Happy Birthday Ethereum, click the link to join the party. You get 11x11 pixels and 11 colors to make something fully onchain. Then you share your link. Everyone who draws through your link connects to yours. Everyone who draws through theirs connects to them. By tomorrow the canvas will combine everybody’s work and present a picture of how Ethereum is formed, the way it always has been; from person to person, and from block to block. The canvas is open for 24 hours, and it keeps growing the whole time. When it closes, your square sits next to your friends’ for as long as Ethereum runs for forever. Long live the world computer. Start drawing now, mint opens in 1 hour at

Francesco is joining Ethlabs. It’s rare to find someone whose work spans so many of Ethereum’s most important challenges. Over the last five years, Francesco has had shaped the Ethereum network across multiple angles: • MEV research: Francesco helped make Ethereum’s markets work more efficiently and more fairly. • Consensus and fast finality: Francesco is bringing us closer to a world where Ethereum feels fast. • PeerDAS: Francesco helped give Layer 2s more room to bring millions more people onchain. • ePBS: Francesco has scaled Ethereum without giving up the decentralization that makes the network valuable in the first place. • FOCIL: Francesco has worked to strengthen Ethereum’s censorship resistance to ensure that the network built for the world remains open to everyone. Researchers usually pick a mountain. Francesco somehow decided to hike the whole range. Ethereum is becoming infrastructure for the global economy and it needs people solving its hardest problems.
 Francesco has already spent years doing exactly that.
 Welcome to Ethlabs.

Week 1 is in the books 🫡 Thank you to everyone across Ethereum who welcomed Ethlabs, supported us, questioned us, donated, applied, and replied. The response is hugely appreciated and while we work through getting back to everyone, here are some quick answers to the questions we’ve been getting most. More coming on priorities, workstreams, boundaries, accountability mechanisms, and what success actually looks like. Bear with us as we get on our feet. We won’t be perfect, but we’ll try to communicate often, and transparently. Ok, quick FAQ now.

Ethlabs is supported by a broad coalition across the Ethereum ecosystem: DeFi builders, core devs, L2 founders, cypherpunks, investors, institutions, and researchers. People who care deeply about Ethereum’s future, protecting its core properties, and bringing them to the world. We are coming together to accelerate the next wave of Ethereum adoption by contributing to critical core R&D and building new infrastructure and products where the ecosystem needs them most. We are incredibly grateful to be supported by @BitMNR, @Sharplink, @ethereumJoseph, @snzholding, and more than 50 others across Ethereum.

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