# Ethereum Observer #19

> The Post-Post-Pectra edition

**Published by:** [The Observer](https://paragraph.com/@observer/)
**Published on:** 2025-05-14
**Categories:** ethereum, observer, blockchain, news
**URL:** https://paragraph.com/@observer/19

## Content

A brief weekly roundup of Ethereum and industry news and headlines.Ethereum Core Dev (ACD) & L11/ @barnabemonnot shares the agenda for Protocol Research Call #002 — happening today and covering core roadmap items. barnabe.eth @barnabemonnot Our second Protocol research call is happening today at 14 UTC, hosted by @adietrichs. This call's topic is "Scaling L1", featuring @dankrad, @marcin_d_s from @NethermindEth, Csaba Kiraly, @DavideCrapis, Jacek Gleń from @imapp_pl, @fradamt, @potuz_eth from @prylabs, @nero_eth 45 9:49 AM • May 14, 2025 2/ @casparschwa unveils a fresh site and structure for the Robust Incentives Group, improving coordination on Ethereum incentive design. caspar @casparschwa The Robust Incentives Group is an Ethereum Foundation research team dedicated to the study of the Ethereum protocol through the lens of mechanism design. Same research, new look. 126 7:32 PM • May 13, 2025 3/ @ladislaus0x posts the EF Research roundup — covering recent thinking on L1 design, latency, and cryptoeconomics. ladislaus.eth @ladislaus0x Your weekly EF Research update covers: * Scaling the L1 with Delayed Execution * Simplifying the L1 on all fronts * Optimising the networking stack in peerDAS (for more blobs) * Patching cryptography vulnerabilities in execution clients * FOCIL & beam chain progress All posts 79 12:24 PM • May 9, 2025 4/ @TimBeiko recaps proposals for overhauling the All Core Devs process — including working groups and spec handoff structure. timbeiko.eth @TimBeiko Over the past few months, I've been thinking about how AllCoreDevs evolve to support Ethereum's maturing ecosystem and ambitious roadmap. Last month, I laid out a high-level framework for it (quoted here), and yesterday I published a more in the weeds follow up TL;DR timbeiko.eth @TimBeiko Reconfiguring AllCoreDevs To deliver on Ethereum's ambitious L1 roadmap, we should decouple planning and execution. To that end, I'm proposing we reorient ACD to focus on scoping future forks, and elevate our existing testing calls as the main venue for the current ones. 260 5:55 PM • May 8, 2025 5/ @ether_world summarizes highlights from ACDE #211, including updates on Fusaka and EOF removal. EtherWorld @ether_world Highlights of Ethereum's All Core Devs Meeting (ACDE) #211 Pectra Updates, Fusaka Fork, Proposal to Increase Gas Limit, Alternative Approaches to Gas Limit, ModExp EIPs, Long-Term Governance Planning & Pectra Pages etherworld.co/2025/05/08/hig… 6 2:15 PM • May 9, 2025 6/ @ProtocolGuild drops the latest 24H in ACD — a curated pulse check from inside protocol development. Protocol Guild @ProtocolGuild 24H in Ethereum Core Dev | May 13 - Tracking organic prover-killer blocks - Contract developer polls - Fulu devnet Feat. PG Members: @soispoke @timbeiko @manunalepa 12 11:30 PM • May 13, 2025 Ecosystem7/ @epicenterbtc interviews Ethereum Foundation Co-EDs @hwwonx and @tkstanczak on long-term strategy and neutrality. Epicenter Podcast @epicenterbtc NEW EPISODE The Infinite Garden: Humanity’s Shared World Computer @tw_tter chats with @hwwonx & @tkstanczak, co-executive directors of @ethereumfndn, about @ethereum's enduring commitment to its foundational principles and the pressures it faces in a rapidly evolving 142 9:59 PM • May 11, 2025 8/ @EF_ESP announces over $32 million in new grant funding for Ethereum public goods. EF Ecosystem Support Program @EF_ESP The Q1 2025 Allocation Update just dropped! Discover the standout projects that earned support at the beginning of the year blog.ethereum.org/2025/05/08/all… 367 12:47 PM • May 8, 2025 9/ @AndreaCanidio shares upcoming improvements to CowSwap’s batch auction system. Andrea Canidio @AndreaCanidio It’s official: @CoWSwap is upgrading its core mechanism — moving from the current Batch Auction to the Fair Combinatorial Auction! Exciting to see research make its way into the real world, and a big moment for on-chain trading infrastructure. 