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A quick guide based on my experience in India 👇 If you have recs, places, playlists, ideas for @EFDevcon, send them my way! happy to keep updating or do a part 2 Thanks to the Indian community once again for being such incredible hosts and see you soon✨🫂

Today, several teams at the EF are launching pq.ethereum.org, a dedicated resource for Ethereum's post-quantum security effort. What started with early STARK-based signature aggregation research in 2018 has grown into a coordinated, multi-team effort, all open source. The Post-Quantum team and Cryptography teams, with help from the Protocol Architecture and Protocol Coordination teams, have been working on this body of work for 8+ years. At pq.ethereum.org you'll find: - How PQ impacts each protocol layer - The full PQ roadmap (strawmap.org) - Open resources: repos, specs, papers, EIPs - FAQ: 14 questions across 5 categories, written by the PQ team - A 6-part lean Ethereum interview series (@zeroknowledgefm) - Interest form for the 2nd Annual PQ Research Retreat (Cambridge, UK, Oct 2026) - 10+ client teams are already building and shipping devnets weekly through PQ Interop. All the work is public and all of it is open. pq.ethereum.org

Venice AI just released End-to-End Encryption Verifiable by any external party Vires in numeris Here's how it works 🧵

The secret of life is to approach it playfully. Everything can be approached with a sense of lightness, joy, and ease. Doesn't matter what you're doing. Working at a cafe. Meeting someone new. Going out to dinner. Taking a work call. Writing a tweet. Going on a crazy travel adventure. The illusion is that things are meant to be taken seriously. This morning, I caught myself racing against time. I had a friend arriving in Thailand. I wanted to work out, jump in the ocean, and get coffee before he got here. I was stressed and tense — battling against reality instead of flowing with it. But everything changed with one mindset shift. It's what I have tattooed on my arm: "It's all play." I decided to see the entire situation as a scene out of a movie to experience — rather than something to control and fight. Ripping my motorbike through town, jumping in the ocean, and grabbing a cappuccino became an electric experience to enjoy rather than something to rush through. My friend arrived, and the rest of the day flowed magically because my vibrational state shifted from tension to flow. So whenever you're rushing, tense, or way too serious — a red flag should go up in your mind. Life is not meant to be taken so seriously. Reality is not meant to be controlled and fought against. This is meant to be a game, a movie, an exploration in consciousness, and a journey your soul chose to experience through the character of you. Sink into that state of awareness and watch your life play out more magically than you could have ever controlled from a tense, rigid mind. It's all play.

this is actually insane > be tech guy in australia > adopt cancer riddled rescue dog, months to live > not_going_to_give_you_up.mp4 > pay $3,000 to sequence her tumor DNA > feed it to ChatGPT and AlphaFold > zero background in biology > identify mutated proteins, match them to drug targets > design a custom mRNA cancer vaccine from scratch > genomics professor is “gobsmacked” that some puppy lover did this on his own > need ethics approval to administer it > red tape takes longer than designing the vaccine > 3 months, finally approved > drive 10 hours to get rosie her first injection > tumor halves > coat gets glossy again > dog is alive and happy > professor: “if we can do this for a dog, why aren’t we rolling this out to humans?” one man with a chatbot, and $3,000 just outperformed the entire pharmaceutical discovery pipeline. we are going to cure so many diseases. I dont think people realize how good things are going to get

FULL INTERVIEW: @travisk joins TBPN to discuss his new company Atoms, physical AI, Uber, and more: 01:18 - Why he's been building in stealth for 8 years 04:32 - Atoms and the future of physical AI 08:10 - Creating a culture of builders 12:05 - Lessons from Uber 24:30 - The vision for physical AI and robotics 31:15 - Why humans will be the main beneficiaries of AI 38:20 - Mining, autonomous robots, automation 47:05 - Why Travis moved to Texas

Surely this brought so many memories to me. It was fun to collect them during meet ups! 🧡

soon when you buy a new phone it will be some empty OpenClaw-like OS that will just wait for you to tell it what applications it should create for you hello phone, I need an alarm clock, a calendar, and a browser

JSON-RPC was a mistake ethresear.ch/t/binary-ssz-t…

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🚨 BREAKING: Someone just open-sourced software that sees you through walls using only WIFI signals. it’s called WiFi-DensePose. It maps your exact body pose in real-time. no cameras. no sensors. just your living room router. 100% Open Source.

