Nethermind
@Nethermind
Leading blockchain infrastructure and research company building secure systems for Ethereum, AI, and verifiable digital identity
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I am not sure you are prepared for Glamsterdam on Ethereum
Since 2022, Ethereum has come through the Merge and three major incidents without permanently losing finality. Each held through a mix of protocol defenses and operator response. Our report breaks down what worked, and the gaps institutions should watch.
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2.0.0-rc2 is out.
New nodes default to Flat DB, the storage behind the small archive and fast processing. Archive nodes can keep history from a block you choose, and prove their answers.
Running rc1? Upgrade in place, no resync.
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Nethermind 2.0.0 Release Candidate is live and ready for testing.
This is the full package for node operators: snap sync, an archive node sized for real hardware, fast processing at the chain tip, and RPC built for heavy traffic.
RPC is 27% quicker, with no change in accuracy. If your infra leans on RPC, this release is for you.
More goodies in the release notes:
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Nethermind has appointed Alvin Su, @realAlvinSu, as Chief Executive Officer, effective September 14.
Daniel Celeda, @_D4nie1_, steps down as CEO to focus fully on the CTO role, following his decision that the growing demands of company leadership and the pace of change in AI and engineering require dedicated focus. He has chosen to concentrate on the areas where he believes he can contribute most.
Alvin Su, who has been with Nethermind for over three years and has been instrumental in driving client relationships and expanding Nethermind’s commercial offer, takes on the CEO role. As demand grows for partners combining deep protocol expertise with institutional-grade execution, Alvin will lead the next stage of Nethermind’s development.
Full announcement:
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The work behind @Nethermind Client is kind of wild.
1.39.3 HalfPath→master FlatDB eth_call performance:
• suite 1: 155.0 → 34.4 ms — 4.50×
• suite 2: 69.4 → 16.1 ms — 4.31×
• suite 3: 648.5 → 192.0 ms — 3.38×
Part of that lands in 2.0.0, rest will be shipped in 2.1.0.
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The team is working hard on 2.0.0. The release candidate is out now:
Productive day in @Nethermind client. And this is only 1 day!
The amount of work done recently is 🤯
Privacy on a public chain has to hide activity from the market and stay open to auditors and regulators at the same time. The controls are in the post below.
The cost is low: private transfers prove in seconds and settle for under a dollar on Ethereum:
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Institutions can't use public rails when everything's visible and compliance can't screen or freeze anyone. Stellar Private Payments is a shielded pool that puts those controls inside the protocol: KYC gating, freeze, disclosure for audits.
Live on testnet, commissioned by @StellarOrg, open source:
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@Nethermind Ethereum Client team Hegota scoping:
Join me at Sibos, Miami, Sep 28 to Oct 1. Speaking at the @LFDTfoundation booth on the control layer institutions need for public networks.
Institutions are not settling on one chain. Every new network adds a node stack, a screening integration, a reporting format. That is tech debt with a roadmap.
@Nethermind
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Poland recently suffered a major data leak affecting around half the population.
Hopefully, data leaks like this will become a thing of the past thanks to @worldnetwork ProveKit.
Proud that our @Nethermind engineers contributed to building this critical software for the future.
Big shoutout to @recmo @worldnetwork for this work.
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Tokenized capital markets need shared standards institutions can trust. That's why Nethermind joined @cmta_ch, bringing engineering and security to digital capital markets in Switzerland, Europe, and beyond. We build and secure the infrastructure behind institutional adoption.
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We are happy to officially welcome @Nethermind to the CMTA. Nethermind has already contributed to CMTA's work through the FIX-CMTAT connector and its pre-audit AuditAgent tool has been applied to CMTAT contracts.
Looking forward to advancing standards for tokenized capital markets together.
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Nethermind 2.0.0 Release Candidate is live and ready for testing.
This is the full package for node operators: snap sync, an archive node sized for real hardware, fast processing at the chain tip, and RPC built for heavy traffic.
RPC is 27% quicker, with no change in accuracy. If your infra leans on RPC, this release is for you.
More goodies in the release notes:
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Nethermind will be at @Sibos Miami. Over 10,000 people who move money for a living, with tokenized deposits, stablecoins in correspondent banking, and custody in a tokenized world on the agenda.
All of it runs on somebody's infrastructure. We build one of the two execution clients most of Ethereum runs on, and the controls institutions need on top of that layer, on any chain.
In Miami all week, September 28 to October 1, at the @lfdecentralized booth. Come talk about whose node your transactions actually flow through.
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Ethereum has come through four major stress events since 2022 with no permanent loss of finality, protected by mechanisms built into the protocol.
Most risk frameworks can't assess resilience like that. Ours gives institutions eight dimensions that can:
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Nethermind Client got significantly faster. We replayed real mainnet blocks: block processing is 20% faster on AMD, 28% faster on ARM. On a batch of eth_call queries, latency dropped 28% on AMD and 34% on ARM.
