Andrei Maiboroda 🇺🇦

@omw_to_the_moon @ethereum @aztecnetwork @jaosef @lisacuesta Congrats!

I am pumped to announce that, as of April, I have been working at @ethereum foundation as the EVM Dev Tooling Lead. Bittersweetly, this does mark the end of my 3 (!!) years at @aztecnetwork. Thank you to @jaosef @lisacuesta and many others for the amazing memories, offsites and the massive learning opportunity, as I pivoted from engineering to product management. I am excited for what Labs will do post Alpha launch and serving as an example for privacy products in crypto. There is a lot in store there. In my new role at the EF, I hold myself accountable for making it easier to build EVM apps. I plan to tackle: 👉 Fixing top developer pain points and working with @HardhatHQ @solidity_lang, foundry, @etherscan, other SDKs, tooling and even all core devs. And yes, I have a list of the pain points. 👉 Ensuring tooling stays up to date with latest forks (glamsterdam, hegota etc) 👉 Working with the one and only @austingriffith and his team to ensure Claude code and other LLMs can build good, secure dapps (checkout ethskills.com btw!) 👉 Outlining broader language and tooling vision, funding strategies with appropriate teams, 👉 Sunsetting not needed tools or finding other maintainers. I have serving in this role for just about a month now and there is so much cooking. You will be hearing many fun announcements and big frustrations being solved over the next few weeks. Solidity devs - if you ever encounter any problem/frustration with any tooling - do reach out. My DMs remain open! To the X algorithm - help me be the point of contact for solidity devs! I want to know your biggest issues when building on Ethereum or L2s. PS: Is it cringe to say evm/acc?

Not to mention the disconnect between EL and CL core devs communities.

100% support this, The Merge introduced insane complexity not only for UX of running a node, but also for testing and debugging the protocol, and ample surface for IPC-layer bugs.

A landmark moment in onchain security. @Coinbase has launched a $5M bug bounty on Cantina, a new program focusing exclusively on all its onchain products and @base’s smart contracts. It sets a new standard for securing Web3 organizations at scale. Details below.

@__zkhack__ link to the project please

Announcing ZK Hack Berlin winners! **Grand Winner** ZeroHour !!

@pcaversaccio So how much do we need to scale then if at all?

so I've been thinking about this for a while now and I'm more and more convinced that crypto was never meant for mainstream. The main reason being that crypto's purpose is _liberation_, not popularity. It's effectively for those who choose sovereignty over simplicity. If it never goes mainstream, that means it stayed dangerous. It stayed free. Thus, mainstream isn't the goal. Freedom is.

F. Merz hat heute einen EOF-Moment.

@frangio_ No. The same arguments would apply: "too complex", "no benefit for users", "tooling disrupted", "vyper doesn't need it".

It was a mistake to try to fundamentally change the EVM with EOF. We should aim for incremental improvements and no app layer disruption. A container format and structured control flow would be great and would lead to valuable tooling improvements and should still be pursued.

With the Interop Testing call happening over the next hour, which will (yet again) decide the fate of EOF, we would like to address a few misconceptions. [🗣Call agenda:github.com/ethereum/pm/is…]

The team prepared valuable input to the discussion on @solidity_lang libraries "compilation to EOF" issues. @ipsilon/eof_solc_libs_impact" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">notes.ethereum.org/@ipsilon/eof_s… It's worth reading and decide if it's complicated or easy.

A short explainer of why JUMPDEST-analysis exists by @chfast. It makes code-compilation feasible (fast JIT/AOT execution) and helps preventing certain kind of security problems. ethereum-magicians.org/t/why-evm-has-…

The EVM Object Format (EOF) is a long-awaited upgrade for the EVM. We wrote about our stance in support of it. Topics to expect in the post: ✧ Benefits of EOF ✧ Is EOF the only way? ✧ Can we solve "Stack Too Deep" without EOF? ✧ Why not EIP-615/EIP-2315? ✧ Do we really need immediate arguments? ...and more! Give it a read. →soliditylang.org/blog/2025/03/2…

I want to remind, that EVMMAX is dependent on immediate arguments. Any alleged no-EOF alternative is not viable: stack-based arguments would be too expensive, making entire EVMMAX useless; trying to introduce immediates without EOF quickly becomes complex, requiring validation similar to EOF. We haven't even seen anything resembling concrete spec from the proponents of such "solutions" anyway.

To pick just one point from the latest anti-EOF doc: The concern is described accurately. The proposed "solution" is not coherent at all: BEGINDATA wouldn't in any way affect the existing contracts, but can only be used in the new ones. It does not provide any extra safety for contacts deployed before BEGINDATA was available.

@lightclients Published new EIP for TXCREATE instruction in EOF github.com/ethereum/EIPs/… Also some final polishing of EIP-7702 implementation in evmone.

EFR is shipping - what did you do last week anon?

What does EOF stands for?

@fede_intern @paradigm Where can I find your critique of Reth and their engineering practices?

Ethereum has a leadership and cultural crisis. It thought it had won, but now it’s realizing that without a course correction, it could face a slow and painful decline. It’s good that we’re course correcting. I often agree with @paradigm’s tech takes, even though I’m a strong critic of Reth and their engineering practices. My issue isn’t the tech—it’s the incentives. Many of their proposals make sense, but the bigger question is: what will these incentives do to Ethereum’s future? The real danger is that Ethereum stops being a protocol and starts acting like a company. By concentrating power in a small group, Ethereum risks losing its essence. I’ve spoken with CEOs and members of the Ethereum Foundation who are worried about this, though few feel free to say it out loud. Acceleration, efficiency, and hard work are great, but not when they come at the cost of decentralization. If people feel the network is being co-opted, they’ll move on. Be careful, @gakonst, you might break the toy. Relying too much on one party in Ethereum’s social layer could be catastrophic in a crisis. What makes Ethereum special isn’t just its tech, it’s the culture.

One last day to take the Solidity Developer Survey. ⌛️ 10min of your weekend could help us: ▫️improve the language & compiler ▫️shape the language roadmap ▫️understand the impact of new/future features Submit your response before Jan 27. →cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/form/…

@koeppelmann @seer_pm How to find this?

Seems like @seer_pm just announced Devconnect in Buenos Aires!

EOF is separating the code from data, and bringing more structure to EVM contracts. The upcoming update affects the EVM tooling and makes things easier for many. Let’s understand what this means for source code verification and how @sourcifyeth aims to leverage and improve EOF.