If you switch to running Lodestar (or spin up a new one) and we verify it, myself and someone from the ChainSafe crew will happily do one of the following:

1. Schedule a 1hr chat to help you on anything
2. Async UX/product review via Loom
3. Other...?

🌞 DENCUN DIARY :: LIVE NOW 🌞

+45 core Ethereum contributors looking back on the last two years, and ahead to what’s next

preview submissions 4, 8, 44 below! feat. Barnabas Busa dannyryan timbeiko.eth ☀️ - link to post in next tweet

I upgraded my node

The 2024 Summer of Protocols Call for Applications is now live! summerofprotocols.com/research/sop20…

📣 The 4844 Data Challenge is now open!

Dive into blob data, write a blog post with your findings, and win up to $30,000!

Learn how to apply here! 👇

esp.ethereum.foundation/data-challenge…

📣 The first ZK Grants Round is now open!

The Ethereum Foundation, in collaboration with Aztec, Polygon, Scroll, Taiko, and zkSync, contributed $150K each to the shared prize pool, totaling $900K.

Apply before March 18th! 👇

esp.ethereum.foundation/zk-grants

Blobs are coming to mainnet at slot 8626176 .oO

📣 The Ethereum Foundation's 2024 Academic Grants Round is now open!

Up to $1M is available for academic research advancing Ethereum.

🎓💼🔍

Apply before March 5th!👇
esp.ethereum.foundation/academic-grants

Making sense of Trust Experience (TX) stark.mirror.xyz/rkLEVz9p4r3ouu…

Amazing to see this tweet begin to become a reality over the past couple of years

Huge shoutout to trent.eth timbeiko.eth cheeky-gorilla.eth 🦇🔊 and so many others in creating a simple, yet effective mechanism to span the gap in L1 R&D incentives

oh and I'd still argue for 1.5%+ 😅

Protocol Guild cheeky-gorilla.eth 🦇🔊 On that last point, once again, shout out to ether.fi for front-running us today with the announcement 😄

twitter.com/ether_fi/statu…

This is an amazing commitment: love to see projects support Protocol Guild as soon as they can - thank a ton, ether.fi ⛓️🛡️❤️‍🔥!

More testnet blobs on the way .oO

Dencun will activate on Sepolia Jan 30, and on Holesky Feb 7. If running a node on either network, now's the time to update it!

Assuming both of these go smoothly, mainnet is next ✅

blog.ethereum.org/2024/01/24/sep…

We need to reconsider the issuance curve! A very important topic that has been under the radar for too long and needs broad discussion.

Anders Elowsson 🌻 strikes again with this mammoth of a piece that I cannot recommend highly enough.

ethresear.ch/t/properties-o…

Good run Ben Edgington

When you're finishing the third Dune book and can't help but read 'Duncan' as 'Dencun'

By popular demand, videos from the Columbia CryptoEconomics Workshop in December have been posted, enjoy!

youtube.com/playlist?list=…

Blobs are coming to Goerli .oO

On Jan 17, at 6:32 UTC, Dencun will activate on the testnet! It will be the last network upgrade before Goerli shuts down in a few months.

More info on the upgrade, client releases, and more, in the full announcement 📣

blog.ethereum.org/2024/01/10/goe…

There is now a 2x multiplier for Dencun related vulnerabilities! 🎉

Read the Goerli Dencun Announcement at blog.ethereum.org/2024/01/10/goe… and send in your vulnerability reports to earn rewards and help keep the protocol secure! ♥️

We're starting to publish all the research from the Summer of Protocols program that I directed this past summer. Will maintain a running thread here of individual items.