# Best of x.com/dankrad on Kiwi News

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9 stories by @dankrad on X have been shared on Kiwi News since 17 May 2024, with 25 upvotes and 4 comments in total. The latest was shared on 20 June 2026. They are listed below, most upvoted first.

Summaries are AI summaries of the linked article.

## 1. Dankrad and Peter Szilagyi discussing MEV

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Dankrad-and-Peter-Szilagyi-discussing-MEV?index=0x66472a1f24ec54beb25140bd5444623d481dbb0497a1543f5b352f9247086956160d51e0
- Source: https://x.com/dankrad/status/1791402828210049285
- Shared 17 May 2024, 7 upvotes, 1 comment

Dankrad Feinstein rejects the claim that Ethereum researchers design protocol changes to serve monetary interests rather than to build a fair system. He says many researchers take heavy criticism for opposing large ecosystem players, including liquid staking protocols, and for supporting proposals such as taking the issuance curve. He also calls it absurd to say Verkle trees exist to protect stakers' income, noting that staking pools do not care about avoiding the need for an SSD to run the protocol. According to him, the main goal of Verkle is to make running full nodes easier and cheaper, which would allow gas to be increased.

## 2. @dankrad and @CamiRusso debate Ethereum's fee model and L2 ecosystem challenges

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/dankrad-and-CamiRusso-debate-Ethereums-fee-model-and-L2-ecosystem-challenges?index=0x67d40443f9896217fee61034f25f00cf170b1f8f60cd3ae3993edb60686e1abeeba9ced3
- Source: https://x.com/dankrad/status/1900278057543291126
- Shared 14 March 2025, 4 upvotes, 1 comment

Ethereum DA's weak competitive moat means it is unlikely to charge significant fees over the long term, according to the discussion's author, who is not named in the text. The text says Ethereum currently makes almost zero fees from L1 and L2 transactions because it deliberately charges very close to zero when there is no congestion, unlike a company that would price transactions and raise them during congestion. It argues Ethereum DA offers little UX benefit and only abstract security benefits that alternative DA providers will likely closely replicate. Proposed next steps are scaling L1 to keep integration attractive, scaling DA to reduce incentives for alt-DA, and pursuing shorter block times and single-slot L2 interop.

## 3. @dankrad: Ethereum needs a $1b+ org funded by staking revenue and accountable

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/dankrad-Ethereum-needs-a-dollar1b-org-funded-by-staking-revenue-and-accountable?index=0x6a0f0c5a9a8d6bc802bab9e79e9f6d2c6bc67983d24f113ead36419f9826c10fc2a917d5
- Source: https://x.com/dankrad/status/2057441946616930799?s=12
- Shared 21 May 2026, 3 upvotes, 0 comments

Dankrad argues that Ethereum needs a community-created organization that is economically aligned with ETH and accountable to it. He says the Ethereum Foundation holds less than 0.1% of all ETH and receives no flow of staking or fee revenue. He proposes an organization with at least $1 billion in funding, led by a competent leader, overseen by a board of people who want ETH to go up, and permanently funded by a significant share of staking revenue, adjustable through a governance mechanism.

## 4. Writeup to explain the gas limit raise

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Writeup-to-explain-the-gas-limit-raise?index=0x675a9634d5430ec65f42c14cbcb84ab5651c81dbd4eef5514664e81ff6868f0ec6372f11
- Source: https://x.com/dankrad/status/1867078641118789787
- Shared 12 December 2024, 3 upvotes, 0 comments

The gas limit is set by validators, who vote on whether to raise or lower it with every block, and there is no standard EIP-style process for changing it. The gas limit has never been increased since the merge, and some participants have begun signalling that an increase is due. Core developers found that raising it above 40 million is not yet safe because a constant must first be changed in the clients, so 36 million is being widely endorsed as a first step. Clients are releasing updates to make 36 million the default, and the author expects some large pools to join within weeks.

## 5. @dankrad: EF exodus is CROPS believers leaving due to management issues

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/dankrad-EF-exodus-is-CROPS-believers-leaving-due-to-management-issues?index=0x6a3620a41784c251a3ca72ffc87ea878521e32c7616403738613940cecb2c3f08a1384af
- Source: https://x.com/dankrad/status/2068109571814502733?s=12
- Shared 20 June 2026, 2 upvotes, 0 comments

## 6. @dankrad: Isn't it Anthropic's right to add safeguards to their model?

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/dankrad-Isnt-it-Anthropics-right-to-add-safeguards-to-their-model?index=0x6a2ad29ba26b0d2bd69befe61214c365852e6c15e3d13d8189e8d0c517fde03d06484e17
- Source: https://x.com/dankrad/status/2065066742842331331?s=12
- Shared 11 June 2026, 2 upvotes, 0 comments

## 7. Ethereum's scaling roadmap: why current plans are too unambitious

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Ethereums-scaling-roadmap-why-current-plans-are-too-unambitious?index=0x678eb3077e63e0274a1b5d14e5461565f955ad0645e8c5a29f5ee457d8d61063a61f8cd0
- Source: https://x.com/dankrad/status/1881405119373234238
- Shared 20 January 2025, 2 upvotes, 0 comments

Ethereum's core development process is described as broken, and the author argues the current scaling plans are too unambitious. The post says builders need long-term capacity commitments and five-year plans, and it calls for agreed timelines in the core dev process. It argues that L1 scaling by 100 to 1000 times is possible within a few years, citing Vitalik's 2021 roadmap post and the arrival of DAS and zkEVMs. It also proposes reaching one megabyte per second for data availability in 1 to 2 years rather than 5, while noting that other data availability protocols are building for GB/s.

## 8. @dankrad: Ethereum researcher joins Tempo to focus on crypto payments scaling

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/dankrad-Ethereum-researcher-joins-Tempo-to-focus-on-crypto-payments-scaling?index=0x68f2240546c337ab5ace472af64e8b2e70a3d4691da1fc0668052838a0e51f783d5c27c0
- Source: https://x.com/dankrad/status/1979133618254405775
- Shared 17 October 2025, 1 upvote, 2 comments

Dankrad Feist, an Ethereum researcher, is joining Tempo to focus on scaling crypto payments. He says he has spent several years architecting and scaling blockchains and plans to bring those learnings to Tempo's team. Feist began working with the Ethereum Foundation (EF) research team in 2018, joined full time in 2019, and says he contributed to PeerDAS, a scaling milestone due in the upcoming Fusaka upgrade. He will remain a research advisor to three EF strategic initiatives: Scale L1, Scale Blobs, and Improve UX.

## 9. Dankrad: Reasons for my EIP to scale Ethereum L1 100x over 4 years

- Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Dankrad-Reasons-for-my-EIP-to-scale-Ethereum-L1-100x-over-4-years?index=0x6813576f8901fd5b4de95ecc964a1c929aa85799fde0ebcfb9ce00c698067d25f3d12b4d
- Source: https://x.com/dankrad/status/1917678690852311333
- Shared 1 May 2025, 1 upvote, 0 comments