Vitalik Buterin

As DevConnect kicks off in Buenos Aires, Vitalik and friends call for a reset

New short and long-term priorities include L1 gas boosts, ZK-EVMs, privacy reads, and a lean, quantum-resistant Ethereum

EVM bottlenecks fundamentally hold back Ethereum’s scalability

Vitalik Buterin catches flack with pro-communism joke

Tribe Capital’s Evan Park and Blockworks Research’s Ryan Connor explain the issues with Ethereum and outline potential fixes

Building onchain public goods is noble but they don’t always make the number go up

Some of Ethereum’s top minds shared a kumbaya moment at Devcon around uniting Ethereum’s fragmented ecosystem

While inclusion lists could strengthen Ethereum’s censorship resistance, they also raise legal questions that might push participants out of regulated markets

Other notable raises included two Series As from Conduit and Crossover Markets

EIP-7702 was quickly adopted for the next Ethereum upgrade, but developers haven’t quite locked it down

Plus, Robinhood announced that it entered into an agreement to acquire Bitstamp, one of Europe’s largest and longest-serving crypto exchanges

And, weeks of a potential crypto ETF decision are no stranger to chaos

New EIP would resolve disagreements around the best path towards universal smart contract wallets by temporarily giving EOAs superpowers

Binius operates over binary code and is designed to store information using bits

Plus, Ethereum’s blobs get the inscriptions treatment and Kevin Hart sells his Bored Ape

Vitalik Buterin has some thoughts on memecoins, and one firm says it’s shorting MicroStrategy

A greater focus on data availability sampling is top of mind, including additional work that layer-2s must do to become faster and more secure

There needs to be more solo stakers on Ethereum today; could Rainbow Staking be the solution?

Vitalik Buterin wants to firm up the account abstraction roadmap

AI-related tokens were up following the Ethereum co-founder’s blog post

Crypto loves little more than hot market-moving gossip, and whether it’s real or fake news doesn’t seem to matter

Blockworks exclusive: The PBS Foundation has collected $1 million to fund initiatives related to proposer-builder separation on Ethereum

Technological advancement, thanks to zk-SNARKS, puts Plasma back in the limelight

Permissionless: Enterprise blockchain was a mostly failed idea in 2017, but Buterin thinks it can make a comeback