BlackRock’s former Head of Crypto explains how he pitches ETH to Wall Street “The first thing we do is explain the Ethereum opportunity. Stablecoins, which are today about $310 billion, are going to trillions. Tokenized assets today are about $32 billion and going to trillions as well. Institutional DeFi adoption is happening like we’ve never seen before. We’ll get to agentic in a minute, but explaining to them — and they agree wholeheartedly — that the Ethereum ecosystem is going to be the future settlement layer for finance is the first step.” After explaining that Ethereum is going to be the global world ledger, Joseph Chalom, who is now the CEO of the $1.5 billion Ethereum treasury company Sharplink, talks about ETH the asset: “As the Ethereum ecosystem grows, you need more Ether to secure and settle these transactions. Therefore, Ether ends up becoming a trust commodity. We start with the principles and fundamentals . . . What we don’t do is make up numbers and talk about short-term price predictions for Ether.” The other thing Joseph does not do is compare Ether to Bitcoin. “The second narrative that people use typically is that [Ethereum] is ‘little brother’ to ‘big brother’ Bitcoin and that ETH is just some relative coefficient of the value of BTC and they need to trade together. What we’re trying to explain is that there is intrinsic value and Ether is going to be the trust commodity that is going to secure the future of finance . . . The number one thing to do is not make up numbers. And then number two, [Ethereum] is not a derivative of Bitcoin. It has intrinsic value to the future of the financial system.”

From private payments to tokenized funds and AI standards, Ethereum builders kept shipping. Here are 25 things the ecosystem delivered this month. 0/ @payy_link announced Payy Network, a privacy-first Ethereum enabled EVM L2. It features default private token transfers and a cheaper way to build privacy-preserving applications, strengthening Ethereum’s privacy ecosystem. 1/ @RobinhoodApp launched the public testnet for Robinhood Chain, an Ethereum L2 powered by @arbitrum. Institutional settlement on Ethereum rollups continues to bridge traditional finance and public infrastructure. 2/ The @ethereumfndn Protocol Cluster published its 2026 priorities: Scale, Improve UX, and Harden the L1. Ethereum continues coordinating long-term technical upgrades in public to help steward the protocol forward. 3/ @l2beat launched L2BEAT Interop, a dashboard tracking cross-chain connectivity,value, and highlighting interoperability risks, helping the ecosystem stay connected to interoperability progress. 4/ @drakefjustin introduced Strawmap, a roadmap of proposed L1 protocol upgrades. It acts as a technical resource for researchers, developers, and participants in Ethereum governance. 5/ @Starknet integrated Nightfall, bringing confidential institutional DeFi to the Starknet stack. ZK privacy continues advancing Ethereum’s institutional use cases. 6/ @hinkal_protocol enabled private ETH and stablecoin payments on @arbitrum, demonstrating how private transactions are expanding across Ethereum L2s. 7/ @StartaleGroup introduced JPYSC, the first trust bank–backed JPY stablecoin. 8/ The One Trillion Dollar Security Dashboard was released by the @ethereumfndn. It is a comprehensive view of Ethereum’s security across the ecosystem. 9/ @builders_garden introduced Sign In With Agent (SIWA), a trustless identity standard for AI agents. 10/ @blockscout launched a Tor-native onion service: a privacy-first way to observe and verify Ethereum state. Blockscout’s .onion domain for Ethereum provides a way to view blocks, transactions and accounts. 11/ @MetaLeX_Labs launched cyberSign, letting users sign any legal agreement with @ethereum / @base. 12/ @Rocket_Pool activated Saturn One, introducing 4 ETH megapool validators. Improved capital efficiency strengthens Ethereum’s decentralized staking layer. 13/ @BNPParibas launched a euro-denominated money market fund on Ethereum. Tokenized funds on public blockchain infrastructure signal growing institutional confidence in Ethereum. 14/ Tokenized RWAs on Ethereum mainnet surpassed $15B in market cap. 15/ @aave crossed $1 trillion in all-time loans. 16/ @OndoFinance tokenized stocks (SPYon, QQQon) went live as DeFi collateral on @Morpho. Tokenized equities are now usable inside onchain credit markets. 17/ @eulerfinance enabled tokenized equities as collateral, built with @OndoFinance, @SentoraHQ, and @chainlink. Traditional financial exposure is now composable inside Ethereum-native lending markets. 18/ @Uniswap integrated with @Securitize to make @BlackRock’s BUIDL fund tradable via UniswapX. 19/ @LineaBuild sustained 100+ mGas/s throughput, peaking at 218 mGas/s, showing how rollups are scaling Ethereum in practice. 20/ @Starknet released Starkzap, an open-source SDK that turns apps into onchain consumer apps. 21/ @base announced @YCombinator startups can now get funded in USDC on Base. 22/ @Optimism shipped Upgrade 18 setting the foundation for a more performant, customizable, and operationally efficient OP Stack. 23/ @ether_fi released its Android app. Native mobile access lowers the barrier to staking and DeFi participation. 24/ The next Ethereum Community Hub is launching in Rome, hosted by @urbeEth. Local builder ecosystems continue expanding globally.

