Ethereum 11 years since genesis, pcaversaccio joined EF board, Polar bear selected as Glamsterdam mascot
Ecosystem
- Ethereum Foundation: pcaversaccio joined board for initial one year term on voluntary basis; co-founder & lead of SEAL 911 and member of EF Silviculture Society
- Ethereum 11 years since genesis
- Ethlabs (R&D lab): 11x11 pixel artwork using 11 colors for onchain canvas
- Devcon 8 infinite garden exhibition, 2 month online artist cohort, apply by August 25
- ETHGlobal Lisbon hackathon finalists from 173 projects
- ETH metrics:
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Enterprise
- Morgan Stanley Ethereum Trust (MSSE) ETP, portion of ETH to be staked
- Open Standard Open USD (consortium stablecoin) launching on Ethereum day one
- Ethereum Institutional (accelerating adoption): ecosystem funding round closed, 100+ supporters, anchored by BitMine, Sharplink, Joe Lubin & Mihai Alisie
Applications
- ENS DAO: Foundation expansion updated proposal, DAO controls ENS tokens & operational wallet, Foundation controls endowment (timelocked with Security Council cancellation right) & 1M ENS grant for Foundation employee compensation
- Uniswap Launches (launchpad aggregator); live on Robinhood Chain, beta
- 1inch Aqua shared liquidity layer
- Freedom Factory PQ1 (hardware wallet), post quantum signatures (SPHINCS+C10) for ERC4337 smart accounts, dual secure enclaves, open source hardware & software, clear signing, $179 preorder, shipping Q4 2026
Developers
- OpenZeppelin Contracts v5.7.0 (Solidity library): adds modular ERC4337 paymaster framework (sponsor gas via ERC20, signature or NFT), crosschain ERC721 & ERC1155 bridges, Create3, ERC1967Clones, RateLimiter, SimulateCall and BlockHeader
- Yearn Vesting Escrow v0.4.0 (Vyper): adds ERC4626 vault vesting, live on mainnet, not externally reviewed yet
- Nomic Foundation Hardhat v3.12.0 (dev framework): adds negative test filtering Solidity tests & Mocha test suite and experimental Glamsterdam upgrade support for EIP7843 SLOTNUM opcode
- Trail of Bits:
- Slither 0.11.6 (static analyzer): Hardhat v3 & Sourcify support, performance improvements and reduced false positives for some detectors
- Echidna 2.3.3 (fuzzer): symbolic & verification modes handle bytes, string & dynamic array arguments; console.log in traces; vm.expectRevert support (via hevm), property mode excludeViewPure option; two memory leaks fixed
- Paradigm: formally verifying Solidus (Solidity compiler in Lean, pre alpha) using automated research; challenges to break formal semantics & optimize compiler
- Argot Collective EquiVM 0.1.0 (Lean 4 framework): formally prove EVM bytecode refines high level program in Solâ» (Solidity inspired imperative language), experimental
- Application layer standards (ERCs):
Security
- Guru Fund ~$100k exploit via unsafe adapter enabled on mainnet, shutting down
- QuillAudits Multisig Inspector: Safe configuration scan, read only
- OpenAI Codex Security (CLI & TypeScript SDK): find, validate & fix vulnerabilities
All core devs (main protocol calls)
All core devs - execution (ACDE) #242
- Glamsterdam upgrade (targeting 2026):
- PlatÄberget (spec): short lived permissionless public testnet, targeting early August, updated repricing numbers based on benchmarks & discv5 only
- HegotĂĄ upgrade (targeting 2027):
- Non-headliners proposed for inclusion (deadline for proposing is August 6):
- Etan Kissling (Nimbus): EIP8115 Batch priority fees at end of block, EIP8116 Replace cumulative receipt fields & EIP7807 SSZ execution blocks (scaled down headliner proposal)
- Derek Chiang (ZeroDev): EIP7819 SETDELEGATE instruction
- Alex Forshtat: EIP7906 Transaction assertions via state diff opcode, architecture overview
- Jochem Brouwer: EIP7668 Remove bloom filters
- Kev Wedderburn: EIP8200 EVMification & EIP7666 EVM-ify identity precompile; precompile usage
- Non-headliners proposed for inclusion (deadline for proposing is August 6):
All core devs - testing (ACDT) #89 + consensus layer breakout
Layer 1
- Glamsterdam upgrade (targeting 2026):
- Potuz (Prysm) Glamsterdam circuit breaker proposed design
- đ»ââïž Polar bear selected as Glamsterdam mascot over Flamingo
- Ethereum improvement proposals (EIPs):
Staking
- Lido Core upgrade: Curated Module v2 adds 0x02 withdrawal credentials support, 265k+ validators can be migrated
- Client diversity:
- Consensus layer: Lighthouse ~51% (data may not be accurate)
- Data always: client info in graffiti cross checked with Flashbots relay, doesnât capture multi client setups
- Staking market share: Lido 21% [Note: dual governance]
- Validators: 890k active (target 128k), 17k accumulating (0x02 withdrawal credentials)
- Client releases:
- Consensus layer:
- ChainSafe Lodestar v1.45.0 (highly recommended): security fixes, graffiti includes client info by default & Glamsterdam upgrade work
- Offchain Prysm v7.1.8 (highly recommended): bug fixes improving early attestation handling
- Execution layer:
- Besu 26.7.1 (ASAP): fixes security vulnerabilities
- Erigon v3.5.4: fixes critical memory leak in RPC gzip path & better path handling
- EF Geth v1.17.5 (recommended): Pebble v2 support, performance improvements and Glamsterdam upgrade work
- Lambda ethrex v23.0.0: networking, RPC & transaction pool hardening
- Consensus layer:
General
- Vitalik: cryptographic obfuscation protocols (part 2) diamond iO
- Anthropic: attacking cryptography using Claude Mythos preview, improved key recovery attack on HAWK (post quantum signature scheme)
- HAWK candidate withdrawn from NIST standardization process
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