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[Optimism @Optimism]

What began as a scaling challenge became a shared mission.

The OP Stack helped turn Ethereum’s roadmap into reality, making blockspace abundant and usable for billions.

Today, the Superchain powers 58.5% of all L2 transactions, securing billions in onchain value.

[antiprosynthesis.eth ⟠ @antiprosynth]

Stay away from DATs that have made-up yield. They can and will blow up in the inevitable market downturn.

See previous Bitcoiner-approved centralized "yield" products like Terra Luna, BlockFi, Celcius, ...

Staking and (established) DeFi is where the *real* yield is to be found.

[apoorv.gwei @apoorveth]

⏳ 10yrs of Ethereum Improvement Proposals

[Justin Drake @drakefjustin]

Yesterday Ethereum turned 10. Today, lean Ethereum is unveiled as a vision—and personal mission—for the next 10 years.

We stand at the dawn of a new era. Millions of TPS. Quantum adversaries. How does Ethereum marry extreme performance with uncompromising security and decentralization?

TLDR: next-generation cryptography is central to winning both offense and defense.

Disclaimer: This is a Drake take™ aimed at a broad audience. A technical deep dive into hash-based post-quantum signatures and SNARKs will follow. A healthy diversity of views across Protocol, the EF, and the broader Ethereum community is expected and welcome. It strengthens us.

defense—fort mode

Ethereum is special. 100% uptime since genesis. Unrivaled client diversity. $130B in economic security (35.7M ETH staked × $3.7K)—maybe soon $1T.

Ethereum is poised to become the bedrock of the internet of value, securing hundreds of trillions over decades, even centuries.

Ethereum must survive anything: nation states, quantum computers. Whatever comes. Call it fort mode. If the internet is up, Ethereum is up. If the world is online, the world is onchain.

offense—beast mode

Ethereum is hungry. “Scale L1, scale blobs” is a strategic urgency inside the EF’s Protocol cluster. Expect low-hanging performance gains over the next 6–12 months.

Longer term? Think gigagas L1, teragas L2. Call it beast mode.

→ 1 gigagas/sec on L1: 10K TPS, ambitious vertical scale
→ 1 teragas/sec on L2: 1M TPS, sprawling horizontal scale

Scale vs decentralization? Why not both. The moon math we need is now tamed:

→ real-time zkVMs for lean execution
→ data availability sampling (DAS) for lean data

A delicious cherry on top: full chain verification across every browser, wallet, phone.

lean upgrades

Lean Ethereum proposes bold upgrades across all three L1 sublayers:

→ lean consensus is beacon chain 2.0: hardened for ultimate security and decentralization, plus finality in seconds; formerly branded as “beam chain”
→ lean data is blobs 2.0: post-quantum blobs, plus granular blob sizing for a calldata-like developer experience
→ lean execution is EVM 2.0: a minimal, SNARK-friendly instruction set (possibly RISC-V; pronounced “risk five”), boosting performance while preserving EVM compatibility and its network effects

The consensus layer (CL), data layer (DL), execution layer (EL) have each been reimagined from first principles. Together, they unlock fort mode and beast mode.

The goal: performance abundance under the constraint of non-negotiable continuity, maximum hardness, and refreshing simplicity.

lean cryptography

Hash-based cryptography is emerging as the ideal foundation for lean Ethereum. It offers a compelling, unified answer to two megatrends reshaping the ecosystem:

→ the explosive rise of SNARKs
→ the looming quantum threat

Imagine the leanest cryptographic brick—the hash function—singlehandedly powering L1:

→ CL: hash-based aggregate signatures upgrade BLS signatures
→ DL: hash-based DAS commitments upgrade KZG commitments
→ EL: hash-based real-time zkVMs upgrade EVM re-execution

A cryptographic jewel in each of lean CL, lean DL, lean EL.

lean craft

Lean Ethereum is more than a blueprint for hardening and scaling Ethereum. More than just doubling down on security, decentralisation, and cutting-edge cryptography. It is an aesthetic. An art form. A craft. Think Jiro in Dreams of Sushi. When we can go the extra mile, we do.

Minimalism. Modularity. Encapsulated complexity. Formal verification. Provable security. Provable optimality. These are subtle yet important technical considerations. Stay tuned for the post on post-quantum cryptography that will make them explicit.

lean legacy

After 10 fantastic years, lean Ethereum is a generational oath. To keep Ethereum online no matter what. To scale it without compromise. To make it worthy of those who come next.

This is about legacy. We are builders, we are missionaries. We are Ethereum. I hope you join us.

[BlockNews @blocknewsdotcom]

JUST IN: Ethereum $ETH unveils 10-year plan to achieve 10,000 transactions per second AND quantum resistance

[Base @base]

It’s a new day one

https://t.co/YOblKGFZV0

[jesse.base.eth @jessepollak]

if you're building a miniapp for the @baseapp, you *must* support EIP5792.

takes a few minutes to enable the setting in your JavaScript toolkit (eg wagmi/viem) and instantly makes your app 10x better

no more two step swaps, borrows, or anything else - one tap everything

[Optimism @Optimism]

Welcome @unichain to the Superchain!

