Vitalik Buterin: Ethereum – State of Affairs After the Merge

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With the long awaited Ethereum Merge successfully executed last month, we caught up with Vitalik at DevCon in Bogota to talk shop: How does he see the state of the network, does he think looming centralization is a threat. Was Ethereum's danksharding plus third party layer 2s a good architecture decision? How much of an issue is MEV?

Topics covered in this episode:

• The state of the network and credible neutrality
• Should validators have agency?
• How much of a problem is MEV
• The Ethereum Surge
• The road to Danksharding
• Decentralizing the sequencer
• The future of the space
• The one most important thing we need to get right in the coming year for the ecosystem to succeed

Episode links:

• Ethereum
• Devcon 6
• Episode 402 - Ethereum – Can It Go Beyond DeFi?
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This episode is hosted by Friederike Ernst. Show notes and listening options: epicenter.tv/467