Due to ongoing high bot activity on my faucets over the last weeks, I've increased the protection mechanism this morning.
The Holesky PoWFaucet faucet requires using a Gitcoin Passport — Protect & Understand. with a minimum score of 10 now.
The Sepolia instance will follow soon.

If you like MEV infra and rust 🦀 this is a great read to understand the type of security issues that exist in such systems.

Today, our EPF study group concludes. 10 weeks of sessions covering every major part of Eth R&D, helping dozens of people to learn about the core protocol. As an outcome, we have a knowledge base built by tens of volunteers and maintained by the community: EPF.wiki

powerful testing tools have been open-sourced by the ethPandaOps team, a subgroup within the Ethereum Foundation Foundation born initially to spearhead testing efforts for the Merge upgrade. these tools can be used by anyone building atop ethereum.
learn more:
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The Ethereum Protocol Fellowship (EPF) had a very successfully fourth cohort. A new cohort is on the horizon. Catch the recap and how you can get involved. #Ethereum #EPF4

blog.ethereum.org/2024/04/22/epf…

🧵A recap recap:

Massive shoutout to pk910.eth who has done amazing work since joining the team. Assertoor has already been successful in finding client issues. I can guarantee it’ll have a GOATed trophy case in a few years time 👑

Help run Tracoor and ensure that if/when there's a mainnet incident, that we have all the data we need at our fingertips :D

🚨🚨 CALLING ALL STAKING POOLS 🚨🚨

We need your feedback! There still a few outstanding design decisions to be made for EIP-7251. I've written a quick post to get you up to speed. Please provide feedback in the MaxEB Breakout Room next week!!

hackmd.io/@wmoBhF17RAOH2…

You can get started with the data right away using polars data lazyframes to read the remote parquet files!

See this notebook for now to do it - colab.research.google.com/drive/1DgNHWTv…