This is how I got my first steps into crypto and led me to work with the @ethereumfndn for three years now. Volunteering at Devconnect is an amazing opportunity for anyone to join the Ethereum community. You just need one person to bet on you 🔥

ePBS 🤝 FOCIL compatibility TL;DR: ePBS and FOCIL are readily compatible, and the clean separation of beacon blocks from execution payloads we get from ePBS helps preserve chain liveness when payloads fail to satisfy IL conditions. 👇

big news: Ethereum House is live 🥹 a brand new space in SF to accelerate the application layer of ethereum 🔥 & a place for hackers, founders, core devs, researchers, and broader builder communities to converge reach out to @_mia_56_ to get involved

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 ⬇️

We've pulled together some of the most interesting research problems in MEV in the new Flashbots Research Problem Database ⚡🤖 It includes completed work, early ideas, WIP, and requests for research in Incentives, cryptography, PBS, TEE, data, and more!

Prover Killers Killer Update! Benchmarking prover killers useful to 1. Quote clear prices to users, and 2. Prevent censorship with FOCIL. However, no proving gas limit is necessary! Prover Killers design parallelizes proving and propagation time => scaling! See post 👇

Awesome work from @DavideCrapis and @misilva73 who just joined RIG!

Earlier today I presented to All Core Devs our case for 2x shorter slot times in Glamsterdam. We believe shorter slots are a strong option for Ethereum to consider on this timeline, with myriad benefits from better UX to improving one of the main value propositions of Ethereum L1, its confirmation engine. Glamsterdam is a fork expected to ship in 2026. The presentation is linked below, along with a discussion on how this proposal slots in (pun :)) with others, in particular slot restructuring proposals. If the decisions to make are "which restructuring proposal should be selected" and "in what order should we ship shorter slots and restructured slots", I believe it is key to find answers with the lens of shorter slots and transaction latency. Some valuable next steps: - A proper accounting of the work needed on both paths (shortening -> restructuring vs restructuring -> shortening) - An analysis of attestation and aggregation propagation - Finding our preferred points on the throughput/slot time trade-off curve for each of the restructuring proposals. It is an open question whether we could aim for lower than 6 seconds with some of these restructured slots. It sounds from the conversation that it may be the case! If you are interested to contribute, please reach out :)

📢 A proposal for Multidimensional Gas Metering in Ethereum L1 Allows to increase block capacity, without changing the block gas limit and without complicating UX. + it can easily be extended to user-friendly multidimensional pricing (endgame 1559!). 👇 tl;dr & links below

The paths of least resistance: Introducing WFR-Gossip tldr: WFR-Gossip applies optimal transport principles to Ethereum’s gossip layer. It preserves Gossipsub’s resilience, while cutting bandwidth by 50% and reducing 90ᵗʰ-percentile latency by 40% in simulations.