Your Weekly Dose of Blockchain Updates and Meows!
Welcome to the seventh edition. Catch up on the latest updates since our last edition and explore all past newsletters here. This week, we bring you the latest on the Ethereum Foundation Leadership, Pectra and Fusaka upgrades and a roundup of upcoming Ethereum events and ecosystem developments. Stay informed, get involved, and continue contributing to the Ethereum community!
Summary
- New Ethereum Foundation Leadership - Hsiao-Wei Wang & Tomasz Stanczak appointed as co-Executive Directors. Danny Ryan returns as co-founder of Etherealize.
- Pectra Upgrade: Holesky Validator Incident Post-Mortem & Debrief released. Grants & NFT rewards for EIP authors of Pectra Upgrade.
- Ethereum Core Development & EIPs: Read EIPsInsight, watch PEEPanEIP Playlist, join Ethereum Magicians Discussions.
- Public Goods & Community Initiatives: A special talk with Sejal on Deep Funding.
Welcoming a new EF leadership structure
- Hsiao-Wei Wang and Tomasz Stanczak as co-Executive Directors at EF. Blogpost announcement & ConsenSys support.
- Thank you Hsiao-Wei Wang for your kind words for ECH and WiEP. We sincerely appreciate your support 🙏
- A new chapter in the infinite garden - A letter to the community by Aya Miyaguchi, The President at Ethereum Foundation.
- Danny Ryan is back!
- Joining as a cofounder of @etherealize_io
- Austin Griffith and Danny Ryan in Denver Full video (must watch)
- The song
Pectra (Prague+Electra) Upgrade
- Holesky Pectra Incident Post-Mortem
- Holesky Validator Incident Response - Feb 28, 2025
- Holesky Debrief - Feb 26, 2025
- Pectra Audit
- Educational Resources - PEEPanEIP - Pectra
- Commemorative NFT for EIP Authors of Pectra Upgrade
- Pectra Proactive Grant Round by ESP
- Holesky Pectra Upgrade Testnet Testnet countdown & Livestream
Execution Layer Meeting 206
- Recording & Next Steps
- Audio only on EthCatHerders's Podcast. Check ACD Playlist and RSS Feed can be obtained from here.
- Highlights of Ethereum's All Core Devs Meeting (ACDE) #206 by @yashkamalchaturvedi
Client testing call #26, February 24, 2025
Fusaka (Fulu + Osaka) Upgrade
Breakout & Implementers’ Meeting
Beam Call
- #2: Recording (unaavailable at the time of writing)
EIP-7732 Breakout Room
L2 Interop Working Group Call
FOCIL Breakout
- #5 : Recording & Notes
- PEEPanEIP-7805: Fork-choice enforced Inclusion Lists (FOCIL) with Thomas and Julian
PeerDAS Breakout Room
Portal Implementers Call
Stateless Implementers Call
eth_simulate Implementers' Meeting
Mev-boost community call
EIPs Update
EIPsInsight
New EIPs (Ethereum Improvement Proposals)
- Uncouple execution payload from beacon block
- Standardized On-Chain Return Type Encoding for Solidity Functions
- Block-level Warming with fair cost savings
- ABI attachment in wallet_sendCalls
Twitter spaces with Stacks Foundation
PEEPanEIP & Ecosystem Project Demo
Released episodes
- PEEPanEIP 143: EIP 7691 Blob throughput increase with Parithosh, Toni and Sam
- PEEPanEIP-7706: Separate gas type for calldata with Vitalik Buterin
Upcoming releases
- ERC-7527: Token Bound Function Oracle AMM with Elaine Zhang
Ecosystem Project Demo
Recording released
- EPD: OSObserve with Rohit Malekar and Carl Cervone
Upcoming releases
- Octant v2 with James K
Public Goods Funding
- Sejal is joining EthCatherdrs to talk about Deep Funding on March 4th
- EthCatHerders participating in Giveth's upcoming round
Events
- Ethereum SFO 10-16 March 2025
- International Women's Day Celebration with ECH Wednesday, March 5, 2025, 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM EST
- Staking Summit, Dubai: April 28 - 29, 2025
- ETHPrague 2025 - 27-29 May 2025
- EthCC[8]: June 30 -July 3, 2025
- Devconnect 2025: Expected in Q4-2025. Exact date - TBD. Should you have improvement suggestions, share with the team - Improving Devconnect 2025
- Follow the list of upcoming events by Nathan Sexer
Community Resources
- WiEP - Study Group (Cohort 3) Week 2
- PRIVACY POOLS TESTNET IS LIVE
- UNISWAP WALLET LAUNCHES FIAT OFFRAMP—CONVERT CRYPTO TO CASH EASILY!
- MetaMask x Mastercard – spend your crypto, anywhere.
- Ethereum adoption timeline
- $5M everyone onchain fund
Upcoming Research
- Sealed transactions
- Decentralized Random Block Proposal: Eliminating MEV and Fully Democratizing Ethereum
- Dynamic Blob Sizing: Reducing Zero-Padding Overhead in Small Rollups
- Smart Account Encrypted Mempools
- Native Rollups: Promise vs. Reality
- The Robust Incentives Group Homepage, Casper's Tweet thread
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