Many people have claimed that with AI-assisted bug finding, secure code (and hence trustless anything) will be impossible.
I have a much more optimistic take, and AI-assisted formal verification is a major part of the reason why:
https://t.co/0ceMBZ6uqj
Today, the Foundation’s Board released the EF Mandate.
This document, which was first intended for EF members, reaffirms the promise of Ethereum, and the role of EF within this ecosystem.
@QuangVDao@alxkzmn Thank you for bringing this up. It's true that the EC operations are not part of the proof and the verification is re-execution
The setup seems correct though, this comes from the usage of the Miden ECDSA precompile
@alexanderlee314@bobbinth
Ethereum Protocol Study Group for 2026 is finally announced!
Starting in less than a week, it took us a while to push out the announcement because we were preparing the biggest curriculum so far
https://t.co/IhmaB3wdy0
Good research is being done on lookup and permutation arguments. The connection to shuffle proofs seems under appreciated, so I wrote up a comparison.
@__zkhack__
@ralexstokes It's a fun project but you could do specific optimizations just for the given scenario. Blocks and challenges should be updated constantly
1/2 As of Q3 2025, the fastest client-side-feasible ZK-SNARK (@aztecnetwork's Barretenberg) is ~4x faster than the fastest *ZK* VM (@ligero_inc's Ligetron). The fastest non-ZK SNARK (@IrreducibleHW's Binius64) is ~36x faster than the fastest non-ZK VM (@KakarotZkEvm's Cairo-M).
Hello Fusaka🥳 Great job to everyone who pushed hard to make the fork happen in 2025, and for making it a successful one. Proud of the work we've achieved together. The road to Fusaka was long and bumpy, but we got here!🦓
"Ironically, the more Ethereum optimizes for efficiency, the stronger its pull toward centralization."
"Rather than paying for global storage or subsidizing full nodes indefinitely, Ethereum could instead reward state-serving events"
Great second part on "The Future of State" by @CPerezz19
https://t.co/ZwvqPz7d0w
Target acquired: Happy to share our new Client-Side Proving dashboard — a collaboration with the amazing CSP team at @PrivacyEthereum
https://t.co/5aq5nhsz6z