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[Pau 🏴‍☠️ @wildp4u]

Today, almost 100k educators in Catalunya are deciding what happens next with the education strikes. And the vote is running on @vocdoni.

This is precisely why we build open-source voting tech; this is how we democratize access to secure voting.

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[vitalik.eth @VitalikButerin]

2026 is the year that we take back lost ground in terms of self-sovereignty and trustlessness.

Some of what this practically means:

Full nodes: thanks to ZK-EVM and BAL, it will once again become easier to locally run a node and verify the Ethereum chain on your own computer.

Helios: actually verify the data you're receiving from RPCs instead of blindly trusting it.

ORAM, PIR: ask for data from RPCs without revealing which data you're asking, so you can access dapps without your access patterns being sold off to dozens of third parties all around the world.

Social recovery wallets and timelocks: wallets that don't make you lose all your money if you misplace your seedphrase, or if an online or offline attacker extracts your seedphrase, and *also* don't make all your money backdoored by Google.

Privacy UX: make private payments from your wallet, with the same user experience as making public payments.

Privacy censorship resistance: private payments with the ERC-4337 mempool, and soon native AA + FOCIL, without relying on the public broadcaster ecosystem.

Application UIs: use more dapps from an onchain UI with IPFS, without relying on trusted servers that would lock you our of practical recovery of your assets if they went offline, and would give you a hijacked UI that steals your funds if they get hacked for even a millisecond.

In many of these areas, over the last ten years we have seen serious backsliding in Ethereum. Nodes went from easy to run to hard to run. Dapps went from static pages to complicated behemoths that leak all your data to a dozen servers. Wallets went from routing everything through the RPC, which could be any node of your choice including on your own computer, to leaking your data to a dozen servers of their choice. Block building became more centralized, putting Ethereum transaction inclusion guarantees under the whims of a very small number of builders.

In 2026, no longer. Every compromise of values that Ethereum has made up to this point - every moment where you might have been thinking, is it really worth diluting ourselves so much in the name of mainstream adoption - we are making that compromise no longer.

It will be a long road. We will not get everything we want in the next Kohaku release, or the next hard fork, or the hard fork after that. But it will make Ethereum into an ecosystem that deserves not only its current place in the universe, but a much greater one.

In the world computer, there is no centralized overlord.
There is no single point of failure.
There is only love.
Milady.

[Fate meh @Fatalmeh]

This case is being tried right now in the southern district of New York

Two MIT graduate brothers, mega nerds, spent months researching and looking deep into ethereum's governance process to find the way to approve two blocks at once (equivocate) to sandwich a sandwich bot

[Jordi Baylina - baylina.eth @jbaylina]

One year ago, I was talking in devcon about proving Ethereum in real time. https://t.co/BQ5pkieZTd
Today it's happening.
Thank you to all the @ziskvm devs for this year of hard work.
This will change the way we understand blockchains.

[Patrick Breyer #JoinMastodon @echo_pbreyer]

🇬🇧👍Estonia won't be approving #ChatControl either.
👎But Germany's vote on Oct. 14th is still up in the air, risk of a dangerous coalition compromise.
💪28 days left to increase the pressure on your government and defend digital privacy and security: https://t.co/vmOjnucT9i

[Xnet - Instituto para Digitalización Democrática @X_net_]

🚨 Pegasus for everyone
The EU is pushing for the return of #ChatControl, the proposal for automated monitoring of our private conversations.

✍️ Today @X_net_’s Simona Levi & Sergio Salgado publish in @diariARA @ara_cat @ARAopinio

🔗 https://t.co/SveJPLy27D

[Fede’s intern 🥊 @fede_intern]

I decided to donate $500K to @rstormsf’s legal defense. Originally, we planned to give $50K, but after what happened to me, I need to take a clear position so everyone understands what @class_lambda stands for.

I understand that the @ethereumfndn will be matching donations up to another $500K for Roman Storm’s defense, which means our contribution can have double the impact. Our team is currently moving money to execute the transaction. It should be done in the next few hours. I'm going to sleep after not sleeping for the last 48 hours.

Open source and decentralization are not just philosophical ideals. They are practical necessities for building crypto. Success in this space comes from building in the open, onboarding others, and creating movements that grow beyond the original project. That is often hard to explain to people who do not share this ethos, because we are not optimizing for the same outcomes.

Our mission is to help build the highways of the new internet in sustainable ways. Economic sustainability is one part of that, but not the only one. We also exist to counterbalance the natural pull toward centralization, a side effect of pure optimization. Centralization is easier and cheaper in the short run. If our only goal were to make money, there are far simpler ways to do it. But money, to us, is just a tool to reach our goals.

