“Ethereum is the most credibly neutral blockchain." - @barnabemonnot Barnabé said this while explaining why $ETH works as a store of value. I asked him questions on faster finality, $ETH as money and the work at @ethlabs. > Faster settlement sits at the top of your agenda. How long does finality take today, and what will it feel like for a regular user once it gets faster?
> What will faster finality mean for someone just sending money on Ethereum?
> Ethlabs is also researching ETH's monetary properties. What questions are you trying to answer about ETH as money, and why should holders care?
> Should ETH be treated as money, and does that change how Ethereum gets built?
> What does Ethereum gain from having more than one research lab working on it?
> What is the one problem Ethlabs most wants to solve in the next year?
> Why does Ethlabs matter to Ethereum? Full Q&A👇

ETH supply is up about 1% since the Merge. In the same time period: > solana:So11111111111111111111111111111111111111112 supply grew 66%, from 354M to about 589M. > ripple:native supply grew 27%, from 49.83B to about 63.1B. > cardano:native supply grew about 10%, from 34.18B to about 37.5B to 38B. > bitcoin:native supply grew 4.96%, from 19.15M to about 20.10M. > ethereum:native supply grew 1.0%, from 120.52M to about 121.7M.

This year @EFDevcon is happening in Mumbai from Nov 3-6th. Four days at @JWCCMumbai in BKC with talks, workshops and 14 Community Hubs covering research, security, onchain art, AI agents and India’s builder communities. If you are building on @ethereum or curious about it, this is the one to attend. Grab your ticket on

Ethereum has a state storage problem. Devs pay once to write data, nodes pay forever to store it. But EIP-8037 is not time-weighted rent or ongoing fees. It significantly raises upfront gas costs for new contracts, accounts & storage slots to control state growth as it scales👇

FHE has existed in theory since 2009, It took 15 years to become practical enough to run on medical records. @fhenix's CoFHE coprocessor moves encrypted computation from theoretically possible to executable at the smart contract layer. The raw data never has to surface👇

0/ One-time gas fee > lifetime storage cost for the whole network. That unfair deal is about to change. At 100M gas, @ethereum would add ~553 MiB of new permanent data daily (~197 GiB/year), starting from ~390 GiB today, it hits the 650 GiB danger zone in <1.6 years🧵

0/ @Ronin_Network just hard forked to an @ethereum L2. Security now runs on Ethereum's full consensus layer, the same foundation securing over $100B in assets. Keepings low fees and speed for its 11M+ users. A breakdown 🧵

0/ @Ronin_Network just hard forked to an @ethereum L2. Security now runs on Ethereum's full consensus layer, the same foundation securing over $100B in assets. Keepings low fees and speed for its 11M+ users. A breakdown 🧵

Ingenico operates 40 million payment terminals across 32 countries. That infrastructure took decades to build. @WalletConnect Pay just integrated into all of it. Scan >Select currency > Approve. No new hardware or merchant onboarding. Watch now 👇

3/The cost is real throughput, not theoretical. Base sustains roughly 20–30 TPS today(approximate) Each empty block is a slot that could have carried hundreds of transactions. At 200 empty blocks per day, tens of thousands of transactions were being lost daily to pure builder inefficiency & bad execution.

Every time AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure processes your data, it decrypts it first. That window is where breaches happen. FHE closes that window. The server computes directly on encrypted data. Never sees what's inside. @fhenix built this for Web3, Here's how it works👇