It's extremely clear to me that the next decade will be a continuous calibration between Closed and Open stacks.
From global military/trade alliances (WTO, EU, NATO) to single individuals (privacy, self-custody), we are witnessing everyone prioritizing sovereignty and looking for flexible model to collaborate with others without sacrificing their privacy.
This is why I am so passionate about ZK (more broadly) and @zksync (more specifically). Because ZK makes the Open vs Closed dilemma irrelevant. You can still have a Closed system (Prividium) but seamlessly partner with others (ZK interop) and use an incorruptible ledger as the single source of Truth (Ethereum).
Private and Interoperable money/trade/data/energy Stacks.
🧵On Ethereum & ZK as Civilizational Technologies
1/ A list of seemingly unrelated things that took place the past weeks (the CT drama about Tempo L1, my two-year anniversary at @the_matter_labs, the stablecoin boom, the media coverage of Charlie Kirk’s assassination) urged me to write down some thoughts on why Crypto is much more important than most people understand and why the debate about permissionless and censorship resistant systems is worth having.
I make the case that Ethereum and ZK are literally civilizational technologies that will define a very big part of the global equilibrium in the near future.
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