EtherWorld Weekly — Edition 325

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• Featured
• World News
• Stories By EtherWorld
• Technical Explainers
• Client News and Updates
• Ethereum Governance & Related Standards
• Podcasts
• Upcoming Events
• Jobs

Featured

• Highlights from the All Core Developers Consensus (ACDC) Call #162
  • Ethereum core devs align on Fusaka launch plans, BPO rollout, and Glamsterdam headliners during ACDC #162.
• Ethereum @ 10: A Decade of Innovation & Milestones:
  • Celebrate Ethereum’s 10-year journey from its 2015 Genesis block to today’s DeFi, NFTs & major upgrades, with EtherWorld’s highlights across four key eras.
• EIPs @10: A Decade of Standardizing Ethereum:
  • A decade-long review of Ethereum Improvement Proposals (EIPs), detailing their impact on protocol upgrades, token standards and more.
• Blob Parameter Only (BPO) Forks (EIP-7892):
  • Overview of BPO Forks, Why do we need BPO Forks?, Limitations of Traditional Ethereum Hard Forks, BPO Forks Design
    Bandwidth Constraints & the Role of Solo Stakers in Blob Growth, Why BPO Forks Are Needed Before Fusaka?, Proposed Upgrade Paths to BPO Forks.
• Enshrined Proposer Builder Separation (ePBS) (EIP-7732)
  • What is ePBS?, Why Do We Need ePBS?, Key Architectural Changes Proposed in ePBS, PBS Vs ePBS, ePBS Advantages, Compatibility of ePBS with Other Ethereum Proposals, Challenges to ePBS

World News

• European Banking Authority Publishes Draft Technical Standards on Crypto Asset Exposures
  • The EBA released draft Regulatory Technical Standards to harmonize capital requirements for crypto asset exposures under the Capital Requirements Regulation across the EU, aligning with Basel standards and MiCA regulation.
• UK FCA Opens Retail Investor Access to Crypto Exchange Traded Notes
  • The UK Financial Conduct Authority will allow retail investors to access crypto Exchange Traded Notes (cETNs) traded on FCA-approved exchanges, with protections through financial promotion rules and consumer duty.
• Ripple to Acquire Stablecoin Payments Platform Rail for $200 Million
  • Ripple announced it will acquire stablecoin payments platform Rail to strengthen its leadership in stablecoin payment solutions and support global digital asset payments adoption.
• Chainlink Launches On-Chain LINK Token Reserve to Boost Liquidity
  • Chainlink established the Chainlink Reserve, an on-chain strategic reserve of LINK tokens funded by automatic conversion of business revenue, supporting long-term token liquidity and ecosystem sustainability.
• Uniswap Protocol Achieves Record Transaction Volume in 2025
  • Uniswap set a new annual transaction record in 2025, processing over 719 million transactions to date, underlining its status as a leading decentralized exchange protocol.

Stories By EtherWorld

• Trump’s Executive Order for Crypto in Your 401(k) Retirement Plans
• SEC Says "Liquid Staking Tokens Are Not Securities"
• Polygon’s POL Staking: Unlock Rewards, Airdrops and the AggLayer
• ERC‑4361 Finalized: What Sign‑In with Ethereum Means for Ethereum

Technical Explainers

• Ethereum's Infinite Endgame: Balancing Issuance, Staking, and Decentralization
• EIP-4844 Explored: The Future of Shard Blob Transactions in Ethereum
• EIP-5656: MCOPY - An efficient EVM instruction
• An overview of Account Abstraction in Ethereum blockchain
• EtherStrategy vs. MicroStrategy: Onchain Ethereum Advantage Explained
• A Deep Dive into Blob-Parameter-Only (BPO) Forks

Client News and Updates

Client News

• Nethermind Security Approved as Auditor in Arbitrum Audit Program
  • Nethermind Security joins Arbitrum's $10M audit grant program to support early-stage projects with security audits.
• Nethermind Client v1.32.4 Released with Network Stability Improvements
  • Update enhances peer discovery, removes inactive peers faster, improves message sharing, and boosts sync reliability.
• Geth v1.16.2 Maintenance Release with Fusaka EIPs and Bug Fixes
  • Includes Fusaka EIPs implementations, new features, optimizations, and multiple bug fixes in this maintenance release.
• Erigon Syncs to Arbitrum Sepolia Chain Tip with High Efficiency
  • Erigon achieves blazing fast, affordable archive node performance on Arbitrum testnet; next target: Arbitrum One.
• Lodestar v1.33.0 Released with libp2p Upgrade and Proposer Boost
  • Recommended update fixing CPU compatibility issues and enabling proposer boost by default with minor client maintenance.

Client versions

• Execution Layer:

  • Nethermind 1.32.4
  • Geth 1.16.2 new version
  • Erigon 3.0.15
  • Besu 25.7.0
  • Reth 1.6.0
  • EthereumJS

• Consensus Layer:

  • Teku 25.7.1
  • Nimbus 25.7.1
  • Prysm 6.0.4
  • Lodestar 1.33.0 new version
  • Lighthouse 7.1.0

Ethereum Governance & Related Standards

Ethereum Standards(August):

ERCs and Their Current Status:

• ERC- 4361: Sign-In with Ethereum [Reached Final]
• ERC-7858: Expirable NFTs and SBTs [Reached Last Call]
  🗓️ Deadline: August 19
• Latest Drafts: 7985

Insights from EIPsInsights.com

Podcasts

• EIP-7892: Blob Parameter Only Hardforks with Mark Mackey (EthDreamer) | PEEPanEIP#154
  • In this episode, Pooja Ranjan discusses EIP 7892 with Mark Mackey, exploring its implications for Ethereum's scalability and the innovative approach to managing blob capacity.
• Jim Bianco on Why Zero Rates and Money Printing Are Gone for Good
  • Jim Bianco of Bianco Research lays out why the current economic cycle is fundamentally different from what came before.
• Ben Cowen: Ethereum Season Is Here | How Far Can ETH Go?
  • We explore ETH’s regression bounce, ETHBTC targets, the fading strength of altcoins, and how market narratives tend to follow price, not the other way around.
• Trump Just Made 401(k)s Bullish for Crypto
  • Ryan and David cover Tom Lee’s $3B ETH buying spree at 12x Michael Saylor’s pace, the race to become the top Ethereum treasury, and whether these companies are a buy or not.
• The World’s Largest ETH Holder - Tom Lee on Treasuries, Ethereum Dominance, and Wall Street
  • In this episode, we talk with Tom Lee, chairman of Bitmine, about the rapid growth of his ETH treasury company and its goal to secure 5% of the total ETH supply.
• Buy ETH Treasuries? Early Stage Greed Cycle, DeFi Summer 2, & the Wall Street ETH Bid
  • Mike Nadeau from The DeFi Report joins Ryan to unpack the ETH treasury boom, explain how staking yield and convertible debt amplify reflexivity, and show why onchain signals place us around 9 p.m. on the market clock.

Upcoming Events

• Aug 9 – 10 : ETHVietnam 2025
• Aug 14: Pragma New York
• Aug 15 – 17: ETHGlobal New York

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