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Featured
- Highlights from the All Core Developers Execution (ACDE) Call #218
- Ethereum’s ACDE Call #218 reviewed Fusaka Devnet-4 fixes, set Devnet-5 priorities & confirmed ePBS & BAL as headliners.
- 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.
- Overview of BPO Forks, Why do we need BPO Forks?, Limitations of Traditional Ethereum Hard Forks, BPO Forks Design
- 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
- SEC settles Ripple case, ending years-long XRP fight
- The SEC and Ripple reportedly reached a settlement, closing a marquee crypto enforcement saga and easing a legal overhang for XRP’s ecosystem and U.S. exchange listings pressure.
- Coinbase brings DEX trading to U.S. users
- Coinbase launched a decentralized exchange feature for U.S. customers, signaling deeper integration with onchain liquidity and self-custody as user demand for DeFi-style trading tools accelerates.
- Trump-linked World Liberty Financial plans public crypto company
- Fortune reports a Trump-affiliated crypto venture aims to form a public company that holds digital assets on balance sheet, reflecting corporate treasury adoption trends inspired by MicroStrategy’s playbook.
- Deloitte survey: Big North American companies warm to crypto
- Journal of Accountancy highlights Deloitte findings that large enterprises show rising comfort with crypto despite risk concerns, signaling broader openness to blockchain use cases and digital asset integration.
Stories By EtherWorld
- Expected EIPs in Ethereum's Fusaka Upgrade
- EIP-7732 (ePBS) Selected as Glamsterdam Headliner
- FOCIL (EIP-7805) CFI’d with Strong Developer & Community Backing
- Role of Non-Finality Testing in the Fusaka Upgrade
- Fusaka Mainnet Tentatively Scheduled for November 5
Technical Explainers
- EIP-4844 Explored: The Future of Shard Blob Transactions in Ethereum
- EIP - 7045 Increase Max Attestation Inclusion Slot
- EIP-1153 and Transient storage
- All you need to know about MEV
- Preventing Slashed Validators from Becoming Block Proposers
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.
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Ethereum Governance & Related Standards
Ethereum Standards(August):
EIPs and Their Current Status:
- Latest Drafts: EIP-7979, EIP-7932, EIP-7980, EIP-7998
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: ERC-7985, ERC-7955
EIPs and Their Current Status:
- Latest Drafts: RIP-7993
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.
- The New Ethereum Era: High-Stakes Trial, Wall Street Deals, and ETHZilla - The Chopping Block
- Show highlights
🔹 Tornado Cash Verdict Breakdown – Haseeb explains the mixed outcome: a conviction on one count, hung jury on the most serious charges, and what it means for Roman Storm’s future.
🔹 Developer Liability in the Spotlight – Why the case sends a chilling signal to open-source and privacy protocol builders across the U.S.
- Show highlights
- Bits + Bips: ETH Is Up 150% Since May. Can It Continue?
- In this episode of Bits + Bips, Alex Kruger, Ram Ahluwalia, Steven Ehrlich, and special guest Sid Powell of Maple Finance, dive deep into what’s driving ETH, the macro forces shaping crypto’s next leg up, and whether traders are completely wrong about the Fed’s next moves.
- New Bitcoin ATH! ETH Next? Stripe & Circle L1s Explained
- On this week’s Weekly Rollup, ETH flirts with ATH while BTC tags a new one, PPI spooks then fades? Ryan and david dig into a $1B ETH ETF day, Tom Lee’s 1M ETH treasury, and the ETH/BTC setup.
- Vitalik Buterin: How Ethereum Becomes The World Ledger
- In this conversation, Vitalik shares what surprised him most about Ethereum’s growth, the hard lessons from challenges like The DAO and NFTs, and what he’d do differently if starting again.
Upcoming Events
- Aug 15 – 17: ETHGlobal New York
- Aug 19 – 23: ProdFest Jos
- Aug 28 – 30: Web3 Lagos Conference
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