Native Rollups are the next big step toward scaling Ethereum securely. In this episode, Uma Roy (CEO of Succinct) and Justin Drake (Ethereum Foundation researcher) break down what Native Rollups are, how they leverage Ethereum’s core infrastructure for execution and validation, and why they're crucial for stronger security, better composability, and sustainable Ethereum growth. Tune in to understand the evolution of Ethereum’s rollup-centric roadmap and how Native Rollups could become a foundational upgrade for Ethereum's future. ------ 📣SPOTIFY PREMIUM RSS FEED | USE CODE: SPOTIFY24 https://bankless.cc/spotify-premium ------ BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS: 🪙FRAX | SELF SUFFICIENT DeFi https://bankless.cc/Frax 🦄UNISWAP | SWAP ON UNICHAIN https://bankless.cc/unichain ⚖️ARBITRUM | SCALING ETHEREUM ⁠https://bankless.cc/Arbitrum 🛞MANTLE | MODULAR LAYER 2 NETWORK https://bankless.cc/Mantle 🌐CELO | BUILD TOGETHER AND PROSPER https://bankless.cc/Celo 🏦INFINEX | THE CRYPTO-EVERYTHING APP https://bankless.cc/Infinex -----✨ Mint the episode on Zora ✨https://zora.co/coin/base:0x9ad876e913102d5097df82db0617816a17b07414?referrer=0x077Fe9e96Aa9b20Bd36F1C6290f54F8717C5674E ------ TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Intro 6:41 Why Native Rollups? 16:32 Security & Composability Benefits 38:13 ZKProofs 42:52 Making L2s Native 50:48 Network Effects 52:35 Customizability Trade-Offs 58:59 Timelines 1:02:39 ETH Economic Impacts 1:05:46 Other Advantages 1:08:17 Succinct 1:08:59 ETHProofs.org 1:11:32 Real-Time Proving 1:12:33 Ethereum’s Bottleneck 1:15:43 Closing & Disclaimers ------ RESOURCES Uma Roy https://x.com/pumatheuma Justin Drake https://x.com/drakefjustin Native Rollups https://ethresear.ch/t/native-rollups-superpowers-from-l1-execution/21517 Succinct https://www.succinct.xyz/ L2Beat https://l2beat.com/scaling/summary ETHProofs https://ethproofs.org/ ------ Not financial or tax advice. See our investment disclosures here: https://www.bankless.com/disclosures⁠

In this episode, we break down China's latest AI breakthrough—the Manus agent—and how it's shaking up the AI race. We discuss Alibaba's powerful, compact new AI model, the rise of autonomous coding agents, and Microsoft's shifting relationship with OpenAI. Plus, we explore how AI agents like Grok are starting to impact crypto markets.------ 📣RONIN WALLET | DOWNLOAD NOW https://bankless.cc/Ronin_Wallet ------ BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS: 🪙FRAX | SELF SUFFICIENT DeFi https://bankless.cc/Frax 🦄UNISWAP | SWAP ON UNICHAIN https://bankless.cc/unichain ⚖️ARBITRUM | SCALING ETHEREUM ⁠https://bankless.cc/Arbitrum 🛞MANTLE | MODULAR LAYER 2 NETWORK https://bankless.cc/Mantle 🌐CELO | BUILD TOGETHER AND PROSPER https://bankless.cc/Celo ----- ✨ Mint the episode on Zora ✨ https://zora.co/coin/base:0x8c25fca60a7f589a4552ae5edf3978c7885354f5 ------ TIMESTAMPS & RESOURCES   0:00 Intro 1:33 China drops Manus AI https://x.com/thinking_panda/status/1897951585990590469 https://x.com/rowancheung/status/1898093008601395380 https://x.com/_philschmid/status/1899046957860979178 14:27 OpenAI Agent SDK  https://x.com/cryptopunk7213/status/1897406075072377093  https://x.com/AtomSilverman/status/1899511053601698073  21:05 Ex-Deepmind engineers creating autonomous coding agents  https://x.com/mishalaskin/status/1898048925157728601 https://x.com/kimmonismus/status/1899444649317527927 22:57 Build a game from scratch with AI https://x.com/minchoi/status/1898469519565492490 https://x.com/Ror_Fly/status/1899473065328656485 https://x.com/ror_fly/status/1899803648781119765 25:55 Alibaba drops QWEN 32B https://x.com/hosseeb/status/1897377619240468513 https://x.com/sundarpichai/status/1899779090472644881 https://x.com/hyperbolic_labs/status/1897437370552570047 30:44 Chinese company HunYuan released a new image to video https://x.com/EHuanglu/status/1897628929768505611 32:31 The model competition is really heating up & Microsoft x OpenAI https://x.com/cneuralnetwork/status/1898450452540465538 https://gizmodo.com/microsofts-relationship-with-openai-is-not-looking-good-2000573293 36:57 Grok earned over $100K this past week  https://x.com/mleejr/status/1898465691096727866 https://x.com/bankrbot https://x.com/bankrbot/status/1897950192613441617 https://x.com/grok/status/1898884871742758966 https://x.com/grok/status/1898957064006774855 https://x.com/TrustlessState/status/1899565420966801647 https://dexscreener.com/base/0x5116773e18a9c7bb03ebb961b38678e45e238923 https://x.com/MLeeJr/status/1899647338978889743 https://x.com/grok/status/1899582316747391127 https://x.com/TrustlessState/status/1899585667899822520 https://x.com/bankrbot/status/1899589807350972768 https://x.com/grok/status/1898884871742758966 https://x.com/TrustlessState/status/1899566730059653431 https://x.com/rhynotic/status/1899190256727122331 56:26 Agents over the last 30 days  https://x.com/defi0xjeff/status/1898025840514101654 https://x.com/gkisokay/status/1899422660339393007 https://x.com/696_eth/status/1897446933406605599 56:58 Model Context Protocol https://x.com/mattpocockuk/status/1897742389592440970 https://x.com/sendaifun/status/1892310991737598229 https://x.com/crossmint/status/1899492589763469802 1:05:30 Closing & Disclaimers  ------ Not financial or tax advice. See our investment disclosures here: https://www.bankless.com/disclosures⁠