with Ethereum?

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Ethereum's Last Big Upgrade: The zkEVM | Ansgar Dietrichs

When we get to this point, how does Ethereum actually change?

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Ethereum's Last Big Upgrade: The zkEVM | Ansgar Dietrichs

Right.

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Ethereum's Last Big Upgrade: The zkEVM | Ansgar Dietrichs

You zoomed in on each one of those three.

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Ethereum's Last Big Upgrade: The zkEVM | Ansgar Dietrichs

And as you just said, you put those three together.