only takeaway from Berlin - Iām more bullish on Ethereum than ever.
The energy & vibes across the whole ecosystem these past few weeks have been amazing, changes at EF are exciting, and every partner I met seemed genuinely optimistic.
canāt say much, but rest of 2025 is going to be major - L1 & L2 scaling, smoother L2 UX, and yes - real institutional adoption.
Plasma TLDR: -> Deposits went live -> The initial $250M cap reached in under 1 minute -> Deposit cap got extended to $500M -> Filled again in SECONDS -> Only 1108 ppl got in -> Top 3 plasma depositors put in $50M, $33.5M $24M -> Top 3 = $107.5M (21.5%) -> Top 10 wallets deposited 40% of the available supply. -> Top 84 wallets deposited 450M -> A user spend 39.15 ETH ($99.6k) in gas to deposit
why do people in this industry keep forgetting that it's hard to build complex systems? Alongside that, you have to justify why & what are u building constantly.
You ship, you get FUD. You donāt ship, you get FUD
Iāve been genuinely impressed by some of the design choices so far: ā Dual-block architecture: fast small blocks + slower large blocks ā Raw HyperEVM block data ā Each address stores the top 100 highest nonces
Planning to drop some educational content on this soon
Anyways if youāre building something cool on Hyperliquid, DMs open