ScopeLift

Today, the Foundation’s Board released the EF Mandate. This document, which was first intended for EF members, reaffirms the promise of Ethereum, and the role of EF within this ecosystem.

Excited that the EF through the EF Mandate has made a commitment to prioritizing and focusing its efforts on the core values and properties that's been pivotal in making Ethereum a long term successful and a natural destination for talent! It’s quite easy and common to have slow drift in focus and priorities, and I'm happy that the EF recognized this risk and has now taken steps to ensure that the priorities for Censorship Resistance, Open-source, Privacy and Security for Ethereum continues to be the priority and focus for the EF. I believe many developers and researchers who joined the ecosystem in the previous years did so because they care and are excited about these properties, and I’m very excited to see what existing and new talent will be building on Ethereum in the next months, years, decades and centuries to come. For Protocol (Security) I do not expect this to lead to massive changes considering that CROPS have always been a priority, which for example can be seen on the strawmap and the new protocol tracks for 2026. 1/2

🦄 Uniswap wins another case that sets a new legal prescendent TLDR: If you write open source smart contract code, and the code is used by scammers, the scammers are liable, not the open source devs Good, sensible outcome

Guys, this is the next logical step from what has already started. Your phones are already listening to you 24/7. People have already invited Alexas into their home. People are buying AI wearable pendants that are always listening to you. The next wave of tech are these AI glasses that not only track what you see but track your eyeball movements and how long you linger on any object (which your phone already does). This is all data they are feeding into an LLM to build a 300 page dossier on YOU. The conspiracy theorists have always been right. The government, big tech, etc. absolutely ARE listening to you and they ARE watching you. You have to reject the surveillance tech. It is likely impossible, but you must do what you can. The least you can do is slow it down, minimize, and not invite it in. Remember, all this data can and WILL be used against you at some point in the future. You never know if you’ll find yourself on the wrong side of the powers that be tomorrow. If you do, they’ve got the data from your whole life. Any story can be manufactured. Any narrative told.

OpenZeppelin Solidity Contracts v5.6 is here 💥 This release enables seamless crosschain bridging, trustless state verification across chains, and enhanced account abstraction, making it easier to build complex onchain applications. Fully audited and production-ready 🔒

ETH DENVER 2026

AI agents need privacy, and Ethereum can provide it. Here’s a clip of two autonomous agents discovering each other, generating stealth addresses, and interacting privately on Ethereum. More details in the 🧵👇