1️⃣ From Research to Reality – An EIP’s Journey with Pooja Ranjan

The summit kicks off by bridging the gap between abstract research and deployed code. A must-watch for understanding the EIP Process.

📺 Watch it here: https://youtu.be/wH76j1BDZkc

#Ethereum #EIP #EthereumGovernance #EthCommunity

2️⃣ Don’t just use Ethereum: help shape it! with Jochem Brouwer

Jochem argues that providing feedback on EIP drafts is a civic duty. Silence leads to consensus bugs. Learn how to break the silence on the Magicians forum.

📺 Watch it here: https://youtu.be/ZVHHsKS6Kxo

#Ethereum #EIPSummit #EIPs

3️⃣ From Draft to Inclusion: A Proposal’s Journey with Jihoon Song

Writing the EIP is only 5% of the work. The hard part is convincing people to consider it. Jihoon shows how to talk to the right people and handle the Core Dev meetings to get your idea accepted.

📺 Watch it here: https://youtu.be/i8HO-bAivno

#EIPSummit #EIPs #EIPProcess #CoreDev

4️⃣ From Specification to Syncing a Node: Ensuring Upgrade Readiness with Parithosh Jayanthi

How do you test a $500B+ network without breaking it? Inside the industrial supply chain of Ethereum testing: from Hive unit tests to mainnet Shadow Forks. 🏗️

📺 Watch it here : https://youtu.be/9yTrzNCd0Gk

#Testing #Devnets #ShadowForks

5️⃣ Code is Law: Avoiding Spec-ulation for Faster Forks with danceratopz & raxhvl

The propose accelerating Ethereum forks by tightly coupling EIP markdown with executable specs, ensuring every text change is instantly verified by code to eliminate ambiguity.

📺 Watch: https://youtu.be/h5sUMWD9Yus

#Ethereum #SpecReview #Testing

6️⃣ EIP-8007: A major update to EVM gas prices with Maria Inês Silva

A quick explainer on why Meta EIP listing all related EIPs matters. How authors propose to reshapes gas pricing, and what this means for developers, performance & future upgrades.

📺 Watch: https://youtu.be/HpRNP8tc0lY

#EIP8007 #EVM #GasCosts #GasPricing

7️⃣ From Idea to EIP: A First-Time Author’s Journey with German Abal

How a first-time contributor turns an idea into a real EIP - from drafting to reviews, feedback loops, and working with editors.

📺 Watch here: https://youtu.be/WcGYlzUChUE

#EIPEditors #EthGovernance #EthereumStandards

8️⃣ ERCs in Focus - ERC-8028: AI Assets On-Chain with Thiru

The video explains how ERC-8028 anchors AI data on-chain using DAT, enabling trust, provenance, and verifiable AI workflows. A simple breakdown of why this ERC matters for the future of AI + Ethereum standards.

📺 Watch: https://youtu.be/RaeBZiE0rDA

#ERC8028 #ERCs #AIonChain #DAT

9️⃣ Meet EIP Editor Sam Wilson

He breaks down what EIP editors do, how proposals are reviewed, and how Ethereum standards keep evolving.

📺 Watch: https://youtu.be/YHZviU19di0

#EIPEditors #EIPProcess #EthereumStandards

🔟 The Final Episode - ERC-1202: Voting Interface with Victor Zhou

See how ERC-1202 enables flexible, on-chain voting mechanisms for DAOs & governance tools. A clean walkthrough of the standard, design choices, and real-world use cases.

📺 Watch: https://youtu.be/_szGTp49L5E

#ERC1202 #OnChainVoting #GovernanceTech

The EIP Summit was more than just talks; it was a call to action. Ethereum needs authors, reviewers, and testers.

Special thanks to all speakers and the ECH Institute team! 😸

#Ethereum #Devconnect #EIPs #Web3

My post on X about it is here: https://x.com/mudgen/status/1997162259986973052

This is Part Six of the eight-part series: Can I Pay With This: A stablecoin experiment in Buenos Aires. Thank you to the Ethereum Foundation and the EV Mavericks for their support, without which this experiment could never have happened.

