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Solidity developer survey results, ether.fi migrated to OP Mainnet, X $ETH cashtag

Ethereum Foundation:
- Josh Stark leaving at end of April & Trent Van Epps already left
EthCC videos
ETH metrics:
- Gas (gwei): 0.1 average, 0.0 - 4.9 (12.8 for zero net issuance)
- ETH supply change: 19k net issuance
- ETHUSD: $2,179 - $2,392 (all time high $4,946, August 24, 2025)
- ETH ETFs: 5.1% of ETH supply
- ETHBTC: 0.031 (0.166 for the Flippening)

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ether.fi migrated to OP Mainnet
ENSv2 price increase temp check, $12 per year for 5+ char names & multi-year discounts
Lattice winding down, withdraw funds from Redstone by May 15
Etherscan (block explorer) token holders overview, concentration, tier distribution & Gini score; beta
EVM Now (block explorer) open source: contract metadata standard, SDK & dapp UI

Solidity developer survey results (1095 responses from 87 countries):
- Pain points: 47% stack-too-deep, 33% bytecode size limits & 33% debugging
- Dev framework usage: 57% Foundry & 33% Hardhat
- Client library usage: 70% ethers.js, 39% viem & 33% wagmi
- AI usage: 88% monthly & 58% daily
Hardhat v3.4.0 (dev framework): NetworkManager new create methods, unified contract & Solidity test compilation, gas stats proxy support and smaller build info output
Jtriley Lattice account hierarchies (Solidity library): composable role authority, composable roles with two-step authority transitions; AGPL-3 license
Uniswap developer platform: docs site & API dashboard
Speedrun Ethereum: Foundry support added for challenges 0 to 4
Application layer standards (ERCs):
- ERC8226: Regulated agent mandate
- ERC8227: Encrypted token
- ERC8228: Cryptographic amnesia (provable key destruction)
- ERC8229: FHE computation verification
- ERC8230: Self-explanatory contract instruction
- ERC8231: Post-quantum key registry
- ERC8232: Onchain agency for represented RWAs
- ERC8233: Warden - secure token custody contract
- ERC8234: Referable NFTs authorization

EF security review subsidy program, $1M in subsidies for mainnet builders
ETH Rangers program recap (funding security public goods): $5.8M recovered, 785 vulnerabilities reported & ~100 state sponsored operatives identified
SubQuery $134k exploit on Base via missing access control modifier
CoW Swap domain hijack post-mortem
Steakhouse attempted DNS attack post-mortem

Glamsterdam upgrade (targeting mid-2026):
- Glamsterdam repricings #6
Hegotá upgrade (targeting late-2026):
- EIP8141 Frame transaction:
  - Frame transaction info website
  - Toni Wahrstätter: Frame transactions & three gates to privacy
- Native account abstraction breakout April 22
EF Protocol Support team: Checkpoint #9, periodic high level update of ACD calls
Ethereum improvement proposals (EIPs):
- EIP8223: Contract payer transaction
- EIP8224: Counterfactual transaction
- EIP8225: ECRECOVER native key awareness

Client diversity:
- Consensus layer: Lighthouse ~53% (data may not be accurate)
Staking marketshare: Lido 23.2% [Note: dual governance]
Validators: 921k active (target 128k), 12k accumulating (0x02 withdrawal credentials)
Client releases:
- Consensus layer:
  - ChainSafe Lodestar v1.42.0 (recommend): QUIC transport enabled by default

Optimism stake based priority ordering experiment, live on Sepolia testnet
Scroll proposal to dissolve security council & transition protocol admin control to multisig

X launches cashtags in US & Canada on iOS
Hyperbridge token gateway $2.5M exploit
Zerion $100K stolen from internal hot wallets via social engineering
Kraken being extorted, threat to release videos of internal systems showing client data

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