In last week’s Community Call #57 we talked about the validator gas limit, why it matters, and what recent and future increases mean for Ethereum. This call covered a lot, so we wanted to summarize the conversation, with key takeaways and resources to help stakers understand their role in Ethereum's active L1 scaling effort. And what better time than when the gas limit officially reached 45M on the network today! Let's go ↓

The AllNodes staking service now supports compounding validators! If you're staking on AllNodes, you can go to your portfolio page, click the three dots and you'll now see "Upgrade to compounding (0x02)" gg @Allnodes

Speaker applications for EthStaker's Staking Gathering event at Devconnect are due by September 14! Apply here: Those who have applied already, thank you!

45M let's gooooooooo

great to see steady and thoughtful gas limit progress!

Over the last couple of days, all major @ethereum clients signalled that they consider a move to 45M gas per block safe. Please adjust your validators accordingly. Please update to the new releases to get the improvements and fixes that clients need to safely move to 45MGas ⬇️

Nethermind client release with 45M Gas Limit Default Bring on 45M Gas Limit Summer!

After huge effort from all EL clients we are now ready for 45 MGas limit on Ethereum Mainnet. @NethermindEth released a 1.32.0 version which sets 45 as a default value + history expiry for pre-merge blocks + huge block production revenue improvement:

stoked to share that the long-dormant, squatted 'ethstaker' @github handle was finally released to us! 🎉 our old handle 'eth-educators' is now deprecated - you may see lingering links around the internets pointing there you can help by updating any refs to our new org handle!

All the info you need about EthStaker's Staking Gathering, now one a single page on the web site! This page has all info and forms for anyone interested in speaking, organizing a panel, and sponsoring. Coming soon: tickets (sign up to be notified), volunteers, schedules!