Roman’s legal defense matters because builders everywhere need to know they can push innovation forward and that the community will stand behind them when they do. The West became powerful because it embraced freedom and its innovators. Progress came from protecting those who challenged the status quo and building systems that allowed their ideas to scale. When we stop defending our innovators, we stop building the future.

The community can contribute to @rstormsf's legal defense here:
https://t.co/FTckcvB6B2

[Editorial Flâneur @info_flaneur]

Enguany fa vuitanta anys que la bomba atòmica Little Boy fou llançada sobre Hiroshima, arrasant 1,6 quilòmetres a la rodona del punt d’impacte. De resultes de l'explosió moriren 130.000 persones. La cúpula de Genbaku, avui convertida en Memorial de la Pau, va resistir l’explosió.

[Roman Storm 🇺🇸 🌪️ @rstormsf]

I just want to say a huge, heartfelt THANK YOU to the amazing Ethereum Foundation for their incredible $500K donation to my legal defense—and for matching up to $750K from the community! 🙌 Your support means the world to me, especially standing up for privacy and the right to code. I’m so grateful to everyone chipping in—your generosity is truly inspiring! Thanks from the bottom of my heart! 💙

[Roman Storm 🇺🇸 🌪️ @rstormsf]

With only 42 days until my trial, it’s getting very real. I’m reaching out again for your support and apologize for asking repeatedly—I never expected this challenge. Please consider donating to my legal defense fund to help me through this fight.
https://t.co/J2xB3bePSF

#DefendRomanStorm

[vitalik.eth @VitalikButerin]

My own current privacy roadmap (much lighter on L1 changes, but also more limited in its consequences): https://t.co/gBtRAC4Ou7

Highly encourage people to read both!

[Adrià 🌖 @adria0]

Time to move forward

[harryhalpin @harryhalpin]

Awesome! Welcome home Virgil Griffith!!

For those that don’t know, Virgil, an ex-Tor developer, has long been a champion of privacy and censorship-resistance … and was the largest supporter of @nymproject at Ethereum Foundation.

[Ross Ulbricht @RealRossU]

I was just told that @eBay is aware of this, but is choosing to not do anything about it. First time I have felt discriminated against since going free.

Gee, maybe I should start my own ecommerce website. What'll I call it...?

[Roman Storm 🇺🇸 🌪️ @rstormsf]

Today marks a huge victory for privacy, open source technology, and immutable, permissionless smart contracts. The U.S. Treasury Department has lifted the sanctions on https://t.co/uPuZ7wR86l and the TORN token: https://t.co/aakbYenuab

A heartfelt thank you to everyone who supported and tirelessly fought for this cause. The list is extensive, and this achievement belongs to all of us.

Although Treasury's decision sets crucial precedent, the SDNY prosecutors still haven't dropped their case against me. So while we have won a big battle, the war is far from over. I look forward to the community’s continued support as I head to trial and my legal team seeks a dismissal from the judge or acquittal by the jury.

[Ethereum Foundation @ethereumfndn]

The EF is donating $1.25M to the legal defense of Alexey Pertsev.

Privacy is normal, and writing code is not a crime.

You can contribute to @alex_pertsev's defense here: https://t.co/shWFNoDJ9g

[Alexey Pertsev @alex_pertsev]

Freedom is priceless, but my freedom cost a lot of money. My house arrest was only possible thanks to the work of lawyers, who were paid from your donations. My fight is not over yet and for a final and confident victory I still need your help. Please support our fight here ➡️https://t.co/rldCWqG7EG
#FreedomToCode

[Diario @cryptodiario]

In a long enough timeframe, everything ultimately comes down to the idea of building the best form of internet-native money, as Justin puts it.

Over 15 years of L1 wars, only two variations of this theme have emerged—BTC and ETH—representing two distinct approaches...

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[vitalik.eth @VitalikButerin]

Scaling Ethereum L1 and L2s in 2025 and beyond

https://t.co/T36dnaEYXj

[McKenna @Crypto_McKenna]

Summary on Ethereum roadmap:

- Heavy focus on data availability moving from 3 blobs per slot to 128 blobs per slot to support L2s.

- L2s should focus on becoming Stage 2 rollups w/ multiple proving systems for increased security.

- Define a concrete Interop Standard for L2<>L2 communication.

- The first mention in a long long time on ETH value accrual (very important signal). Focusing on the Triple point asset thesis (capital asset, SoV, consumable).

- Have L2s utilise % of fees to a burning of ETH or staking ETH permentanly. If L2s are ETH aligned they will certainly do this atleast major ones like Optimism, Arbitrum and Base.

Rollup-centric roadmap isn't going anywhere and this is a double down (largely agree this is correct). Primary focus is on DA and ETH value accrue in a world where ETH hosts 100s of rollups.