Behind the Scenes of Ethereum’s Open Coordination

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Behind the Scenes of Ethereum’s Open Coordination

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The author argues that Ethereum's open, collaborative process is coordinating a fix for fragmented user experience across rollups, through chain abstraction standards for wallets. Justin Drake created a chain-specific address working group in late July, bringing together Vitalik Buterin, wallet teams and rollup teams, and Josh Rudolf suggested a breakout Zoom session that took place on August 10. Other proposals come from Sam Wilson, and from Marco Stronati of Matter Labs and Jeff Lau of ENS, while the article says the problem is still being solved.

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"One of my favorite examples is Danny Ryan, one of the key architects of the Merge. Before joining Ethereum, he was, at the time, just a freelance web developer who got nerd sniped by the open discussion about the Merge and ended up becoming a pivotal figure in making it happen."

Today I Learned :)

I have seen some EIP/ERC calls and discussions before but haven't followed them in real-time, so it's fascinating to learn how the Ethereum community comes together to solve the most pressing problems. The fact that Justin Drake just made a Telegram group chat to discuss chain-specific addresses gives me a lot of faith in Ethereum, as - despite being over nine years old - it is still very low on bureaucracy.