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Ethereum News

• Understanding 3-Slot Finality: A New Era in Blockchain Consensus

  • Explore 3-Slot Finality, a new blockchain consensus method enhancing security, reducing forks, and improving scalability for a more secure and efficient decentralized future.

• Ethereum Launches Mekong Testnet: A Guide

  • Ethereum’s Mekong testnet offers developers and stakers a sandbox to explore the Pectra upgrade’s UX and staking changes, shaping the upcoming mainnet deployment.

• Introducing EIPsInsight: Your Go-To Tool for Navigating Ethereum Proposals

  • EIPsInsight simplifies tracking Ethereum proposals with visual dashboards, real-time PR updates, and trend insights, empowering developers and editors to navigate EIP progress efficiently and collaboratively.

• Vitalik on 'Info Finance' as ETH Hovers 3,000 USD+

  • While prediction markets and decision markets have long been theorized, today's landscape offers a unique chance to realize their potential due to several factors: info finance can address trust issues prevalent in politics, science, and business; scalable blockchains make implementation feasible; and AIs enable efficient market participation, even for small-scale questions. Leveraging these advancements, info finance could expand beyond traditional uses like election prediction to address broader, impactful applications.

• Eclipse Mainnet is LIVE! First Ethereum L2 based on Solana

  • Eclipse, a pioneering layer-2 network integrating Ethereum and Solana, has officially launched, offering fast, low-cost transactions on Ethereum using Solana’s Virtual Machine (SVM). By bridging the two ecosystems, Eclipse allows DApps on its Ethereum L2 to interact with Solana-native apps, catering to decentralized finance, gaming, and consumer applications. The network features 60 DApps and secured $50 million in Series A funding, bringing total investments to $65 million. Eclipse CEO Vijay Chetty emphasizes the platform’s potential to enhance scalability for developers across both ecosystems.

World News

• Vitalik Buterin Responds To Criticisms About Ethereum L2 Experience

  • After Camila Russo’s critique of Ethereum L2, Vitalik Buterin responded, urging developers not to justify current limitations, emphasizing instead, "We are building the future."

• Base Reaches new Transaction Record with Min-Rent to Ethereum

  • Coinbase’s Base blockchain set a new daily transaction record of over 7.3M, driven by its high liquidity, DeFi protocols like Aerodrome, and increasing ETH inflows. Despite lacking a native token, Base has gained traction with low fees, broad adoption, and substantial value locked, positioning it as a scalable L2 leader.

• Taiko Sees Massive 1,000% TVL Surge

  • Taiko, an Ethereum Layer 2 network, achieved over 1,000% growth in Total Value Locked (TVL), reaching 81M USD, driven by DEX Panko Finance and Avalon Finance. With a record 5M daily transactions, Taiko’s popularity among Ethereum users is rising rapidly.

• Lido Community Staking Module (CSM) Mainnet Release Setup has passed with flying colours

  • An on-chain Aragon vote will be initiated after final security checks to activate the module. If approved, the Community Staking Module (CSM) will go live soon

Tech Articles

• EIP - 7045 Increase Max Attestation Inclusion Slot
  EIP-7045 introduces a crucial Ethereum upgrade, extending attestation inclusion slots for improved security and efficiency. The article delves into its motivation, technical changes, implications, and impact on consensus and security.

• EIP-1153 and Transient storage
  EIP-1153 introduces transient storage, revolutionizing Ethereum's data handling. It addresses gas inefficiencies, enhancing smart contract performance. Explore its impact on inter-frame communication and gas cost efficiency.

• Eip - 7516 : BLOBBASEFEE opcode
  EIP proposes BLOBBASEFEE opcode for smart contracts to manage blob data costs efficiently. It enables trustless accounting and blob gas futures with a gas cost of 2, aligning with conventions, ensuring seamless integration and minimal impact on backward compatibility.

• EIP-7044- "Perpetually Valid Signed Voluntary Exits on Capella.
  EIP-7044 revolutionizes Ethereum's staking by introducing perpetual validity for signed voluntary exits on Capella. This streamlines operations, ensures Consensus Layer compatibility, and mandates transitioning pre-signed exits to the Capella fork domain. The proposal simplifies staking.

