Author: Sophia Brown

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 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.…

The feature applies to more than 150 perpetual futures markets available to European users. The exchange operates under MiCA and MiFID II regulations, with oversight from Ireland and Cyprus. Kraken’s third-quarter revenue rose by 50% to $648 million following its acquisition of NinjaTrader. Kraken has expanded its regulated derivatives offering in the European Union, allowing traders to use Bitcoin, Ethereum, and approved stablecoins as collateral for perpetual futures on Kraken Pro. Announced on 3 November, the move makes Kraken one of the first licensed exchanges in Europe to support crypto-collateralised derivatives under the Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) framework. The feature…

Ethereum exchange supply hit multi-month lows, indicating substantial accumulation. Solana price weakens as bears threaten a move below $163 – $165. ZEC lost 25% the past 24 hours after robust gains over the previous few sessions. Cryptocurrencies displayed mixed performances on Tuesday, with most tokens losing momentum after yesterday’s gains. The value of all digital tokens lost 2% the last 24 hours to $3.51 trillion as Bitcoin hovered at $104,340. This article evaluates the current altcoin landscape by analyzing Ethereum, Solana, and Zcash. Ethereum exchange supply hits record lows The second-largest cryptocurrency exhibits a bullish catalyst amidst broader market sluggishness.…

The company will issue 3.5 million STRE shares, each priced at €100 ($115). Investors will receive a 10% annual dividend, paid quarterly beginning 31 December. Strategy currently holds 641,205 BTC, valued at approximately $47.49 billion. Strategy, the crypto treasury company known for its methodical accumulation of Bitcoin, has unveiled plans for a euro-denominated perpetual stock under the ticker STRE. The initial public offering (IPO) signals a refined integration of traditional capital markets with the Bitcoin economy. Strategy’s latest move extends its long-term model of raising capital through equity and debt to expand its Bitcoin reserves, consolidating its position as the…

In June, we introduced Protocol, reorganizing the Ethereum Foundation’s research & development teams to better align on our current strategic goals, Scale L1, Scale Blobs, and Improve UX without compromising on our commitment to Ethereum’s security and hardness. Over the coming weeks, we’ll publish updates on each work stream, covering their ongoing progress, new initiatives, open questions and opportunities for collaboration. We start today with Scale L1 — expect follow-ups about Scale Blobs and Improve UX soon! TL;DR Marius van der Wijden joined Ansgar Dietrichs and Tim Beiko to co-lead Scale L1Mainnet’s gas limit increased to 45M post-Berlinterop, a first…

Since January 2019, the Ethereum Foundation has held a tradition of engaging directly with the community through our “Ask Us Anything” (AMA) series on Reddit, occurring roughly every six months. These AMAs, previously hosted by the EF Research team, have provided a forum for deep dives into the protocol’s evolving landscape, direct Q&A with core contributors, and a transparent look into the ongoing work shaping Ethereum. We are excited to announce the continuation of this tradition. The next AMA will be hosted by the EF Protocol cluster teams, reflecting the evolution of our organizational structure. While “EF Research” accurately described…

Since announcing the Trillion Dollar Security project, we have surveyed the ecosystem to understand which improvements are highest priority to every layer of the Ethereum stack and community. Now it is time to begin the next phase of this initiative: acting on the highest priority issues we face. For this first wave of actions, we will mostly focus on UX issues. Our research showed these to be the most urgent issues facing both individual and institutional users of Ethereum and Ethereum-based applications. During this first wave we will kick off a range of work targeting crucial areas in UX security.…

Following up from Protocol Update 001, we’d like to introduce our approach to blob scaling. The L1 serves as a robust foundation for L2 systems to scale Ethereum, and a necessary component of secure L2 solutions is data availability provided by the L1. Data availability ensures that updates L2s make back to the L1 can be verified by anyone. Blobs are the unit of data availability in the protocol today, so scaling the blob count per block is a key requirement to usher in a wave of L2 adoption for use cases like real-time payments, DeFi, social media, gaming, and…

A few months ago, we announced a renewed focus of Protocol on three strategic initiatives: Scale L1, Scale blobs, Improve UX. Following previous updates on Scale L1 and Scale blobs, this note relates to our “Improve UX” track, and its mission: Seamless, secure and permissionless experience across the Ethereum ecosystem, for individuals and institutions. We see interoperability, and related projects presented in this note, as the highest leverage opportunity within the broader UX domain over the next 6-12 months, in our position as a public, core Ethereum R&D group. The near-term strategy focuses on areas we believe will continue to…