Frame transaction Considered for Inclusion for Hegotá, EthStaker staking survey, EF post-quantum website
Ecosystem
- Ethereum Foundation:
- Post-quantum website: overview, roadmap, resources, FAQ & research retreat
- EF Platform team: L1 + L2 relationship
- Institutional Ethereum forum hosted by EF in NYC
- Ethereum.org v11 (website): revamped gaming page, ETHSkills & increased translations
- Synthesis AI + human hackathon 685 projects
- ETH metrics:
- Gas (gwei): 0.2 average, 0.0 - 23.5 (12.6 for zero net issuance)
- ETH supply change: 19k net issuance
- ETHUSD: $1,990 - $2,186 (all time high $4,946, August 24, 2025)
- ETH ETFs: 5.1% of ETH supply
- ETHBTC: 0.030 (0.166 for the Flippening)
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Enterprise
- NYSE collaborating with Securitize to develop digital transfer agent program to support onchain settlement of tokenized securities
- Bitmine launching MAVAN ETH staking platform
- Invesco becoming investment manager of Superstate tokenized short-duration US treasuries fund (USTB)
- Bitpanda Vision chain (OP Enterprise L2), targeting mainnet later this year
Applications
- Better crypto backed mortgage down payments in US, using USDC/BTC in Coinbase
- Aave Labs proposal: Aave branded product revenue goes to DAO treasury, requests $25M for 12 months + 75k Aave + $17.5M (growth & development grants tied to product milestones); brand & IP governing structure to be proposed within 180 days
- Balancer restructuring proposals, end token emissions, route fees to treasury, reduce protocol take on swaps, leaner operating structure & smaller team
- Ondo tokenizing five Franklin Templeton ETFs
- Privacy Pools truncation bug: key entropy reduced to ~53 bits, migrate keys
- Sablier: Bobs price-gated ETH timelocks earn yield via Lido & variable claim airdrops
- WalletChan OS (website): auto connects wallet to apps, app store & DefiLlama search
- Etherscan: connect wallet via browser extensions that support EIP6963 & view ERC8004 trustless agents metadata
Developers
- OpenZeppelin role manager (web tool): manage contracts that use OpenZeppelin access control standards, run locally or in browser
- Remix v2 (dev framework): RemixAI integrated OpenZeppelin, Alchemy, The Graph & Etherscan MCPs, deploy & run updated and debugger revamped
- Nethereum 6.1.0 (.NET client library): zk proof infrastructure, Groth16 proof generation (native & browser based), privacy pools integration, new Merkle tree libraries, SSZ model improvements, cross-platform BLS runtime updates and demo apps
- Trail of Bits dimensional analysis (Claude plugin): annotates code with dimensional types & flags mismatches
- Solingo (web tool): learn Solidity via gamified exercises
- Application layer standards (ERCs):
Agents
- Open wallet standard: local wallet storage & signing, designed for AI agents
- Jtriley: contracts can serve prompt injections
- Pashov Audit Group skills v2 (security review): adds 7 types of security agents
Security
- Resolv Labs 80M unbacked USR stablecoin minted via compromised private key
- Cyfrin BattleChain (ZKSync L2): protocols deploy contracts prior to production, hackers under Safe Harbor exploit vulnerabilities to earn bounties; testnet live
- TheDAO Security Fund:
- ETHSecurity badges: first 40 issued, 160 remain
- Ethereum Security quadratic funding round on Giveth, 500 ETH matching pool, applications open, runs April 21 - May 12, 2x impact for ETHSecurity badges
All core devs (main protocol calls)
All core devs - execution (ACDE) #233
- Glamsterdam upgrade (targeting mid-2026):
- bal-devnet-3 (spec) planned for next week
- epbs-devnet-0 broken by withdrawals, epbs-devnet-1 (spec) planned for next week with PTC changes
- Repricing update & Benchmarkoor demo
- Hegotá upgrade (targeting late-2026):
- No execution layer headliner
- EIP8141 Frame transaction Considered for Inclusion as non-headliner
All core devs - testing (ACDT) #75
- Glamsterdam upgrade (targeting mid-2026):
- EIP7732 ePBS
- Adding cached PTC window (previous + next 2 epochs) to state
- Variable PTC deadline is non-consensus changing & can be added after the upgrade
- EIP7732 ePBS
Layer 1
- Hegotá upgrade (targeting late-2026):
- FOCIL breakout #31
- EIP8141 Frame transaction breakout #2: transaction pool strategies
- Ethereum improvement proposals (EIPs):
- EF Protocol support: EIP champions handbook
- EIP8200: EVMification (replace RIPEMD-160, MODEXP, BLAKE2f & BLS12 map-to-curve precompiles with bytecode)
- EIP8201: Pre-ingestion timestamp verification
- EIP8202: Scheme-agile transactions
- EIP8205: Withdrawal credentials preregistration
Staking
- EthStaker staking survey, stakers & non-stakers can complete
- Ethereum Validators Association (EVA) hub: signal on EIPs, stake-weighted
- Origin OETH migrating to compounding validators
- Client diversity:
- Consensus layer: Lighthouse ~52% (data may not be accurate)
- Execution layer: Geth ~41%, Nethermind ~38% (estimated from self reports)
- Staking marketshare: Lido 23.4% [Note: dual governance]
- Validators: 933k active (target 128k), 11k accumulating (0x02 withdrawal credentials)
- Client releases:
Layer 2
- Linea Phylax credible layer assertion stopped drain attempt, preventing 4 ETH loss
- Arbitrum timeboost secondary resale market led to decline in primary auction competition & surplus shift away from Arbitrum
- Public Goods Network (PGN) shutting down, withdraw before April 20, unclaimed funds will be withdrawn to Gitcoin Foundation treasury
Regulation
- US CFTC:
- Innovation task force: develop regulatory framework for crypto, AI & prediction markets
- Haircut treatment for crypto FAQ
General
- Google post quantum migration timeline set to 2029
- LiteLLM (PyPI package) supply chain attack
- Apple: UK adult verification via credit card or ID scan
- Meta: Instagram stopping end to end encrypted messaging
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