Props to the Ethlabs team for: (1) The decisive push for Quick Slots. (2) The clear "faster Ethereum" initiative. Most of all for the "fast shipping".

Update: One step closer to a faster Ethereum L1. Quick slots just moved to Considered for Inclusion (CFI) in today's All Core Devs call! This is a new milestone for our proposal to make Ethereum blocks faster 🎉 Btw.. Faster blocks => - Better UX - Better markets - Faster finality and fast confirmation rule - And improved censorship-resistance too! TLDR: More value for the network, its users, and ETH, without compromising on the core values and properties of Ethereum. Hear this from 20 top Ethereum teams in our ecosystem survey: ethlabs.org/writings/quick-s… --- Ok, what does CFI mean? This does not mean that the EIP is for sure included in Hegotá. This means that now it will be considered more seriously, including testing, towards inclusion in future devnets once headliners (FOCIL and frame transactions) are stable. In particular, the call today revealed the appetite for a phased approach, installing the plumbing which allows us to reduce the slot time in Ethereum clients, and deciding to pull the trigger based on further testing. Ultimately, this is how EIP-8198 is designed, so CFI'ing today allows us to move forward with more of the plumbing work, and start looking into testing towards an actual slot reduction from 12 to 10 seconds. This is a first reduction, as EIP-8198 opens the door for progressively lower slot times, as they get sufficiently safe to ship. In parallel, as discussed on the call too, we are continuing our ecosystem survey and outreach of deployed smart contracts with a slot time dependency. We have reached out to more teams on this. --- Faster slots are one important dimension of our Faster Ethereum body of work. A more responsive network helps cement its role as a liquidity hub and as the heartbeat of the network as a whole. Along with our work on fast finality, fast confirmation rule and fast interop, it all combines for a seamless and secure flow of assets everywhere on the network. Thank you to the many builders who are taking us there!

Update: One step closer to a faster Ethereum L1. Quick slots just moved to Considered for Inclusion (CFI) in today's All Core Devs call! This is a new milestone for our proposal to make Ethereum blocks faster 🎉 Btw.. Faster blocks => - Better UX - Better markets - Faster finality and fast confirmation rule - And improved censorship-resistance too! TLDR: More value for the network, its users, and ETH, without compromising on the core values and properties of Ethereum. Hear this from 20 top Ethereum teams in our ecosystem survey: ethlabs.org/writings/quick-s… --- Ok, what does CFI mean? This does not mean that the EIP is for sure included in Hegotá. This means that now it will be considered more seriously, including testing, towards inclusion in future devnets once headliners (FOCIL and frame transactions) are stable. In particular, the call today revealed the appetite for a phased approach, installing the plumbing which allows us to reduce the slot time in Ethereum clients, and deciding to pull the trigger based on further testing. Ultimately, this is how EIP-8198 is designed, so CFI'ing today allows us to move forward with more of the plumbing work, and start looking into testing towards an actual slot reduction from 12 to 10 seconds. This is a first reduction, as EIP-8198 opens the door for progressively lower slot times, as they get sufficiently safe to ship. In parallel, as discussed on the call too, we are continuing our ecosystem survey and outreach of deployed smart contracts with a slot time dependency. We have reached out to more teams on this. --- Faster slots are one important dimension of our Faster Ethereum body of work. A more responsive network helps cement its role as a liquidity hub and as the heartbeat of the network as a whole. Along with our work on fast finality, fast confirmation rule and fast interop, it all combines for a seamless and secure flow of assets everywhere on the network. Thank you to the many builders who are taking us there!

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

We are now one step closer to a Faster Ethereum L1.

Update: One step closer to a faster Ethereum L1. Quick slots just moved to Considered for Inclusion (CFI) in today's All Core Devs call! This is a new milestone for our proposal to make Ethereum blocks faster 🎉 Btw.. Faster blocks => - Better UX - Better markets - Faster finality and fast confirmation rule - And improved censorship-resistance too! TLDR: More value for the network, its users, and ETH, without compromising on the core values and properties of Ethereum. Hear this from 20 top Ethereum teams in our ecosystem survey: ethlabs.org/writings/quick-s… --- Ok, what does CFI mean? This does not mean that the EIP is for sure included in Hegotá. This means that now it will be considered more seriously, including testing, towards inclusion in future devnets once headliners (FOCIL and frame transactions) are stable. In particular, the call today revealed the appetite for a phased approach, installing the plumbing which allows us to reduce the slot time in Ethereum clients, and deciding to pull the trigger based on further testing. Ultimately, this is how EIP-8198 is designed, so CFI'ing today allows us to move forward with more of the plumbing work, and start looking into testing towards an actual slot reduction from 12 to 10 seconds. This is a first reduction, as EIP-8198 opens the door for progressively lower slot times, as they get sufficiently safe to ship. In parallel, as discussed on the call too, we are continuing our ecosystem survey and outreach of deployed smart contracts with a slot time dependency. We have reached out to more teams on this. --- Faster slots are one important dimension of our Faster Ethereum body of work. A more responsive network helps cement its role as a liquidity hub and as the heartbeat of the network as a whole. Along with our work on fast finality, fast confirmation rule and fast interop, it all combines for a seamless and secure flow of assets everywhere on the network. Thank you to the many builders who are taking us there!

