we'd like to thank cloudflare for making sure everybody at the staking gathering was maximally engaged this morning
come visit our booths and irrational actors both!
Fusaka-devnet-5 has been live for the last week and we've been spending our days bugfixing and trying to arrive at a blob count for the upgrade. Read the thread for more! 🧵 (1/6)
happy anniversary of merged ethereum! 🥳
three years ago today, ethereum's consensus mechanism was switched out mid-flight & brought on a wave of staking & reduced energy consumption by >99%
still one of the most fun livestreams i've participated in:
https://t.co/1v4BOKmZH9
Good things happening for stakers with 2TB disks via history expiry.
@nethermind 1.33 (soon) can expire without resync, and can do rolling expiry where it only keeps one year. Caveat that rolling expiry messes with you if you need receipts - looking at you @RocketPool_Fi
It’s trade offs all the way down in crypto land. Geth moved to path based state which greatly helped with disk space growth; but as Nitro finds, that has performance implications.
Nethermind went Half-Path for better performance and some of the disk space growth savings.
The 2025 Staking Survey results are live!
We received 740 total responses from stakers of all types including solo stakers, liquid protocol operators, professional operators, LST holders, Staking-as-a-Service (SaaS) users, and exited stakers.
Responses cover rewards, issuance, centralization concerns, protocol risk, hardware, bandwidth, Pectra Type 2 validator adoption, and more, with new comparisons shown to 2024 data where relevant.
Check out highlights and read the full report ↓
Pectra finalized! 🎉✔️
Thanks to everyone for joining the livestreamed watch party and don't forget to collect your POAPs to mark this moment.
Congratulations to @Xofee3 for winning the community art contest! The winning art has been included in the commemorative POAP mints.
For the POAPs you have two options:
1) To get the standard Pectra POAP and the community art POAP, send at least 0.005 ETH to poap.ethstaker.eth and you'll receive both.
2) To get the special supporter animated Pectra POAP along with the other two and etch your name onchain in Ethereum's history, send at least 0.05 ETH to poap.ethstaker.eth and you'll receive all three.
These POAPs are all powered by and minted on @arbitrum!
All funds received help EthStaker in our nonprofit mission to support the health and decentralization of Ethereum and its staking ecosystem.
Get the full instructions and see the cool animations at https://t.co/eHcz7aLgR3 and here ↓
The 2025 Ethereum Staking Survey is now live! 📣
All are called to respond here:
https://t.co/Z21MtNnV73
The survey collects a snapshot of the staking landscape and community sentiment. It also shows where advocacy efforts are making an impact or are needed.
Please note that most sensitive questions are optional, so you can leave them blank if you prefer.