First based preconfs on mainnet! 🕶️ Block 21,180,697 landed the first ever preconfed NFT mint and L1 transfer. Slot durations will matter less and less as transactions increasingly get preconfed for fast UX. This milestone is the culmination of a collaborative sprint that

Thread of RIG talks at Devconnect ARG ! 🥳

Excited to open source my assessment rubric for L2 PBS strategies! A framework to evaluate effectiveness, fairness, and security in L2 #blockchains. Supported by PBS Foundation & Blockdaemon 😈. It's a living document—feedback & contributions welcome! github.com/cspannos/Asses…

1/ Story time. Exactly 2 years ago I was on a panel with toly 🇺🇸 at a small event at Solana HQ in SF. Arbitrum & Optimism were live. There was no OP Stack. Base was a twinkle in Jesse's eye. Toly kept talking about Solana's differentiator: synchronous composability. 👇

The SSV DAO is excited to see SSV Labs announce their vision: Introducing SSV 2.0 –– The Based Applications Protocol. SSV 2.0 allows you to extend your Ethereum validator's security to all types of applications, fixing & improving the challenges restaking faces. Learn how 👇

1/ Fabric - a community-driven effort to collectively agree upon standards/components & continue accelerating coordination to drive forward the based rollup ecosystem. ETH Research post and thread below. ethresear.ch/t/fabric-fabri…

Pectra is going live 🥳 Holesky will fork at slot 3710976 (Mon, Feb 24 at 21:55:12 UTC) Sepolia will fork at slot 7118848 (Wed, Mar 5 at 07:29:36 UTC) Assuming Sepolia goes smoothly, we'll pick the mainnet slot on the March 6 ACD call 📅

I’m just gonna say it I think Pump Fun is a real dregs-of-society business Predatory, bringing out the worst of human nature I like a little degen fun And I am all for democratization of investing and trading But this ain’t it

The launch of Uniswap's Unichain has inspired me to share what we've been working on at Blockdaemon 😈 and how we're supporting the emerging L2 ecosystem 🚀 blockdaemon.com/blog/instituti…

ELI5 why we cannot "rollback" Ethereum? After yesterday's Bybit hack, crypto commentators are again asking why Ethereum cannot "rollback" the chain to reverse the hack. While experienced ecosystem actors near-unanimously agree that this is infeasible, it's worth breaking down

Emiliano Bonassi Uma Roy I've had (and advocated for) the same idea of long block times plus pre-confs to reduce state root overhead for other perf reasons! Only thing to add is that you still want to do pre-confs in Flashblocks because otherwise you get spam from the sequencer being FCFS

It's an understatement to say that a lot happened this week at Ethereum Foundation, and here are some of EF Research's updates and collabs. Energised. In our lane. Scaling the blobs. lfg.

I think this is what everyone is feeling and I disagree to an extend but nevertheless the situation is tricky. Currently Ethereum is making almost zero fees from both L1 and L2 transactions *because it chooses to*: If we were a company, we would put a reasonable price tag on

PBSF 2025 Update We are happy to announce our commitment to jointly enable a healthy PBS & MEV ecosystem as an essential part of Ethereum's orderflow pipeline. Key focus: [1] infrastructure support, [2] education & research, [3] ecosystem alignment 🧵(1/8)

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1/ Our latest research post looks into how ePBS will affect the current out-of-protocol PBS market structure. We see two main changes happening:

⏳ 10yrs of Ethereum Improvement Proposals