Week in Ethereum News, April 27, 2024

This is a weekly roundup of Ethereum news for April 27, 2024, with its editor listed as @abcoathup, and it announces that the newsletter is planning to be deprecated. The Pectra upgrade, a small fork targeting late 2024, features prominently, with Pectra-devnet-0 adding EIP7685 general purpose execution layer requests. Other items include Lido at 28.69%, close to the 33.3% threshold, and Geth at about 63% of execution layer clients. The roundup also reports a $129k Magpie cross-chain swap exploit and a $36k Rico exploit on Arbitrum, and a Consensys Wells notice from the SEC over MetaMask Swaps and MetaMask Staking.