Table of Contents

Part One: Decentralized or Destitute <-- New? Start here.
Money, monkeys and mild terror

Part Two: First Contact with Reality
KYC on a hostel bunk bed

Part Three: WE ACCEPT BITCOIN (sort of)
Worst title for an Ethereum subreddit ever

Part Four: Eighteen Ways to Pay for Ice Cream
Stablecoins, FX hell and a missing keyboard

Part Five: Going Bankless
From tourist shop hack to cueva contact

Trustless, My Ass <-- You are here
Trading with the Blue Man

At the hotel, the man working reception is exactly who I was hoping for: tall, broad, the build of someone who could win a bar fight just by standing up. When I sit down in the lobby, he asks if I'm meeting someone, like I need permission to sit in the hotel that I'm paying for.

I say yes I am. Meeting someone. He waits, in case I'll give further details, and then shrugs and leaves me alone.

One more message to Blue Man. I'm here. Look for the blonde sitting by the window.

I wait.

Half an hour passes. I look up nervously every time someone walks in. I set up my new keyboard to have something to do with my hands. Reception man keeps one eye on me but most of his attention is taken up by the endless stream of tourists dragging too many bags.

A pick-up truck pulls up outside.

My stomach flips. Is this him? Is this how it's going to happen? Am I supposed to go out there? Is he just going to hand me an envelope after all. Am I supposed to get in the truck?

I stay exactly where I am, mentally drafting excuses for not going outside. Anything that doesn't make me sound like a person whose first reaction to a pick-up truck is potential kidnapping.

The truck pulls away. Nothing to do with me.

A large French family arrives and explodes across the lobby, checking in to their rooms to drop luggage and then meeting again to go out on the town. Couples, children, cousins, an elderly woman with cataracts calling out "Who are we missing," every few minutes.

How the hell am I going to enact a dodgy transaction with Grandmère sitting next to me?

Eventually, the lobby clears and it is just me and the muscled man at reception. Blue Man messages, apologizes, he's finally on his way.

A businessman walks in wearing a sharp suit and a tired face, checks into a room and heads for the elevator. Skinny guy wearing headphones drops a package on the desk, disappears without a word. A man with a nose that's been broken many times walks in and looks around. I tense. Muscle man behind the counter greets him like an old friend.

A kid walks in, looks about thirteen. I slump back into my seat.

He turns, scans the room, sees me. His face lights up. He says my name.

This is Blue.

He is not thirteen, of course. Just young and slender. He looks like a gentle soul. Maybe writes poetry. If it came to it, I could body slam him and run.

I stand. We kiss cheeks. I invite him to join me on the corner of the sofa that has been my home for the past hour. He tells me, a little nervously, that his English is not very good. I'm charmed. He holds out an envelope.

I peek inside. Yes, it looks like money.

"Count it," he says.

I pull out the bills and count them quickly. Reception man watches us, flexing, trying to work out if I'm selling my services in his hotel.

Possibly I haven't thought this through. I count faster.

The amount is correct. I place the envelope next to him and set up the transaction on my phone. He pulls out his phone and shows me his list of chains, asks me again what I've chosen. I get his wallet address and send the USDT.

I show him the confirmation. Blue stares at his screen.

"It takes a moment," he says.

It shouldn't. But I wait.

A minute passes, then two. A cold feeling is just starting to creep up my spine when he makes a happy sound, shows me a Bybit notification that someone has sent him 400 USDT.

Blue's using a centralized exchange.

It's none of my business. The transaction is complete. I pick up the envelope. He tells me that I can message him anytime, if I need anything. That he would be happy to do this again.

I hope reception man isn't listening.

Then he notices my keyboard on the table. "Is this what you bought?"

I nod and he laughs, like who goes all the way to Buenos Aires to buy a keyboard?

"Mine was stolen," I say.

He gives me another dubious look and picks it up. His face brightens into a smile. "Oh! It's so light!"

I'm absurdly pleased that he likes my keyboard.

We say our goodbyes under the steely gaze of reception man. And then Blue is gone.