We are now one step closer to a Faster Ethereum L1.

Update: One step closer to a faster Ethereum L1. Quick slots just moved to Considered for Inclusion (CFI) in today's All Core Devs call! This is a new milestone for our proposal to make Ethereum blocks faster 🎉 Btw.. Faster blocks => - Better UX - Better markets - Faster finality and fast confirmation rule - And improved censorship-resistance too! TLDR: More value for the network, its users, and ETH, without compromising on the core values and properties of Ethereum. Hear this from 20 top Ethereum teams in our ecosystem survey: ethlabs.org/writings/quick-s… --- Ok, what does CFI mean? This does not mean that the EIP is for sure included in Hegotá. This means that now it will be considered more seriously, including testing, towards inclusion in future devnets once headliners (FOCIL and frame transactions) are stable. In particular, the call today revealed the appetite for a phased approach, installing the plumbing which allows us to reduce the slot time in Ethereum clients, and deciding to pull the trigger based on further testing. Ultimately, this is how EIP-8198 is designed, so CFI'ing today allows us to move forward with more of the plumbing work, and start looking into testing towards an actual slot reduction from 12 to 10 seconds. This is a first reduction, as EIP-8198 opens the door for progressively lower slot times, as they get sufficiently safe to ship. In parallel, as discussed on the call too, we are continuing our ecosystem survey and outreach of deployed smart contracts with a slot time dependency. We have reached out to more teams on this. --- Faster slots are one important dimension of our Faster Ethereum body of work. A more responsive network helps cement its role as a liquidity hub and as the heartbeat of the network as a whole. Along with our work on fast finality, fast confirmation rule and fast interop, it all combines for a seamless and secure flow of assets everywhere on the network. Thank you to the many builders who are taking us there!

The cryptographic world computer: vitalik.eth.limo/general/202… My attempt to express in somewhat concise terms the true meaning of basically everything planned to happen to Ethereum starting from the fork after Hegota. It's really not just a blockchain anymore. It's a hybrid architecture that combines together blockchains and modern cryptography, to enable much more powerful properties. FOCIL, EIP-8288, Lean consensus, state management, formal verification, advanced mempool improvements (including privacy), and the longer-term specter of obfuscation all mentioned.

This was the first project I worked on after joining Ethlabs and I’m so excited to see it go live! We worked with @chainlink to roll out FCR — the Fast Confirmation Rule — to CCIP 2.0. Now, transfers and asset issuance originating from Ethereum can enjoy 30x faster confirmation, down from 14 minutes to 24 seconds. Once again we’ve cemented Ethereum special place as the best home for assets 🫡 Special shoutout to Lighthouse (@sigp_io) for being the first consensus client to ship FCR, and to @prylabs and @Teku_Consensys for working around the clock to ship FCR to meet Chainlink’s deadline. Together all three clients power the new CCIP. It’s beautiful when clients and the industry work together!

