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New and improved Helios demo showing off Helios running on four separate networks all in the browser. https://helios.a16zcrypto.com/demo

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New Helios release! Version 0.8.6 enables pectra on Ethereum mainnet. This is a required upgrade and most be installed by the fork on May 7th. Upgrading is as simple as running heliosup in your terminal. https://github.com/a16z/helios/releases/tag/0.8.6

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We've added @linea support to Helios! This makes Linea our second supported L2 with more to come soon. Huge shoutout to the @mendifinance team for building the implementation! Head over to our GitHub to get started using Helios on Ethereum, Linea, or the Optimism Superchain! https://github.com/a16z/helios

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Does your favorite wallet actually check the chain?

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Nice talk by @hsyodyssey about Mobi, a wrapper for Helios that adds light client support to Android!

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My talk is on stage 5 at 5:30! Looking forward to seeing everyone there!

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Light clients are coming to an L2 near you.

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Helios is becoming a multichain light client for Ethereum. Light clients are fundamental to Ethereum scaling. A future with thousands of rollups doesn’t feel far away, and the closer we get, the more critical rollup interoperability will become. 🧵👇

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Want to work on something cool involving Solana, EigenLayer, and light clients? Shoot me a DC.

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I'll be speaking about the future of light clients @devcon! Excited to see you all there! https://devcon.org/en/sea/schedule/UL8U8B/

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The proliferation of light clients will drive the costs of RPCs down. Without light clients there is a strong centralizing pressure on RPCs since their most valuable asset is reputation. This should in theory lead to high prices. With light clients, trust is no longer a factor, allowing more competition and lower prices. Be stingy, run a light client.

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Ran through a downpour today in NYC. Would highly recommend. Good for the soul.

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Should Farcaster decouple clients from algorithms and moderation? We could design a common api specification that allows algorithm providers to be plugged in to any existing client. The main thing against this I think is that it's not clear to me whether the algorithm is actually the main product a client provides.

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stated preference: 4 revealed preference: 1 or 2 lord please help me to stop buying random gear I don't need

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it's a good day to make espresso

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Came up with a new NYC route. I tried running over the Williamsburg Bridge into Brooklyn and followed under the elevated J/M line for the rest. Took the train back when I was done. There's a stop every quarter mile or so and most importantly you don't have to run over the bridge twice.

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Why are people proposing switching the state to a starked binary merkle tree instead of a ternary merkle tree? The total amount of hashed data should be proportional to log_a(n)*a where a is the arity of the tree. This function has a minimum at e, which is closer to 3 than 2. This correlates to a ~5% savings in amount of hashed data by using ternary over binary.

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Nice shoutout of Helios and light clients by @vitalik.eth at edcon! Kudos to @cottenio for the video.

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One thing I really don't love about Farcaster is that there is cryptographic proof of every dumb thing I say.

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Everyone who was complaining about the auto follow list who is now complaining about it being removed has outed themselves as really just being mad that they themselves weren't on the auto follow list.

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