Unchained
Unchained
Laura Shin
Ethereum Gave Away Too Much for Too Long. Will Its Pivot Be Enough? - Ep. 829
1 hour 28 minutes Posted May 6, 2025 at 4:00 pm.
Introduction
Why Ethereum had to pivot and what triggered the urgency
Why raising the gas limit could actually be a big deal
Whether Ethereum devs are too idealistic
How Solana managed to outperform Ethereum at the base layer
Why Max feels Vitalik’s proposals focus on outdated technology
The growing gap between Ethereum research and its execution clients
The ONE thing Max thinks Ethereum is doing well
Did “credible neutrality” push Ethereum down the wrong path?
Will the new Ethereum R1 rollup succeed?
What the new updates mean for layer 2s and their value proposition
Whether ETH is finally due for a price reversal
Why Ethereum should take a page from Trump’s strategy playbook
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Show notes
After years of underperformance, Ethereum is trying to change course, from scaling the layer 1 to potentially dumping the EVM. In this episode, Tarun Chitra and Max Resnick break down each of these new changes, analyzing the good, the bad, and the ugly. 
Is this a reset that can save Ethereum’s market position and price? Or has the protocol given away too much for too long?
They dive into:
Whether the gas limit increase changes everything
What went wrong with Ethereum’s economics and solo staking politics
Max’s view on “the single most important” change Ethereum needs to make
How ETH could claw back value from layer 2s
What Max would do if he ran Ethereum
Whether this pivot is too little, too late
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Tarun Chitra, CEO and Co-Founder of Gauntlet
Max Resnick, Lead economist at Anza
Unchained: 
Ethereum Ecosystem Shifts Toward User Focus
Ethereum Developers Vote EOF Out of Fusaka Hard Fork
Vitalik Buterin Proposes Replacing Ethereum Virtual Machine
The Block: 
Vitalik and new Ethereum Foundation co-executive directors outline updated board structure, mission
Vitalik Buterin- and StarkWare-backed Kakarot reveals alternative Ethereum ZK stack, targeting real-time STARK proofs on Layer 1 by end of 2025
CoinDesk: Ethereum Could Supercharge Transaction Speed to 2,000 TPS Thanks to Bold New Proposal
Simplifying the L1 by Vitalik Buterin
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