• EIP-4844 Explored: The Future of Shard Blob Transactions in Ethereum
  What are blobs? Working of Blobs to support Layer 2 projects. EIP4844 deep dive, key features and other use case.

Podcasts

• Optimism’s Grants, FTX Exec Avoids Prison, and More: Weekly Recap:

  • This week in crypto: Controversy around Optimism's grants for layer-2 projects, FTX's big win in recovering funds for customer refunds, Reddit's strategic exit from major crypto holdings, and more!

• A New Era For Crypto: Where Do We Go From Here?!:

  • With a sweeping Republican win and Trump’s declaration of a ‘Golden Age of America,’ the U.S. election results have reshaped the crypto landscape overnight. Join us as we dive into the Polymarket effect on election night coverage, analyze the election’s impact on key crypto legislation, and explore the post-election market surge. We cover price action, pro-crypto shifts in Congress, and big players like Elon Musk and Michael Saylor making moves. Plus, is the DeFi Renaissance here? Tune in for an in-depth look at what this political shift means for the future of crypto.

• Why You Should Still Be Bullish ETH:

  • We’ve got Anthony Sassano on the podcast today. He’s a notable angel investor, ETH bull, and creator of Ethereum podcast The Daily Gwei. Anthony is here to bring us some clarity to all the noise that has been going around the ETH price these days. He answers the criticisms, gives us the bull case and tells us what’s next.

• Based Rollups: The Next Frontier of Ethereum Scaling with Justin Drake:

  • We’ve brought Ethereum Researcher and Bankless recurring guest, Justin Drake, to give us his reasoning on why he thinks the future of Ethereum is Based.
  • A handful of teams are already working on this Based Rollup future so, with this episode, and perhaps a few more, we’re front running it all and getting you downloaded on all things Based Rollups. Enjoy!

• Are L2s Extensions of Ethereum?:

  • Show highlights
    🔹 On one side, we’ve got Kyle Samani and Max Resnick proposing that the current Ethereum Rollup-Centric Roadmap is off-track. On the other side we’ve got David Hoffman and Jill Gunter defending L2s as successful extensions of Ethereum.

Tech Explainers

ETH Withdrawals: Everything You Need to Know
Validators, Ethereum's Validator Lifecycle, Types of Withdrawals, EIP-4895, How to make your Validator ready for Withdrawal?, EIP-4736 & Shapella Mainnet

The Future of Ethereum Goerli Testnet
What is Goerli Testnet?, Why Developers like Goerli?, Goerl Shapella, Future of Goerli Testnet & Holesky Testnet

How to Become Validator for Ethereum Blockchain?
Staking, Setup Node, Roles & Responsibilities

Client Diversity
Execution Layer, Consensus Layer, Why there is a need for multiple clients?, Advantages & Risks

Reth: Ethereum Execution Layer Client Written in Rust
Why new client?, Goals, Reth Book, Launch Date & Akula

ELI5 Explainers

We have tried to explain common ethereum blockchain concepts in under 60 seconds.

1. What is an Ethereum Account?
2. Externally Owned Accounts (EOAs) Vs Contract Accounts
3. What is an Ethereum Transaction?
4. Ethereum Transaction Lifecycle
5. What is Ethereum Validator?

Readers can follow more short videos here.

Client Updates

• Execution Layer:

  • Nethermind 1.29.1
  • Geth 1.14.11
  • Erigon 2.60.10
  • Besu 24.10.0
  • Reth 1.1.1
  • EthereumJS 8.1.1

• Consensus Layer:

  • Teku 24.10.3
  • Nimbus v24.10.0
  • Prysm 5.1.2
  • Lodestar 1.22.0
  • Lighthouse 5.3.0

Events

• Nov 12-15: Devcon SEA
• Nov 13: ETHGlobal Bangkok Happy Hour
• Nov 14: Pragma Bangkok
• Nov 15–17: ETHGlobal Bangkok
• Dec 1: ETH Riyadh