ethPandaOps

🐼🌿 We're a bamboo-munching, crypto-loving team of pandas who've traded the forest for the Ethereum blockchain! We were born during #TestingTheMerge

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Get involved by running a node/validator, deploying contracts, testing your favourite dapps and interacting with the chain in all the ways you love! Break things now rather than on Mainnet :)

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Introducing the Platåberget testnet! Its our Glamsterdam focused testnet to help the community test all the upcoming changes. Please get involved with the testing efforts!

https://t.co/wsyOI8dLcT

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The Platåberget testnet is one of the last steps before we start deploying changes on long lived testnets and eventually Mainnet. So Glamsterdam is close!

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Checkout the results yourself on https://t.co/oIsHvUDr9c

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The new Deepseek V4 flash 0731 ranked highly on our ethiq leaderboard greatly improving on execution specs +17 and consensus-specs +15 questions over the previous checkpoint.

We self hosted the model with thinking set to Max.

It even beat out Claude Opus 5 due to refusals.

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We've learned some lessons along the way. This one is a must read for anyone seriously using agents (even outside of Ethereum!)

https://t.co/JDCoXUMEEz

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We built Panda, a CLI/MCP tool that lets agents work directly with our observability data.

We found that if you give the agent a code sandbox and a library for your stack, things start to click together very nicely.

Post below 👇

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https://t.co/orOMrB4DMq

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Claude Opus 4.8 takes the top spot on EthIQ with a score of 88%!

[Claude @claudeai]

Introducing Claude Opus 4.8: it builds on Opus 4.7 with sharper judgment, more honesty about its own progress, and the ability to work independently for longer than its predecessors.

Available today at the same price.

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https://t.co/Qh16IE4H2H

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We built a simulator for the fast confirmation rule, and replayed a years worth of blocks and attestations on Mainnet.

Across 800,000 mainnet slots, roughly 96 out of every 100 slots would have been fast-confirmed within 12 seconds.

Zero false confirmations.

Read more below!

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Read: https://t.co/6yKI2RDg6f

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New in The Lab: Validator Report.

Paste validator indices, pick a range, scan performance, and drill from day -> hour -> slot to find exactly what happened.

Catch missed proposals and head-vote drops faster.

[Earth @earthcurated]

Today is National Panda Day.

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Read the blog post for all the details here: https://t.co/UYz2k91Wy5

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It turns out some AI models can step through EVM bytecode in their head.

We built EthIQ, a new benchmark to test how well models actually understand Ethereum protocol internals.

325 questions across two evaluation modes, and one alive canary 🐦

Read more 👇

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We tested 44+ models across EVM execution, consensus state transitions, fork choice, and more. Anti-memorization is baked in. Inputs are mutated from the official spec fixtures so training data is ruled out.
The results were... surprising.

Check it out: https://t.co/oIsHvUDYYK