Nesh

Former Software Engineer, now full time crypto.

[Ethereum @ethereum]

Ethereum is for shipping.

Here are 25 things the Ethereum ecosystem launched, upgraded, and announced over the past month.

0/ @thedaofund Ethereum Security Quadratic Funding Round with @Giveth wrapped. The fund supported 134 security projects and had 3,934 unique donors.

1/ @Ronin_Network, one of the largest gaming blockchains, completed its migration to an Ethereum L2.

2/ Clear Signing went live. It is an open standard designed to help end blind signing and make transaction data human-readable before signing. Contributors include wallets and hardware, infrastructure, tooling, individual builders, and the Ethereum Foundation’s Trillion Dollar Security initiative, with the @ethereumfndn acting as a neutral steward.

3/ @SEAL_911 and @Wonderland_Fi introduced DARC, a Digital Asset Risk & Compliance standard for crypto teams, with continuous monitoring across GitHub, infrastructure, multisigs, DNS, and more.

4/ @arbitrum announced that LG Electronics' blockchain team is piloting an onchain advertising network on Arbitrum.

5/ @base activated Azul, its first standalone network upgrade, introducing multiproofs, new execution and consensus clients, CLZ opcode support, Osaka repricings, and performance upgrades up to 5,000 TPS.

6/ @Mastercard expanded stablecoin settlement support to include USDC, PYUSD, USDG, USDP, and SoFiUSD on Ethereum mainnet, @arbitrum, and @base.

7/ @EFDevcon 8 Mumbai early bird tickets went live. Tickets were available paid in ETH.

8/ Türkiye's Directorate of Communications (@Communications) registered cbiletisim.eth, making its first step in establishing an official onchain identity with @ensdomains.

9/ @CashApp launched stablecoin support, allowing nearly 60 million users to send and receive USDC with no wallet setup required, live on Ethereum mainnet and @Arbitrum.

10/ @torproject and @FundingCommons launched a web3-native crowdfunding initiative supporting 10 internet freedom projects.

11/ @JPMorgan launched a second tokenized money market fund on Ethereum.

11/ @lifiprotocol launched LIFI Intents, a full-stack intent execution engine built on the Open Intents Framework, an initiative for standardizing crosschain intents.

12/ @l2beat launched Token Frameworks, a dedicated place to explore interoperability solutions, token movement, volume, speed, chains, and framework adoption.

13/ @PrivacyEthereum launched a private transfers dashboard comparing 11 protocols across privacy, cost, UX, decentralization, compliance, verifiability, state, and composability.

14/ @Veildotcash launched Veil MCP 0.2.0, enabling agents to make private x402 payments on @base.

15/ @src_co_ introduced SLOW, reversible, self-custodial crypto payments on Ethereum.

16/ @ensdomains ecosystem builders launched ENS8004, a web app that converts an ENS name into an onchain AI agent other applications can find and verify.

17/ @OctantApp introduced properQF in Epoch 12, integrating quadratic funding into the funding round.

18/ @AragonProject launched onchain profiles, making governance participants readable across forums by resolving ENS names, avatars, bios, websites, and social links from Ethereum mainnet.

19/ The Ethereum Community Hub network expanded to Lisbon, hosted at the @gnosisDAO office.

20/ @SuccinctLabs introduced data confidentiality to OP Succinct, enabling institutions to keep transactions confidential while settling to Ethereum.

21/ @HardhatHQ 3 became stable, bringing Solidity tests, multichain support, a Rust-powered runtime, a revamped build system, and Hardhat Ignition for deployments.

22/ The inaugural @ethconf, in NYC, brought together thousands of founders, industry leaders, and builders to discuss building on top of Ethereum.

23/ @EthPrague brought Ethereum builders together in Prague to discuss protocol development, privacy, culture, and long- term societal impact.

24/ @ETHGlobal introduced a new format where, for the first time at an ETHGlobal hackathon, projects do not have to begin from zero.

[Wu Blockchain @WuBlockchain]

Token Terminal: Ethereum Hit Record Users and Transactions in Q1, While L1 Fees Fell 82% YoY

Token Terminal’s Ethereum Q1 2026 report shows monthly active users reached a record 13.2 million (+85.9% YoY), while transaction count hit 200.4 million (+81.5% YoY) and throughput rose to 25.78 TPS (+81.7% YoY), both all-time highs. Meanwhile, Ethereum L1 fees fell to $39.9 million, down 81.9% year-over-year.

