Anders

"above average easier to take advantage of" - my pals, 2025

[Taylor Barr @taylorjbarr]

Some bittersweet news: after more than three years, I’m wrapping up my time @DigitalChamber and joining @Chainlink as Head of Policy.

I’m incredibly proud of what team TDC achieved together - from helping get the GENIUS Act signed into law and moving the Clarity Act forward, to securing 50 government speakers for the DC Blockchain Summit, and so many more wins.

I'll always be grateful to @CodyCarboneDC, @ZuneraMazhar, @PerianneDC and so many others for betting on me and giving me room to run. We pulled off the impossible and made memories I'll carry forever.

I’m closing this chapter with enormous gratitude for what we built and so much excitement for what’s next. I’m thrilled to be joining Chainlink Labs at a moment when global markets are moving onchain at lightning speed, Chainlink is building the infrastructure making that transition possible.

Immensely thankful to @SergeyNazarov, Ben Sherwin, @kkirkbos, Cedrick Dalluge, and the entire Chainlink team for their trust and I can’t wait to get to work.

Let’s keep building 🫡

[Rodrigo @RSSH273]

I've been thinking a lot about the regulatory considerations of vaults, so I put together this chart that has a high-level overview of how typical vaults are structured and the three core regulatory issues

Would be interested in feedback from the braintrust

[De @justde]

Cosmos eng team is being negligent AF.

dropped v0.7.2 on GitHub Aug 19 with one quiet line: “This release contains important security fixes. All chains should upgrade ASAP using a coordinated upgrade.”

No public advisory. No main-channel announcement.

The result? MANTRA, TAC, KiiChain, Nesa .... more getting hacked as we speak.

https://t.co/s7Fcx5tQKj

[Brandon Arvanaghi @brandon]

Tomorrow, I'm speaking with @DKerr_Cowrie on the CLARITY Act.

1. What it means, and what's going on in the market
2. What happens if it doesn't pass
3. Where the UNA came from, and how David and Miles built the DUNA on top of it

Tune in live tomorrow at 4p ET.

[Old Canada Series @oldcanadaseries]

212 years ago today, on August 24, 1814, forces from present-day Canada serving the British Empire burned the White House in retaliation for the American attack on York — now Toronto — during the War of 1812.

[ethresearchbot @ethresearchbot]

New EIP!

Post-quantum-ready deposit contract

🔗 https://t.co/AdhL9y9jAF

Highlights:
- Introduces a new validator deposit contract that supports variable-length `pubkey` and `credential_metadata` fields (each capped at 8192 bytes) plus an explicit `scheme` identifier; scheme 0 is reserved for today’s BLS deposits.
- Removes reliance on the legacy deposit contract’s Merkle tree / `deposit_data_root` approach by using log-derived execution requests carried to consensus via EIP-7685 (building on the post-EIP-6110 model).
- Defines irreversible contract modes controlled only by protocol system calls: deposits start disabled, then switch to BLS-enabled at `INITIAL_ACTIVATION_TIMESTAMP`, and later permanently retire BLS deposits at `BLS_RETIREMENT_TIMESTAMP` (BLS can’t be re-enabled).
- During a migration period, execution clients must combine deposits from both the legacy deposit contract and the new contract into a single ordered generalized request list; after activation they must stop emitting the old EIP-6110 deposit request type, and after retirement they must stop translating legacy deposit logs into requests.
- Consensus processing stays unchanged for BLS (it appends to `state.pending_deposits` per EIP-7251), while non-BLS/unassigned schemes are carried through the system but ignored by consensus initially—enabling forward compatibility for future post-quantum credential-scheme EIPs without changing the contract again.

ELI5:
Ethereum needs a new “staking deposit box” that can hold different kinds of validator keys, including future bigger keys that might be safer against quantum computers. This EIP makes a new deposit contract where you can put in a public key and extra key info of variable size, and you label what kind of key it is with a small “scheme” number. For now, scheme 0 means the current BLS keys. The contract mostly just records deposits as events, and the beacon chain later decides whether the credentials are valid. It also adds an on-chain one-way switch so Ethereum can permanently stop accepting new BLS deposits at a chosen time, pushing everyone to newer (post-quantum) credential types later.

