Author: Sophia Brown
Community & educationCal Hacks 12.0Collegiate hackathon organized at the University of California, Berkeley covering themes such as AI and web3.Community & educationDestino DevconnectGrants round focused on supporting community-led events and initiatives that help bring Argentina and the broader Latin America region onchain.Community & educationETH Latam Hackathon Brasil 2025ETHSambaHackathon hosted in São Paulo, Brazil prioritizing real-world Ethereum and onboarding new builders.EmailCommunity & educationFunding the Commons: Buenos Aires 2025Conference hosted in Buenos Aires, Argentina revolving around RealFi: financial infrastructure designed for real-world coordination, access, and public goods funding.Community & educationHigh Assurance Crypto Software (HACS) Workshop 2026Workshop organized in Taipei, Taiwan bringing together…
Starting with the upcoming Fusaka hard fork, EIP-7825 introduces a per-transaction gas limit cap of 2²⁴ (≈ 16.78 million gas). This change is already live on Holesky and Sepolia, and will activate on mainnet with Fusaka. Developers and users who rely on very large transactions should verify that their contracts and transaction builders conform to the new cap. Background As Ethereum scales to higher block gas limits and prepares for parallel execution (e.g. EIP-7928 in Glamsterdam), the Fusaka fork introduces a per-transaction gas limit cap. Previously, a single transaction could consume the entire block gas limit (~45 million gas), creating…
Over the past few years, the Ethereum ecosystem has grown in depth, diversity, and maturity. Builders and communities worldwide have pushed the boundaries of what’s possible, creating new tools, protocols, and public goods that strengthen the network as a whole. As the ecosystem grows, our approach to supporting it must adapt as well. Today, we’re excited to share the next step in that journey: the Ecosystem Support Program’s (ESP) new grants program. This announcement builds on our earlier update, where we temporarily paused open grant applications to reassess our priorities and funding approach. During this time, we focused on designing…
In two weeks, we open the doors to the first-ever Ethereum World’s Fair at La Rural in Buenos Aires. This year isn’t about someday. It’s about now. On Ethereum today you can pay, play, vote, save, borrow, lend, and chat, all onchain — and at Devconnect you’ll experience that shift hands-on, IRL.Buenos Aires is the right backdrop for this moment: a city where crypto is part of daily life and where builders are ready to show what’s live. Below is your guide to what’s inside the fairgrounds, how to plan your week, and what to do before you arrive. Inside…
Fusaka follows this year’s Pectra upgrade, representing a major step forward in Ethereum’s scaling roadmap that improves L1 performance, increases blob throughput, and enhances user experience. The Fusaka network upgrade is scheduled to activate on the Ethereum mainnet at slot 13,164,544 (December 3, 2025, 21:49:11 UTC). Fusaka also introduces Blob Parameter Only (BPO) forks to safely scale blob throughput after PeerDAS activation. These are minimal, config-only upgrades that adjust the blob target/max and fee update fraction. See the activation table below for further details. The Fusaka mainnet client releases are listed below. Fusaka Overview Fusaka’s headlining feature is PeerDAS (Peer…
Ethereum’s weekly All Core Developer calls are a lot to keep up with, so this “Checkpoint” series aims for high-level updates roughly every 4-6 weeks, depending on what’s happening in core development. See the previous update here. If you enjoy reading core development updates, you may also be keen to learn that Forkcast now publishes call summaries, chats and transcripts for each All Core Devs call, usually available within a couple hours of the call. tl;dr: The Fusaka upgrade is nearly out the door, Glamsterdam is ramping up, with its major features in implementation and minor features being decided on.…
Disclaimer: The following blog is a proposal from the Account Abstraction team. Content may not imply consensus views, and the EF is a broad organization that includes a healthy diversity of opinion across Protocol and beyond that together strengthen Ethereum. Since the early days of Ethereum, the promise has always been bold: a global, permissionless, censorship-resistant computing platform. Today, that promise is more alive than ever. Ethereum has scaled through rollups, where blockspace is abundant and transactions are cheap. The challenge now is not just throughput, but seamless user experience across that multichain horizon. What if all the L2s felt…
Ethereum’s All Core Developer calls are a lot to keep up with, so this “Checkpoint” series aims for high-level updates roughly every 4-8 weeks, depending on what’s happening in core development. See the previous update here. If you enjoy reading core development updates, you may also be keen to learn that Forkcast now publishes call summaries, chats and transcripts for each All Core Dev (ACD) call and some breakout calls, usually available within a couple hours of the call. tl;dr: The Fusaka upgrade shipped alongside the ability to adjust blob parameters independently from fork cycles. The next upgrade, Glamsterdam, is…
Funds were split between two wallets holding $3.3 million and $880,000. The exploit involved MEV-linked addresses and preemptive transaction timing. MakinaFi has not released a technical statement or mitigation plan. A major crypto breach has struck MakinaFi, draining millions in Ethereum from the decentralised finance platform. The incident resulted in the loss of 1,299 ETH, valued at roughly $4.13 million at the time of the attack. PeckShieldAlert flagged the theft on X, where it traced the movement of the stolen assets across Ethereum wallets. The breach quickly gained traction online as blockchain analysts and on-chain trackers pieced together the flow…
Swap wETH to Mantle’s mETH from major chains in under 60 seconds. No traditional bridges, slippage, or complex onboarding steps required. Netting + rebalancing cuts liquidity fragmentation and operational costs. The blockchain industry’s liquidity fragmentation problem has a new solution. Everclear, the interoperability protocol formerly known as Connext, has launched cross-chain asset settlement on Mantle Network. The partnership will allow users to convert wrapped Ethereum (wETH) from major chains including Ethereum, Arbitrum, Base, and Polygon directly into Mantle’s mETH token in under 60 seconds. The integration bypasses traditional bridging entirely, marking a significant infrastructure breakthrough for decentralized finance adoption. The…