Ethereum

0/ Realizing Ethereum’s potential takes a coalition of organizations working together in pursuit of a shared vision; a number of such organizations have come together over the last year, meaningfully strengthening the resilience and capacity of the ecosystem, among them: 🧵

Announcing Ethlabs: a non-profit R&D lab for Ethereum and ETH Our mission is to make Ethereum the settlement layer of the global economy. The internet became global because shared protocols created a common language between networks. Private systems remained useful, but bounded. Finance is approaching a similar moment. As value, assets, and markets become digital, the world needs shared settlement infrastructure. Ethereum is uniquely positioned to become that shared base layer, the neutral foundation on which users, institutions, and agents can transact without intermediation. What we believe: • We believe credible neutrality matters. Ten years of uptime and the lowest counterparty risk. Ground that cannot be pulled away by any one country, institution, company, or person. • We believe ETH matters. The most valuable, programmable store of value. A decade of broad distribution, deep liquidity in onchain markets, and maximally trustless asset on Ethereum. • We believe DeFi matters. Markets, liquidity, credit, exchange, and coordination, open to anyone. • We believe adoption matters. Principles do not change the world until people benefit from them. We sit between two worlds: real usage from the builders at the frontier, and the protocol that has to support it. We work with users, applications, wallets, L2s, infrastructure teams, institutions, ETH holders, core devs and researchers, then turn what they actually need into protocol work, shared standards, infrastructure, and shipped products. Ethlabs is independent but Ethereum is a shared project. We are one node in a much larger network of stewards. This is the multi-node future. We have spent the better part of the past decade contributing to Ethereum core research and development. We are opinionated and transparent. We move with urgency, learn in public, and course-correct when we’re wrong. We are building a lean, talent-dense team for people who want to do the most important work of their careers: join@ethlabs.org

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Ethereal news weekly #28 🫡 @hwwonx stepped down 🧑‍💻 @joechalom 1M lifetime developers 🏗 @nixorokish Glamsterdam adds separate builder deposit & exit contracts ethereal.news/ethereal-news-…

The Internet Freedom funding round by @torproject and @FundingCommons closes today.

Ethereum is for shipping. Here are 25 things the Ethereum ecosystem launched, upgraded, and announced over the past month. 0/ @thedaofund Ethereum Security Quadratic Funding Round with @Giveth wrapped. The fund supported 134 security projects and had 3,934 unique donors. 1/ @Ronin_Network, one of the largest gaming blockchains, completed its migration to an Ethereum L2. 2/ Clear Signing went live. It is an open standard designed to help end blind signing and make transaction data human-readable before signing. Contributors include wallets and hardware, infrastructure, tooling, individual builders, and the Ethereum Foundation’s Trillion Dollar Security initiative, with the @ethereumfndn acting as a neutral steward. 3/ @SEAL_911 and @Wonderland_Fi introduced DARC, a Digital Asset Risk & Compliance standard for crypto teams, with continuous monitoring across GitHub, infrastructure, multisigs, DNS, and more. 4/ @arbitrum announced that LG Electronics' blockchain team is piloting an onchain advertising network on Arbitrum. 5/ @base activated Azul, its first standalone network upgrade, introducing multiproofs, new execution and consensus clients, CLZ opcode support, Osaka repricings, and performance upgrades up to 5,000 TPS. 6/ @Mastercard expanded stablecoin settlement support to include USDC, PYUSD, USDG, USDP, and SoFiUSD on Ethereum mainnet, @arbitrum, and @base. 7/ @EFDevcon 8 Mumbai early bird tickets went live. Tickets were available paid in ETH. 8/ Türkiye's Directorate of Communications (@Communications) registered cbiletisim.eth, making its first step in establishing an official onchain identity with @ensdomains. 9/ @CashApp launched stablecoin support, allowing nearly 60 million users to send and receive USDC with no wallet setup required, live on Ethereum mainnet and @Arbitrum. 10/ @torproject and @FundingCommons launched a web3-native crowdfunding initiative supporting 10 internet freedom projects. 11/ @JPMorgan launched a second tokenized money market fund on Ethereum. 11/ @lifiprotocol launched LIFI Intents, a full-stack intent execution engine built on the Open Intents Framework, an initiative for standardizing crosschain intents. 12/ @l2beat launched Token Frameworks, a dedicated place to explore interoperability solutions, token movement, volume, speed, chains, and framework adoption. 13/ @PrivacyEthereum launched a private transfers dashboard comparing 11 protocols across privacy, cost, UX, decentralization, compliance, verifiability, state, and composability. 14/ @Veildotcash launched Veil MCP 0.2.0, enabling agents to make private x402 payments on @base. 15/ @src_co_ introduced SLOW, reversible, self-custodial crypto payments on Ethereum. 16/ @ensdomains ecosystem builders launched ENS8004, a web app that converts an ENS name into an onchain AI agent other applications can find and verify. 17/ @OctantApp introduced properQF in Epoch 12, integrating quadratic funding into the funding round. 18/ @AragonProject launched onchain profiles, making governance participants readable across forums by resolving ENS names, avatars, bios, websites, and social links from Ethereum mainnet. 19/ The Ethereum Community Hub network expanded to Lisbon, hosted at the @gnosisDAO office. 20/ @SuccinctLabs introduced data confidentiality to OP Succinct, enabling institutions to keep transactions confidential while settling to Ethereum. 21/ @HardhatHQ 3 became stable, bringing Solidity tests, multichain support, a Rust-powered runtime, a revamped build system, and Hardhat Ignition for deployments. 22/ The inaugural @ethconf, in NYC, brought together thousands of founders, industry leaders, and builders to discuss building on top of Ethereum. 23/ @EthPrague brought Ethereum builders together in Prague to discuss protocol development, privacy, culture, and long- term societal impact. 24/ @ETHGlobal introduced a new format where, for the first time at an ETHGlobal hackathon, projects do not have to begin from zero.

