Dankrad Feist: Why Ethereum Needs a Wartime Mentality (And Why He Left the EF)
The Rollup26 Nov 2025

Dankrad Feist: Why Ethereum Needs a Wartime Mentality (And Why He Left the EF)

The father of Danksharding just left Ethereum Foundation for Tempo.

In this episode, Dankrad Feist opens up about his decision to leave the Ethereum Foundation after years of pioneering research to join Tempo and focus on stablecoin payments.

From PeerDAS and Fusaka's data availability breakthrough to the L2 finality crisis everyone's talking about, Dankrad explains why Ethereum needs to adopt a wartime mentality and what it will take to compete in today's market.


We discuss:

- Why He Chose Stablecoin Payments Over Pure Research

- PeerDAS & Fusaka's Data Availability Breakthrough

- The L2 Finality Crisis Everyone's Talking About

- Stage Zero Rollups: Should We Be Worried?

- Which ZK-EVM Would He Pick? (He Doesn't Say)

- Ethereum's Massive Validator Set Problem

- Privacy Roadmap & The Return of Fundamentals


Timestamps:

00:00 Intro

00:50 Why Dankrad left Ethereum Foundation for Tempo

03:53 Stablecoin payments matter more than you think

05:15 Tempo's Stablecoin-Neutral Strategy

06:09 Fusaka Upgrade Deep Dive

09:23 How PeerDAS Enables Ethereum Scaling

10:30 Relay Ad, Trezor Ad

16:09 Native Rollups Bringing Execution Back

17:54 The Three Types of Finality Issues

20:11 Ethereum's Biggest Technical Bottlenecks

22:14 Halliday Ad, infiniFi Ad, Kalshi Ad

23:41 The Validator Set Problem

24:59 Lean Ethereum & Justin Drake's Vision

26:08 Fast Finality's Real Impact

28:10 ZK-EVM Roadmap & King-Making Debate

31:35 Privacy Toolkit & Institutional Needs

33:31 Stage Zero Rollups: The Real Problem

36:50 Ethereum's Wartime Mode

40:05 Lightning Round


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