Josh King

Ethereum consensus and AI security research @sigp_io

[chompie @chompie1337]

apparently hot take? : normalize deterministic toolsets before integrating AI unnecessarily

[Sigma Prime @sigp_io]

It's been a pleasure working with the researchers starting @ethlabs_org. Great to see they are remaining in the Ethereum ecosystem. Looking forward to continuing to work together!

[sproul @sproulM_]

Up to 40% of my LH peers haven't updated to 8.1.3, if that's you, please update to 8.2.0.

In the new LLM era, there are vulns coming in like crazy and we need everyone to keep their nodes up to date!

[ansgar.eth @adietrichs]

I'm incredibly excited to share that we are launching Ethlabs.

The core belief: This is a unique moment for Ethereum. Adoption is here, the global economy is moving onchain.

We want to help Ethereum realize its potential and become the shared global settlement layer.

[Ethlabs @ethlabs_org]

Announcing Ethlabs: a non-profit R&D lab for Ethereum and ETH

Our mission is to make Ethereum the settlement layer of the global economy.

The internet became global because shared protocols created a common language between networks. Private systems remained useful, but bounded. Finance is approaching a similar moment. As value, assets, and markets become digital, the world needs shared settlement infrastructure.

Ethereum is uniquely positioned to become that shared base layer, the neutral foundation on which users, institutions, and agents can transact without intermediation.

What we believe:

• We believe credible neutrality matters. Ten years of uptime and the lowest counterparty risk. Ground that cannot be pulled away by any one country, institution, company, or person.

• We believe ETH matters. The most valuable, programmable store of value. A decade of broad distribution, deep liquidity in onchain markets, and maximally trustless asset on Ethereum.

• We believe DeFi matters. Markets, liquidity, credit, exchange, and coordination, open to anyone.

• We believe adoption matters. Principles do not change the world until people benefit from them.

We sit between two worlds: real usage from the builders at the frontier, and the protocol that has to support it. We work with users, applications, wallets, L2s, infrastructure teams, institutions, ETH holders, core devs and researchers, then turn what they actually need into protocol work, shared standards, infrastructure, and shipped products.

Ethlabs is independent but Ethereum is a shared project. We are one node in a much larger network of stewards. This is the multi-node future.

We have spent the better part of the past decade contributing to Ethereum core research and development.

We are opinionated and transparent. We move with urgency, learn in public, and course-correct when we’re wrong.

We are building a lean, talent-dense team for people who want to do the most important work of their careers: [email protected]

[Sigma Prime @sigp_io]

The Go language looks simple until you're auditing it.

Nil maps that panic, slices that share memory, and loops that lie to your tests.

Here's what trips up even experienced devs: https://t.co/fD6jPZp6k6

[Josh King @__kingy]

@logangraham Hi Logan, are these cybersecurity blocks on Fable stronger than previous releases? I'm running automated vulnerability find/patch harnesses using a mix of sonnet/opus 4.x. Would love to do some evals with Fable in this context.

[Sigma Prime @sigp_io]

Over the past year, we’ve been helping shape the @_SEAL_Org Certification Framework, and we’re now undergoing accreditation as a SEAL Certification Assessor ourselves 🦭

The certifications focus on operational security, incident response, treasury operations, infrastructure, and access management.

If you’re interested in certification for your protocol, you can join the waitlist here: https://t.co/e3s9uDnpY0

[Josh King @__kingy]

@logangraham Are you concerned at all about open source being able to scale and ship fixes at rates like this?

[Ethereum @ethereum]

Last week, Ethereum core contributors gathered in Svalbard for the Soldøgn interop: a week long event focused on hardening Glamsterdam implementations to scale Ethereum securely ☀️

Read the full recap, including their candidate post-fork gas limit, below: