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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𝗗𝗜𝗦𝗖𝗟𝗔𝗜𝗠𝗘𝗥: 𝘐𝘯𝘷𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘯 𝘤𝘳𝘺𝘱𝘵𝘰𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘋𝘦𝘍𝘪 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘪𝘯𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘬𝘴 𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘭𝘶𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘦𝘤𝘩𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘬, 𝘩𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘰𝘳, 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮 𝘧𝘢𝘪𝘭𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦. 𝘈𝘵 𝘤𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘱𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘭, 𝘸𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘺 𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘯 𝘢 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘳 𝘧𝘦𝘦 𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘴𝘱𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘰𝘳𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘱, 𝘪𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘸𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘢𝘭𝘸𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘤𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘳. 𝘞𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘵𝘭𝘺 𝘢𝘯 𝘦𝘥𝘶𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮, 𝘯𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘦 𝘰𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘴 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘢𝘥𝘷𝘪𝘤𝘦. 𝘞𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘧𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘴 𝘰𝘳 𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘥𝘷𝘪𝘴𝘰𝘳𝘴.

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