The report also shows Ethereum ecosystem TVL reached $316.2 billion, representing 71% of the top five chains combined, while active loans totaled $21.8 billion and ecosystem application fees reached $2.0 billion.

[Token Terminal 📊 @tokenterminal]

https://t.co/45EWmHDOcd

[Etherealize @Etherealize_io]

Vitalik Buterin explains why proof-of-stake is more secure than proof-of-work

“I think proof of stake is very secure because to attack the system, you need to have basically as much stake as the rest of the network. Right now, for example, we have 5 million ETH staking, which means you have to come up with 5 million ETH and then join the network.”

At the time of this writing, more than 37 million ETH are being staked, with 3 million ETH waiting to join via the validator queue. At today’s prices, that’s more than $80 billion of ETH someone would have to acquire to attack the network and revert finalized blocks, which is more than the cost of attacking even the Bitcoin network by some estimates.

The other defense mechanism that proof-of-stake has that proof-of-work doesn’t is slashing, which makes Ethereum antifragile. Vitalik explains:

“Recovering from attacks is much easier in proof-of-stake than proof-of-work. For many kinds of attacks you do against [the Ethereum] network, we have this concept of automatic slashing. In order to revert a finalized block, you basically have to have a big portion of your validators sign two conflicting messages. This is something where once these messages are on the network, you can go and prove ‘these people did it.’ So we have this feature in the protocol where you basically take all these people who provably misbehaved and you burn their coins.”

Vitalik also acknowledges the possibility of censoring attacks, where if 1/3rd of validators refuse to attest, the chain can’t finalize. But, as he explains, Ethereum has a contingency plan for this as well:

“Everyone who got censored would create a minority chain, and the community would have to do a soft fork. The would have to say, ‘this chain is clearly attacking us and this one is not attacking us, so we’re going to join this chain.’ Then what happens is, on that new chain, the attackers also lose a lot of coins. The difference between proof-of-stake and proof-of-work is that in a proof-of-stake system, you can identify specific participants — and this isn’t a human going in and saying ‘I don’t like you’. It’s all automated.”

One last benefit of proof-of-stake is that security scales with the value of the network. As Vitalik put it five years ago, it is really relative security, and not absolute security, that matters:

“The security needs of a thing have to be proportional to the size of that thing, because as a thing gets bigger, its enemies become bigger and more well-motivated. If BTC were 100x as big as it is today, the value from destroying it would be 100x higher, and the kinds of actors that would want to care about destroying it would be much bigger and scarier. This is also why countries of all sizes have roughly similarly sized militaries as a percentage of GDP. Hence, cost of attack divided by market cap really is the correct statistic to measure, and in the long run issuance-free PoW really does look not that good."

Source: @lexfridman (Jun 2021)

[Sparta @Sparta_Bot]

Sparta Futures is coming soon. ⚔️

Trade futures directly inside the Sparta Terminal with almost 200 pairs available at launch.

One terminal. Multi-chain trading. Futures built for Spartans.

More info coming soon.

[PROOF @PROOFplatform]

With the $SPARTA launch once again fast approaching, now's a good time to revisit the bigger picture behind the token.

This one breaks down the revenue engine, the utility model, and how that value loops back into $SPARTA and the community ↓

[CoinDesk @CoinDesk]

NEW: Ethereum developers have entered the final development phase of Glamsterdam, described as "the largest fork since the Merge" with devnets now running all planned upgrades ahead of public testnet deployment.

[CoinMarketCap @CoinMarketCap]

LATEST: ⚡ Ethereum's Glamsterdam upgrade is now in its final development phase ahead of testnet deployment, with a mainnet launch expected in H2 2026.

[Sparta @Sparta_Bot]

23 JUNE

We’re getting closer! Only 7 days left. 🏹

We’ve chosen Ethereum because it fits our ecosystem best. The Sparta platform already supports Ethereum, Base, BNB Chain, and Solana.

Soon we’ll launch our own $SPARTA token, which will sit at the very center of the ecosystem.

[PROOF @PROOFplatform]

Backing a project is easy.
Backing the right one is harder.

With @Sparta_Bot, we didn't need much convincing once we got into the detail. The product spoke for itself, and so did founder @Jur0xx.

$SPARTA launches June 23rd.

[PROOF @PROOFplatform]

The PROOF Pulse.
Weekly Ecosystem Highlights.

Your weekly snapshot of updates across the PROOF ecosystem in the week of June 6th!

