Antony Denyer

One of the things I’ve struggled with recently is getting back into a state of flow.

In my previous post on PropAMMs, I framed them as the next step in Ethereum’s trading-primitive evolution: a move from passive liquidity curves to programmable market makers, where pricing intelligence sits closer to execution.

Ethereum has spent the better part of a decade optimizing for settlement infrastructure.

This post is a lightly adapted cross-post of research and design work originally written while building baibai.cx at spire.dev.

Ethereum’s monetary policy works well today, but it is still harder to explain than it needs to be.

It feels like you should be able to deterministically run a transaction locally, count the gas, set that as the gasLimit, and end up with 100% gas utilisation every time.

In my previous post, I argued that GenAI shifts the centre of gravity of testing.

There’s a growing assumption in software engineering circles that GenAI will make traditional testing practices, and perhaps development, less relevant.

Fusaka introduced the first meaningful evolution of Ethereum’s blob fee mechanics since Dencun.

Centralised solutions, and the belief in them, come from a specific type of mindset.

In software development, inversion of control (IoC) has been one of the most transformative architectural shifts for building loosely coupled, extensible software solutions.

Brandolini’s Law “the amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude larger than to produce it” is about to hit our codebases with a vengeance.

In the early days of Ethereum, everything was up for grabs.

Most modern software projects are built with the assumption that configuration belongs outside of the code.

I can’t remember when I first learnt about walking skeletons, it was at least a decade ago, and it felt like common knowledge among the people I was working with.

Thanks to @miszke_eth for reviewing Over the past few years, Ethereum has adopted rollups as its primary path to scalability.

TL;DR: Conditional auctions keep the auctioneer in control and reduce bidder risk at the cost of more complex spam checks.

Note that blob pricing changed post Fusaka details here EIP-4844 introduced “blob transactions” almost over a year ago, specifically aimed at significantly enhancing scalability and efficiency for layer-2 solutions like rollups.

The challenge of space exploration isn’t just rocket science.

In traditional systems, trust often requires synchronous real-time interactions, centralized authorities, or constant availability.