🎓 Students, this is your final chance to join us at Devcon 8! We've opened a final round of student ticket applications for those who missed the earlier deadline, apps now close Oct 23! 🇮🇳 Indian students: $25 🌍 International students: $49 w/ ETH or $99 w/ cash

Today the EF and OA announce zkAPI—a new means for private AI Picture this: deposit ether into a vault, sign a zk proof, get a fixed amount of private inference. Advances like these help us move past middlemen's requirements that we link our data and identities. Read more below

🌎 International students! Final hours to apply for a Devcon 8 student ticket. Student tickets start at $49 ETH, or $99 USD. If you’re a student who wants to learn, build and get closer to the Ethereum ecosystem, this is your chance to join us in Mumbai. Apps close TONIGHT.

Glamsterdam is coming, and it is bringing blocks built without trusted relays (and a lot more)! The Sepolia testnet upgrade has been scheduled for 6 October of this year. Hoodi and mainnet dates will be announced separately. Activation table, client releases, and info on the bug bounty program can be found here: blog.ethereum.org/2026/09/17…

USDC and USDT deposits from @ethereum are now live in the Aave mobile app. If you're on the waitlist, use Ghost Pass code 'ETHEREUM' for instant access.

🚀 Anon.inc has officially reached 15M in shielded and unshielded volume! Wallet usage is increasing more and more everyday. Here is to our mission - making onchain privacy practical and easy to use for everyone! 🍻 Check out the wallet at anon.inc/download.

THE RESULTS ARE IN 🎉 504 hackers. 254 projects. 36 hours of building. ...and now, meet your 8 ETHGlobal Tokyo finalists: 🪎 Takarabako 🗼 Patio Station ⬜ yohaku 🥴 watermark 🫨 OddsFlow 🏯 Kura 🛍️ Omamori 🤝 Enconomy Here’s what they shipped ↓

Ethereal news mini #2 🖼️ @ethPandaOps Hegotá upgrade frames-devnet-0 live 2⃣ @Nethermind 2.0.0 🧪 @asanso Daisugi post quantum testnet ethereal.news/ethereal-news-…

The September all-Protocol update is out. Glamsterdam heads to Sepolia on Oct 6, both Hegotá headliners are on devnets, and the PQ roadmap is taking concrete shape. Plus faster block propagation and autoresearch. Highlights in the thread below. 👇

One step closer to 4-8x faster Ethereum finality! It took some time and lots of tokens, but we now have a formally verified proposal for a decoupled consensus protocol in I* (a future Ethereum upgrade)! Not yet a full spec (up next), but it includes all the key consensus-relevant details to become one. Since Ethereum aspires to be live without most of the stake online, the protocol involves many more components than a normal BFT protocol, and its correctness involves much more than standard safety and liveness. Those nuanced properties are now verified! What's more, I came away convinced that all protocol design will involve AI-assisted Formal Verification in the future, both for correctness and iteration speed. The work wasn't limited to just: Design the protocol -> Formally verify it Instead, the loop became more like: Design -> Formal Model -> Find exactly what breaks and why -> Redesign it. For a fairly complicated protocol like this one, I think having the Lean model be part of the design loop played a big role in accelerating the process. A future with agents paired with formal models is a superpower for Ethereum development, because they can then use those models to find exactly where an argument breaks down, formalize counterexamples, test proposed fixes, iterate on the protocol. Many details that would slip under the radar when asking agents (and indeed, humans) can now be specified exactly and checked by the Lean kernel. This then forces agents to be more precise and lets them make verifiable progress on their own. It's been incredible to see this play out, seeing agents find gaps and propose protocol changes to fix them. In other words, autoresearch can speed up protocol design, formal verification is here to stay, and Ethereum Finality will get faster.

HABEMUS TESTNET — DAISUGI v0.1 A post-quantum Ethereum testnet using hash-based SPHINCS signatures with non-native account abstraction. Big thanks to @riva_labs and @GiulioRebuffo. Coming next: • Frame Transactions • Signature aggregation via LeanSPHINCS Believe in somETHing. Link ⬇️

We’re starting in 1 hour! Formal verification can get technical fast, so we brought the right people to unpack it. Joining us: @RaoulSaffron and Everett from @rv_inc @Fricoben from @veritylab @bennylada from @vyperlang @zoep_42 and @clonker3141 from @argotorg @vilhelm_sjoberg from @CertiK Come listen in ↓ x.lingyaoai.com/i/spaces/1YGNrbXQkQyGw…

RT @go_ethereum: 🚀 Geth v1.17.6 is out! - Amsterdam enabled on Sepolia - Faster block processing - Faster initial sync Sepolia node opera…

Nethermind Client 2.0.0 is out. It changes how the node stores Ethereum's state: archive nodes drop from ~30 TB to ~2 TB, you choose the history you keep, and blocks process 2–3× faster than the previous release on a fresh node. Nine years since the first commit. The fastest execution software we've ever built. Breaking changes; read the notes before upgrading. Release: github.com/NethermindEth/net…

⛽️ Anon.inc Custom Gas Update! Self-paid sends, stealth withdrawals, and dApp calls can now use Custom gas. You can set fee caps or a legacy gas price, optionally set a gas limit, and review estimated vs maximum fees. Paymaster fees stay provider-managed. You can now self-broadcast stealth withdrawals, sends, and dApp calls with explicit fee caps, gas limits, and a clear estimated-vs-maximum cost, instead of relying on a paymaster’s pricing. 🫡

Every privacy protocol says "private." But the question is: private from whom? We just shipped a new feature on L2BEAT that answers that for every protocol we track, against 5 different adversaries.

Ethereal news weekly #40 🏛️ @SECGov innovation exemption for trading tokenized stocks on permissioned AMMs ⚡️ @SPGlobal acquiring @OpenZeppelin 🧱 @blockspaceforum multi party block construction live ethereal.news/ethereal-news-…

🎙️ New @Edge_Pod 🕵️ Private DeFi Is Coming: Why Privacy Is Ethereum's Next Frontier | Lean Ethereum 0:00 - Intro 2:31 - Why Ethereum? 5:11 - What is broken with privacy today? 6:52 - What should be private in DeFi? 11:50 - The call for privacy on Ethereum 15:05 - Private txns on Ethereum by 2027 20:53 - Importance of FOCIL for Ethereum 26:51 - When will private DeFi be ready? 30:58 -Network vs protocol vs wallet-based privacy 35:04 - Aztec’s approach to privacy 38:14 - Private DeFi on Ethereum vs Zcash 41:22 - Privacy for institutional investors 43:36 - Network meta data and privacy 45:44 - The future UX of privacy on Ethereum 51:22 - Closing 🙏 Thanks to @ethereumfndn Researcher @soispoke for joining us!