EF Protocol

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There's a new chapter starting for the Protocol cluster. We're welcoming new leads and coordinators, and continuing our work toward Glamsterdam, Hegotà, and the Strawmap. More in the blog below 👇
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BTWTwoHLS (Boerum & Clinton)
Hottest new micro neighborhoods: - NoDi: North of Dimes Square - MaMa: intersection of Market St & Madison St - NoVi: North of Vital (the climbing gym) - PICL: Between Pitt St and Clinton St - WeCoSt: Carroll gardens West of Court St
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Will Corcoran retweeted
Lean Ethereum is moving forward @leanEthereum. Great work by all the teams. I'm really happy with what @class_lambda has achieved with @ethlambda_lean.
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📢📢📢 we are now devnet5 interop!!! 🚀🚀🚀 which is the culmination of the PQ consensus stack that we have been building and iterating on for @ethereum mainnet. PQ signatures are different from BLS signatures, the current signature machinery of ethereum. But BLS signatures are not Post Quantum secure because breaking elliptic curve cryptography is not an exponential problem for Quantum Computers. But ethereum is being build to last centuries not just decades. To that end @leanEthereum has been working on PQ signature cryptography using hash based signatures which are one time signatures (OTS), and not plainly aggregatable. Not only that they are huge (~1.5kb). So this entire challenge started the "devnets" initiatives of leanEthereum. Herein come's the "leanVM" the ZK rail which can aggregate such signatures and makes the entire PQ strategy possible. We have already been through devnet0 to devnet4, and now devnet5!!! Devnet5 is monumental in that regard, entire block will carry just 1 signature, all aggregated across packed attestations, block signatures (and anything else that will comeup when we backport the spec to mainnet ethereum) However this is one side of the puzzle, to maintain a stable node, one should be able to repack the attestations from a side branch especially if it moves justification and finalization. and Voila again with leanVM magic, we are able to split the attestations that we need to repack from the combined block signature and repack/re-aggregate them into a new block proposer wants to propose. This places leanVM as the centrepiece in the entire ethereum post quantum strategy. and the current aim of all the devnets we have been running is to bring a production level performance and demonstration of the capabilities. There are 8 clients that participate in these devnets each bringing value to the table to add stability and robustness (and chaos lol). Because we know: "There's many a slip between the cup and the lip" Goal of all leanEthereum clients is to remove them, one "slip" at a time (or multiple slips at a time lol). Spec isn't good enough, we need production performance, Spec and production design/performance are unequivocally tied. this isn't just a POC network, this is a proposal for ethereum mainnet! Thats why we have been rigorously running devents, slowly scaling the validators and subnets and discovering and alleviating the issues so that we end up with a production grade PQ signature scheme that ethereum deserves and needs. And this focus is now gonna magnify 1000X now that we believe we are on a spec that can deliver PQ for mainnet. And mind you, the time of need is gonna strike soon. We not only intend to solve this conundrum for ethereum but propose to even upstream to bitcoin so that we have a PQ standard this entire space deserves. And all that based on a humble but extremely powerful leanVM that makes the hashbased cryptography workable for the production grade systems like ethereum and bitcoin. PS: we are currently heavily focused on debugging and scaling devnet4 spec devnets while we have already started to run sims and preliminary interops for devnet5. So stay tuned for further progress that we leanEthereum teams have been cranking out with a steady but heavy dose ☕️. May be all matrix is just ☕️☕️☕️
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A year of backtesting for the Fast Confirmation Rule confirms (!) that: - 96% of past blocks would have been fast-confirmed in a single slot. This could mean deposits from Ethereum to L2s or CEXes available in about 12 seconds! - The remaining 4% are usually confirmed fast too, usually much faster than other, less secure confirmation rules such as k-deep confirmations - No false confirmation is ever issued Client implementations continue 🫡
We built a simulator for the fast confirmation rule, and replayed a years worth of blocks and attestations on Mainnet. Across 800,000 mainnet slots, roughly 96 out of every 100 slots would have been fast-confirmed within 12 seconds. Zero false confirmations. Read more below!
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My OnEthereum newsfeed shows the multitude of continued developments, while the pricing is out of touch with reality. Ethereum continues shipping & innovating regardless of ETH price.
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Time to popularize CROPSmaxxing
what clavicular's popularity & lookmaxxing taught me about ethereum, and why Ethereum is the chain for certified HARDmaxxers, a 🧵
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me dialing into ACD when I’m 87 just to say: gm
Henri Matisse sketching on the wall. He became largely bedridden after major intestinal surgery, but persisted with his art.
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so many great things going on behind the scenes and my goal is to make them open narrative needs to meet execution, not the other way around, and i genuinely think that’s happening at levels we haven’t seen before.
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ETH the asset is the most important product of Ethereum CROPS (censorship/capture resistant, open, private, and secure) is how we strengthen and protect it
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Glamsterdam devnet-4 is out Combines consensus-specs alpha-8, bal-devnet-7 EL features, and the new Engine API targetGasLimit path. It also includes the updated EIP-8037 parameters for state creation gas
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The Big 3.
May 22
The Big 4.
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I ❤️NY
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This week we had 3 provers make the RTP Cohort on Ethproofs. Congrats to @ziskvm, @brevis_zk, and @AntChainOpenLab! zkDTVM was integrated into soundcalc (link below) last week as their final requirement ...let's see if they can make the liveness and performance cut again next week!
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RT @benjaminion_xyz: Upgrading Finality - Edition 1 Check out the plan for bringing fast finality to Ethereum. Hosted on the the brand ne…

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good summary. our formal verification work is vastly accelerating bc of all of this
Replying to @VitalikButerin
"Even more bugs are inevitable, software is all going to become probabilistic now" is cope. "AI bug-finding means we have to embrace closed-source now" is a psyop. Writing buggy code has moved from hard to trivial. Writing secure code has moved from impossible to hard.
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There's a new chapter starting for the Protocol cluster. We're welcoming new leads and coordinators, and continuing our work toward Glamsterdam, Hegotà, and the Strawmap. More in the blog below 👇
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Will Corcoran retweeted
It is time for the United States Postal Service to ban junk mail. Unsolicited spam calls are already prohibited by the FCC. Emails are heavily regulated by the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003. Junk mail is the majority of mail, 100 million trees per year. Enough!
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imagine shipping bal-devnet-5 from here
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🔐 New EIP-8250: Keyed Nonces for Frame Transactions 🔐 by @soispoke, @nero_eth, @lightclients and @VitalikButerin This replaces the single sender nonce with (nonce_key, nonce_seq), giving frame transactions independent replay domains. For privacy protocols, the key can be derived from a nullifier: concurrent withdrawals from a shared sender become possible, with inclusion atomically marking the nullifier spent. Target fork: Hegota Links below 👇
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Unironically putting this kid in charge of a US Sovereign wealth fund could fix our debt problems
Hear me out Warren > Hire this alien > Allocate him $25B from cash on hand > Let him cook
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