Trust is built long before systems reach production. Thanks to @VeridiseInc for helping strengthen the foundations of Airbender. The path to institutional adoption starts with infrastructure institutions can trust.

Ahead of the @zksync Airbender V2 prover upgrade, @the_matter_labs brought us in to build the tools that formally verify their circuits. Not "we ran the tests and they passed." Mathematical proof that a whole class of soundness bug isn't there.

Letting hundreds of thousands of sick, elderly, and disabled Europeans die every year for lack of AC will do absolutely dick-all to slow down climate change, and I'm tired of people who lie and say that it will

"Years of building with banks taught us three things: Own it, Connect it, Prove it. Put those three together and you get what people wanted from one shared ledger." 📸 From @gluk64 opening remarks at the Institutional-Grade Ledger Infrastructures Roundtable @pointzeroforum.

Institutional adoption depends on blockchains capable of supporting compliance, privacy, scalability, and interoperability requirements. Catch @noah_pravecek discussing the Prividium Difference at @TokenizeThisNYC 📌 Where Should the Privacy Layer Live? 🗓️ June 24 | 10AM EST

"Composability with privacy is really hard. On the infrastructure side, we are solving this with our private atomic interoperability between Prividiums". @Ozhar discusses the need for composability in regards to onchain institutional adoption on @therollupco.

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