ACDC #150: The Competitive Advantage of $ETH

On Ep.77 of Infinite Jungle, Christine shares her main takeaways from ACDC #150. Concerns were raised from major Ethereum stakeholders representing Layer-2 rollup projects and staking pools about the timeline for Pectra mainnet activation being too hasty. Developers agreed to push back Pectra activation by a month and leave at least 30 days between the last public testnet upgrade and mainnet upgrade. Christine also shares her main takeaways about the competitive value of Ethereum against other up and coming general purpose blockchains.

Show note links: 

• ACDC #150 Call Notes (https://www.galaxy.com/insights/research/ethereum-all-core-developers-consensus-call-150/)
• Galaxy Research Ready Layer 1 Report (https://www.galaxy.com/insights/research/ready-layer-one/)

Timestamps:

(00:00:45) Update on the Pectra timeline

(00:08:24) Ethereum’s value from a markets point of view

(00:19:00) Ethereum’s value from a technical point of view

This episode was recorded on Friday, February 7, 2025.

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