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SustainEpisode 280: Devconnect 2025 with Nixo RokishGuest
Nixo Rokish
Panelists
Eriol Fox | Victory Brown
Show Notes
In this live episode of Sustain from Devconnect in Buenos Aires, host Eriol Fox and
co-host Victory Brown sit down with Nixo Rokish, Protocol Support Lead at the
Ethereum Foundation, to unpack how Ethereum’s deeply decentralized governance
actually works in practice. They dive into the nuts and bolts of coordinating 100+
core contributors across 11+ client teams, why neutral facilitation is crucial, how
Ethereum’s upgrade and EIP process avoids “single maintainer” failure modes, and
what...
2026-01-3019 min
Infinite JunglePectra Retrospective w/Nixo and YorickOn Ep. 78 of Infinite Jungle, Christine welcomes back Ethereum Foundation’s Nixo and Galaxy’s Yorick to the show. They have a mini-debrief session on the Pectra upgrade planning process and debate how useful exercises like a Pectra retrospective are to the evolution of Ethereum. They also discuss the pros and cons of creating minimum hardware and bandwidth requirements for Ethereum validators. Christine recommends that Nixo present her own document on validator hardware and bandwidth requirements for the Ethereum staking community. Guests:Name: Nixo RokishTitle: Former Executive Director of EthStaker and P...
2025-02-1248 minInfinite JungleMERRY GRINDMAS! (feat. Santa Nixo)On Ep. 74 of Infinite Jungle, Christine speaks with Nixo, who works on the Protocol Support Team at the Ethereum Foundation, about her highlights from 2024 and hopes for the Ethereum ecosystem in 2025. Nixo also shares updates about the new staker deposit CLI tool maintained by EthStaker and her perspective on the Ethereum gas limit debate. Christine shares a few predictions about what narratives will take hold on Ethereum next year and restates her convictions about Ethereum’s superpower as the world’s most decentralized and transparent general purpose blockchain. This is the last episode of Infinite Jungle Season 1. Be on the...
2024-12-2542 minInfinite JungleNixo Joins the Foundation & Yorick Shills Router Changes For Solo StakersOn Ep. 56 of Infinite Jungle, Christine chats again with Galaxy Blockchain Engineer Yorick Downe and Former Executive Director of EthStaker Nixo Rokish about the latest developments in the Ethereum staking ecosystem. Nixo speaks about her new role at the Ethereum Foundation as part of the Protocol Support team. She voices her opinion about how developers should refrain from including a blob throughput increase in Pectra due to a lack of sufficient data on the impact of such an increase on the solo staking community. Yorick highlights initiatives that he is working on at EthStaker to improve the performance of v...
2024-10-0931 minInfinite JungleExploring Paths Forward for PeerDAS & Home StakersOn Ep. 48 of Infinite Jungle, Christine chats with Nixo Rokish, Executive Director of EthStaker, and Yorick Downe, Founder of CryptoManufaktur and Blockchain Engineer at Galaxy, about changes to the staking deposit CLI tool and the expected impacts of PeerDAS on home stakers. The staking deposit CLI is a tool for users operating their own validators to stake their ETH. safely and securely. It has long been overdue for an update, as explained by Nixo and Yorick. Despite efforts to improve the staking experience for home stakers, Christine expresses concern about the viability of home staking. She explains how the Pe...
2024-09-1133 minInfinite JungleGalaxy x CryptoManufaktur Join ForcesOn Ep. 41 of Infinite Jungle, Christine chats with Nixo Rokish, Executive Director of EthStaker, and Thorsten Behrens, “Yorick Downe”, Founder of CryptoManufaktur, about a new proposal to improve the viability of solo staking on Ethereum.Guests:Nixo Rokish, Executive Director of EthStakerhttps://x.com/nixorokishThorsten Behrens, “Yorick Downe”, Founder and CEO of Cryptomanufakturhttps://x.com/yorickdowneShow note links:
https://www.galaxy.com/newsroom/galaxy-expands-blockchain-infrastructure-capabilities-asset-acquisition-crypto-manufaktur/
https://ethresear.ch/t/orbit-ssf-solo-staking-friendly-validator-set-management-for-ssf/19928
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2024-08-0735 minInfinite JungleMaximizing the Impact of MaxEB w/Nixo and YorickOn the twentieth episode of Infinite Jungle, Christine chats with Nixo Rokish, Executive Director of EthStaker, and Thorsten Behrens, “Yorick Downe”, Founder and CEO of Cryptomanufaktur, about a new crypto project targeting solo stakers called Heroglyphs and the implementation details of MaxEB.Show note links:
https://github.com/Finallyt/Heroglyph/blob/main/Heroglyphs%20-%20Unclassified.pdf
https://discord.gg/heroglyphs
https://twitter.com/hero_glyphs
https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-7251
https://github.com/ethereum/pm/issues/1012#issuecomment-2056432366
This episode was recorded on Friday, May 3, 2024.++Follo...
2024-05-0833 minInfinite JungleEthereum Devs Debate Account Abstraction EIPs for ElectraOn the sixth episode of Infinite Jungle, Christine summarizes All Core Developers Execution (ACDE) call #182, where developers debated the merits of two code changes that would help enable account abstraction on Ethereum. Christine also chatted with EthStaker Executive Director Nixo Rokish about her thoughts on a potential reduction in staking rewards to slow the growth of total ETH staked.Show note links:
https://www.galaxy.com/insights/research/ethereum-all-core-developers-execution-call-182/
https://ethereum-magicians.org/t/electra-issuance-curve-adjustment-proposal/18825
https://twitter.com/EthereumDenver/status/1763331975631241541
This episode was recorded on Friday, February 23, 2024.++
2024-03-0543 minInfinite JungleThe Supermajority Risk of Ethereum ExplainedOn the second episode of Infinite Jungle, Christine summarizes All Core Developers Call (ACDE) call #180, where developers agreed to schedule Verkle, an overhaul to Ethereum’s data structure, to the Osaka upgrade and work on laying the groundwork for EIP 4444 in parallel to the Prague upgrade. Christine also chatted with EthStaker’s Nixo Rokish and CryptoManufaktur’s Thorsten Behrens about execution layer client diversity.Links:https://www.galaxy.com/insights/research/ethereum-all-core-developers-execution-call-180/This episode was recorded on Friday, February 2, 2024.++Follow us on Twitter, @glxyresearch, and read our research at www...
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