@unichain is a DeFi-native Ethereum L2, purposefully built by @uniswap.

Together, we’ll shape the future of the Superchain and scale Ethereum.

[Synthetix ⚔️ @synthetix]

You can read more at our blog here: https://t.co/N1IrqvqKfI

[Optimism @Optimism]

Gather around for storytime.

Optimism is not a L2👇

[Adam Cochran (adamscochran.eth) @adamscochran]

Holy shit.

Certik just admitted to being the security firm that stole from Kraken and is trying to extort them for more of a payment.

Given how often Certik audits get hacked and now this shit, it’s wild they still exist.

Down right criminal.

[vitalik.eth @VitalikButerin]

Welcome @optimism to the club of stage 1+ L2s! (meaning, L2s where the proof systems actually have teeth) I'm looking forward to seeing many more L2s join this club soon, especially some ZK ones.

[L2BEAT 💗 @l2beat]

OP Mainnet 🔴 is now Stage 1!

Following the latest update to their architecture, @Optimism is now marked green in both the State Validation and Proposer Failure sections of our Risk Rosette and moved to Stage 1.

[Synthetix ⚔️ @synthetix]

🚨 Synthetix community, the Pyth Governance Distribution is live! 🎉

If you've been actively participating in governance by:

- Posting in gov channels
- Voting on SIPs/SCCPs
- Serving on a DAO body
- Creating proposals
You might be eligible for $PYTH.

Check out the blog post in the next tweet for more details and instructions on how to claim your tokens.

Let's strengthen the partnership between Synthetix and Pyth by bootstrapping their governance with our most active community members!

Please Note:

- Unclaimed tokens will be returned to the Synthetix Treasury after 28 days.

- This distribution is only a portion of the total Pyth tokens allocated to the Synthetix community. There will be multiple future distributions for various participants, including stakers who've voted in Synthetix governance elections.

[Coinbase Developer Platform🛡️ @CoinbaseDev]

Restaking update: As an Operator on @eigencloud, we're proud to announce that @eigen_da will be the first Actively Validated Service (AVS) we support.

Here's what you need to know about EigenDA, our AVS selection process, and how to delegate to our Operator 👇

[Uniswap @Uniswap]

Today Uniswap Labs received a Wells notice from the SEC

And we're ready to fight

This is the latest political effort to target even the best actors in crypto like Uniswap and Coinbase

All Uniswap products and the Uniswap Protocol are unaffected

https://t.co/i2p5LubELk

[Hayden Adams 🦄 @haydenzadams]

Today @Uniswap Labs received a Wells notice from the SEC.

I’m not surprised. Just annoyed, disappointed, and ready to fight.

I am confident that the products we offer are legal and that our work is on the right side of history. But it’s been clear for a while that rather than working to create clear, informed rules, the SEC has decided to focus on attacking long-time good actors like Uniswap and Coinbase. All while letting bad actors like FTX slip by.

When I first set out to build Uniswap, the goal wasn’t to reimagine finance.

It was an experiment in radically decentralized, fully automated onchain markets. I didn’t know if it would work or if anyone would use it.

Fast forward to today, the Uniswap Protocol has processed over $2 trillion in volume. Many thousands of teams and developers have forked our code or built on top of it. We built entirely new financial infrastructure that is transparent, fair, secure, and accessible powering an entire industry.

The team at @Uniswap did all of this in the US from our office in New York City.

People often ask me why we stay in the US and my answer is simple: I believe that blockchain is incredibly powerful technology. Like the Internet, it’s here to stay. So someone needs to figure it out, and it might as well be us.

And that when you build technology that improves people’s lives – you don’t need to hide.

The @SEC’s mission is “protecting investors, maintaining fair, orderly, and efficient markets, and facilitating capital formation.” This is a noble mission. I would argue @Uniswap does a far better job of this today than the SEC.

Yes, I'm frustrated that the SEC seems to be more concerned with protecting opaque systems than protecting consumers. And that we'll have to fight a US government agency to protect our company and our industry.

This fight will take years, may go all the way to the Supreme Court, and the future of financial technology and our industry hangs in the balance. If we stand together we can win.

I think freedom is worth fighting for. I think DeFi is worth fighting for.

And of course, we won’t stop shipping. Stay tuned

🦄💜

[sassal.eth/acc 🦇🔊 @sassal0x]

Fraud proofs will be live on mainnet for all OP Stack chains in the near future

Layer 2 haters - please start preparing your next fud narratives in anticipation of this

Thank you

[Bankless @Bankless]

Crypto taxes are the worst...

That's why we're going live with @CryptoTaxHQ in 1 HOUR to help guide you through the process!

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[SHKage 👋🔉〰️ 🦇🔊 〰️🌊🐬🔊🌊〰️ @sh_kage]

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