
About this episode
Max is leaving Ethereum, and we have the details. On this Gwart Show special filmed at Pubkey in NYC, Max and Eugene join Gwart to go through Max’s decision to leave Ethereum dev shop Conensensys in favor of a Solana client which frankly we don’t know how to spell or pronounce. We go through Ethereum’s major problems basically one-by-one in this 1.5 hour show, finishing with a Holiday Special game of ‘cooked or not cooked’ narratives.
Follow our guest on Twitter: @MaxResnick1 @0xshittrader
00:00 Start
00:32 Quitting ETH
02:38 Other people quitting?
04:08 Did you always doubt?
06:20 Execution layer
07:51 ETH Foundation blinders
09:51 New role in Solana?
11:42 Leadership in SOL vs ETH
14:10 Launching an L2 on ETH
16:58 Jitter
18:38 More rollups, more problems
21:48 Does SOL end up w/ L2s?
24:54 Solana is a real ETH competitor
26:11 MEV research on SOL
33:32 Is a meme sandwich really a sandwich?
36:06 Does SOL take MEV seriously?
37:37 Cooked or not cooked?
37:47 Intents
41:27 Interoperability
44:27 L2s functionally becoming l1s
46:46 ZK tech
52:21 Allowing innovation is the killer app
55:24 Nodes faster than tradfi
57:55 Ultrasound money... LOL
1:05:40 MEV kings will be Citadel
1:08:04 Forcing tradfi to play our game
1:09:50 Bitcoin cooked?
1:10:40 Memcoins cooked?
1:12:26 Depin cooked?
1:13:51 Prediction markets cooked?
1:18:06 Hype cooked?
1:20:10 Time boost cooked?
1:24:28 Futarchy cooked?
1:31:06 Future of Solana
1:33:02 Is Solana gonna win
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