Over the past few months, the @Nethermind Client team has been focusing on almost everything BUT performance - authoring, supporting and reviewing EIPs for Glamsterdam, championing Hegota headliner - Frame Transactions, researching state bloat, and much more. That's not changing - we are still being heavily involved in Ethereum roadmap. But AI has unlocked a whole new level of productivity for us, and we're now pushing hard on several fronts: 1. zk guest program - coming soon to @eth_proofs. Very promising, very performant. 2. RPC refresh - Geth compatibility, major performance improvements, and more. Few projects already got a feeling of what we are shipping - and it is looking very good. 3. Client hardening with AI - Node MCP for users and our custom CoreMCP for developers, helping us ship faster and build a much more stable client. 4. Innovative node optimizations and advanced plugins - unlocking capabilities that could be extremely useful for many projects across the ecosystem, including support for new chains. And that's just the beginning. As a "side effect," we've also significantly improved the node's performance at the tip of the chain - before even getting into the Glamsterdam hard fork, which should unlock a whole new level of throughput. Nethermind is the fastest #Ethereum# execution client, and the only one pushing beyond 1.5 GGas/s in p50 block throughput at the tip of the chain. With the next fork, we expect that ceiling to go even higher - based on Sepolia data, potentially around 3x higher. And we're definitely not done. We want to change the rules of the game. The AI-powered tools we've built in-house are giving us enormous leverage, and we're confident this advantage will only grow over time. Performance is good. 🚀