The eth ecosystem has been absolutely cooking and this latest @ethlabs_org release is one of the best market structure upgrades I’ve seen in a while, I really love this kind of stuff because a change at the infra layer can completely change the economics one layer above it and FCR brings in some massive changes. A ton of DeFi infrastructure was basically built around the constraint that eth confirmations are slow and by significantly reducing that waiting time a lot of the assumptions around those previous constraints change too especially how liquidity has to be positioned. For example let’s say usdc borrowing on an L2 spikes to 12% while mainnet is sitting at 4%, you’d assume capital should move over and arb the difference pretty quickly, except capital can’t teleport. So you end up either waiting for it to move across or someone who already has money sitting there fronts the liquidity and settles everything afterwards which has been a moat for big market makers or firms that can afford to have millions across mainnet and L2s. Now the thing is with FCR, capital on mainnet can become usable somewhere else in seconds so the same dollar can be turned over much faster + smaller arbs become worthwhile and you don’t need as much capital sitting around doing nothing to support the same amount of flow. We also usually assume fragmented liquidity is purely a function of assets sitting on different chains or inside different pools, but some of that fragmentation is literally just time. The money exists, it just isn’t where you need it when you need it. This release helps change that, now I’m not saying that the entire ethereum ecosystem is going to magically become one giant pool, but from a financial standpoint all the different markets across the ecosystem should start pricing much more like connected venues instead of isolated pools. Like I mentioned earlier crosschain execution is basically someone saying “I already have money where you need it, I’ll pay you now and settle it later.” That someone is the solvers, now we will obviously still need them, but if capital can move much faster, warehousing inventory/capital everywhere becomes less of a moat and pricing and execution matter more which is great for users. Also because part of the fragmentation problem is literally just time, stablecoins and RWAs benefit massively because you can start separating where an asset is issued from where it actually gets used. You don’t necessarily need a bunch of liquidity sitting on every chain just because users want to transact there, issuance and redemption can stay on mainnet while the asset moves out to whichever venue needs it. The biggest thing for me though is when you look at FCR in the context of Vitalik’s world computer thesis, because then this isn’t just about liquidity moving around the ethereum ecosystem. As more external systems use ethereum as the place where state gets verified even when execution happens somewhere else, there’s naturally more reason for liquidity to sit close to that state too. FCR makes that liquidity much more useful because once something is verified on ethereum you can act on it almost immediately rather than waiting around for finality. Basically proof demand creates liquidity demand too and FCR amplifies the usefulness of that liquidity, but that’s probably a point for another day. It’s simple but kind of crazy at the same time, eth is going to be where the world proves what happened even when execution happens somewhere else and FCR means that state can be acted on very quickly giving liquidity even more of a reason to live on eth.

This tweet is already bullish, and I want to add some nuance because the way I see it there is something even subtler and more awesome about it Yes, pushing computation “offchain” with the computation committed to and proven succinctly onchain is awesome because it saves a ton of work to the network and allows for super light nodes. That’s a cryptographic world bulletin board, but not quite a computer imo Indeed, a world computer should also be the main owner of its state. You can keep state offchain, meaning that contention resolves out of band from the ethereum network. This is not necessarily something we want however, because the state of ethereum, its liquidity, its accessibility, is a huge part of why ethereum enjoys such massive network effects. When a liquidation is meant to resolve, I don’t want it to resolve on Aave’s server, with a brittle API governing access to the pool’s state and its updates. I want the ability to learn the state of the pool by looking at the chain, and the ability to act upon that state unmediated by sending a transaction that I know will be included given ethereum’s peerless censorship-resistance and that I know will execute given ethereum’s 100% uptime. This still leaves room for a lot of presettlement infra stitching things together, but it’s much stronger than ethereum being a “simple” checkpoint for what’s happening outside of a limited view of the world state. Composability is the superpower of blockchains, and the more granular and accessible state is onchain, the more permissionless it becomes to compose and innovate. The vision of ethlabs as I’d put it is to have the best state for the L1 as liquidity hub and the most secure place to hold and mint assets from, with L2s spawning differentiated state neighbourhoods that both leverage and reinforce L1’s, bringing new users, more liquidity and growing the onchain economy by eating the offchain one. That’s what we mean when we say ethereum becoming the root of the global economy. For this we need scale, speed and security. We’ll be pushing hard on those!

Today, Ethereum market infrastructure became ~30x faster.

Succinct is now offering ZK verification to @Chainlink CCIP 2.0 users.

Feels like @ethlabs_org is at the start of a generational heater run 🔥

This was the first project I worked on after joining Ethlabs and I’m so excited to see it go live! We worked with @chainlink to roll out FCR — the Fast Confirmation Rule — to CCIP 2.0. Now, transfers and asset issuance originating from Ethereum can enjoy 30x faster confirmation, down from 14 minutes to 24 seconds. Once again we’ve cemented Ethereum special place as the best home for assets 🫡 Special shoutout to Lighthouse (@sigp_io) for being the first consensus client to ship FCR, and to @prylabs and @Teku_Consensys for working around the clock to ship FCR to meet Chainlink’s deadline. Together all three clients power the new CCIP. It’s beautiful when clients and the industry work together!

you can now bridge your assets back to ethereum faster than ever