18. The evolution of Prysm with Preston Van Loon

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Over Abstraction

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18. The evolution of Prysm with Preston Van Loon

Over Abstraction

48 minutes 19 seconds

1 year ago

18. The evolution of Prysm with Preston Van Loon

Preston is an Ethereum Core Dev and co-founder at Prysm Labs.

Early “ETH 2.0” history and the shift to proof-of-stake
Pre-merge anxieties and how Prysm navigated the merge
What it’s like to build a consensus client

Follow Preston:

https://twitter.com/preston_vanloon

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https://www.metropolis.space/

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Timecodes

0:00 Intro

2:26 Preston’s journey

9:49 Prysm’s beginnings

13:01 The turning point for Prysm

15:16 Prysm V1

18:09 Ethereum speck history

27:05 Client Diversity

32:33 Post merge

37:36 Offchain Labs acquires Prysm

42:10 Preston’s learnings and advice

44:47 How devs can contribute to the space

47:24 Follow Preston

47:53 Outro