Justin Drake: Poseidon abandoned, EthCoordinate evolved from EthStaker, Platåberget (Glamsterdam public testnet) live
Ecosystem
- Justin Drake (EF): Poseidon abandoned, SNARK friendly hashes not necessary, pivoting to SHA or BLAKE
- Strawmap (L1 roadmap): production grade leanVM in 2027 and consensus layer, data layer & execution layer deployments in 2028
- Vitalik: 2023 roadmap diagram overlaid with Strawmap (L1 roadmap), quantum safety & privacy prioritized
- EthCoordinate (facilitate stakeholder interaction), evolved from EthStaker:
- Team: Nixo, Butta, Patricio Worthalter, Yorick, Jérôme de Tychey, Marc Garreau & Franco Balzani
- Nixo All Core Devs facilitator role jointly funded with Protocol Guild ACD Fund
- Forkcast (built by Marc Garreau) new home
- Ethlabs (R&D lab): Derek Chiang (ZeroDev founder) joined
- Berlin Ethereum day (June 15) videos
- Science of Blockchain Conference (July 27-29) videos
- Devcon 8 music performance applications open for live music & DJs
- ETH metrics:
- Gas (gwei): 0.1 average, 0 - 0.7 (13.3 for zero net issuance)
- ETH supply change: 20k net issuance
- ETHUSD: $1,855 - $1,934 (all time high $4,946, August 24, 2025)
- ETH ETFs: 5.2% of ETH supply
- ETHBTC: 0.03 (0.166 for the Flippening)
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Enterprise
- Sharplink staking ETH ($200M) through Lido
- Fidelity filed to add staking to ETH ETF
Applications
- ENS:
- ENS Foundation expanded with 5 member board
- ENSv2 beta on Sepolia testnet
- BaiBai (PropAMM + aggregator): live on Base
- Privacy Boost App live on OP Mainnet & Soneium
- Octant Epoch 13 privacy round (public goods funding): 100 ETH matching pool, application deadline September 10
Developers
- Nomic Foundation Hardhat v3.13.0 (dev framework): adds tolerance option for gas snapshot check to allow for drift & default values for config variables
- Remix v2.5.3 (dev framework): adds ENS contract naming, QuickDapp documentation generation & front end generation for Circom circuits
- EthSystems compliant shielded pools, prove payments were screened, proof of concept
- Paul Miller micro-eth-signer 0.20.0 (library): adds GNS (Gwei Name Service), price quoter, APIs for block explorer like functionality (with demo) and faster RLP, KZG & SSZ
- Application layer standards (ERCs):
Agents
- OpenZeppelin Contracts Wizard MCP App: generate Solidity contracts
All core devs (main protocol calls)
All core devs - execution (ACDE) #243
- Glamsterdam upgrade (targeting 2026):
- Platåberget (glamsterdam-devnet-8): short lived permissionless public testnet live; test validators, builders & apps; Glamsterdam upgrade in ~1 week
- Gas repricing numbers finalized: 200M gas limit safe after Glamsterdam
- Optional EIP8261 gas limit schedule
- History expiry: mix of strategies, ~5 months or previous upgrade
- Hegotá upgrade (targeting 2027):
- Non-headliners proposed for inclusion (client preferences due September 10):
- Jochem Brouwer (EF): presentation for EIP7923 Linear page based memory costing, EIP3298 Removal of refunds & EIP5920 PAY opcode
- Dragan Rakita (Reth): EIP8358 Net gas metering for account changes & EIP8374 Persist warm access sets across reverts
- Toni Wahrstätter (EF): EIP8368: cost per state byte (CPSB) recalibration for new gas limit
- Csaba Király: EIP8094 eth/vhash blob aware transaction pool & EIP8077 eth/XX - announce transactions with nonce
- Danno Ferrin: presentation for EIP8355 Precompiles for ML-DSA verification
- Anders Elowsson (EF): presentation for EIP8372 Normalized state gas limit
- Ben Adams (Nethermind): EIP8375 ePBS mandatory burn of execution rewards (eMBER)
- Hubert Ritzdorf: EIP8219 Checked arithmetic opcodes
- Native account abstraction: client team rough consensus for EIP8141 Frame transaction, address L2 concerns in breakout prior to decision at next ACDE on making headliner
- Non-headliners proposed for inclusion (client preferences due September 10):
All core devs - testing (ACDT) #91
Layer 1
- Hegotá upgrade (targeting 2027):
- EIP8198 quick slots, preliminary analysis of potentially impacted contracts, 20.6K of 7.7M on mainnet using Sourcify dataset
- Ethereum improvement proposals (EIPs):
Research
- Anders Elowsson (EF): designs for gas accounting in EIP7999 (unified multidimensional fee market)
Staking
- Client diversity:
- Consensus layer: Lighthouse ~51% (data may not be accurate)
- Staking market share: Lido 21% [Note: dual governance]
- Validators: 898k active (target 128k), 18k accumulating (0x02 withdrawal credentials)
- Client releases:
- Consensus layer:
- ChainSafe Lodestar v1.46.0 (recommended): smoother shutdowns & restarts, safer validator behavior and Glamsterdam & Hegotá upgrade work
- Consensys Teku 26.8.0 (recommended): bug fixes & breaking changes, removed legacy & non-production web3j dependencies
- Execution layer:
- Erigon v3.5.5 (recommended): fixes panic on Fusaka blinded block submission, payload timing under external consensus layer & logIndex regression for archive nodes
- Lambda ethrex v24.0.0: deep reorg support groundwork, performance improvements, spec conformance & robustness fixes
- Paradigm Reth v2.5.0 (medium): improved execution performance (5-10% lower mean block processing latency than v2.4.1)
- Consensus layer:
Layer 2
- Aztec Alpha V5 proving system vulnerability, identified through internal AI assisted security review
- base/nitro-validator (library): redesign makes EVM Nitro Enclave attestations feasible onchain again post Fusaka upgrade using hinted P-384 signature verification
General
- Trezor (hardware wallet) customer data exposed in ShipMonk (shipping provider) data breach, ~12k (name, email, phone & shipping address) and ~2k (name, city & email)
- Anthropic Claude marks AI generated content with watermarked text & signed provenance metadata (for supported file types), implementation of EU AI Act
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