Upgrading Finality - Edition 1 Check out the plan for bringing fast finality to Ethereum. Hosted on the the brand new and shiny EF Protocol Consensus website 😁 Lots of good stuff there!

0/ Clear signing is now live. An open standard to end blind signing, making human-readable transactions default. This effort brings a major UX and Security upgrade to transaction signing on Ethereum.

There's a new chapter starting for the Protocol cluster. We're welcoming new leads and coordinators, and continuing our work toward Glamsterdam, Hegotà, and the Strawmap. More in the blog below 👇

if only ether the asset: > most decentralized coin in a holdings perspective next to BTC, others don’t come close and have major supply centralization (most foundations own 20% of their respective coin, the Ethereum foundation only owns 0.1% of eth) > full stack privacy roadmap is powerful, different. > quantum resistant money is powerful beyond just crypto > actually productive coin, the higher ether goes the more secure the Ethereum network is, and as more value gets tokenized on the Ethereum network, ether becomes kind of an insurance ticket. AKA unlike most coins, ether actually has a use case > has yield, MSTR sells BTC now because it needs to cover its business model, yield generates that excess revenue for eth treasuries in a way that’s not possible for BTC so they are less likely to need to sell their original stack > growing L1 and L2 activity burns more ether .. have to run to a meeting but I can write something longer if interested

Ethereum's differentiator (aka what makes it a valuable thing in the world) is that it's a maximally secure/neutral/global base layer the roadmaps for scaling, UX, hardness, and security are all in service of this L2s use this secure base layer to provide their own zones of differentiation and control on top (creating their own valuable economies) and this reinforces Ethereum's unique position as the global neutral base layer

🔐 New EIP-8250: Keyed Nonces for Frame Transactions 🔐 by @soispoke, @nero_eth, @lightclients and @VitalikButerin This replaces the single sender nonce with (nonce_key, nonce_seq), giving frame transactions independent replay domains. For privacy protocols, the key can be derived from a nullifier: concurrent withdrawals from a shared sender become possible, with inclusion atomically marking the nullifier spent. Target fork: Hegota Links below 👇

Ethereum is turning privacy into a first-class primitive. Frame transactions (EIP-8141) + 2D nonces remove the need for intermediaries: fees can be paid from the withdrawal itself, no third party relayer or doxxed account needed anymore. Next steps include: - cheaper deposits/withdrawals (more throughput, cheaper proving) - enshrined privacy at L1 More details in the ethresearch post:

Interop for Glamsterdam was a big success, and from what I can tell, it will bring major scaling improvements to Ethereum. With BALs (EIP-7928), nodes can parallelize transaction execution, state root computation, and batch prefetch the state needed for a block. With ePBS (EIP-7732), we get ~2-3x more time for execution. Devs have been shipping non-stop this week, and I’m as tired as I am convinced this fork will be a huge unlock.

Interop this year was outstanding. Extremely exciting to see Ethereum scaling, expect at least 2x-3x after Glamsterdam. Core devs were very, very busy and yet they also managed to make progress on FOCIL for Hegota. Ethereum goes hard.

constantly impressed by the ethereum community's ability to coordinate a hundred+ developers from 12+ companies on optimizing and upgrading the core code of a single platform that tens of thousands of developers are building on top of, all of whom w differing opinions & priorities it's wild that this works. not a single other blockchain has this many open source moving parts, contributors, & true decentralization make sure to check out the notes from the sessions!

Last week, Ethereum core contributors gathered in Svalbard for the Soldøgn interop: a week long event focused on hardening Glamsterdam implementations to scale Ethereum securely ☀️ Read the full recap, including their candidate post-fork gas limit, below:

1/ Q1 2026 started off strong with our continued focus on strengthening Ethereum’s foundations 🌱 Explore the projects @ethereumfndn supported this quarter across cryptography, ZK, security, and protocol research in the Q1 2026 Allocation Blog post here:

Ethereum's validator set was still growing. 🖼️ Today: a different picture. 🖼️ Here's where consolidation toward the 128k target stands, what changed, who's moving, and why issuance keeps coming up. 🧵 Thanks @nixorokish for reviewing 🥰 1/8