Ryan Sean Adams

Ethereum has had this history of very big forks, hard forks that have upgraded Ethereum from this early primitive proof of concept where it started in 2015 to what it is today.

which is fundamental infrastructure, the backbone of internet money and internet finance.

We had the Merge, which did proof of work to proof of stake.

We had EIP-1559 that upgraded Ether economics and transaction user experience.

There's also 4844, which just enabled Ethereum's roll-up environment to become its best self.

With each of these forks, they all represented this rallying cry for the Ethereum community.

They were this kind of grand unifying force of attention by the Ethereum community.

And it allowed Ethereum itself to command attention from the rest of the world.

The rest of the world paid attention to Ethereum when Ethereum had these forks, these incoming forks.

The Ethereum was just loud.

And I think these kind of represent Ethereum, some of Ethereum's best moments.

when Ethereum has these kind of cultural shelling points for technological upgrades to what we consider in the Ethereum community to be critical social infrastructure.

Now, I think Ansgar, and I want to suss this out, this topic out with you, that there is another fork on the horizon.

It's not soon.

It's not this year.

It's likely not next year either.

But nonetheless, it is there on the horizon, and I think it deserves attention.

I think it deserves the treatment that the Ethereum community has given previous forks.

And I think in addition to all of the valuable things that we got from the three forks that I just mentioned, this one is actually the biggest upgrade that Ethereum will ever experience because it relates to users more than any of the three forks in the past.

And that is the fork that introduces the ZK EVM to Ethereum.