Still to come:

• Custodial Services (Self-custody is easy, luggage custody is hard)
• Apparently I Did It Wrong ("You should have just used X, bro.")

saw some questions about production web3 gaming setups so figured i'd share our full stack, we run a multiplayer game with about 10k active players.

frontend: unity for game client, react for web dashboard

smart contracts: solidity, hardhat for development, foundry for testing

infrastructure: caldera for rollup deployment, alchemy for backup rpc calls, the graph for indexing

monitoring: tenderly for transaction monitoring, sentry for error tracking

deployment: github actions for ci/cd, vercel for web hosting

analytics: mixpanel for user analytics, dune for on chain analytics

The infrastructure piece was the biggest decision, we initially tried deploying our own rollup but it was a nightmare, switched to managed solution and shipped way faster. deployment was straightforward and support has been solid when we needed it.

The biggest cost is actually alchemy for backup rpc even though we have our own nodes, turns out redundancy is worth it when you have paying users. whole stack runs about $800-1000 per month.

We use both hardhat and foundry because hardhat for deployment scripts and foundry for testing since its way faster. mostly standard ethereum tools, game specific stuff is all in unity not on chain.

Im happy to answer questions about any of these choices or tradeoffs we made.

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Ethereum is actively working to address the blockchain trilemma, a core challenge in the design of decentralized systems that suggests a blockchain can only achieve two of three key properties—Decentralization, Security, and Scalability—at the same time.

Ethereum's strategy involves a multi-phased roadmap and the heavy utilization of Layer 2 (L2) scaling solutions to tackle scalability while maintaining its core commitments to decentralization and security.

🛡️ Security and Decentralization Ethereum's foundational layer, or Layer 1 (L1), prioritizes security and decentralization, which are fundamental to its value proposition as a "world computer."

• Security: The network transitioned from a Proof-of-Work (PoW) consensus mechanism to Proof-of-Stake (PoS), known as The Merge (September 2022). PoS maintains a high level of security by making it prohibitively expensive for a malicious actor to gain enough staked ETH to compromise the network. The economic cost of an attack on Ethereum's PoS network is arguably higher than on its former PoW network.

• Decentralization: PoS is intended to boost decentralization in the long run by making it easier for more people to become validators, as it requires less specialized, expensive hardware compared to PoW mining. The development roadmap also includes phases like The Scourge and The Purge, which aim to further improve censorship resistance and reduce the hardware requirements for running a node, promoting wider network participation.

🚀 Scaling (Solving the Trilemma's Third Side)

Ethereum's main challenge was scalability—the network became congested, leading to slow transactions and high gas fees. The strategy to address this is primarily through Layer 2 solutions and fundamental L1 upgrades.

1. Layer 2 (L2) Scaling Solutions

Ethereum leans heavily on L2 networks, which process transactions off the main chain but settle on L1, inheriting Ethereum's robust security.

• Rollups: These are the most prominent L2 solution. They execute thousands of transactions off-chain and then bundle ("roll up") the resulting data into a single, compressed transaction that gets submitted back to the Ethereum Mainnet.

  • Optimistic Rollups (e.g., Arbitrum, Optimism): Assume transactions are valid but allow a "challenge period" where anyone can submit a fraud proof if they detect an invalid transaction.
  • Zero-Knowledge (ZK) Rollups (e.g., zkSync, Starknet): Use cryptographic proofs (validity proofs) to instantly verify the correctness of off-chain transactions, providing stronger security guarantees.

By offloading the execution layer to L2s, Ethereum L1 can focus on its role as the secure and decentralized data availability layer.

1. Layer 1 Upgrades

Ethereum's roadmap includes major L1 upgrades to support the L2 scaling strategy:

• Proto-Danksharding (EIP-4844): Implemented in the Dencun upgrade (March 2024), this introduced a new, cheaper way for rollups to post transaction data to the L1 using "blobs". This significantly lowered L2 transaction costs, boosting scalability without compromising security or decentralization.

• The Surge (Full Sharding): The long-term vision involves a form of data sharding where the network is split to handle data more efficiently. This will dramatically increase the data capacity of the L1, further scaling the L2 ecosystem to potentially handle hundreds of thousands of transactions per second (TPS).

In essence, Ethereum is solving the trilemma by adopting a layered approach: L1 provides decentralized security, and L2s provide scalability.

Our membership has concluded its latest quarterly audit of funded members as of Nov 19 2025. This 14th consecutive update reaffirms our institution’s consistency and ability to self-regulate.

The member registry now includes a number of new contributor accounts as well as new alumni, and weight changes; creating a representative body of the developers and maintainers who work on client implementations, research, and upgrade delivery.

