Season 2 Finale w/Nethermind’s Łukasz & Marek

Season 2 Finale w/Nethermind’s Łukasz & Marek

Author: Galaxy Research April 2, 2025 Duration: 36:46
On Ep. 92 of Infinite Jungle, Christine interviews Łukasz Rozmej and Marek Moraczyński from the Nethermind client team. Nethermind is the 2nd most popular Ethereum execution layer client used by close to 40% of all Ethereum node operators. Christine asks Łukasz and Marek about their thoughts on Ethereum upgrades Pectra and Fusaka, as well as their views on Ethereum client diversity. This is the final episode of Infinite Jungle Season 2 and the last episode hosted by Christine. Christine shares a word of thanks to her listeners and everyone who supported the show for the past 2 seasons. Guest: Name: Łukasz Rozmej Title: Team Lead at Nethermind X: https://x.com/urozmej Name: Marek Moraczyński Title: Team Lead at Nethermind X: https://x.com/M25Marek Show note links: Nethermind Fusaka scope team view (https://x.com/M25Marek/status/1896911082628727213) Fork-Choice Enforced Inclusion Lists, FOCIL (https://ethresear.ch/t/fork-choice-enforced-inclusion-lists-focil-a-simple-committee-based-inclusion-list-proposal/19870) Nethermind Surge rollup (https://www.surge.wtf/) Timestamps: (00:01:05) Comparing Pectra to prior upgrades (00:03:10) Pectra mainnet timeline expectations (00:05:12) Nethermind’s view on Fusaka scope (00:18:08) Nethermind’s competitive edge (00:24:44) Nethermind’s preparations for history expiry (00:29:03) Marek and Lukasz’s future as core devs (00:35:03) A word of thanks This episode was recorded on Friday, March 21, 2025. ++ Follow us on Twitter, @glxyresearch, and read our research at www.galaxy.com/research/ to learn more! This podcast, and the information contained herein, has been provided to you by Galaxy Digital Holdings LP and its affiliates (“Galaxy Digital”) solely for informational purposes. View the full disclaimer at www.galaxy.com/disclaimer-galaxy-brains-podcast/

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ACDC #147: Eth Devs Pump the Brakes on Pumping the Gas [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 33:04
On Ep.71 of Infinite Jungle, Christine shares her main takeaways from ACDC #147. Notably, on this call, one of the main discussion topics was not about the Pectra upgrade. It was about community efforts to increase the E…
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Duration: 26:03
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ePBS Office Hours w/Potuz and Terence [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 43:48
On Ep. 68 of Infinite Jungle, Christine chats with Prysm developers Terence Tsao and “Potuz” about their efforts to prepare EIP 7732, enshrined payload block separation, for the Fusaka upgrade. They discuss the benefits…
Learnings from Devcon 2024: Decentralization Matters [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 39:56
On Ep.67 of Infinite Jungle, Christine shares her main takeaways from Devcon 2024. She shares her thoughts on the Beam Chain announcement and native rollups. She explains why the most compelling ideas shared at the confe…
ACDE #200: Ethereum’s Superpower is Transparency [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 37:28
On Ep.65 of Infinite Jungle, Christine talks about the main takeaways from All Core Developers Execution (ACDE) call #200 where developers talked about all the usual topics related to Pectra development, including devnet…
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Duration: 38:57
On Ep. 64 of Infinite Jungle, Christine chats with Dmitry Gusakov, Technical Lead for the Lido Community Staking Module (CSM), about the mainnet launch of the CSM. Gusakov explains how solo stakers can earn 2.3 times mor…
ACDC #145: Introducing Mekong, the 1st Public Pectra Testnet [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 27:51
On Ep.63 of Infinite Jungle, Christine talks about the main takeaways from All Core Developers Consensus (ACDC) call #145. Ethereum Foundation Developer Operations Engineer Barnabas Busa announced that his team has launc…
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Duration: 36:06
On Ep. 62 of Infinite Jungle, Christine chats with Robert Miller, Product Lead at Flashbots, and Lily Johnson, Rust Engineer at Astria Labs, about the latest developments in the MEV space. Robert presents Rollup-Boost, a…