[Mislav | Ethlabs @ox_shaman]

Some exciting news: I've officially joined the amazing team at @ethlabs_org.

After nearly a decade of building on and for Ethereum, joining a team dedicated to making it the settlement layer for all of global finance feels a bit like coming home!

I've written many times about my deep conviction that Ethereum is the digital equivalent of 15th-century Venice: a dependable, neutral trade hub for people all around the world.

A place for private banking clients and the unbanked. For billion-dollar institutions and broke college students making their first trade. A place for the west, a place for the east - and everything in-between.

Ethereum doesn't win because decentralization, transparency, and trustlessness are morally virtuous. It wins because a credibly neutral, censorship-resistant global ledger with over a decade of 100% uptime *is* the game theoretically optimal home of global finance - and capital always flows to where it's most efficiently deployed.

None of this means the work is over, or that Ethereum has some divine right to success. The vision becomes reality if and only if Ethereum scales to support these use cases.

Only if companies can effortlessly build L2s that inherit the security of the L1. Only if self-custody becomes easy to do and secure enough for every private account and company treasury. Only if transactions become private. Only if the chain supports all the features a healthy DeFi ecosystem needs.

And, most importantly - only if the chain scales to meet this demand.

Getting there will take work on the core protocol, the account layer, cross-chain interop, policy, developer tooling, and much more.

The ticker is ETH. Let's build!

[Lion ⟠ dapplion .eth @dapplion]

Just wrote an EIP to reduce ETH issuance by 3% by removing the sync committee

https://t.co/NnQ34v6Ouj

[dude.eth @defidude]

The last time I've been nerd-sniped so hard by something was when I discovered Ethereum in 2017.

The next time was when I began building @ratspeakorg, and each day is still more exciting than the last, even 6+ months later.

It'll be time to sleep when the work is finished. 🐀

[Irvin (in Japan 🇯🇵) @irvinxyz]

My supplier for custom humanoid robot parts btw 🇨🇳
Not sure the US can do better.

[Anders @andersavail]

@JSeyff mazda or the toyota depending on the extras/trim you're prioritizing. we should be so grateful that we are protected from being able to own the byds

[binji @binji_x]

at @ethlabs_org, we believe in strengthening the L1 & L2 relationship

[ben.gwei @unhappyben]

how confidential is @zama's confidential @Morpho vault?

not very, you can doxx ~98% of depositors, with amounts, address, timestamps, and even estimate their interest earned

[Anders @andersavail]

@ElizabethHolmes aren't you serving a 123-month (10.25 years) federal prison sentence at FPC Bryan in Texas

[Ethereum Foundation @ethereumfndn]

📢 We’re hiring at the Ethereum Foundation!

We’re looking for a Project Manager, Academic Engagements to help build and grow our work with universities, research institutions, and academic communities around the world.

If you enjoy bringing people together, turning ideas into programs, and working at the intersection of Ethereum and academia, we’d love to hear from you.

Apply here ↓
https://t.co/2lAk74pNY6

[accountless.eth @alexanderchopan]

casberi x safe

[Infinex @infinex]

https://t.co/HeWU5nJ2AB

[Phoenix @PhoenixTrade]

For the first time in Phoenix history traders lost money shorting Ethereum.

[Wyoming Stable Token Commission @wyostable]

NOTICE: The Wyoming Stable Token Commission has deprecated the LayerZero bridge (Stargate) & migrated the Frontier Stable Token (FRNT) to @Chainlink CCIP.

Going forward, bridging for FRNT will be available via https://t.co/xQR12Ox8en.

This decision follows a thorough review...

[goodalexander @goodalexander]

Government: you wanted regulatory clarity for crypto. Best I can do is anarcho capitalism for 2 years before you need to flee the country