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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.

@QuangVDao @alxkzmn Thank you for bringing this up. It's true that the EC operations are not part of the proof and the verification is re-execution The setup seems correct though, this comes from the usage of the Miden ECDSA precompile @alexanderlee314 @bobbinth

@alxkzmn You may also want to double-check your Miden bench For instance, in ECDSA, the computation is never proven in the STARK. It's executed natively during proving and re-executed natively during verification (not a problem with Miden but rather with your bench setup)

Competing teams peer-reviewing each other’s results is what we envisioned when we started the CSP benchmarks project 😍 After all, as of now we’re a team of two maintaining benchmarks of some 5 target circuits across 15 systems.

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Protocol study group starts today. See you at the kickoff.

Ethereum Protocol Study Group for 2026 is finally announced! Starting in less than a week, it took us a while to push out the announcement because we were preparing the biggest curriculum so far blog.ethereum.org/2026/02/17/eth…

ZKP2P is now Peer: Finance for Humans

Good research is being done on lookup and permutation arguments. The connection to shuffle proofs seems under appreciated, so I wrote up a comparison. @__zkhack__

@ralexstokes It's a fun project but you could do specific optimizations just for the given scenario. Blocks and challenges should be updated constantly

paradigm kernel optimization leaderboard but for an EVM indexer any takers

@ProtonPrivacy big props for supporting @etheriumfndn ht @brechy

@TMIYChao @ProtonPrivacy @etheriumfndn Can't wait to pay with my ER20 tokens

1/2 As of Q3 2025, the fastest client-side-feasible ZK-SNARK (@aztecnetwork's Barretenberg) is ~4x faster than the fastest *ZK* VM (@ligero_inc's Ligetron). The fastest non-ZK SNARK (@IrreducibleHW's Binius64) is ~36x faster than the fastest non-ZK VM (@KakarotZkEvm's Cairo-M).

Hello Fusaka🥳 Great job to everyone who pushed hard to make the fork happen in 2025, and for making it a successful one. Proud of the work we've achieved together. The road to Fusaka was long and bumpy, but we got here!🦓

"Ironically, the more Ethereum optimizes for efficiency, the stronger its pull toward centralization." "Rather than paying for global storage or subsidizing full nodes indefinitely, Ethereum could instead reward state-serving events" Great second part on "The Future of State" by @CPerezz19 ethresear.ch/t/the-future-o…

Plinko PIR tutorial: vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025/1…

@ihor_diachenko @oskarth @alxkzmn @PrivacyEthereum Hard to beat, but huge setup though 🥲

@oskarth @alxkzmn @brechy @PrivacyEthereum Circom holds up pretty good 👀

ZK CLIENT SIDE PROVING BENCHMARKS Kudos to @alxkzmn and @brechy at @PrivacyEthereum for making this happen! Source: github.com/privacy-ethere…

Target acquired: Happy to share our new Client-Side Proving dashboard — a collaboration with the amazing CSP team at @PrivacyEthereum ethproofs.org/csp-benchmarks

The @EFDevcon team cooked

Introducing: Decentralized crowdloaning and an experiment to bootstrap our new community space Theory: @bordel/decentralized-crowdloaning" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">paragraph.com/@bordel/decent… Implementation: loan.bordel.wtf We are bringing a real, community based, cooperative way to bootstrap projects on Ethereum without any token or speculation. Our goal is to demonstrate a simple way to coordinate and utilize liquidity from the global community to empower local. Our hackerspace in Prague has been looking for a new home for almost 2 years and it's not easy to find it. Now, you can help us to reach our goal, get us started and eventually visit us in person! We do not ask for donations but direct loans that we pay back continuously as mortgage. If you have any stables lying around, you can lock them to this loan instead of another protocol and support real world project. This is a nonprofit effort to showcase defipunk and utilize the open nature of our ecosystem. Crowdloaning is a trustless alternative to more traditional crowdfunding alternatives for us, crypto natives. We don't have any credit in traditional banks, we only use FLOSS and we source loans from community of individuals, not pools. Help us get started and hopefully, we will see each other at the opening party during @EthPrague!

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