Austin Griffith
Educator at Ethereum Foundation · Team at Gitcoin
Austin Griffith is a crypto educator and DevRel expert currently working at the Ethereum Foundation and previously served as Director of Research at Gitcoin. He holds a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Wyoming.
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Optimism sat down with the Ethereum Foundation and Korea's financial and policy leaders in Seoul this week, ahead of September's Ethereum flagship conference. The closed-door meeting, hosted by the @ethereumkoreaio, brought together securities firms, card companies, policy finance institutions, and
Gitcoin Transition Stewards, meeting 1 - Chatham House-style summary of the discussion: Core Context The group convened to reboot Gitcoin with ~$16–17M remaining treasury and a clean slate after a difficult DAO era. The goal is a 12-month “transitionary stewards cohort” to redefine strategy, gover
Vitalik again pitching the ideas I desperately tried to explain to him while at the Ethereum Foundation. I'm pulling my hairs rn ): Anyway it is coming alive next week or so™ (Bend2 is done, Fable is now emulating users so we catch bugs and improve the UI / UX before launch) https://x.com/VitalikB
one fear i have is most of the people at the EF who "think differently" have now left for one of the other orgs. so in order to remain relevant beyond institutional / incumbent advantages, i really do think EF has to evolve for this new institutional environment, otherwise it runs the risk of being
> the funny thing about decentralization, is that community uprisings are the whole point agree to an extent, but also disagree. uprisings reflect that the people in power are disconnected from the desires of the plebs so what it frames here is a big disconnect between the people who control(led)
Last week @CertiK delivered and finalized their 2nd Ethereum Foundation grant relating to formal verification in zkVMs. This time the CertiK FV team experimented with zkVM circuit correctness proofs in Verus! More below 👇
CertiK Completes Second Ethereum Foundation Grant on Formal Verification in zkVMs Using Verus
RT @stacy_muur: The Ethereum Foundation’s institutional privacy team just spun out into its own company. This just went on my list of high…
Major Project Updates: > The Ethereum Foundation spins out EthSystems to build private, confidential settlement layers for institutions. > Stripe's Tempo L1 introduces Receive Policies, letting users customize which tokens and senders an account accepts. > Jito will use fees from its JTX trading pl
the interesting thing to watch about EthLabs (as an org design nerd) is that it will be an experiment on how you can take largely a lot of the same people (i think almost everyone who works there now worked at the EF) and possibly achieve drastically different results and outcomes by giving them d