Ethereum is inspired by tools that keep the internet open under pressure. @torproject protects freedom online by routing traffic through distributed relays, reducing tracking, surveillance, and censorship.

You can now earn yield on your Confidential USDC with Morpho! 🦋 Our mission at Zama is to bring confidentiality to financial transactions on public blockchains, the same way HTTPS makes it safe to send your credit card to a website. With nearly $200m shielded since we launched earlier this year, the question is no longer whether people want privacy onchain, but rather how we can make all of onchain finance confidential, from payments to swaps, lending and yield.  Today we're proud to announce our first DeFi integration, with Morpho, letting you deposit Confidential USDC (cUSDC) into Steakhouse’s USDC Prime vault. This is not a new vault strategy, and not a new lending protocol. It's the actual Steakhouse Prime USDC strategy, on the actual Morpho protocol. You use it exactly as you would today, except your balances and positions stay fully confidential. Morpho handles $11B+ in deposits for the likes of Coinbase, Bitwise and Société Générale, and Steakhouse curates over $4.5B in TVL, so we're bringing confidentiality where the liquidity already is. The way it works is simple. When you make a Confidential USDC deposit, it joins a batch with other users' deposits. Once the deposit period has ended, the aggregated USDC are unshielded, and deposited in the Morpho Steakhouse vault, with the resulting vault shares reshielded and redistributed pro-rata to the depositors. The total batch amount is public, but the individual deposits stay confidential. It also means you hold the vault shares directly yourself. This batching approach is generic and can work for vault deposits, swaps, staking, voting, and any other DeFi action. Natively confidential DeFi protocols will offer even stronger privacy guarantees, and we're building those too, but batching lets confidential tokens plug into the existing public protocols where the liquidity sits today. Over the coming months, we'll extend our Morpho integration across all major stablecoin currencies, including USD, EUR and GBP, so you can earn yield no matter which one you want to hold. Shield your USDC on app.zama.org and start earning when the vault opens next week. We are adding extra incentives for the next 3 months on a first come first serve basis!  Let’s encrypt all the money!

The Encrypt the Mempool! Coalition (@encryptmempool) recently posted a 3 ETH (~$5,400) bounty on @poidhxyz for substantive feedback on the encrypted mempool proposals (EIP-8105 & EIP-8184) Looking for technical critiques, attack vectors, implementation concerns, tradeoff analysis, and MEV/incentive analysis If you're a core protocol researcher, dev, and you've been following encrypted mempool research, we'd love to see you dive in and add your perspective! And if you're not a researcher or dev but want to support the mission, you can add mainnet ETH to the bounty to increase the prize pool 👇

Enterprise-grade private transactions are live on Base Introducing Base Privacy: a native and compliant infrastructure for enterprises Financial institutions can trade, pay, and settle with confidentiality on crypto rails

The Berlin Ethereum Day schedule is live on the website. 🕥 Check-in starts at 9 am 🗓️ Program starts at 10 am 📍Funkhaus (Nalepastraße 18, 12459 Berlin, Germany) 🏢 Studio 1 (Saal 1) Schedule, registration & more info 👇

1/ ICYMI: Clear signing is now live. Hear how the Ethereum ecosystem is coming together to make transactions readable.

Token Frameworks are now live on L2BEAT! A dedicated place to explore this specific category of interoperability solutions. You can see which frameworks are dominating the space (spoiler: OFTs) which are moving the most volume, how fast, across which chains, and for which tokens. Here's what these frameworks are, why they matter for risk, and what the data is telling us 👇

gm NYC 🍏 Today's the day. ETHGlobal New York is here. 📍 Metropolitan Pavilion 🕐 Registration opens: 1:00 PM 🛠 Workshops: 2:00–6:00 PM 🏆 $200,000+ in prizes 🎤 Opening Ceremony: 8:00 PM Let's build. See you soon.

When markets run on open rails, more people can see the rules before they trade. Trueo is built on Ethereum. @Trueo_ brings prediction markets fully onchain, which makes rules, liquidity, and execution easier to inspect.

Three days. One city. 🗽 The conversations that move Ethereum forward. That’s a wrap on the inaugural ETHConf. We'll see you next year in June 2027. Early bird tickets are now live: ethconf.com

Ethereum Day - during the @BerBlockWeek - will bring together contributors from across the ecosystem to share their vision for Ethereum’s future, the challenges, opportunities, and the work shaping the next chapter of the protocol and its ecosystem. Registration 👇 berlinethereumday.com

Neocypherpunk Summit by @web3privacy is on 14 June at Funkhaus Berlin as part of @BerBlockWeek. ICYMI the DoD is squatting a room and hosting open and participatory workshops, around building tools that don't depend on anyone's permission. Here is what we have lined up 👇

cbiletisim.eth is short for “cumhurbaşkanı iletişim” (presidential communications) a dWebsite like the one of Türkiye’s @iletisim / @communications is one of the most practical use cases for public institutions - documents stored on decentralized infrastructure - verifiable on @ethereum - accessible via @ensdomains kudos to the devs bringing governments onchain

when @ethconf wraps up, the hacking begins. join us at ETHGlobal New York for: > 💰 $200,000+ in prizes > 🤝 16 partners > 💻 36 hours of building > 🌎 world class mentors kick-off begins on Friday, June 12. are you in? ethglob.al/T5IHQJSP32