Tim Beiko: All tests for Pectra EIP have been completed, and Pectra is officially launched.

Tim Beiko: Ethereum developers have decided to remove EOF from the Fusaka upgrade

Tim Beiko: Ethereum developers decide to remove the EOF proposal from the Fusaka upgrade

Tim Beiko confirms that Ethereum mainnet will execute the Pectra upgrade on May 7.

Tim Beiko's Summary of the 209th Ethereum Core Developer Execution Layer Meeting (ACDE)

Tim Beiko: Holesky will resolve upgrade failures through slashing, the Sepolia upgrade time remains unchanged, and the mainnet upgrade time is currently uncertain.

Tim Beiko: The Schelling point should be defined for different levels of trustlessness to promote institutional adoption of Ethereum.

Ethereum ACDE Meeting: Decision to Remove EIP 7907 from Fusaka Upgrade

Ethereum Foundation's New Leadership Structure Sparks Concerns Over Role Overload and Organizational Confusion

Former Galaxy Executive Questions the Chaotic New Organizational Structure of the Ethereum Foundation

Former Galaxy Digital VP Christine Kim: The new Ethereum Foundation structure is confusing. Tim Beiko, Barnabé Monnot, and Alex Stokes juggle leading all research teams, managing their own teams, and overseeing L1, L2 scaling, and UX improvements in the next 12 months. Why group consensus mechanisms with account abstraction but exclude stateless consensus? Why pair Testing with pandaops but leave Security ungrouped? https://t.co/60sRp3nMzO

Former Galaxy Executive Questions Confusing New Ethereum Foundation Organizational Structure Christine Kim, former Research Vice President at Galaxy Digital, posted on X, pointing out that the new Ethereum Foundation organizational structure is confusing. She mentioned that Tim Beiko, Barnabé Monnot, and Alex Stokes hold multiple positions, leading all of the foundation's R&D teams while also managing their own teams, and are responsible for L1, Layer 2 scaling, and improving user experience (UX) within the next 12 months. In addition, Christine questioned the details of the architecture diagram, including whether the bolded names are team leaders, the purpose of the highlighted sections, and whether Tim is responsible for protocol coordination and overseeing multiple projects. At the same time, she expressed incomprehension of the color grouping logic, such as why the consensus mechanism and account abstraction are grouped together, but stateless consensus, etc., are not included; why Testing and pandaops are grouped together, but Security is not.

The 213th Ethereum ACDE Meeting: Delaying the Gas Limit Increase to 60M According to Tim Beiko's summary of the 213th Ethereum Execution Layer Core Developer (ACDE) Meeting, the main discussion points included: delaying the increase of the Gas Limit to 60M (waiting for Berlinterop test to provide specific throughput and latency data) and, in the worst case, it will take about 3 seconds to execute; the Glamsterdam brainstorming session. FOCIL is being implemented in five clients with the aim of resisting memory pool scrutiny. EVM64 promises faster execution through a 64-bit algorithm; benchmarks are yet to be determined, among other topics.

The 213th Ethereum ACDE Meeting: Postponing the Increase of Gas Limit to 60 Million

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The Ethereum Foundation has restructured its leadership to focus on its streamlined roadmap. Developers Barnabé Monnot, Tim Beiko, and Alex Stokes say that "the world is ready for the world computer." Read more here: https://t.co/YxEDMoFpSO

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"This is a really positive step for Ethereum" - @ayyyeandy "We'll see more of these kind of abrasive, urgent actions as Ethereum responds to competition." "There are now three strategic goals that have split from the protocol research and development group." - @robbie_rollup "The three goals are scaling the L1, led by @TimBeiko and @adietrichs, scaling L2s by Alex Stokes and @fradamt, and improving UX by @barnabemonnot and @rudolf6_." "They basically took the community's feedback, heard it, and implemented it"

Ethereum Foundation Reorganizes R&D Team and Establishes "Protocol" Focusing on Three Strategic Goals According to the Ethereum Foundation's official website, the Ethereum Foundation has announced the renaming of its "Protocol R&D" team to "Protocol" and its reorganization around three strategic goals: L1 scaling, blob scaling, and user experience improvements. Tim Beiko, Alex Stokes, and others will be responsible for the specific execution, and some members will leave the foundation. This change aims to improve R&D collaboration efficiency, accelerate zkEVM and Layer 2 integration, and promote the global expansion of Ethereum.

