Blockshard

RELEASING RETH 2.0! Reth is now faster, smaller, and ready for the future of crypto infrastructure. Gigagas per second has not just been achieved, it's been blown out of the water. We've put in a ton of work in this, and we're incredibly proud to be sharing this with everyone.

Great news for @LidoFinance CSM Operators - @NodeSentnl now features native support for CSM Nodes! Keep track of your validator's performance, get alerts, and much more. Link to the bot 👇

Lighthouse v8.1.1 (Scary Terry) is out! This is a mandatory upgrade for all users on prior versions due to a security fix. Please upgrade ASAP. Further details to follow. Also fixes VC head monitor timeouts, DataColumnsByRange duplicate bug, and a slow memory leak. github.com/sigp/lighthous…

What if your 0x02 @ethereum validators can have a custom rewards sweep threshold and get rewards transferred to their withdrawal credentials before hitting a staggering 2048 ETH? Introducing EIP-8148: Custom sweep threshold for validators 👇

🚨 WARNING (AGAIN) DPRK threat actors are still rekting way too many of you via their fake Zoom / fake Teams meets. They're taking over your Telegrams -> using them to rekt all your friends. They've stolen over $300m via this method already. Read this. Stop the cycle. 🙏

@sama this is mean @sama

53 banking associations just wrote themselves a $6.6 trillion protection bill. They called it the CLARITY Act. Here is what they do not want you to understand. Banks pay depositors 0.1% interest. Stablecoin issuers hold Treasury bills earning 4.5%. If stablecoins could pass that yield to users, banks lose the deposit war. They cannot compete. The math is fatal. So they made competition illegal. The Kansas City Fed calculated what happens if stablecoins pay competitive rates. Banks lose 25.9% of deposits. $1.5 trillion in lending capacity vanishes. The entire community banking model collapses. Their solution was not innovation. Their solution was legislation. The CLARITY Act everyone is celebrating contains Section 404 prohibiting yield payments through any mechanism. Not just from issuers. From exchanges. From affiliates. From partners. Every single pathway to competitive returns, closed by statute. Brian Armstrong reviewed the 278-page draft for 48 hours. He withdrew Coinbase support at 11pm. The markup was postponed by morning. He saw what Wall Street analysts missed entirely. This is not crypto regulation. This is Dodd-Frank for digital assets. Incumbents writing rules that crush competitors. Regulatory capture so brazen they published the lobbying letters on their own websites. The American Bankers Association. 52 state banking associations. The Community Bankers Council. All coordinating to eliminate an industry they cannot beat in open markets. Meanwhile China made e-CNY interest-bearing on December 29. America is banning stablecoin yield while Beijing is paying it. The crypto industry spent years begging for regulatory clarity. They got it. Clarity that $6.6 trillion in deposits will be protected at any cost. Clarity that banks write the rules. Clarity that if you cannot win in markets, you win in Congress. This is the largest regulatory capture event in American financial history. And it is being sold as innovation policy.

Introducing Generic: Neutral infrastructure for private and yield-generating stablecoins. What is inspiring now, will be generic in the future.

BPO2 landed last week. It bumped the max blobs per block to 21. We've been going through the data. Initial analysis doesn't look good! Have a look at this scary chart. But there might be more to this story.. Link below!

BPO2 is live! The new blob target is 14 blobs/block with a maximum of 21. Here's a block already with 18 blobs!

@ssv_network … stSSV 💪

2023: SSV Network became the first DVT implementation to go live on Ethereum mainnet. 2024: Integrated by leading Ethereum staking protocols. 2025: Scaled to become the second-largest staking infra provider on Ethereum & went multi-client. 2026: Rerouting the value to...

Discovered my Gas ID via ETHGas - turning my gas spend into rewards 🫘 As a Hero Jack, I've spent 1.3956 ETH on gas but earned 1000 Beans back. Get your Gas ID and Beans here: ethgas.com/community/gas-…

The more time passes, the more I believe crypto natives have completely lost the plot on ETH and that’s it’s becoming impossible to replicate the product that Ethereum has built. At this point, no other ecosystem is even attempting to create a WWIII-resistant, globally shared settlement system. And as we’ve come to understand, you can’t realistically do so anymore. The unopinionated, general-purpose GTM strategy that made Ethereum possible is now dead on arrival in today’s highly competitive and heavily financialized environment. Like Bitcoin, Ethereum emerged from a unique set of social, economic, and technological conditions that no longer exist — it is now nearly impossible for new entrants to build anything that competes with Ethereum in terms of legitimacy. I used to wonder how much any of this would matter to institutions. It still might be too early to call, and we’re already seeing attempts from Stripe and various Wall Street consortiums to roll up their own settlement infrastructure. Still, both the data and the anecdotal evidence indicate that institutions are choosing Ethereum more than anything else, for its reliability, neutrality, and ability to minimize long-term counterparty risk. In this sense it’s not unlike why institutions choose Bitcoin. Bitcoin provides the same guarantees to everyone regardless if they’re a billionaire in New York, dissident in North Korea, or the Central Bank of China. And the thing is, it’s not just that Ethereum has a special origin story or that it has unique properties. Its network effects are compounding in ways that may ultimately be insurmountable. The more assets that get tokenized, the more integrations that default to Ethereum as the safest settlement layer, the more high-performance rollups like Base and Lighter that choose to anchor to Ethereum’s security hub, the more nodes that get spun up, and the more developers that onboard into the EVM — the more I believe Vitalik was right about the rollup-centric roadmap, and the more obvious it becomes that Ethereum’s moat is widening, not shrinking. The cherry on top is it seems like the Ethereum Foundation, and community by extension, has finally got its shit together for the first time in a while. For the past two years I thought Ethereum was struggling, but that the “game” was still its to lose. There’s still a long road ahead and success is not guaranteed. But I now think they’re righting the ship, and the outlook is the most promising it’s been in a long time.

For years, I've complained internally at the EF that we do not have enough expertise at p2p: we think a lot about cryptoeconomics, BFT consensus and blocks, but we take the p2p networking layer for granted. I think that's no longer true, and PeerDAS shows it. @raulvk and others at EF have done heroic work both at making PeerDAS work so smoothly, and at setting up a roadmap that increases propagation speed, resilience, and network-layer privacy at the same time. Excited to see this work keep moving forward.

Say hello to the WisdomTree Physical Lido Staked Ether ETP (LIST) 🧠🌳 A 100% staked ETH ETP for simplified institutional access to Ethereum staking rewards. Fully backed by stETH. @WisdomTreeEU

💡 Fusaka is now officially active on the Ethereum mainnet, ushering in a new era of scalability. 🧵 Here’s what you need to know about the Fusaka hard fork right now, and what comes next with Glamsterdam 👇

Solidity v0.8.31 is out! ✨ This latest version makes Osaka the default target for the compiler, extends storage layout specifiers, brings new deprecation warnings, Linux ARM builds, and more! Highlights in the thread! ↓🧵

Fusaka is live on Ethereum mainnet! - PeerDAS now unlocks 8x data throughput for rollups - UX improvements via the R1 curve & pre-confirmatons - Prep for scaling the L1 with gas limit increase & more Community members will continue to monitor for issues over the next 24 hrs.

This changes @ethereum staking forever. For the first time, multi-client DVT is live on mainnet. More resilience. More decentralization. More choice. Here's what that means (and why it matters) 🧵👇