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The Time to Build a Better Social Network for Ethereum Is Now

Crypto Twitter distorts Ethereum’s priorities, rewarding outrage over progress. This post lays out a better way forward

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Why Is Everyone in Ethereum Talking About TEEs?

TEEs are emerging as a tool in Ethereum’s infrastructure, enhancing privacy, security, and decentralization across MEV, rollups, and bridges. This piece explores how Flashbots, Scroll, and Taiko are leveraging TEEs to shift MEV dynamics, enable rollup innovation, and improve bridge security.

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Who Even Were the Cypherpunks?

The cypherpunks were a group of hackers, cryptographers, and activists who built tools to defend privacy and freedom, shaping the foundation for Bitcoin and Ethereum. This post dives into their history, key innovations, and how their ethos lives on in today’s decentralized systems.

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Supporting Self-Builders with Distributed Block Building

The purpose of this post is to provide an update on the progress in addressing how to scale the network’s data availability processing capacity while enabling solo staking validators to continue to self-build and distribute blocks as the network scales. 

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Behind the Scenes of Ethereum’s Open Coordination

How Ethereum’s ecosystem uniquely tackles complex problems through open collaboration and coordination across diverse teams. By focusing on improving user experience with rollups, the community is working towards creating the United Chains of Ethereum, where wallets abstract away the complexity of interacting with multiple chains. It showcases how Ethereum’s decentralized, transparent approach to proble solving drives innovation and paves the way for a seamless user experience.

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Was the Rollup-Centric Roadmap a Mistake? Are L2s Truly Ethereum?

The rollup-centric roadmap was a strategic move by the Ethereum community to accelerate scaling while maintaining decentralization and security, by leveraging L2s that integrate closely with Ethereum.

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On The Verge of Stateless Clients

How stateless clients will revolutionize scalability and decentralization. Learn how they enable lightweight nodes to run directly in your browser, enhance security by detecting invalid state transitions, and pave the way for millions of nodes globally, making Ethereum truly decentralized

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Just Another Restaking Explainer

Restaking is a new method for securing blockchain infrastructure projects by leveraging the value already in the Ethereum network. It's transforming the landscape of decentralized security and introducing novel ways to incentivize participation and ensure the reliability of essential services.

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Private Transactions: Where MEV and The Public Mempool Go to Die

The public mempool, the traditional gateway for Ethereum transactions, is declining due to MEV. The community has responded with innovative solutions. You can redesign applications to optimize transactions before hitting the mempool, minimizing MEV risk. Or, you can submit transactions directly, byp

From Abstract to Accessible: Ethereum's Journey Towards Programmable Accounts

A guide exploring ERC-4337 and how it changes Ethereum's account system by introducing smart contract accounts, offering enhanced security and user flexibility over traditional EOAs. This piece also dives into future account related developments in Ethereum