Ethereum could soon be twice as fast, with 6-second slots Wallets and tools are becoming simpler and more unified Ethereum’s network is getting faster, safer, and harder to censor New proposals tackle cross-chain security and long-term scalability

🧑‍⚖️ Lido Approves Dual Governance, stETH Holder Veto Power 📱 dGEN1 Phone NFT Redemption Goes Live ⛽️ All Ethereum Clients Now Support 45M Gas Limit 💿 Geth v.1.16.0 Ships, Reduces Archive Node by 10x

🗞️ Today in Ethereum: 🕵️ Private, Stateless L2 IntmaxIO Live on Mainnet 🙋 Worldcoin Intros Priority Blockspace for Verified Humans 🎙️ All Core Devs Call #159 🧱 Ethereum L1 Reaches ATH in Stablecoins Usage + Much More Below! 👇

🏦 Gelato & Morpho Labs Intro Embedded Crypto-Backed Loans 💎 Bit Digital Shifts from BTC to $ETH Treasury 🏠 U.S. Allows Crypto Collateralization of Mortgages 🌿 Sky Launches Institutional Credit Platform, Grove

📰 Headlines 📟 ZKsync Intro's Airbender, zkVM proving Ethereum with a single GPU in seconds 💎 SharpLink Gaming buys 12,207 more $ETH ⛓ Chainlink partners with Mastercard 🤖 Verifiable AI Contest, VIBEscore, via EigenLayer

📰 Headlines: 🌀 Lodestar announces hybrid client architecture 🧪 ZisK RISC-V zkVM reaches 1.5GHz trace generation 🪩 Agglayer launches mainnet v0.3 ⏩ EIP-7782 proposes reducing slot time to 6 seconds 📊 Weekly active Ethereum addresses exceed 20 million

Blob Fees Are Getting Smarter Speculative Bots Are Crowding L2s Gas Is Going Multi-Dimensional The Blobpool Needs a Redesign Berlinterop Accelerates Fusaka

🎨 Zora Launches Creator Coins 💰 NasdaqBTCS Buys 1,000 more $ETH via Aave 🧑‍🔬 Ethereum Foundation Protocol Research Update 🔎 Morpho Introduces Web3SOC + Much More!

🛠 Launch of Dev Tools Guild 🔀 L2beat L2 Recategorization Goes Live ✍ Interop Edition of the "Checkpoint Series" 🏦 URNeobank Launches on Mantle Network

Welcome back to Ethereum Daily — where we cover the biggest headlines, protocol upgrades, research drops, and alpha across the Ethereum ecosystem. June 18 brought major moves in speed, zero-knowledge, tradfi adoption, and more. Let’s dive in 👇

- @eigenlayer Announces EigenCloud - @fileverse Release "dSheets" - @sparkdotfi Token Launch ($SPK) - @inkfndhq Announces Token - GENIUS Act Passes the US Senate + Much More in the Blog Post Below!

📌 TL;DR Flashbots warns that MEV threatens long-term scalability, calling for PBS.Validator activity and client diversity signal growing network strength.Ethereum outpaces Solana in fees, stablecoin flows, and ETF inflows.L2s and ZK infrastructure accelerate real-world adoption and developer access.🤖 Flashbots MEV ThesisFlashbots released a landmark thesis arguing that MEV imposes a structural limit on Ethereum’s scalability—where added throughput simply enables greater extraction. Their pre..