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→ WHAT IT COVERS Four Ethereum Foundation researchers present their visions for Ethereum's next decade, covering ecosystem development, scaling roadmap, DeFi-centric strategy, and personal journeys through regulatory challenges and protocol development milestones. → KEY INSIGHTS - **Ethereum Foundation Restructuring:** EF reorganized in 2024 around three twelve-month priorities instead of fifty parallel initiatives, shifting from breadth-first exploration to focused execution with dedicated teams for scaling, developer acceleration, and institutional outreach. - **Layer One Scaling Target:** Ethereum targets three times gas limit increase annually, reaching 60 million gas by end of 2024 and 80-120 million in early 2025, with potential 100x scaling over four years through client optimizations and eventual zkEVM integration. - **DeFi Revenue Strategy:** Ethereum generated 2.5 billion dollars in 2024 revenue primarily from DeFi activity, demonstrating 100-1000x pricing premium over alternative data availability chains, making DeFi liquidity the most sustainable monetization path versus low-margin blob data sales. - **Real World Asset Integration:** Bearer asset structure enables DeFi composability for tokenized real world assets, requiring identity-decoupled ownership similar to stablecoins to unlock liquidity and institutional adoption on Ethereum as the global liquidity layer for all chains. → NOTABLE MOMENT Danny Ryan received SEC interrogation papers on Easter Sunday 2024, day two of his sabbatical, leading to three months of legal preparation before the case unexpectedly closed without precedent, revealing politically motivated enforcement against crypto developers. 💼 SPONSORS [{"name": "mZero", "url": "not provided"}, {"name": "Coinbase", "url": "coinbase.com/borrow"}, {"name": "Eight Sleep", "url": "8sleep.com/bankless"}, {"name": "Frax", "url": "frax.com/r/bankless"}, {"name": "Unichain", "url": "unichain.org"}, {"name": "Mantle", "url": "not provided"}] 🏷️ Ethereum Scaling, DeFi Strategy, Protocol Development, Regulatory Enforcement