The Pectra upgrade has been successfully activated, and the fork epoch has been finalized! 🎉 Thank you to everyone who contributed to Pectra. Let's keep the momentum going as we move forward with the following upgrades!

Don’t miss the 2nd Protocol Research call on "Scaling L1" - Today! Check out that incredible lineup of speakers 🔥🔥🔥

Excited to run it back at ZuBerlin – Futura Garden with hildobby Boxer for 📊 "Data Wizard Day" 🧮 in Berlin this summer! 🧙‍♂️🧚 We have a full house of Arc Wizards including Kofi Toni Wahrstätter ⟠ Davide to unfold and facilitate discussions around Ethereum's core agenda: 💳 Account

✨On June 14 ZuBerlin kicks off w/ an exciting panel on "Critical Paths for the Future of Ethereum"👀 moderated by Tomasz K. Stańczak & div persp from Dankrad Feist (L1 scaling) koeppelmann.eth 🦉💳 (currencies: Circles) Zatoshi (cryptography & privacy) bartek.eth (L2 roadmap & interop)

Protocol & MEV Day ZuBerlin – Futura Garden x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

tune in for an exciting panel abt "L1 & future block building" w/ Kubi Mensah ansgar.eth Toni Wahrstätter ⟠ alex relay/acc and 🤖

Conor McMenamin & @aikpstouka completed research for PBSF on Preconfirmations and Ethereum’s current design, and whether inclusion & execution guarantees remain compatible with upcoming EIPs. Answer: Maybe 🤔 Short summary in our thread below👇

The MEV Letter #100 will be published in a couple of weeks. I’m working on a fun new thing to celebrate the occasion - Lmk if u want early access⚡️

mev-boost call #13 (July 23) recap 🧵 – Fusaka updates & Relay DA by stokes – "Free Option Problem in ePBS" by Christoph & 0xSybil (Flashbots) – ePBS impact on builder/relay (auction & collateral) by L (Gattaca) full rec: youtube.com/watch?v=7bNRky… (1/5) ⬇️

Ethereum’s 10 Year Anniversary Celebration x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

happy 10 years of Ethereum – believe in somETHing! ✨ Staying true to decentralization, permissionlessness & censorship resistance – also along the MEV supply chain. For open access, fair markets, transparency. 🌐 Join the official livestream here 🎥⬇️ youtube.com/live/igPIMF1p5…

this is the real ai safety conversation not your imaginary fucking bioweapon you mentally deranged fucks

Really fun day with lots of relevant talks Feeling more optimistic about the future than when the day started

After 2 years of summarizing 1000s of publications, The MEV Letter is evolving into its next phase. Together with Edition #100, we’re launching 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙈𝙀𝙑 𝙇𝙚𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙀𝙭𝙥𝙡𝙤𝙧𝙚𝙧 – transforming the entire archive into an interactive interface. Quick TLDR 👇 1/8

Taiko is not based anymore, it seems like no one noticed including their marketing team

✨✨✅✨✅ I tried to beat Unichain’s 200ms Flashblocks… and won 2/5 games Think you're faster? Charles Leclerc 角田裕毅/Yuki Tsunoda Lewis Hamilton Max Verstappen Lando Norris George Russell

I’m putting together a call to discuss putting together a working group for multiproving on Ethereum L2s. The scope would likely be to OP Stack specifically and some mix of zk and TEE, but ideally the results are applicable to any L2 stack! Lmk if interested!

Linea proof submission seems stalled - last finalization was ~36h ago (up to L2 #22587140), even though data blobs were posted ~15h ago, yet no new proof has arrived since. What’s the status of the prover? ETA for next L1 proof? Linea.eth alain.linea.eth

Pleased to share our "Improve UX" track update! TL;DR: High focus on interop. Build out and strengthen intent-based infrastructure, preparing the ground for fast and trust-minimised backends. Drive down costs and latency with a focus on faster and stronger settlement on L1 and