Private, verifiable agent actions need specialist cryptographic infrastructure✨ FRESH

Lukas Helminger argues agentic finance and identity need high-performance specialist cryptographic primitives, not general-purpose zkVM or FHE systems, because production deployments cannot tolerate current overheads.

Why scaling Ethereum is bullish for L2s✨ FRESH

Etherealize argues that higher Ethereum L1 throughput strengthens, rather than weakens, L2s by lowering settlement and data availability costs while pushing rollups toward more honest differentiation around customization, compliance, and interoperability.

Vitalik on what blockchains are for from first principles✨ FRESH

Vitalik argues that blockchain value is clearest when viewed from first principles: Ethereum as a public bulletin board, ETH as a permissionless payment and anti-sybil mechanism, and smart contracts as a shared programming layer for decentralized, private, secure software.

STRK20s Technical Paper is now live✨ FRESH

The STRK20s Technical Paper is now live. It outlines the design, architecture, and core ideas behind STRK20s, a privacy capability for any ERC-20. If you’re bullish on privacy as crypto’s next major unlock, this paper is for you.

The 7 Powers in Crypto✨ FRESH

Daniel Barabander adapts the 7 Powers framework to crypto, arguing durable onchain advantages come from internet bearer assets, liquidity network effects, brand, and security.

Yann LeCun unveils AMI Labs after a $1.03B seed round✨ FRESH

Yann LeCun announces Advanced Machine Intelligence (AMI Labs), says the company has closed a $1.03B seed round worth €890M, and notes that it is hiring.

World Build Labs returns for a third edition to back founders building for 38M+ users✨ FRESH

Friends With Benefits says World Build Labs is back for its third edition, backing founders building apps with Worldcoin and promising distribution to 38M+ users across 160+ countries.

Ethereal news weekly #14✨ FRESH

Weekly #14 covering the first ePBS devnet going live, the Aave Labs temp check passing, and the Synthesis AI plus human hackathon.

ObelyZK: GKR-based verifiable ZKML inference for billion-parameter models on Starknet✨ FRESH

ObelyZK reports 14B-parameter verification on Starknet with aggregated weight binding, reduced calldata, and an 18-transaction streaming Cairo verifier.

Introducing JJHub✨ FRESH

FUCORY introduces JJHub, a new code platform for agentic engineering teams.

Vitalik proposes switching Ethereum finality from Casper FFG to Minimmit✨ FRESH

Vitalik says Ethereum may replace Casper FFG with Minimmit as the finality gadget, moving from two-round to single-round finality with lower attestation overhead.

Introducing OpenZeppelin Skills✨ FRESH

OpenZeppelin introduces the first release of OpenZeppelin Skills, starting with nine skills that give AI agents up-to-date knowledge of Contracts libraries for secure development and upgrades.

Introducing the Google Workspace CLI✨ FRESH

Addy Osmani introduces the Google Workspace CLI, covering Drive, Gmail, Calendar, and the broader Workspace API surface with 40+ agent skills.

Lean Ethereum is preparing for a PQ future✨ FRESH

Thread breaking down the discussion on hash-based SNARK security for Lean Ethereum and the EF M prize.

ETHSkills: give your agents the skills they need to build onchain✨ FRESH

Austin Griffith introduces ETHSkills, a resource focused on giving AI agents the knowledge they need to build production Ethereum applications.

The updated Aztec Product Roadmap is live✨ FRESH

Aztec says all the code is now complete to build privacy-preserving smart contracts on Ethereum, with eight years of work converging in the updated product roadmap.

The MEV Letter #128✨ FRESH

Flashbots publishes MEV Letter #128, a weekly roundup of recent MEV research, posts, and discussions spanning CFMM pricing, PBS market structure, Ethereum roadmap threads, and protocol calls.

Jolt now supports zero-knowledge✨ FRESH

Jolt now supports zero knowledge, making it suitable for privacy applications without SNARK recursion, wrapping, or loss of transparency.

OtterSec found the same Fiat-Shamir bug in six independent zkVMs✨ FRESH

OtterSec says the same Fiat-Shamir bug affects six independent zkVMs, allowing attackers to bypass the cryptography and prove mathematically impossible statements.

Introducing Edge, a high level, strongly statically typed DSL for the EVM✨ FRESH

Edge is a high level, strongly statically typed, multi-paradigm domain specific language for the Ethereum Virtual Machine built in Rust.

Matthew Green on anonymous credentials and how to build them

Matthew Green shares a new post explaining anonymous credentials and previews a longer follow-up on how they fit into age verification systems.

