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[EthStaker 🦇🔊 @ethStaker]

The 2026 EthStaker staking survey results are out!

528 stakers told us how they run their validators and what they are worried about, and we analyzed that across the last 3 years of surveys.

Link to full analysis with charts in the next tweet and more in thread. ↓

[oisin.eth | Obol @OisinKyne]

Correlated downtime penalties got their first update in ~2 years as they're considered for inclusion in Hegota! Tl;dr:

- This EIP increases downtime penalties temporarily if a large amount of the network goes offline together. The goal is to penalise all stake piling onto the same few operators and datacenters, which has become a significant issue over the last 5 years.

- The original design was a tiny blip of penalties, not enough to change behaviour, nor enough to justify the dev effort. Now the penalties can scale up to 128x from the baseline penalty.

- This is still pretty small in terms of your principal, but can set you back weeks or more of rewards if you stake in a centralised manner that has an extended outage. (Worst case is ~0.38% of principal per day if you and a third of the network are offline, which is more than a month of lost rewards)

- Focusing on the source + target vote ensures short term failures in block production won't trigger this penalty.

- This penalty caps at 33% of stake offline, after that, its the existing inactivity leak that punishes you further, (which has a lot more teeth!).

Check out some example payback times, and a new vs old graph to show why the update is needed.

Hopefully the Core Devs will include EIP-7716 in Hegota, and Ethereum can start to value its decentralisation rather than taking it for granted before its all gone. Ask your local core dev to SFI EIP-7716!

[EthStaker 🦇🔊 @ethStaker]

@Truckdriver146 you've been unbanned! sorry for the confusion

[ethrex @ethrex_client]

ethrex has been running in production on Ethereum mainnet for six months. Independent staking operators validate through it, and we wrote up what those months actually looked like.

The short version: @SerenitaIO, @Stakely_io, and @RockLogicGmbH (among Lido's curated operators) run ethrex alongside the other execution clients. @LeastAuthority audited the full stack, and every finding is addressed. Thirteen stable releases since January, weekly since May, and every upgrade is a drop-in restart with no resync.

The write-up also covers what a young client's first months really involve: getting shipped by eth-docker from @ethStaker, Stereum from @stereumdev, and @EthereumOnARM, getting marked stable on clientdiversity (.org), first interop as a participating client, and the parts that aren't solved yet. Market share is still minimal, some packagers lag a few versions behind, and a couple of integrations are still open PRs. Our conformance and Hive results stay public, whether they flatter us or not.

If you run validators and want a second (or fifth) execution client: ethrex syncs mainnet in about an hour and a half on 4-8 cores, 32 GB RAM, and a 1 TB NVMe.

Read the full story in our new blog post ⬇️

[Jonathan | jonathanmeyer.eth 🦇🔊 @jwmeyer]

we are live now in this @ethStaker community call about operationalizing ePBS in Glamsterdam

come watch in the youtube stream and ask any questions!

[terence @terencechain]

Glamsterdam devnet-7 is live. More progress on the road to testnet 🚢

On the CL side:
- EIP-7688 progressive containers
- Updated payload deadlines and builder lifecycle parameters

On the EL side:
- EIP-2780 and 8037 → state-dependent charges moved from intrinsic gas to runtime, with updated account-creation and calldata-floor accounting
- EIP-7928 and 8038 → BAL and SSTORE access-ordering fixes
- EIP-8282 → finalized builder deposit and exit contracts, limits, fees, and disable controls

Onward.

[Ben Edgington @benjaminion_xyz]

I know it's totally weird for core devs to talk to users, but I've only gone and done it.

Upgrading Finality 2: What the Ecosystem Told Us

Huge thanks to all who participated 🙏

https://t.co/PV1S0xWjGS

[EthStaker 🦇🔊 @ethStaker]

Livestream link:
https://t.co/zY8oxZDpZZ

[EthStaker 🦇🔊 @ethStaker]

Next week we'll have Community Call #70 about Operationalizing ePBS for Glamsterdam!

We'll hear from a variety of teams across the staking ecosystem (core devs, builders, protocols, guides) to share how ePBS is getting put into action for the upcoming Glamsterdam hard fork and answer any questions.

Join us live with Q&A:
Wednesday, July 22nd at 15:00 UTC

Link below

[EthStaker 🦇🔊 @ethStaker]

Livestream:
https://t.co/qPBcpGJICk

EIP-8148:
https://t.co/HUkEmnnmnl

[EthStaker 🦇🔊 @ethStaker]

We'll have @d_gusakov this week in Community Call #69 to talk about EIP-8148: a proposal for Custom Sweep Thresholds for Validators.

When: Wednesday July 8, 15:00 UTC

Join the YouTube livestream (link to follow) and ask any Q&A there!

[EthStaker 🦇🔊 @ethStaker]

@abcoathup @EtherealnewsHQ thanks for building that great site!

[abcoathup.eth @abcoathup]

Thanks to all the stakers who keep themselves up to date via @EtherealnewsHQ 🙏

[hanniabu.eth (Ξ, α) @hanni_abu]

Tracking of CL/EL client usage is critical for understanding network resilience, but there’s no reliable reporting solution.

I'm proposing a new 32 byte beacon block body data field that can track client usage and setup details with the ability to expand to monitoring zkCL proof diversity in the future.

https://t.co/qKXPVgNWst

[Ethereal news @EtherealnewsHQ]

Ethereal news weekly #30

🏦 @ethereumfndn Ethereum basics for governments & institutions
🌱 @ethereuminsti launched
🪶 @RobinhoodApp Robinhood Chain live

https://t.co/PEuaxdr3Tl

[Kaushal / liftlines @liftlines]

I am beyond thrilled to see the diversity in usage of various clients and, in particular, the growth in adoption of @ethnimbus among the staker community in the last two years!

It feels like we have come a long way. I honestly had no idea we’d see this kind of traction when we started engaging the community on Nimbus CL a few years ago.

Grateful to the community and kudos to the stakers for doing what is right for the network.

[Prysm Ethereum Client @prylabs]

Release v7.1.5 is now live!

This release is dominated by Gloas (ePBS) fork development, alongside broad performance and memory optimizations, additional Beacon API event and endpoint support, and a round of gossip-validation and concurrency hardening.

Operators can update at their convenience.

You can find the v7.1.5 release here:

https://t.co/wOzBlpCuQB

[EthStaker 🦇🔊 @ethStaker]

Full report:
https://t.co/89u3O5fDRz

Data is on GitHub:
https://t.co/nPBdmQAvbj

Everything is open sourced, so you can check our numbers or run your own analysis.

Many thanks to everyone who took time to participate!

[EthStaker 🦇🔊 @ethStaker]

The 2026 EthStaker staking survey results are out!

528 stakers told us how they run their validators and what they are worried about, and we analyzed that across the last 3 years of surveys.

Link to full analysis with charts in the next tweet and more in thread. ↓

[EthStaker 🦇🔊 @ethStaker]

New topics covered:
- AI in core development: 91% supportive, most with reservations
- Lean Ethereum: real interest, with conditions
- Taxes: 72% treat it as business or hobby income