Nimbus

📢 Nimbus consensus client `v26.3.0` is out now. The Nimbus consensus client `v26.3.0` is a `low-urgency` release which improves blob and column-handling performance. github.com/status-im/nimb…

Etan is joining at the EPF Office Hours! github.com/eth-protocol-f… - see you there.

I am beyond thrilled to see the diversity in usage of various clients and, in particular, the growth in adoption of @ethnimbus among the staker community in the last two years! It feels like we have come a long way. I honestly had no idea we’d see this kind of traction when we started engaging the community on Nimbus CL a few years ago. Grateful to the community and kudos to the stakers for doing what is right for the network.

Join us tomorrow with @ethStaker and @Keycard_ as we present the latest on the Nimbus Execution Client and the Nimbus Unified Client! 🗓️

Ethstaker will have Community Call #67 to talk about Nimbus client development and the Keycard hardware wallet with the teams building each! When: Tuesday June 16 @ 15:00 UTC Tune in and ask questions in the chat! Youtube link in next tweet

For reference: Nimbus: @ethnimbus Keycard hardware wallet: @Keycard_ See you there!

Is your hardware wallet this inconspicuous and easy to carry? Get a @Keycard_ at keycard.tech One shell. Many card wallets.

@AkeGaviar @ChainstackHQ Cool. And welcome to try @ethnimbus as well for its much smaller footprint and lot more headroom on local hardware

@candidelabs The @ethnimbus verified proxy is designed explicitly for this purpose. It’s been available for years. Been encouraging wallets to use it to verify if that the rpc isn’t feeding you compromised data. Great to see @safe taking this initiative - I hope other wallets follow suit!

Challenge: Name an objectively better hardware wallet than @Keycard_ for your crypto? - Fully Modular. Removable/re-chargable battery - One shell and many cards (wallets) as you like to use with it. Stop carrying a bag full of ledgers! - Stops you from blind signing - Fully open source and entirely air-gapped - EAL6+ certification, which is rare - Works with 15+ popular soft-wallets (Metamask, Rabby, Safe...). No custom app BS🤯 👉keycard.tech Now go and check, if the battery in your ledger is still alive!

The Nimbus Unified client lets you run a single process, two processes, 3, 4... 10.. or many as you have hardware for - blog.nimbus.team/the-nimbus-uni… is a gentle introduction for how simple it can be without losing the flexibility that comes with more complex deployments!

We should be open to revisiting whole beacon/execution client separation thing. Running two daemons and getting them to talk to each other is far more difficult than running one daemon. Our goal is to make the self-sovereign way of using ethereum have good UX. In many cases that means running your own node. The current approach to running your own node adds needless complexity. Short-term, maybe we want some more standardized basic wrapper that lets you install dockers of any client and make them talk to each other easily? Also good that @ethnimbus unified node github.com/status-im/nimb… exists. Longer term, we should be open to revisiting the whole architecture once @leanethereum lean consensus is more mature.

The United Kingdom is considering banning young people’s access to VPNs. Beneath the usual rhetoric of “protecting the children”, the move is yet another affront to the right to private communication. The proposal comes via an amendment to the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill, and could require VPN providers to enforce age verification. In practice, that means forcing all users to upload government-issued ID to access tools designed to protect their privacy. “Protecting the children” costs everyone their privacy. As @BigBrotherWatch points out: “Having to provide ID or a biometric face scan to access a VPN utterly defeats the point of a technology designed to enhance privacy online.” Under the proposals, VPN providers would have to collect users' identity documents. That creates: ✵ Centralised databases of privacy-conscious citizens ✵ Honeypots vulnerable to data breaches ✵ Permanent records of who sought anonymity The ability to receive and share information without monitoring is fundamental to a free society. Without it: ✵ Sources won’t speak ✵ Abuse victims can’t seek help safely ✵ Young people can’t explore ideas freely ✵ Citizens self-censor Surveillance shapes behaviour. Centralised privacy tools, like traditional VPNs, are inherently vulnerable. (Study alternatives like @nym) If a government can compel them to log users, verify identities, or restrict access, they become chokepoints. And chokepoints can be regulated. And regulated systems can be weaponised. The UK government recently dropped plans to make digital IDs mandatory for UK workers. A big win for civil liberties in the nation. But efforts like age-verification for VPN users show that its surveillance ambitions are far from satisfied. True digital sovereignty requires systems that do not depend on the goodwill of any single state. Our response to creeping surveillance cannot depend on outrage alone. The world needs infrastructure that cannot be amended into obsolescence. We've got work to do: Logos.co

A long time in the future, in a galaxy not very far away...

Daily reminder: Santa isn’t the only one watching 👀

What if the internet defended your freedom by default? @jarradhope_ introduces Logos: a unified stack for private, uncensorable apps and a movement to revitalise civil society, free from big tech and surveillance. This is about more than crypto.

Nimbus (@ethnimbus) builds lightweight Ethereum clients for home stakers. Their consensus client is battle-tested and widely used, with an execution client on the way, continuing Nimbus’s focus on efficiency and accessibility for everyday node runners. nimbus.guide

📢 Nimbus consensus client `v25.12.0` github.com/status-im/nimb… This is a `medium-urgency` release for mainnet due to network stability improvements. To access blobs in Fusaka and later in this release, use the `--light-supernode` option. The undocumented `--debug-peerdas-supernode` option will be removed in a pending release.

Etan Kissling from @ethnimbus and @caymannan are the authors of EIP 7688. Please correct me if I made any mistakes in my attempt to mobilise coordination, and I will improve. :)

Argentina is no stranger to parallel systems. Stablecoins support a $300bn+ grassroots economy to protect people against a hyperinflationary peso. At Devconnect, we met with builders continuing this tradition locally and others striving for global change. The highlights ↓