Dune has been the most important cultural tool for crypto data b/c its generous free plans + emphasis on query code visibility removed the trust and accessibility barriers to being an anon. Sad to see, but obviously smart for business. Time to build your own pipelines.

An aggressive slot time reduction should have been the Hegotá headliner, but that time has passed. If we don't at least lay the groundwork now for it to happen in future forks, we're likely going to have 12 second slots for many more years to come. Ship quick slots.

This echoes my opinion of the current issuance EIP. I'm not against reducing rewards, but I think we should be more ambitious than simply changing changing the curve. Let's target the stakers that provide outsized value to the network (minority client, geographically decentralized, solo stakers, etc.) and find sybil resistant ways to pay them outsized shares of issuance. The strongest version we have ready today is correlation penalties (EIP-7716, let's increase the parameters massively), but we should envision a world with proofs of client usage, rewards that taper off when many validators are run on the same machine, and some form of proof-of-location. These are non-trivial, but I think it's what we should build towards. Also, we if we're worried about the staking ratio climbing in the short-term, then we should set the churn limit to dynamically decrease and slow the climb. Cut it in half for now and it buys us twice the time (in the projected worst case).

imo two things are true: - changing the issuance curve makes ETH less credible - the protocol overpays for security with ugly long-term effects Whether the community embraces or rejects this, debating it every six months means that we have only the drawbacks of both issues.

The agenda for MEV-SBC '26 is live! 📍 Thursday, July 30 @ Stanford This annual workshop highlights the past year of MEV research and surfaces the problems worth exploring next in cryptography, mechanism design, data, P2P, consensus, incentives, and where they intersect.

Announcing Ethlabs: a non-profit R&D lab for Ethereum and ETH Our mission is to make Ethereum the settlement layer of the global economy. The internet became global because shared protocols created a common language between networks. Private systems remained useful, but bounded. Finance is approaching a similar moment. As value, assets, and markets become digital, the world needs shared settlement infrastructure. Ethereum is uniquely positioned to become that shared base layer, the neutral foundation on which users, institutions, and agents can transact without intermediation. What we believe: • We believe credible neutrality matters. Ten years of uptime and the lowest counterparty risk. Ground that cannot be pulled away by any one country, institution, company, or person. • We believe ETH matters. The most valuable, programmable store of value. A decade of broad distribution, deep liquidity in onchain markets, and maximally trustless asset on Ethereum. • We believe DeFi matters. Markets, liquidity, credit, exchange, and coordination, open to anyone. • We believe adoption matters. Principles do not change the world until people benefit from them. We sit between two worlds: real usage from the builders at the frontier, and the protocol that has to support it. We work with users, applications, wallets, L2s, infrastructure teams, institutions, ETH holders, core devs and researchers, then turn what they actually need into protocol work, shared standards, infrastructure, and shipped products. Ethlabs is independent but Ethereum is a shared project. We are one node in a much larger network of stewards. This is the multi-node future. We have spent the better part of the past decade contributing to Ethereum core research and development. We are opinionated and transparent. We move with urgency, learn in public, and course-correct when we’re wrong. We are building a lean, talent-dense team for people who want to do the most important work of their careers: join@ethlabs.org

As of today, BuilderNet supports prioritised updates This means propAMMs and other designs that want to prioritise some calls over others are now feasible This + Titan's announcement earlier this week mark the beginning of a new chapter in transaction execution on Ethereum with a whole new set of challenges, opportunities and unknown unknowns (definitely tighter spreads) Making this new market efficient and reducing the need to rely on trusted intermediaries will require a lot of coordination across the ecosystem As a first step, we want landing updates to be permissionless. So we're launching v0 of a registry format we hope will become an industry standard - one where builders don't need to trust the prioritised updater. We've been collaborating with other builders and DeFi teams on this behind the scenes - post coming soon. Landing updates is just the beginning, we're cooking on several related features. Some of them are predictable, some of them are not - stay tuned. Docs in next tweet