I’m Hsiao-Wei, Wang Hsiao-Wei. I work at the Ethereum Foundation Research Team. I work at the consensus protocol mostly. Yeah, and I’m Taiwanese.

Merge.

In the Ethereum 2.0 design, we said phase zero, and then there’s no phase one. We don’t use phase one anymore, but phase zero is still there.

Thank you for the talk about many topics today, AI, ZKML, and the privacy and everything. And what would you or the government prioritize everything, every topic? What’s the mindset for you in the next five years?

We also frequently ask ourselves: “Can the Ethereum P2P network survive after World War III?” (when designing the Proof-of-Stake protocol).