EtherWorld Weekly — Edition 306

• World News
• Stories By EtherWorld
• Technical Explainers
• Client News & Updates
• Podcasts
• Upcoming Events
• Jobs

World News

• Highlights of Ethereum's All Core Devs Meeting (ACDC) #150: Pectra Devnet 5 & 6 Updates, Mainnet Timeline, Geth Bug, System Contract Audits, Retrospective, Fusaka Planning, Hardware Requirements, EIP 7823, ACD Bot
• Brazil's Crypto Surge - Gabriel Galipolo, Brazil's central bank chief, reported a significant increase in crypto asset usage over the past two to three years, with around 90% of transactions involving stablecoins. This trend is primarily driven by the use of cryptocurrencies for purchasing goods from abroad, presenting challenges in oversight and regulation.
  Reuters.com
• BlackRock's Bitcoin ETP in Europe - Investment giant BlackRock is preparing to launch a bitcoin exchange-traded product (ETP) in Europe, likely domiciled in Switzerland, within weeks. This move responds to increasing demand for cryptocurrency exposure from both money managers and consumers. Reuters.com
• EU's MiCA Implementation: Global crypto exchanges are expanding their presence in the European Union as the Markets in Crypto-Assets regulation (MiCA) takes full effect. Exchanges like OKX and Crypto.com have obtained MiCA licenses in Malta, while Bitpanda received approval from German regulators. Reuters.com

Stories By EtherWorld

• India to Change Crypto Strategy as Global Trends Shift [Latest]
• Pectra Upgrade is now Battle-Tested with Four Audits
• Vitalik’s Vision for All: Ethereum Made Simple
• The State of PeerDAS Testing: Progress, Challenges & Next Steps

Technical Explainers

• A Deep Dive into Blob-Parameter-Only (BPO) Forks
• Tracing in Ethereum
• Block-Level Warming: Redefining Ethereum Transactions
• Solving the Puzzle of Duplicate Blocks in Ethereum

Client News & Updates

Client News

• Nethermind's Formal Verification team has achieved a milestone by formally verifying ZKSync's on-chain zk verifier, the first of its kind in real-world application.
• Making Ethereum a Rollup of Itself - A Brainstorming Proposal from Erigon Team
• PeerDAS from Scratch - Prysm Team: This book provides a comprehensive, concise overview of peerDAS, explaining why it is necessary and how it functions, all in one place

Client Updates

• Execution Layer:

  • Nethermind 1.30.3
  • Geth 1.15.0 [new]
  • Erigon 2.61.0
  • Besu 25.1.0
  • Reth 1.1.5
  • EthereumJS 8.1.1

• Consensus Layer:

  • Teku 25.1.0
  • Nimbus v25.1.0
  • Prysm 5.2.0
  • Lodestar 1.26.0 [new]
  • Lighthouse 6.0.1

Podcasts

• PEEPanEIP 138: RIP-7759 Layer 2 Transaction Fee Specification with Andreas Freund: RIP-7759 is specification of rules for L2 transaction fee derivation, payout, and display to any of the participants in an L2 platform.
• PEEPanEIP#139: A Fast Confirmation Rule for the Ethereum Protocol with Roberto Saltini: A Confirmation Rule, within blockchain networks, refers to an algorithm implemented by network nodes that determine (either probabilistically or deterministically) the permanence of certain blocks on the blockchain. A Fast Confirmation Rule relies on synchrony conditions but provides a best-case confirmation time of 12 seconds only, greatly improving the latency of the FFG Finalization Rule.

Podcasts by EthCatHerders Podcasts

Upcoming Events

• Feb 10-16: ETHiopia
• Feb 23 – Mar 2: ETHDenver
• Mar 28-30: ETH Pondy
• Apr 2-5: ETH Bucharest
• Apr 4-6: ETHGlobal Taipei
• May 9-10: ETHBratislava
• May 9-11: ETHDam (Amsterdam)

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