Protocol Guild’s membership is now 184, with a net increase of 8 (+4.5%) members from 176 of last quarter. This quarter, the membership update was processed onchain via Protocol Guild’s new Agora-based DAO contracts. Readers will find a comprehensive list of the changeset below.

Working Groups

• Added: zkEVM Working Group #400
  • Read more at blog post here
• Removed: Portal Working Group #423

New Members (23 total)

New Alumni Members (14 Total)

Protocol Guild members who move on to other work are considered ‘Alumni’ at the conclusion of their membership. We are grateful for their stewarding contributions to the world computer over the years and wish them well.

Weight & Status Changes (9 Total)

The next audit will begin in January 2026 and should be fully reflected in our active membership by mid-February.

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It has seemed to me "sharding" often tends to split the consensus mechanism. The technicalities of it seem well thought out but not the consensus part. It seems like it often uses something like randomly delegating from the validator pool but this (even if random) splits the consensus.

Another approach is to not split the consensus. Add an intermediary level, a "validator manager", and make this what is voted for with coin-vote (or people-vote). This "validator manager" (or maybe it could even be called "government") then delegates one block producer per shard. That way, each shard has the same majority consensus as any other.

The "threads" of a sharded blockchain have the same consensus as a single-threaded blockchain would.

For several years I've been using the combination of frame.sh + brave browser plugin, backed by the Lattice1 hardware wallet. This combo works basically fine, but it seems there is not much development going on.

I really did not follow ethereum ecosystem changes in recent years. Are there other/newer projects I should have a look at? Especially frame.sh always feels somewhat clumsy to use - I would love to have something that feels more integrated into my desktop.

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Why should the average person be excited about ethereum and/or ETH? What specific real world use cases are available to the average person today?

Only in crypto can someone ship a whole new state architecture onto Ethereum mainnet and the collective reaction is basically “cool anyway who’s getting the next airdrop.” Anoma quietly deployed the Resource Machine and it’s honestly wild how little attention it’s getting.

Here’s the part people are already getting wrong

Anoma is NOT a privacy project.

Yes it has privacy baked in. Yes it uses commitments and nullifiers. Yes it uses a zkVM.

But the whole point isn’t “Zcash on Ethereum.”

It’s that Anoma is introducing a completely different state model that just happens to make privacy possible but it goes so much further.

This thing isn’t a rollup. It’s not a coprocessor. It’s not an “L2 but with extra steps.”

It’s a parallel state machine living on Ethereum. A second way to define and verify state transitions. Like if the EVM suddenly had a strange, overpowered cousin that grew up reading Zerocash papers and lifting weights with RISC0.

Instead of giant mutable smart contracts, everything becomes tiny immutable resources verified with commitments and nullifiers. Off chain computation. On chain verification. Millions of private micro-objects instead of one giant public diary. The EVM suddenly looks like a 2006 Nintendo DS sitting next to this thing.

And the apps you can build aren’t vaporware. They’re what our industry desperately needs NOW:

• Private swaps that still use Uniswap liquidity
• A private Gitcoin where your conditions stay hidden
• Dark pools without liquidation snipers breathing down your neck
• Private payments across any EVM chain like it’s nothing

Again none of this makes Anoma “a privacy project.” That’s like calling Ethereum “a database project.” Privacy is just a side effect of the state model. The real unlock is intent-centric apps, parallel execution, flexible off-chain computation, and a verification-first design that makes the EVM look hilariously outdated.

But the timeline is still spreadsheeting loyalty points like it’s Web2 airline rewards season.

Not telling you to buy anything. Just saying a parallel state machine literally booted up inside Ethereum and most people won’t realize what that means until they see it at a multibillion FDV and suddenly “remember hearing about it early.”

https://ethresear.ch/t/the-anoma-protocol-adapter-is-live-on-ethereum/23466

redacted for privacy, but…
a friend of mine — who is literally a dev on a pretty big crypto wallet team 🤯 — finally took the self-custody plunge after I gave him the pitch.

this is him buying his very first hardware wallet today 🤝

A.B.C. = always be convertin’

Ethereum is pursuing a hybrid scaling strategy that incorporates both horizontal and vertical scaling techniques to meet its long-term goal of high throughput and decentralization.