Messages from the darkest corners of the crypto and AI sewers

In this post, we'll clarify the concepts of sequential, concurrent, and parallel execution in blockchains, highlight the differences between dependent and independent transactions—both abstractly and specifically in Ethereum's EVM—and then briefly examine how other chains approach parallelization.

What it means and what happens next

It is the end of the year and this means you will likely be flooded with 'our top crypto predictions for the next year' articles and podcast (spoiler: You will read about how stablecoins will get even wider adoption or that there will soon be more AI agents than humans using crypto). However, one prediction is commonly missing: A rekindled interest of generalist VCs for crypto.

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