Ethereum’s Three Front War with Justin Drake

Is the Beam Chain the endgame for Ethereum?

At Devcon, Justin Drake presented what he called his most ambitious proposal to date! Beam Chain, a roadmap which fell very flat in public discourse.

In this episode we fill the gaps of this reaction and we discuss the rise of Credible Competition to the three major components of Ethereum Roadmap. Execution, which competes with Solana, Data Availability which competes with Celestia and Consensus, which competes with Bitcoin.

So what’s Ethereum’s strategy for winning this Three Front War against three legitimate competitors? Stay tuned!

TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro
2:05 Beam Chain Reactions
7:19 Is Ethereum Ossifying
15:43 Ethereum’s Three Front War
24:39 Bitcoin Utility Prosprects
30:56 The Endgame for Crypto
45:04 Beam Chain 101
50:28 Beam Fork Aftermath
55:59 Pre-Confirmations
1:01:15 L1 Execution Layer
1:08:55 Rollup Design Space
1:22:28 Ethereum’s Midgame
1:28:45 Ethereum 3.0?
1:30:12 Closing & Disclaimers

RESOURCES

Justin Drake
https://x.com/drakefjustin

Beam Chain Announcement
https://youtu.be/rGE_RDumZGg?t=7001

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