1/3 102 10:16 AM • May 14, 2025 10/ @family announces their new keyless wallet system — one step further from seedphrases. Family @family Family accounts eliminate seed phrases while preserving full self-custody. Read more: family.co The Crypto Wallet Problem – Why We Created Family Accounts Traditional wallets rely on seed phrases and private keys, but this approach has fundamental flaws. Losing access to your bank account because you misplaced a single piece of information would be... 80 5:13 PM • May 13, 2025 11/ @Uniswap rolls out one-click swaps, abstracting routing complexity behind a simple interface. Uniswap Labs 🦄 @Uniswap Introducing one-click swaps Now live on the Uniswap Web App for smart wallets with EIP-5792 support Fewer clicks, less gas, faster swaps 573 5:43 PM • May 13, 2025 12/ @Uniswap also celebrates crossing 3 trillion USD in total swap volume. Uniswap Labs 🦄 @Uniswap The Uniswap Protocol just crossed $3T in all-time swap volume DeFi is here to stay 920 8:23 PM • May 11, 2025 13/ @LC is hosting a spring hackathon, featuring sessions and bounties for developers across Ethereum. Lens Chain @LC Lens Spring Hackathon: May 5th to 20th, 2025. $50,000 in @GHO and $5,000 in $BONSAI in prizes. Build on Lens Chain, Protocol, and @onbonsai to win. 536 6:56 PM • Apr 25, 2025 14/ @jessepollak notes that Coinbase (via Base) is now part of the S&P 500 — a milestone for crypto’s mainstream presence. jesse.base.eth @jessepollak today: @coinbase is the first onchain company to join the S&P500 next step: bring the S&P500 onchain 3,113 1:11 AM • May 13, 2025 15/ @sassal0x posts the latest Daily Gwei Refuel — full of metrics, political signals, and funding updates. sassal.eth/acc 🦇🔊 @sassal0x The latest @thedailygwei Refuel is ready for your consumption! Today's topics: - Pectra live on mainnet - Ethereum Foundation update - Infinex Connect - and much more Watch youtu.be/X8TrVp1JWjU 276 2:08 PM • May 9, 2025 16/ @sassal0x also introduces SER, a new dashboard to track Ethereum reserves across bridges and treasuries. sassal.eth/acc 🦇🔊 @sassal0x The Strategic Ethereum Reserve (SER) is going to snowball so incredibly fast from here. Today, it's under 1 million ETH in the reserve. In a years time, I bet it's firmly over 10 million ETH in the reserve. The gold rush for ETH is going to be absolutely insane. 702 1:56 AM • May 14, 2025 17/ @StaniKulechov announces a collaboration between Aave and @AntChain to expand RWA integrations. Stani.eth @StaniKulechov I‘m pleased to announce Horizon’s strategic collaboration with @AntChain, one of the largest blockchain technology services providers in the world. We will work with them on a custom RWA market on Ethereum. 