The recent Ethereum Protocol Research Call 2 was packed with many exciting updates on how @ethereum is innovating in the short to medium term. Here is what you should not miss 👇 🧵
The one chart in the @ethereum Protocol Research Call 2 that excited me the most, was this one 👇
A powerful L1 with rollups clustered around it is preferred over a weak L1 with dominant rollups, as the latter risks rollups becoming independent or moving elsewhere. Even in a rollup centric future, we need the L1 to scale. It is imperative that Ethereum continues to innovate, improve and inspire!
The story of perp DEXs is best told in 7 distinct phases — a timeline of dominance, disruption, and the rise of a new king:
1. Early–Mid 2021: @dYdX Dominance Perp DEX = dYdX. No real challengers. Deep liquidity, strong PMF, and the only game in town.
2. Late 2021: @GMX_IO Appears GMX v1 entered with an oracle-based model and a community-first ethos. Still tiny vs dYdX, but it proved new models could work.
3. 2022: Market Starts Fragmenting @GainsNetwork_io, @synthetix_io, and others began attracting niche users. dYdX’s monopoly was intact, but the moat showed cracks.
4. Early 2023: @HyperliquidX Arrives A quiet entrant with serious momentum. Product velocity + incentives helped it quickly carve out share from both dYdX and GMX.
5. June 2023: A Brief Pullback Hyperliquid’s share dipped to less than 2%. A blip, not a bust. The retreat was temporary.
6. June 2023–Dec 2024: The Climb Hyperliquid steadily rebuilt, volume growing month after month. By late 2024, it had leapfrogged everyone. @JupiterExchange also managed to gain some marketshare against the others.
7. Jan 2025 to current: Hyperliquid Dominates Hyperliquid now commands the perp DEX market with more than 80% marketshare in May 2025. dYdX v4, ApeX, and others still trade—but the race isn’t close anymore.
We are currently witnessing the most influential and vertically integrated AI empire being built by @sama
It’s bold. It’s terrifying. And while it's starting to spark conversations, the implications are still vastly underestimated.
Here’s what he’s putting together—piece by piece:
1) Core AI Models @OpenAI under Altman has shipped frontier models like GPT-4.5 and GPT-4o—with GPT-5 on the way. ChatGPT is already the most downloaded app on earth, while these models quietly power the AI engines of the world’s biggest companies.
2) AI Hardware $6.5B to acquire Jony Ive’s design startup, io. Ive—the mind behind the iPhone—is now leading OpenAI’s hardware vision. Expect AI-native devices that redefine how humans interact with machines.
3) Compute Infrastructure A 1-gigawatt AI super-datacenter—Stargate UAE—is being built with G42. That’s nation-scale compute power in a single project. Meanwhile, OpenAI is setting up similar ventures in the US.
4) Identity & Human Verification @worldcoin, Altman’s crypto-biometric project, scans irises to verify humanity—already at 26M users. In an AI-saturated future, it could become the default layer for proving you’re human online.
5) Social & Consumer Platforms OpenAI is reportedly building its own X/Twitter alternative—and has shown interest in acquiring Chrome if regulators ever split it from Google. That’s a browser, a social feed, and an AI layer, all potentially under one roof.
6) Developer Tools & Infra OpenAI acquired Windsurf (AI coding) for $3B and Rockset (real-time analytics). These form the software backbone for the next-gen AI stack.
This isn’t just a company—it’s a stack. A full-stack bet on owning AI from silicon to society.
It’s like watching a Black Mirror episode being written live... and we’re in the cast!
While @ethereum and @solana were battling it out for dominance, @HyperliquidX emerged as the market leader in terms of daily fees. HL went from ~17% in mid-Jan to ~64% in May
Data source: @DefiLlama Area chart of dailyFees of Hyperliquid, Solana, Ethereum.