
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.
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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.


Ethproofs v3.2 is live 🚀 If proving is part of Ethereum’s future, the ecosystem needs a public way to see what is real: - not just speed, - but security, - reliability, - cost, - hard blocks, - and who is actually making progress. That’s what this upgrade is about.


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.


What does a zkVM designed specifically for Ethereum consensus look like? In this episode (4/6 of the @LeanEthereum miniseries), researchers from the Ethereum Foundation, Thomas Coratger (@tcoratger) and Emile, discuss with @nico_mnbl the design and implementation of leanVM, the minimal VM used for post-quantum signature aggregation. They cover: – Why leanVM uses a VM instead of fixed circuits to support flexible XMSS aggregation and recursive proof composition – The leanVM architecture: a minimal instruction set (4 opcodes) designed for simplicity and formal verification – The proving stack behind LeanVM: multilinear arithmetization, sum-check, and the Weir commitment scheme – Implementation details: CPU-optimized proving with Plonky3, SIMD techniques, and Poseidon2 hashing – Benchmarks and constraints around recursion and XMSS aggregation throughput They also discuss specification design, benchmarking methodology, and open questions around implementing post-quantum cryptography in Ethereum. Listen to the full episode. —-------------------- TIMECODES 03:36 Why LeanVM Was Chosen 07:50 LeanVM Minimalist Design 08:34 Simplicity Over Speed 19:34 Security and Field Selection 20:41 Performance and Aggregation Benchmarks 28:14 Ethereum Python Specification