Ethereal news weekly #13

Weekly #13 highlighting the top clicked links: strawmap roadmap, Justin Drake’s strawmap overview, how crypto actually works, V on fast slots and fast finality, and Bungee’s Incognito.

Ethereum quantum resistance roadmap: tackling BLS, KZG, ECDSA, and ZK proofs step by step

Vitalik outlines a step-by-step plan to make Ethereum quantum-resistant, addressing BLS signatures, KZG commitments, ECDSA, and ZK proofs.

Giza unifies ARMA and Pulse into one agent for onchain capital management

Giza merges its ARMA and Pulse products into a single unified AI agent for managing onchain capital.

ZO0K: a family of zero-overhead zero-knowledge hash-based SNARKs

New construction built from interleaved linear codes achieves zero-overhead proofs, advancing practical ZK-SNARK efficiency.

peon-ping: Stop babysitting your terminal

Sound notifications for any AI agent with hooks for Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and more.

cmux: The terminal built for coding agents

New tool I found and I’m trying out: a native macOS terminal for coding agents with multitasking-focused UX.

Vera Rubin deep dive: extreme co-design evolution from Grace Blackwell, NVL72 TCO and BoM analysis

SemiAnalysis breaks down NVIDIA's Vera Rubin architecture, covering NVLink 6, ConnectX-9, cableless compute tray design, and NVL72 TCO.

Introducing strawmap by EF Protocol

Justin Drake introduces strawmap.org, a dense technical strawman roadmap resource aimed at advanced researchers and protocol readers.

Introducing TBD

TBD introduces a product for global polling, prediction markets on outcomes, and USD rewards based on human signal.

WASM-sandboxed Foundry tools for Lemon

z80 shipped WASM-sandboxed Foundry tools for Lemon to support advanced onchain agent workflows with a developer-first integration approach.

TBPN: Prime Intellect’s Will Brown on continual learning in 2026

Will Brown says continual learning could be solved in the first half of 2026, framing it as primarily an engineering problem.

Introducing evmresearch

A knowledge graph of six years of EVM learnings, structured to accelerate research for both humans and AI agents.

Smithers: Deterministic, durable AI workflows defined as React components.

Quick note from dcbuilder: Smithers is an AI workflow tool built by x.com/fucory.

The MEV Letter #127

Weekly roundup of MEV papers, articles, threads, and ecosystem updates curated by Flashbots.

Found a cool new Git-compatible VCS: Jujutsu (jj)

Quick note from dcbuilder: jj (Jujutsu) is a new version control system that is Git compatible.

Bankless: Ethereum’s last big upgrade is the zkEVM

Live discussion with @adietrichs on proof-based verification, real-time L1 proofs, and the shift from re-execution to verify-once scaling.

Anthropic reports industrial-scale model distillation attacks

Anthropic says DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and MiniMax created over 24,000 fraudulent accounts and 16M+ Claude exchanges to extract model capabilities.

Citrini outlines a 2028 crash scenario despite AI outperformance

A macro scenario thread describing a deep S&P drawdown, rising unemployment, and credit stress even as AI exceeds expectations.

Ethereal news weekly #12

Weekly #12 covering FOCIL as Hegotá consensus-layer headliner, Ethereum Foundation protocol priorities, and Base moving to its own stack.

ZK Summit 14 in Rome (may 7th 2026) applications for speaking and attending are open!

Justin Drake dives deep into Lean Ethereum

Episode 1 of a six-part Lean Ethereum series covering consensus/data/execution, post-quantum cryptography, faster finality, and enshrined ZK.

Bungee introduces Incognito swaps

Announces Bungee Incognito, a privacy-focused swap mode.

FOCIL (EIP-7805) is SFI’d as the CL headliner for the Hegota fork

Post on why prioritizing FOCIL improves censorship resistance and inclusion guarantees, and why this is an important cypherpunk-aligned step for Ethereum.

Nethermind shipped Log Index to speed up large-range eth_getLogs queries

Large-range eth_getLogs queries often slow down or timeout at high block ranges; Nethermind announced Log Index as a fix.

SEC Chair says tokenized securities can trade onchain

Recap from Denver: Paul Atkins says issuers could tokenize securities for onchain trading in AMMs and other systems.

SP1 Hypercube is now live on mainnet!

stokes announces three Ethereum Protocol tracks for 2026

Thread introducing three work tracks at Ethereum Foundation Protocol: Scale, Improve UX, and Harden the L1.

