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Taiko: Scaling Ethereum in a Decentralised Manner - Joaquin Mendes

May 7, 2025·1 hr 8 min·5 clips
Joaquin Mendes says Ethereum is at just 1% of its potential, sparking curiosity about the future of blockchain scaling.
Joaquin Mendes, COO of Taiko, discusses the project's approach to scaling Ethereum through a type 1 ZK EVM and base sequencing. He explores challenges like unprofitability and user experience, predicts Ethereum's future in tokenization and gaming, and introduces upcoming solutions like base pre-confirmations.

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A concrete tour of Ethereum scaling trade-offs, with the engineering details left intact.

This episode follows Taiko's push to scale Ethereum without giving up composability. Joaquin Mendes lays out the case for based sequencing, why data availability still matters to a rollup, and how throughput, cost, and blob space shape the trade-offs.

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Why Taiko treats Ethereum's limits as an engineering problem, not a slogan machine, for you.

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