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The 212th Ethereum ACDC Meeting: Fusaka Devnet-0 to Launch on May 26 According to Tim Beiko's summary of the 212th Ethereum Execution Layer Core Developers Meeting (ACDE), the main topics discussed were: Fusaka Devnet-0 will launch on May 26; Fusaka EIP scope discussion (EIP-7825 will cap transaction Gas at 30M; EIP-7918 will anchor Blob fees to the Base Fee to mitigate fee volatility; both are confirmed to be included in Devnet-1); testnet strategy (first fork Sepolia, retain Hoodi for application testing; encourage the community to maintain long-term testnets). Next week's CL call will decide on EIP-7917. At the next ACDE call (in two weeks), the team will finalize the scope of Devnet-2 and review update proposals for EIP 7212, 7934, 7907, and 5920. The Glamsterdam discussion will begin after the Fusaka scope is finalized.

As the Pectra mainnet upgrade rolls out, the Ethereum ecosystem is accelerating its transformation. Lido Finance @LidoFinance has announced optimized Pectra staking, allowing 2,048 ETH node deployments. Tim Beiko @TimBeiko pointed out that the Pectra mainnet upgrade will enable large operators to consolidate validators, reducing bandwidth usage. Uniswap @arbitrum is testing a gasless trading interface. Arbitrum @arbitrum announced Pectra compatibility, reducing transaction costs to as low as $0.01. While the Pectra upgrade significantly reduces data storage costs for Layer2 solutions, on-chain transaction verification remains a critical bottleneck. Zero-Knowledge Proofs (ZK) offer tremendous potential here, significantly reducing proof generation time and on-chain storage requirements. What can ZEROBASE do? - Providing Lido Finance comprehensive distributed verification, reducing single-node failure risk, improving overall efficiency, and ensuring data reliability for large staking nodes. - Offering comprehensive ZK authentication, privacy protection, and smart contract auditing solutions for Uniswap to ensure transaction authenticity, protect user privacy, and reduce MEV risks, helping Uniswap achieve a truly decentralized trading experience. - Providing data integrity verification, batch verification optimization, and privacy protection solutions for Arbitrum, along with support for off-chain data storage validation, off-chain computation auditing, and MEV risk mitigation, enhancing Arbitrum’s transaction efficiency and boosting user and developer engagement. Interested? #ZK #ZEROBASE

Ethereum core developers have released a proposal recommending a restructuring of the AllCoreDevs governance process.

Happy Pectra Day! Thanks to @VitalikButerin, @TimBeiko, & @ethereum for making this upgrade PAWsome! 🐾 https://t.co/LX3UTgx3mG

🚨 Breaking: @ethereum's Fusaka upgrade removes EOF for enhanced stability and safety, confirms developer @TimBeiko. Impact mainly on $ETH with no significant effects on other cryptocurrencies #Ethereum https://t.co/iANMdT47Ut https://t.co/4dTUSdDVrU

Ethereum’s Fusaka hard fork faces pushback, set for late 2025 - Ethereum’s next major upgrade, the Fusaka hard fork, is now expected between Q3 and Q4 2025, according to Ethereum Foundation co-executive director Tomasz Stańczak. - The Fusaka upgrade will bundle several scaling improvements, including EIP-7594 for peer data availability sampling and EIP-7892 for blob parameter changes. - It fuses elements from the planned Fulu and Osaka upgrades. Controversy is brewing: - The Fusaka fork originally planned to introduce the EVM Object Format (EOF), a major overhaul of how Ethereum smart contracts are deployed and processed. - The Ethereum community remains divided. Some see Fusaka as a much-needed technical boost to Ethereum’s scaling roadmap. - Others worry that rushing large changes like EOF without full consensus could destabilize the network. - After heated internal debates and rising community concerns over its complexity and unclear benefits, developers led by Tim Beiko have removed EOF from Fusaka's roadmap. - Opponents argue that EOF, while technically elegant, risks adding unnecessary layers to the system without immediate rewards for users. - Developers like Pascal Caversaccio and Paradigm CTO Georgios Konstantopoulos have warned that its complexity outweighs its necessity. - Stańczak clarified that EOF was never intended for the Pectra upgrade scheduled for May 7. 

