This week we had 3 provers make the RTP Cohort on Ethproofs. Congrats to @ziskvm, @brevis_zk, and @AntChainOpenLab! zkDTVM was integrated into soundcalc (link below) last week as their final requirement ...let's see if they can make the liveness and performance cut again next week!

Upgrading Finality - Edition 1 Check out the plan for bringing fast finality to Ethereum. Hosted on the the brand new and shiny EF Protocol Consensus website 😁 Lots of good stuff there!

There's a new chapter starting for the Protocol cluster. We're welcoming new leads and coordinators, and continuing our work toward Glamsterdam, Hegotà, and the Strawmap. More in the blog below 👇

It is time for the United States Postal Service to ban junk mail. Unsolicited spam calls are already prohibited by the FCC. Emails are heavily regulated by the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003. Junk mail is the majority of mail, 100 million trees per year. Enough!

🔐 New EIP-8250: Keyed Nonces for Frame Transactions 🔐 by @soispoke, @nero_eth, @lightclients and @VitalikButerin This replaces the single sender nonce with (nonce_key, nonce_seq), giving frame transactions independent replay domains. For privacy protocols, the key can be derived from a nullifier: concurrent withdrawals from a shared sender become possible, with inclusion atomically marking the nullifier spent. Target fork: Hegota Links below 👇

We have an update on the proximity prize: a 1m$ initiative to prove or disprove coding theoretic conjectures, with applications to shorter quantum-secure proof systems. We have released the first draft: cc @GalArnon42 and @danboneh

non-headliner proposal period for Hegotá is open. we're proposing at least 4 EIPs for the networking stack: 1. ethp2p erasure-coded broadcast for exec payloads => supercharged RS, speeding up p95 delivery of 2MiB payloads by 6x (9s -> 1.5s), at half the bandwidth. 2. attestation broadcast redesign => targeting sub-500ms worldwide propagation. 3. batched attestations at origin => operators can send one aggregate for validators scheduled on the same committee, without consolidating balance in advance. 4. ethp2p/libp2p coexistence => plan for gradually migrating to Ethereum's new networking stack, and making QUIC compulsory (looking at you, Teku, Nimbus, and Lodestar 👀) together with cell-level deltas and sparse blobpool, these changes free up bandwidth while making everything faster. on the execution/data front, this capacity can be reallocated to increase gas limits, scale blobs, carry optional zkEVM proofs, and transmit BALs sooner for exec parallelization. on the consensus front, we can consolidate subnets and reduce the committee count. because we hear from more validators sooner, we can shorten epoch durations and speed up finality to 16, 8, or even 4 slots. things are looking gud for Ethereum 🫡

Quantum computing isn't a faster PC; it's a fundamentally different paradigm running on qubits as said by @w4vitale during @EthCC. It poses a massive threat to blockchain cryptography, but Ethereum is preparing. Here is a breakdown of the quantum threat and ETH's roadmap. 🧵👇

This was the most important line to me. Developers keep telling me "it's handled. it's under control." Ok, then show me the plan. Show me the roadmap. Where's Bitcoin's equivalent of ? What's the plan? What are you views on BIP360? So far, 100% of Bitcoin devs I have asked have refused to answer these questions, which is another way of saying "there is no plan." They just resort to tired platitudes like "the community will decide". Ok – how are you soliciting input from the community then?

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