610 5:38 PM • May 9, 2025 L2s18/ @WonderFi announces joining Robinhood! WonderFi @WonderFi We're joining @RobinhoodApp to continue our mission of building accessible, transparent, and secure financial tools for the next generation of investors. Together with Robinhood, we'll keep building innovative products that make crypto accessible, so we can bring more people 196 1:03 PM • May 13, 2025 19/ @zkSyncDevs reveals a new Solidity compiler that improves dev ergonomics for zkEVM deployments. ZKsync Developers (∎, ∆) @zkSyncDevs solx is here. A modern Solidity compiler built on LLVM, enabling advanced optimizations like caching storage variables, loop unrolling, and constant folding. Built for Ethereum. Watch the video for how to use solx via Foundry and compare the gas consumption against solc: 220 6:46 PM • May 9, 2025 20/ @alignedlayer delivers the latest Zk Newsflash — this week focused on performance metrics, recursion, and hardware acceleration. Aligned @alignedlayer ZK-Newsflash! Here are the highlights of what happened in the ZK space from May 1st to 7th — presented by @BJ_Dyakov. Pectra upgrade is live on @ethereum! @VitalikButerin published an article explaining plans to simplify the L1. @Google adopted zero-knowledge 69 11:16 PM • May 9, 2025 21/ @Starknet launches @RealmsEternum on mainnet — a key moment for onchain gaming and ZK tooling. Starknet 🐺🐱 @Starknet Today is the day. Follow @RealmsEternum closely anon, full launch in ~4 hours. 58 10:48 AM • May 14, 2025 22/ @Optimism opens a new RPGF round focused on dev tooling — with applications already live. optimism.eth @Optimism Dev Tools make the onchain world possible. Optimism Retro Funding rewards them across Ethereum and the Superchain based on how much usage they receive. Get to know the latest recipients of Retro Funding… and maybe discover your new favorite dev tool. ↓ 177 11:55 PM • May 13, 2025 23/ @arbitrum introduces the DEFAI Agent Arena, a new initiative for experimenting with AI onchain agents. Arbitrum @arbitrum Today we are announcing a first of its kind activation with some of the top teams in the DeFAI space! This competition does not pit human against human, it pits machine against machine Arbitrum's Agent Arena: Where trading agents duke it out in the orderbooks for a $50K prize 534 4:37 PM • May 12, 2025 24/ @StarkWareLtd hits a huge milestone — over 1 billion transactions processed through its ZK stack. StarkWare 🐺🐱 @StarkWareLtd 5 years ago, we launched StarkEx to massively scale Ethereum. Today, we’ve surpassed 1 billion processed transactions on it. Industry leaders like Sorare are building on StarkEx, and now, this stack is available to everyone through the SN stack. 227 3:30 PM • May 12, 2025 25/ @Scroll_ZKP showcases AI-generated builds from the @DutchBlockWeek Hackathon. Scroll @Scroll_ZKP Amsterdam: calling all builders! Join us for the @DutchBlockWeek Hackathon (May 21-22) to bring your AI+compliance ideas to life. Two days. Real problems. Direct feedback from industry leaders, including our team. 265 9:39 PM • May 12, 2025 26/ @EthCC is almost here — and registration is now open. EthCC - Ethereum Community Conference @EthCC Cannes is where it's at this summer! And while EthCC[8] is shaping up to be the best edition yet, it just wouldn't be the same without you! Get ready to soak in the views and grab your ticket today: ethcc.io/tickets 164 12:35 PM • May 8, 2025 27/ @NathanSexer shares a comprehensive calendar of 2025 Ethereum events — mirrored on @Fileverse. Nathan Sexer | nethan.eth 🧉 @NathanSexer These events are also synced on: ethereum.org/en/community/e… And hosted on @fileverse: docs.fileverse.io dDocs | Privacy-enhancing Alternative to Google Docs Decentralized Docs: peer-to-peer document editor that keeps your data secure with end-to-end encryption. Real-time collaboration, onchain. Start collaborating privately now! 15 4:34 PM • Jan 28, 2025 📚 Last Week’s Edition: https://paragraph.com/@observer/18 Want to get involved? Comment or DM to help with curation, summaries, or tooling. Thanks everyone — see you next week. 🐼

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