Polar bear selected as mascot for Glamsterdam upgrade

[abcoathup]

A mascot is needed for Glamsterdam upgrade (EIP-7773: Hardfork Meta - Glamsterdam).

Polar bear selected as mascot for Glamsterdam upgrade

Voting has closed.

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Duplicate votes excluded (same reg IP + same creation date): 13 — voted: 13 Flamingo
Votes excluded for account created after 2026-07-10: 63 — voted: 39 Flamingo, 24 Polar bear
Total excluded: 76 of 189 votes
Adjusted result: Flamingo 50 vs Polar bear 63

Due to some potential funny business*, several of the votes for Flamingo were removed from the tally, resulting in a TIE with Polar Bear.

If you have registered for an account with Ethereum Magicians before July 10th, you are eligible to vote in the tiebreaker contest.

Additionally, any votes found to share a registration IP address and creation date won’t be counted.

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The new vote will run for two weeks and automatically end at July 31, 12pm (Melbourne time).

Please vote!! Your voice in the community is important!! As a refresher, here’s why these two potential mascots were chosen:

Flamingo

…are really glam orous and stand out with their pink, over the top feathers and long legs. Plus on the technical side:

• Flamingoes are known for their very long and parallel legs, much like how BALs will improve parallelisation.

• Flamingoes are filter feeders which use a filter-like structure in their beak separate their prey (brine shrimp and cyanobacteria among other creatures) from the water, a bit like proposer-builder separation.

Also, the collective noun for a group of flamingoes is a flamboyance… What’s more glam orous than a flamboyance of flamingoes?

Polar Bear

The Core Dev Protocol Contributors focused on Glamsterdam went to Soldøgn Interop, and polar bears may have been present, and encounters could have been dangerous.

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*if any of you know how to solve for sybil attacks and proof-of-humanity, please let the rest of the world know :). Turns out even emoji-mascot votes are not immune from such things.

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Mascot run-off

• Flamingo
• Polar bear

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• Ant - builders (ePBS)
• Beaver - dam-builder (Glamsterdam)
• Bee - coordinated, parallel workers
• Flamingo - parallel legs (BAL) + filter feeder (ePBS) + flamboyance (Glamsterdam)
• Hamster - Glamsterdam, cheek pouches (BAL)
• Arctic Octopus - semi-autonomous arms (ePBS) + parallel tentacles (BAL)
• Polar Bear - Soldøgn Interop
• Poodle - elegant dog

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EIP-8066: Upgrade Mascots specifies mascot requirements, role of facilitator (Mascot Wrestler) & veto powers of the Mascot Wrestler & client teams.

@EvilJordan proposed as Glamsterdam Mascot Wrestler

Recent upgrade names:

• Shapella (Shanghai + Capella)
• Dencun (Cancun + Deneb)
• Pectra (Prague + Electra)
• Fusaka (Fulu + Osaka)
• Glamsterdam (Gloas + Amsterdam)

See: Post-Merge Network Upgrade Naming Schemes

Suggestions

🐻 Animals & Nature Emoji List

Mascot	Emoji	Reasoning
Ant		Suggested because of ePBS, the headliner is all about building blocks, and ants are builders
Beaver		Literal dam-builder — the Builder in ePBS — and “dam” is sitting right there in Amsterdam.
Bee		Bees work hard: efficient, coordinated, and parallel.
Flamingo		Long & parallel legs: like how BALs will improve parallelisation. Filter feeders (filter-like structure in their beak separate their prey): a bit like ePBS. Collective noun is a flamboyance. What’s more glamorous than a flamboyance of flamingoes?
Hamster		Hiding in plain sight inside Glamsterdam. Cheek pouches pre-declare their cargo before scurrying — a functioning metaphor for a Block Access List.
Arctic octopus		An Arctic octopus operates through semi-autonomous arms coordinating without a central controller, mirroring ePBS decoupling block construction from proposal and BALs enabling parallel, pre-declared state access for efficient execution.
Polar Bear		Soldøgn Interop (core protocol contributors) focused on Glamsterdam. Polar bears may have been present, and encounters can be dangerous
Poodle		Glamsterdam sounds elegant, poodle is a elegant dog.

This is an editable wiki post.

[Zach]

Ooo this is fun. I would suggest using a poodle! Emoji: Reasoning: Glamsterdam sounds elegant, poodle is a elegant dog.

[ReallyAwesomeLabs]

hes on to something with the poodle

[etan-status]

Fusaka bengal tiger btw, too. For balance after already having an African one with the Giraffe.
Dencun was blobfish, not blowfish.

[abcoathup]

@etan-status that is why we need EIP-8066: Upgrade Mascots IMHO.

Blobfish couldn’t be represented by emoji (that I am aware of), which then meant there wasn’t an easy way to share on socials. I used for this purpose. .oO was the other alternative, but again not an emoji.

@nixo took an Official™ emoji poll and won out, but we still have vs for Fusaka less than a month out from mainnet. A Mascot Wrestler could facilitate coordination.

nixo.eth 🦇🔊🥐 (@nixorokish) on X

[TrickyCrypto]

I vote for a Flamingo. They are really glamorous and stand out with their pink, over the top feathers and long legs. Plus on the technical side:

• Flamingoes are known for their very long and parallel legs, much like how BALs will improve parallelisation.

• Flamingoes are filter feeders which use a filter-like structure in their beak separate their prey (brine shrimp and cyanobacteria among other creatures) from the water, a bit like proposer-builder separation.

Also, the collective noun for a group of flamingoes is a flamboyance… What’s more glamorous than a flamboyance of flamingoes?

[EvilJordan]

is suggested because of ePBS… the headliner in this fork is all about building blocks, and ants are builders

[abcoathup]

Imagine @EvilJordan at the next conference in full mascot costume with a sign saying ask me about Glamsterdam.

[EvilJordan]

Honestly, I love this.

[EvilJordan]

Tonight, I went to a drive-through Holiday light show and saw this. I think it’s a sign.

[bbusa]

I propose we use a Lion as posted by lighthouse team.

[abcoathup]

@bbusa can you add some reasoning around why Lion should be chosen. I couldn’t see anything in the Lighthouse article.

The post is a wikipost, so you should be able to edit.

[bbusa]

Look at the image they used for the article.

[abcoathup]

@bbusa

Look at the image

@bbusa I don’t get how the Lion in the image represents Glamsterdam and/or PeerDAS & BALs? I must be missing something.

[EvilJordan]

ANOTHER SIGN. IN FLASHING LIGHTS!

[louchi]

Flamingo is a good one. I was about suggest Glamsterdam but is much better. Both was pink, but one is nasty and the other glamour.

[anhdoanjp]

Flamingo is the one, cuz "What’s more glam orous than a flamboyance of flamingoes? "

[Nerolation]

I propose an arctic octopus .

An Arctic octopus fits Glamsterdam because, like enshrined Proposer-Builder Separation and Block Access Lists, it operates through semi-autonomous arms coordinating without a central controller, mirroring ePBS decoupling block construction from proposal and BALs enabling parallel, pre-declared state access for efficient execution.

[doxuta]

Flamingo is the best option for this upgrade

All I see now is Flamingo

Now, Repeat after me

[wslyvh]

A lion is the official coat of arms from both the Netherlands and Amsterdam. Lions are commonly used in association with anything of national importance. It dates back to the middle ages as a symbol for strength, courage and sovereignty and was used to unify the Dutch provinces. In these days, it’s still a symbol to unite anything of national value e.g. sports teams (Orange lions / lioness, young lions/cubs), public goods, charities, national museums, etc.