🧵↓

[Sparta @Sparta_Bot]

Sparta didn’t have the biggest army. They just made every man worth a thousand. The competition brought numbers.

Sparta brought steel.

Which one are choosing?

[PROOF @PROOFplatform]

https://t.co/MXA1Bo3aOq

[Hypr.Fund @hyprfund]

With Binance’s latest push into tokenized U.S. stocks and Citi’s projection of a $5.5 trillion tokenized securities market by 2030, the direction is becoming clear.

RWA is no longer a niche blockchain narrative. It is increasingly becoming part of the future financial infrastructure.

As institutions focus on tokenized securities and financial products, we're applying the same principles to accessible opportunities backed by real business activity.

From F&B outlets to entertainment projects, our goal remains simple: connecting real-world operations with on-chain participation.

The future of RWA is taking shape. We're building our place in it, join the $HYPR movement!

[PROOF @PROOFplatform]

Sparta Roadmap: built to keep shipping

The $SPARTA launch may have been pushed back, but that doesn’t mean the work stops.

Sparta’s roadmap is focused on deepening the product, growing the user base and community, and driving more revenue.

Here's what you can expect from @Sparta_Bot and founder @Jur0xx for the rest of 2026.

Q2 2026 | Launch + Public Access ⚔️

✅ Base chain integration across the Terminal and TG bot.
✅ Public release of the Telegram trading bot.
✅ Sparta Terminal whitelist access opened.
✅ Language support expands to Chinese and Dutch.
✅ Platform performance, UX, and backend upgrades.
⏳ Sparta terminal goes fully public on June 23.
⏳ $SPARTA launches on Ethereum with PROOF.
⏳ Dedicated Sparta "New Token" channels.
⏳ Marketing and product awareness campaign begins.

Q3 2026 | Growth + Perps + Rewards 🏹

⏳ Perpetual futures through Hyperliquid.
⏳ Reward system tied to trading activity and points.
⏳ Multi-chain expansion continues.
⏳ Exchange listings across CEXs and DEXs.
⏳ AI Trading 2.0 goes live.
⏳ Target: $3M–$5M monthly platform volume.

Q4 2026 | Product Maturity 🗡️

⏳ Trading contests, with rewards for top traders.
⏳ Custom (build your own) Sparta Agents.
⏳ Mobile apps on iOS and Android.
⏳ Year-end recap event with the community.
⏳ Target: $5M–$10M monthly platform volume.

Founder @Jur0xx has set a bold roadmap in motion, and we’re backing his ability to get it done.

More project details:
https://t.co/IBjUPdzZfa

[Hypr.Fund @hyprfund]

Trends come and go, but some things stay relevant in every economic climate: health, comfort, and small moments of happiness.

That’s exactly why we’re proud to have Sour Sally as part of the HyprDrop.

More than just a frozen yogurt brand, Sour Sally has built years of trust through products people genuinely enjoy!

From its iconic taste to being Asia’s Best Frozen Yogurt, the brand continues to prove how simple products can build real demand and lasting customer connection.

At $HYPR, this is the kind of Real World Asset we believe in.

Follow along as we onboard more businesses on-chain!

[PROOF @PROOFplatform]

Recommended reading for anyone planning to participate in the $SPARTA TGE tomorrow.

A clear breakdown of the security measures we have in place to help protect investors on every launch ↓

[Sparta @Sparta_Bot]

In just 1 day, $SPARTA will be on chain forever.

Wednesday at 1 PM UTC, the official $SPARTA token launches on Ethereum.

The contract address and chart will be shared exclusively on our official socials and Telegram.

Stay safe, only interact with official Sparta links.

Telegram: https://t.co/QhYZRWA5Vw
Website: https://t.co/OEljL1gPJq
Terminal: https://t.co/izeXf7WRnl
TG Bot: https://t.co/K7sf7zZLIC
Docs: https://t.co/ByuUBsYSAQ
X: https://t.co/R7Bh0CA0CZ

[PROOF @PROOFplatform]

Just 24 hours until $SPARTA officially launches 🏹

Ahead of launch, we put your top questions to @Sparta_Bot founder @Jur0xx.

Everything you need to know 🧵↓

[DEXTools @DEXToolsApp]

All of this weekend’s buybacks have been completed!💰

The first two buybacks went to @DogeusMaximusX, one of the daily and weekly winners of the Social Boost! 🚀

Total $Dogeus buybacks have reached $6,200. 🤩

Tx1 https://t.co/pXU57NM8KM

Tx2 https://t.co/slP51OV6kz