Max Resnick joined Anza’s core development company Solana today, announcing it on X.
Resnick previously worked at a Consensys subsidiary named Special Mechanisms Group and became known for his contrarian beliefs on Ethereum’s roadmap — arguing that some thinking around layer-2s was misguided and Ethereum should focus on scaling the base layer. Resnick has risen to prominence in the crypto world largely because of X. Kaito AI ranked him 40th on Crypto Twitter during the past three-month period.
Consensys, a company founded by Joseph Lubin (co-founder of Ethereum) in 2014 is best known as the creators of MetaMask. Anza is the spin-off of Solana Labs that continues to develop original Solana.
Resnick was welcomed by the Solana community, who hailed his move as a major coup. Resnick may not be as famous for Ethereum’s blockchain project as Justin Drake or Dankrad Fist are, but an even more high-profile departure could follow Resnick. “raise some eyebrows,” Paul Dylan Ennis, professor of cryptology and research at University College Dublin said.
Resnick told me that Anatoly Yakovenko – the cofounder of Solana – encouraged Resnick to make the jump. This process began about three months back. Resnick considered switching to Ethereum Layer-2s and non-MetaMask Crypto wallets.
Resnick told X that he will spend his first hundred days at Anza focusing primarily on the fee market and consensus, while also getting to know how Solana operates at a fundamental level. Resnick stated that he would spend his first hundred days in Anza focusing on the fee market and consensus, while also getting to know how Solana operates at a core level. “moonshot” Solana’s vision would be that he add “multiple leaders” Protocol
Today, on Ethereum and Solana, a so-called “leader” is selected to submit a block to validators for checking. In this model, a single leader is responsible for ensuring that validators are able to check the block. “ton” Resnick explained that the protocol’s inefficiency is due to an imbalance of power. Having several leaders in competition to come up with blocks can put pressure on validators’ ability to extract economic value.
Resnick, who is credited with opening up Ethereum’s “overton” window for serious discussion about how layer-1 could scale, points to Dankrad Feist of the Ethereum Foundation’s recent work on scaling L1.
But ultimately, Resnick sees Solana’s culture as more open to unconventional ideas, such as having multiple leaders — in comparison to Ethereum, which can tend to be bogged down by “political bullshit.”
“The ETH culture is really downstream of core development, and people who actually want to get things done are changing their personality, changing what they’re suggesting in order to make sure that they preserve political capital with the core dev community,” Resnick said.
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