Introducing PrivateX402 for multi-agent AI payments

Privacy-preserving payment channel protocol for multi-agent AI systems, with design/privacy/scaling details and article link.

A new, unified stack for Base Chain

Base is evolving to its own spec, code, and infra to ship protocol improvements more frequently.

OpenAI introduces EVMbench

A benchmark for how well AI agents can detect, exploit, and patch high-severity smart contract vulnerabilities.

Announcing Remainder: Tools For Humanity’s GKR prover for machine learning is now open-sourced

Tools For Humanity open-sourced Remainder, a GKR prover for ML enabling on-device model execution with cryptographic proofs.

Network Anonymized Mempools

This post introduces Flashnet, a new anonymous broadcast protocol with much lower latency than existing alternatives.

encrypt V2 is live with private bridging across 6 chains

Announces encrypt V2 for private bridging across Solana, Polygon, BNB Chain, Base, Arbitrum, and Ethereum with sub-2 minute execution.

Announcing the Platform team

New EF Platform team focused on delivering the strongest Ethereum platform across L1 and L2.

BREAKING: Inside Sam Altman's "Proof of Human" Company 'Tools for Humanity'

As agents scale, this post unpacks why proof of human may become core internet infrastructure.

GasHawk introduces KNOX, pivoting to capital efficiency

GasHawk says it is pivoting from transaction efficiency to capital efficiency and introduces KNOX as a universal layer for reshaping DeFi risk.

Ethereal news weekly #11

BlackRock BUIDL tradeable via UniswapX, ENS staying on mainnet, Solidity developer survey

Tomasz K. Stańczak to step down as EF co-ED and to be replaced by Bastion Aue

GasHawk is sunsetting

Today, we are making the difficult decision to sunset GasHawk.io.

Succinct is partnering with Optimism to integrate ZK into the OP Stack

$AZTEC is now live

America in the Intelligence Age

Introducing Lab: A full-stack platform for training your own agentic models

Something Big Is Happening

Zero: The Decentralized Multi-Core World Computer

Nitro launches a 3-month crypto project accelerator

Trail of Bits contributes skills for security engineering

Chrome 146 previews WebMCP (early flag)

Building an Ethereum client with AI

Ethereal news weekly #10

Looking ahead to AZTEC's TGE

Announcing Payy Network on Ethereum

New from Paradigm: A tool for exploring prediction market data - find markets you never knew existed

A Fresh Start for Tokenomics in 2026

Introducing Interoperable Addresses: Send assets across any Ethereum chain using alice.eth@chainName

2003 game reverse engineer from scratch by decompiling the binary using only codex 5.2

Ethereum's latest account abstraction proposal EIP-8141 adds frame transactions - its best yet

Prove ownership over your agent swarms with World ID - platforms can verify incoming molts have a human owner

Update to my personal website, new job/candidate boards, investments and more!

Introducing Lighter EVM. An EVM-equivalent rollup natively interoperating with Lighter!

Ethereum Foundation entering period of mild austerity to deliver aggressive roadmap while maintaining long-term financial resilience

Cryptography can do incredible things - ZK proofs, MPC, threshold encryption. Why aren't we using them everywhere? Read our blog to see how we're solving this

MegaETH Public Mainnet: Feb 9, 2026

On the Sherlock Security Podcast

Lighter requires staked LIT for LLP access - 56M already staked

How Clawdbot injected malware via GitHub issues

Introducing Trinity Large: 400B MoE model

Friend user interview: AI touchpoints in rural America

Tools For Humanity Engineering Fellowship for under-24s

Quantum computing vs blockchains: the real threats

A Tidal Change: The Future of Digital Identity II

A dive into new digital identity, cryptography, blockchain primitives and their applications.

My humble learnings about angel investing

Personal experiences and lessons learned from angel investing in crypto, AI, and scalability projects over the years.

2023 recap and goals for 2024

A reflection on 2023 at Tools For Humanity, launching Worldcoin, and my goals and predictions for 2024.

The Future of Digital Identity

A holistic overview of digital identity, new cryptographic primitives like ZK, FHE, MPC, TEEs, and the building blocks for a better identity future.

2022 recap and future prospects

A look back at 2022, my journey in blockchain development, joining Worldcoin, and goals for 2023.

DevPill.me - A public good blockchain development guide

Introducing DevPill.me, a community-sourced public good blockchain development guide to help developers navigate the web3 ecosystem.

The ultimate guide to L2s on Ethereum

A comprehensive guide to Layer 2 scaling solutions on Ethereum, covering optimistic rollups, zk-rollups, validiums, and the future of Ethereum scalability.