This was a fun one! The changes introduced in EIP7549 have the potential to massively help the chain through times of turbulence, but it's crucial the changes roll out smoothly. We're planning to have a live version of these metrics in The Lab soon 👀

Check out this fresh new blog post on blob-tx arrivals at the EL mempool 🔥 ethresear.ch/t/theoretical-…

eth-protocol-sessions: the Protocol Guild core team wants to talk to you! we're offering 1hr sessions for teams → core protocol gov, EIPs, CFI/PFI, roadmap, how PG fits into this landscape DM to schedule & boost your knowledge 🫡

🚨🚨 Pectra is scheduled for Mainnet activation on May 7 @ 10:05:11 UTC! We’ve launched a new website just in time! Featuring your go-to hub with a personalized fork checklist and key moments to watch for as the upgrade unfolds. Link below👇👇

The Pectra fork is coming to Ethereum mainnet soon! Please don't forget to update your nodes. We have a handy guide to help you check if you're all set and how to validate if the fork went well :) Join us on the 7th of May for the largest fork in Ethereum's history!

Just in time for Pectra, we've been cooking up a live view of Ethereum block production over in The Lab. Watch the lifecycle of a slot unfold as blocks travel through relays (or are built locally 👑), land on nodes and then receive attestations 👀 👇👇👇

Pectra saved eth price, who knew all it took was moving committee index out of attestation

1/ Protocol Guild’s new brand, logo, and website are live! Our mission remains the same: To secure Ethereum’s future by funding core developers. We will safely scale Ethereum to be long-term infrastructure for the world.

With Pectra out the door, is it time for a 60M gas limit on Mainnet? Sepolia & Hoodi are already there.. how are they performing? Read on below:

New and fresh results on Ethereum's blobs and their presence at the EL mempool for block processing coming directly from @ProbeLab's research factory 🏭 ethresear.ch/t/empirical-bl…

Some light reading for your Friday! Up today is a retrospective on EIP7691, which increased blob throughput. Did it perform as we expected? And what does this tell us about a potential 60M gas limit? Read on 👇

Attestation Propagation: In missed slots (no block), attesters delay until the attestation deadline. This gives us clean data on when non-aggregated attestations hit nodes. Even fast, well-connected Xatu nodes (DC-hosted) only see ~40% of attestations after 1s; slower ones hit

Validators: After spending a week in-person with core devs and shipping fixes to issues, we're ready to recommend a gas limit of 45M! 📈⛽️ Expect frequent updated guidance as we unlock progressively higher throughput capacity! x.com/vdWijden/statu…

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Sigma Prime is hiring 🚀 We're looking for another talented DevOps Engineer to join us in shaping the future of web3. Links below

1/ We are releasing the first-ever comp report for Ethereum core devs. Two striking takeaways: ⭐ they pass up at least 50% of their market value to maintain existential industry software ⭐ PG funding helps reduce this gap & retain talent long term ↓ Report & thread ↓

An eventful week and a really enjoyable piece to work on. Check it out! Fusaka will be here before we know it :)

Holesky finalized! A great first step towards Fusaka on mainnet and to more blobs on Ethereum 📈🐡

With Fusaka rolling out on Testnets and preparing for Mainnet, we've had a lot of questions about how node requirements change... 🧵 (1/8)

Attestations about to fly on Ethereum 🏎️💨 Perf engineering uncovered a propagation bottleneck in Prysm, traced to the BLS signature batching logic. After tuning params, we hit optimality: negligible CPU impact, and a remarkable 6x reduction in per-hop propagation latency (30ms