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Excited to share EIP-7917 by me & @drakefjustin! It introduces deterministic proposer lookahead to the Beacon chain—a natural simplification that removes proposer unpredictability, which is crucial for preconfirmation protocols. eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-7917 Details in🧵

We just launched two more Ethereum relays! @AestusRelay @titanrelayxyz For Staking API integrators, these high performance MEV-Boost relays help enhance decentralization, increase reliability, and diversify block pool access, potentially leading to improved returns. Why are more relays better? 🧵

Why I Believe Validators Should Raise the Gas Limit to 36 Million - a thread 🧵 TL;DR: Let's raise the gas limit to 36 million! more👇

1) We are excited to complete the audit of Commit-Boost, which is in good shape & ready for validators to migrate to prod. Thank you to the whole @sigp_io team for their expertise + support in various ways for Commit-Boost! Report link & updates below! github.com/sigp/public-au…

First based preconfs on mainnet! 🕶️ Block 21,180,697 landed the first ever preconfed NFT mint and L1 transfer. Slot durations will matter less and less as transactions increasingly get preconfed for fast UX. This milestone is the culmination of a collaborative sprint that started at Edge City sequencing week just a few days ago. → preconfoors: @ETHGASofficial, Taiyi by @lu_ban_, @boltprotocol_ by @chainbound_, @primev_xyz, @interstatefdn → validators: @Kiln_finance, @ChorusOne, @luganodes, @daniel_taikoxyz, @a41_allforone, @NasdaqBTCS, @BlockscapeLab → commitment sidecar: @commit_Boost → relays: @AestusRelay, Helix by @gattacahq → block builders: @NasdaqBTCS, @titanbuilderxyz by @gattacahq → smart contract: @sam_battenally at @risechain → collaborators: @nodekitorg, @gwyneth_taiko, @sigp_io, @Spire_Labs Special shoutout to the @joinedgecity team who provided the perfect environment to boost the based social layer: @janineleger, @timourxyz, @TelamonArdavani, Cheyenne, Greg 🫡 Fantastic progress was also made on gateway API standards, a universal registration contract, a L2beat-style sequencer classification, interop standards, shared blob packing, an educational website, and a tech tree! Ethereum is based and the future is bright 😎

We'd like to present our approach to relay-side block proposal timing games: @austonst-aestus/BJsvEoia6?tw" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">hackmd.io/@austonst-aest… Timing games are unavoidable; we provide democratized access to timing tools. Our customizable defaults provide a safe delay aiming have the proposer receive a bid by 800 ms.

Calling all home stakers! We're looking to investigate if stakers would be concerned about increasing network bandwidth 🥁 Please help by filling out a quick survey 🥁 You need a staking community POAPs (linked next tweet) to fill out the survey poap-feedback.deform.cc/Solo-Staker-Ba…

1/ We are excited to share that Commit-Boost is headed towards audit and production! As an open-source, public good, this could not have been possible without many teams across the Ethereum Community. Thank you for all your time and effort! See below 👇

If you're an node operator with time and hardware for testing, we encourage you to help test commit-boost! We're happy to see nonprofit contribution to standardize validator sidecar software and reduce load & complexity for node operators! docs here: commit-boost.github.io/commit-boost-c…

@ethStaker Another potential topic: proposer commitments. Along the lines of PEPC, restaking, preconfirmations, commit-boost.

New page: research that will affect staking in coming months and years with some brief overviews and links. What else would you want to know about these active areas of research? ethstaker.cc/research

Don't let anyone tell you that "proposer timing games aren't bad because blocks stay on the canonical chain and aren't reorged." Late blocks significantly increase the number of missed and incorrect head votes, thus rugging attesters. More here: ethresear.ch/t/deep-diving-…

Not another inclusion list proposal. @dataalways/censorship-resistance-today" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">hackmd.io/@dataalways/ce…

The 2024 Staking Survey report is published ✔️ Interesting tidbits about respondents: - 32% are genesis stakers - 74% do not work in crypto - 62% indicated that they have no plans to exit Take a guess on the % that are male (spoiler in the report) @ethstaker/staking-survey-2024" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">paragraph.xyz/@ethstaker/sta…

Layer 2s as cultural extensions of Ethereum vitalik.eth.limo/general/2024/0…

FAQ: Ethereum issuance reduction When it comes to reducing issuance, there are many important questions to consider. Having studied these questions extensively, I thought it would be fruitful to address them one by one with detailed answers. Link 👇 ethresear.ch/t/faq-ethereum…

Just published an analysis on big blocks, blobs, and reorgs on ethresearch. I hope it helps guide us in deciding whether to increase the blob count, raise the gas limit, or implement peerDAS. ethresear.ch/t/big-blocks-b…

hi! stoked to share ~Subsequent Soliloquy~, a methods-forward issuance article that, from scratch, builds the plot on the right (↓). issuance discourse is jargon-laden, so i tried hard to use the intuition that helped me understand these curves. 👾🖍️📐 ⟿@mikeneuder/subsol" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">notes.ethereum.org/@mikeneuder/su…

We are thrilled to announce the Ethereum mainnet launch of the Titan Relay! A Rust-based MEV-Boost relay designed for high performance, global distribution and robustness. Check out our full announcement here: titanbuilder.substack.com/p/titan-relay-…

A new post on everything ePBS, slot auctions, execution tickets, attester-proposer separation, preconfirmations and even PEPC! I propose an alternative mechanism, "APS-Burn", to execution tickets in order to achieve attester-proposer separation mirror.xyz/barnabe.eth/QJ…

Foundations of minimum viable issuance. A simple post on the core premise behind a change to Ethereum’s issuance policy. There are many benefits to minimum viable issuance; I wanted to emphasize how it inherently creates value by reducing costs to users. @anderselowsson/Foundations-of-MVI" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">notes.ethereum.org/@anderselowsso…