And these are optimizations on top of a much bigger change: FlatDB, a rework of how the client stores state that's becoming the default soon.
Always tuning.
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In the next release, we will ship a 1.8 TB Ethereum archive node.
This means the @Nethermind client becomes a complete node for all use cases:
- Performant and stable full node with super fast snap sync
- Compact archive node
*1.8 TB without receipts; with receipts, it’s ~2.2 TB.
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We've been building alongside Gnosis since before the Merge. In all that time they've stayed as close to Ethereum as a separate chain can get. GIP-153 is how they close it. Congratulations to the whole team.
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GIP-153 has passed.
Gnosis Chain becomes the first Ethereum Economic Zone instance.
This will see synchronous composability with mainnet, something no L2 currently offers, whilst Gnosis optimizes to become a consumer-friendly ecosystem.
We will build with Ethereum, not on Ethereum.
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Institutions can't use public rails when everything's visible and compliance can't screen or freeze anyone. Stellar Private Payments is a shielded pool that puts those controls inside the protocol: KYC gating, freeze, disclosure for audits.
Live on testnet, commissioned by @StellarOrg, open source:
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UBS and Nethermind have completed two joint proofs of concept showing that a public, permissionless network can support the compliance and operational needs of regulated financial institutions.
The PoCs show that banks and asset managers can apply strong compliance controls through the infrastructure they run on top of Ethereum, without changing how the protocol itself works.
We built and tested a node that applies customizable compliance rules to outgoing transactions, and a routing component that sends approved bundles directly to selected block builders. Both validated end-to-end on Sepolia, no live transactions.
This is what enterprise-grade blockchain infrastructure built on deep protocol expertise looks like in practice.
We plan to build on this work with @UBS.
Full release:
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The $1M Ethereum Security Subsidy Program funds security reviews for mainnet builders. Nethermind's on the Expert Committee with @ethereumfndn, @chainlink, and Areta. New cohorts monthly.
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Ethereum is for shipping.
Here are 22 things the Ethereum ecosystem launched, upgraded, and announced over the past month.
0/ Ethereum hit a new all-time high of 72.8 Million monthly transactions, the highest in network history.
1/ @ethereumfndn, @chainlink, and @Nethermind launched a $1M audit subsidy program to help Ethereum builders access high-quality security reviews.
2/ South Korea’s largest crypto exchange, Upbit, announced plans for GIWA Chain, an Ethereum L2 built on @Optimism.
3/ @AragonProject introduced Permissions Audits to help protocols secure roles, multisigs, and admin systems.
4/ @fileverse shipped Comments v2, improving the collaboration experience, with privacy by default.
5/ The Ethereum Applications Guild (@EthAppsGuild) launched to support Ethereum-native apps and real-world adoption.
6/ Privacy went live on @Optimism with confidential computing support on OP Mainnet.
7/ @StarkWareLtd brought native proof verification to Starknet mainnet with Shinobi, enabling private trading flows and OTC settlement.
8/ @worldcoin launched World ID 4.0, expanding proof of human credentials across apps, enterprises, and AI agents.
9/ Applications on Ethereum hit ~$310B in user deposits.
10/ @l2beat released a new interactive interoperability map showing how value moves across Ethereum’s expanding ecosystem.
11/ @AlchemixFi launched V3, the latest version of its self-repaying, non-liquidating loan product, with higher capital efficiency and improved peg mechanics.
12/ @OfficialMoonDAO raised $172k + from 157 contributors to send the man who coined the “overview effect” to space.
13/ @ethereumfndn announced the Road to @EFDevcon 8 Academic Program, supporting regional research and academic events ahead of Devcon.
14/ Ethereum core contributors gathered in Svalbard for Soldøgn Interop, a week-long event focused on hardening Glamsterdam implementations to help scale Ethereum securely.
15/ @basepaint_xyz hit 1,000 straight days of onchain art creation, with 121M+ pixels painted and $1.5M + distributed to 4,000+ artists.
16/ New Ethereum community hubs launched in Hong Kong and Floripa, growing local coordination and ecosystem activity across Asia and Latin America.
17/ The EF’s ETH Rangers public goods security program wrapped after helping recover or freeze $5.8M, reporting 785+ vulnerabilities, and identifying ~100 North Korean IT workers targeting Web3 teams.
18/ @centrifuge launched a tokenized S&P 500 fund on @base, bringing 24/7 onchain index exposure to non-U.S. users.
19/ @0xcatalysis launched Covered Vaults on Ethereum, DeFi vaults with built-in onchain risk coverage backed by delegated capital.
20/ @Uniswap processed $3T in all-time volume on Ethereum mainnet.
21/ @RAILGUN_Project hit $5 billion of total all time private volume.
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