It turns out some AI models can step through EVM bytecode in their head. We built EthIQ, a new benchmark to test how well models actually understand Ethereum protocol internals. 325 questions across two evaluation modes, and one alive canary 🐦 Read more 👇

Introducing strawmap, a strawman roadmap by EF Protocol. Believe in something. Believe in an Ethereum strawmap. Who is this for? The document, available at strawmap[.]org, is intended for advanced readers. It is a dense and technical resource primarily for researchers, developers, and participants in Ethereum governance. Visit ethereum[.]org/roadmap for more introductory material. Accessible explainers unpacking the strawmap will follow soon™. What is the strawmap? The strawmap is an invitation to view L1 protocol upgrades through a holistic lens. By placing proposals on a single visual it provides a unified perspective on Ethereum L1 ambitions. The time horizon spans years, extending beyond the immediate focus of All Core Devs (ACD) and forkcast[.]org which typically cover only the next couple of forks. What are some of the highlights? The strawmap features five simple north stars, presented as black boxes on the right: → fast L1: fast UX, via short slots and finality in seconds → gigagas L1: 1 gigagas/sec (10K TPS), via zkEVMs and real-time proving → teragas L2: 1 gigabyte/sec (10M TPS), via data availability sampling → post quantum L1: durable cryptography, via hash-based schemes → private L1: first-class privacy, via shielded ETH transfers What is the origin story? The strawman roadmap originated as a discussion starter at an EF workshop in Jan 2026, partly motivated by a desire to integrate lean Ethereum with shorter-term initiatives. Upgrade dependencies and fork constraints became particularly effective at surfacing valuable discussion topics. The strawman is now shared publicly in a spirit of proactive transparency and accelerationism. Why the "strawmap" name? "Strawmap" is a portmanteau of "strawman" and "roadmap". The strawman qualifier is deliberate for two reasons: 1. It acknowledges the limits of drafting a roadmap in a highly decentralized ecosystem. An "official" roadmap reflecting all Ethereum stakeholders is effectively impossible. Rough consensus is fundamentally an emergent, continuous, and inherent uncertain process. 2. It underscores the document's status as a work-in-progress. Although it originated within the EF Protocol cluster, there are competing views held among its 100 members, not to mention a rich diversity of non-EFer views. The strawmap is not a prediction. It is an accelerationist coordination tool, sketching one reasonably coherent path among millions of possible outcomes. What is the strawmap time frame? The strawmap focuses on forks extending through the end of the decade. It outlines seven forks by 2029 based on a rough cadence of one fork every six months. While grounded in current expectations, these timelines should be treated with healthy skepticism. The current draft assumes human-first development. AI-driven development and formal verification could significantly compress schedules. What do the letters on top represent? The strawmap is organized as a timeline, with forks progressing from left to right. Consensus layer forks follow a star-based naming scheme with incrementing first letters: Altair, Bellatrix, Capella, Deneb, Electra, Fulu, etc. Upcoming forks such as Glamsterdam and Hegotá have finalized names. Other forks, like I* and J*, have placeholder names (with I* pronounced "I star"). What do the colors and arrows represent? Upgrades are grouped into three color-coded horizontal layers: consensus (CL), data (DL), execution (EL). Dark boxes denote headliners (see below), grey boxes indicate offchain upgrades, and black boxes represent north stars. An explanatory legend appears at the bottom. Within each layer, upgrades are further organized by theme and sub-theme. Arrows signal hard technical dependencies or natural upgrade progressions. Underlined text in boxes links to relevant EIPs and write-ups. What are headliners? Headliners are particularly prominent and ambitious upgrades. To maintain a fast fork cadence, the modern ACD process limits itself to one consensus and one execution headliner per fork. For example, in Glamsterdam, these headliners are ePBS and BALs, respectively. (L* is an exceptional fork, displaying two headliners tied to the bigger lean consensus fork. Lean consensus landing in L* would be a fateful coincidence.) Will the strawmap evolve? Yes, the strawmap is a living and malleable document. It will evolve alongside community feedback, R&D advancements, and governance. Expect at least quarterly updates, with the latest revision date noted on the document. Can I share feedback? Yes, feedback is actively encouraged. The EF Protocol strawmap is maintained by the EF Architecture team: @adietrichs, @barnabemonnot, @fradamt, @drakefjustin. Each has open DMs and can be reached at first.name@ethereum[.]org. General inquiries can be sent to strawmap@ethereum[.]org.

PSA for everyone who was looking for the Devconnect recordings! The playlists are finally up, with talks from the key events. What are you watching first? 👀 🎥 #videos" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">devconnect.org/#videos 🎥

Ethereum Protocol Studies is back for 2026 with new content tracks in Cryptography and Lean Consensus/zkEVM, plus a self-paced learning platform. Program starts Feb 23rd. Open, permissionless, free.

Introducing ~vibehouse~ An Ethereum consensus client with zero devs, Lighthouse v8.0 fork, that ships faster, breaks things sometimes, and accepts feature requests from literally anyone. Participate in the experiment and open an issue! github.com/dapplion/vibeh…