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• Lido Approves Dual Governance, stETH Holder Veto Power

• dGEN1 Phone NFT Redemption Goes Live

• All Ethereum Clients Now Support 45M Gas Limit

• Geth v1.16.0 Ships, Reduces Archive Nodes by 10×

@SreeramKannan argues that long-term Ethereum security hinges on robust economic incentives rather than social consensus alone, urging designers to keep validator rewards competitive. The post challenges complacency around “ultra-sound money” assumptions and calls for measurable resilience metrics. Why this matters: Economic security is real, and should guide protocol upgrades and staking policy.

Paradigm’s Georgios Konstantopoulos outlines how zero-knowledge tech unlocks privacy and scalability without compromising decentralization. He highlights Ethereum’s mature tooling and community as a flywheel for rapid ZK adoption. Why this matters: Investor and developer conviction steers talent and capital toward Ethereum and its rollups.

All execution-layer clients—including the new Nethermind 1.32.0—now default to a 45 million gas block size. The change follows coordinated testing across teams and brings minor block-building revenue improvements. Why this matters: Higher limits squeeze more transactions into each block, lowering base-layer fees ahead of Danksharding.

Go-Ethereum shipped path-based archive mode, cutting full-history storage from ~20 TB to <2 TB and adding performance boosts. Operators can enable it with --gcmode=archive. Why this matters: Lighter archive nodes widen access for researchers and small teams who need the full chain state.

Christine Kim reports core-dev consensus to explore 512 ms slot times for the next hard fork, code-named “Glamsterdam”. Shorter slots mean faster finality but require networking tweaks. Why this matters: Reduced latency benefits rollups and MEV searchers while keeping re-org risk acceptable.

Jimmy Chen confirms PeerDAS spec freeze after devnet-2; focus shifts to hardening and mainnet shipping. Sigma Prime’s post details bug-fix priorities. Why this matters: PeerDAS is the last piece before data-availability sampling, a prerequisite for blob-space scaling.

Token Terminal data shows apps on Ethereum have generated ~$26 billion in user-paid fees since 2015, led by Tether, Uniswap and Circle. Why this matters: Sustainable protocol revenue underpins ETH’s value-capture narrative.

Wu Blockchain lists Coinbase, Bit Digital, Mega Matrix and others with ETH on balance-sheet. SharpLink has already staked holdings for yield. Why this matters: Corporate treasuries adopting ETH diversify crypto exposure beyond Bitcoin and signal institutional confidence.

Public Company Bit Digital pivots from BTC to ETH, winding down BTC mining operations and raising $115 million fund to Ethereum validator deposits and treasury management. Why this matters: This marks a continued trend of public companies purchasing ETH as a treasury asset and looking beyond BTC for exposure to the crypto asset class.

Ladislaus.eth summarizes fresh posts on EIP-7782 (2× shorter slots), WFR-Gossip networking, multidimensional gas metering and L2-interop. Why this matters: Transparent research notes help the community track proposals before they hit ACD calls.

Brevis benchmarks real-time block proving on a single RTX-4090, beating the nearest competitor by 25 %. Why this matters: Commodity GPU acceleration slashes prover costs for rollups and light-client bridges.

EthProofs leverages Reth’s debug_executionWitness to drop fetch times from minutes to milliseconds. Why this matters: Near-instant data access unlocks on-chain analytics and fast proofs for zkVMs.

Jaehaerys proposes a mev-boost-style layer that bundles transactions for high-throughput ZK rollups. Why this matters: Standardized middleware can coordinate builders and provers on the road to 1 Gigagas/sec.

@TziokasV highlights Prividium’s deal with Deutsche Bank as proof that a full privacy stack is attainable today. Why this matters: Enterprise-grade confidentiality attracts regulated institutions to on-chain finance.

Aztec Network shows users can prove they’re over a threshold age without exposing personal data. Why this matters: Selective disclosure paves the way for compliant DeFi and social-media gating.

Layer-2 researchers describe packaging zkSync tech for turnkey deployments, enabling firms to spin up custom rollups in one click. Why this matters: Simplified chain launches could accelerate the “modular enterprise” trend on Ethereum.

Lido voters approved a mechanism giving stETH holders formal veto rights over DAO proposals. Why this matters: The move aligns token-holder incentives and adds another check against governance capture.

Ethereum Phone opened NFT redemptions; devices are “shipping from Virellion Prime to Earth.” Why this matters: Hardware with native wallet integration broadens on-chain access for mainstream users.

Obol Collective partners with Blockdaemon to secure $110 B in institutional assets via DVT clusters. Why this matters: Fault-tolerant validators reduce slashing risk for large-scale stakers.

Worldcoin debuts Rollup Boost with Flashbots and Alchemy providing infra for human-verified transactions. Why this matters: Dedicated blockspace could attract non-Sybil user bases and new consumption patterns.

dKloud brings decentralized cloud services to Arbitrum to tap cheaper L2 fees. Why this matters: DePIN projects migrating to rollups diversify use-cases beyond finance.

@Hibachi_xyz unveiled a Celestia-backed privacy CLOB, but auditors flagged upgradable-contract risks. Why this matters: Community scrutiny prevents rushed mainnet launches from exposing user funds.

Senators Tim Scott and Cynthia Lummis plan to introduce comprehensive crypto legislation before the August recess, with markup in early September — per David Sacks. Why this matters: A clear federal roadmap could unlock institutional compliance budgets and settle jurisdictional turf wars.

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