🎙️What happens when the economics of blockchains collide with their technical limits?

In this episode, Alex Watts sits down with Max Resnick, Lead Economist at Anza, to explore the invisible costs of scaling blockchains. They dive into state rent, compression, and validator incentives—unpacking why memory growth and transaction propagation are not just engineering challenges but economic design choices.

Listeners will learn how censorship resistance both empowers and complicates MEV, why inactive state is the hidden bottleneck for performance, and what compression and broadcast innovations like vector commitments and Turbine mean for the next generation of performant, censorship-resistant networks.

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