Last week, Ethereum core contributors gathered in Svalbard for the Soldøgn interop: a week long event focused on hardening Glamsterdam implementations to scale Ethereum securely ☀️ Read the full recap, including their candidate post-fork gas limit, below:

A fact I feel like almost nobody knows: Ethereum's gas limit will be increased to ~200M after Glamsterdam, a huge increase from the 60M we have today. That’s a 3x of L1 execution capacity, with expectation of further doubling soons after that. Assuming no similar increase in demand, fees could stay near zero for years. This is the result of several innovations coming together at the right time: ePBS gives payloads more time, BALs let clients prefetch/parallelize execution work, and gas repricings make higher limits safe.

tl;dr: > Layerzero (LZ): "KelpDAO, please don't use 1/1 DVN" > KelpDAO: "no, can we please just use 1/1 DVN, and you operate the single DVN for us?" > LZ: "fine, if you insist. we will do it." > *LZ gets hacked*. > hacker minted rsETH for free and took out 200m of ETH on AAVE > LZ: "we told KelpDAO not to use the 1/1 setup. they didn't listen to us" but LZ operated the 1/1 DVN node! also: how did AAVE allow a 1/1 DVN asset into their protocol? I'm just catching up on this story but something tells me we can't just place all the blame on KelpDAO/rsETH.

Not surprised at all that the @LayerZero_Core bridge ended up weakly configured and keys got extracted / malicious RPCs were used. They’ve consistently shown they’re not interested in robust, well-thought-out bridge architecture. Just rapid expansion at any cost. Security, ecosystem cohesion, social compatibility? Clearly secondary. Remember when they were pushing Goerli trading just when liquidity was drying up, to push their bridge narrative even if it's bad for the network and goes completely against any community effort and testnet principles? This was predictable. Poor rsETH that it hit them. Stop using LayerZero and do not touch this company ever!

🚨 We have identified the issue and have a quick workaround. All nodes should disable Prysm to unnecessarily generate old states to process outdated attestation. To do this, simply add the following flag to your beacon node. This flag works with v7.0.0 and you do not need to update the beacon node beyond adding this flag. No change is required for validator clients. "--disable-last-epoch-targets"

While we continue to monitor network performance, the STEEL team at the @ethereumfndn conducted their battery of tests to ensure safety.

Been a busy day today... Welcome to Devconnect!

Please migrate off of Holesky as soon as possible, we have Hoodi and Sepolia as appropriate testnets. If you need support migrating, then please reach out and we'll do our best to help!

10 years of Ethereum.

What if Ethereum had a World’s Fair? We’re doing it in Buenos Aires, Nov 17–22. 🎟️ Tickets are live now. 🤝 Supporter applications open. One week. 15K people. Showcases. Builders. And the best of Ethereum IRL. 👇 Everything you need to know

🤯 real-time proving is here 🤯 Mainnet EVM blocks proven in under 1 Ethereum slot (12s). Goosebumps. Succinct proves every Ethereum L1 block: → 94% in <12s → 99% in <13s → 99.9% in <12s, soon™ Yesterday RISC Zero unveiled a $120K home GPU cluster—proofs expected in 9.25s. Brevis, OpenVM, Snarkify, ZisK, ZKM are weeks from joining the real-time club. Soon™ my validator will verify EVM blocks on a Rasberry Pi Pico—a $5 board that consumes <1W. I will ditch my EL client in favour of a zkEL. No 1 TB NVMe. Goodbye Geth, hello zkReth. Stateless and RAMless verification in milliseconds on a single CPU core. With real-time proving 1 gigagas/sec (10K TPS) is within reach, without compromising validator decentralisation. From now on expect regular gas limit bumps. 10% of stake is already voting for a 60M limit—your validators can too. Snarkifying mainnet turns Ethereum L1 into the first based and native rollup. Stage 2. Bug-free. Decentralised sequencing. No security council. No governance. The L1 will lead by example. This Friday we celebrate. Join us for Ethproofs call #2, May 23 at 2pm UTC. 25 speakers, 2 hours of content. Calls are open—DM @corcoranwill for a calendar invite. We are witnessing history. Believe in something real. Believe in real-time proving.

Ephemery is the first testnet that started from an Electra genesis and the first to start with 0x02 validators. We are proving that we can use that mechanism to bump up the effective balance of devnets easily which is extremely helpful for certain testing scenarios by @_pk910_

A new testnet, Hoodi, has been launched to help wrap up Pectra testing. Stakers, this is your new testing ground 🤖 Pectra will activate on it next Wednesday. Holesky will be maintained until September. It still works to test everything, except for validator exits 🫡

Epoch 119090. Holešky finalized again.

The Ephemery testnet will reset tomorrow and we're going to attempt the pectra upgrade. Things will go wrong, things will break, but that's the whole point of an ephemeral testnet! @ephemerytestnet ephemery.dev

Welcome to the 142 instantiation of the Ephemery Ethereum Testnet! It's a testnet that resets every 28 days, so Ether is easy to get and you can try ANY crazy thing you can imagine. And you should. @ephemerytestnet @_pk910_ @_TaxMeIfYouCan_ @remy_roy beaconchain.ephemery.dev/

To the best team one could ask for <3