Ethereum Fusaka Hard Fork Scheduled for Late 2025 Tomasz Kajetan Stańczak, Co-Executive Director of Ethereum, revealed that the Fusaka hard fork upgrade is planned for implementation in the third or fourth quarter of 2025, with the exact timing yet to be finalized. On the same day, core developer Tim Beiko announced that due to technical uncertainties potentially affecting the upgrade schedule, the controversial EVM object format (EOF) upgrade has been removed from Fusaka. Originally, EOF was set to overhaul smart contract development through 12 EIP proposals, including introducing the RJUMP instruction to replace the traditional JUMP, and adopting structured bytecode containers for optimization. Supporters argue this would improve EVM efficiency, but opponents claim it overcomplicates the system and requires synchronized updates to the development toolchain. A dedicated poll on the Ethereum voting platform ETHPulse shows that 39 addresses holding 17,745 ETH oppose the upgrade.

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Summary of the 210th Ethereum Execution Layer Core Developers Meeting (ACDE)

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Ethereum developers are considering increasing the L1 gas limit by four times as a key feature of the Fusaka hard fork.

🎉The Ethereum Pectra Upgrade is Set to Launch on the Mainnet on May 7th. Will it be a Boost for ETH? Tim Beiko, head of protocol support at the Ethereum Foundation, announced today that the Ethereum mainnet will undergo the "Pectra" upgrade on May 7th (epoch 364032). This is one of the largest upgrades ever, aimed at improving Ethereum's scalability, security, staking efficiency, and user experience. 🔑 Upgrade Highlights Overview: 🔹EIP-7702 Launch: Extends smart contract functionality to traditional accounts (EOA), enabling advanced features such as transaction batch processing, Gas sponsorship, and social recovery without migrating assets. 🔹Increase Validator Effective Balance: * Small nodes can directly reinvest their earnings into staking to increase returns. * Large nodes can consolidate validators to reduce P2P network bandwidth requirements. * Accelerates deposit processing and introduces execution layer-triggerable withdrawal mechanisms, laying the foundation for trust-minimized staking. 🔹Doubling of Blob Count: Helps with L2 scaling. 🔹EIP-2537 Introduces BLS12-381 precompile. Tim emphasized that this upgrade is one of the largest forks in Ethereum's history. 📚 See the official announcement for complete details and client support versions: https://t.co/klIgXYgy6v

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Ethereum core developers have proposed to restructure the ACD meeting mechanism, separating strategic planning from technical implementation discussions.

Ethereum Execution Layer Developer Meeting #208: Focus on Pectra Upgrade, Fusaka Updates, and Historical Data Strategy

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The Ethereum mainnet Pectra upgrade is expected to be executed as early as April 25, depending on the status of the new testnet Hoodi.

#EthStorage Tech Lead wrote a summary on Pectra Upgrade issue and the experience: Ethereum’s recent price performance has been a concern for many ETH holders, with some looking forward to the upcoming Pectra upgrade as a potential turning point for the ecosystem. However, this upgrade has faced challenges in its activation on public testnets. The first activation attempt on Holesky remains incomplete, and the second activation on Sepolia last week also encountered issues. Fortunately, the core development team quickly released new client versions to restore network stability. As node operators on Sepolia, we were monitoring the network closely, especially after the Holesky issues. Shortly after the upgrade activation, we noticed a surge in empty blocks, indicating that transactions were not being processed. Confirmation came from @TimBeiko’s tweet that the upgrade had encountered problems. Within a few hours, Geth and other execution clients released updates, restoring normal operations. The root cause of the issue was related to Ethereum’s staking deposit contract, which had been customized for testnet use with a “token gated” mechanism—allowing only specific token holders to interact with it. However, this mechanism clashed with the deposit contract’s processing logic, which assumed no ERC-20 event emissions during transactions. When such an event occurred, the contract rejected the block as invalid, causing network instability. After diagnosing the problem, the client teams prepared and coordinated a fix, set for release in 3.5 hours. To keep the network running in the meantime, testers reverted the problematic transaction, temporarily stabilizing the network. However, attackers quickly exploited the same vulnerability, prompting the team to privately discuss and deploy a fix on controlled nodes to mitigate further disruptions. Finally, when the full upgrade rolled out, the attack was neutralized. This incident highlights the complex coordination challenges and security risks of decentralized networks, even on testnets. Given Ethereum’s significant impact on the broader community, even testnet upgrade issues can cause concerns among ETH holders. Hopefully, the core team will take an even more cautious approach to future upgrade testing. Wishing the Ethereum mainnet Pectra upgrade a smooth deployment! 🚀

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