# ethdevnews weekly #0 | ethdevnews by @abcoathup

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Submitted by freeatnet.eth on 2025-08-01 UTC, 7 upvotes, 1 comment

## Summary

This weekly Ethereum developer newsletter covers protocol upgrade planning, staking data, and developer tooling, among other topics. Core developers aim to upgrade mainnet with Fusaka before Devconnect (November 17-22), with the upgrade schedule and testnet order to be confirmed at ACDC. Other items include an EthStaker survey reporting 23% genesis stakers and 60% running 1-5 validators with their own capital, Lighthouse at 42.7% consensus-layer client diversity, and Roman Storm's jury continuing deliberations.

## Article

Roman Storm jury deliberating, Justin Drake’s lean Ethereum, mainnet turns ten

All core devs (main protocol calls)

All core devs - execution (ACDE) #217

Fusaka upgrade:

Ideally upgrade mainnet before Devconnect (November 17-22). Confirm upgrade schedule & testnet order at ACDC

EIP7825 16.8M transaction gas limit cap: concerns on breaking some apps, decide if increase needed at ACDT

PeerDAS balance per additional custody group: home & fractional staking concerns, decide if increase needed in Fusaka at ACDC

Glamsterdam upgrade:

Consensus layer headliner short list (from last ACDC): EIP7732 ePBS, EIP7782 6-second slots, EIP7805 FOCIL

EIP7928 Block-level Access Lists set to Considered for Inclusion (CFI), likely execution layer headliner if ACDC choose EIP7732 ePBS as consensus layer headliner

All core devs - testing (ACDT) #46

Fusaka upgrade:

Fusaka-devnet-3 live: testing MEV-Boost & EIP7892 blob parameter only upgrades

EIP7910 eth_config: spec refined

Layer 1

EIP7732 ePBS:

Terence: in defense of free option problem

EIP7805 FOCIL:

FOCIL breakout #16: ePBS compatibility presentation

FOCIL changes in Execution Layer & compatibility with EIP7928 Block-level Access Lists

Code chunk analysis: breaking up bytecode into smaller chunks is a viable option to reduce witness size as only small proportion of bytes & chunks are used

Staking

EthStaker staking survey results: 23% genesis stakers, 60% run 1-5 validators with own capital, 27% run validators rather than liquid staking to benefit the network

Client diversity:

Consensus layer: Lighthouse 42.7%

Execution layer: Geth ~41%, Nethermind ~38% (estimated from 74% self reported)

Staking marketshare: Lido 24.8%

Client releases:

Consensus layer

Grandine 1.1.2: 45M default gas limit & optimizations

Nimbus v25.7.1: fixes potential syncing-related crash

Teku 25.7.1: 45M default gas limit

Execution layer

Erigon v3.0.15: bug fixes

Nethermind 1.32.4: fix peer discovery

Layer 2

Linea tokenomics: plan to burn ETH (20% of net income gas fees)

Research

Julian Ma: in-protocol prover market proposal, builders deposit a prize whilst building a block, anyone who submits a proof can claim a share of the prize in the next slot

Sponsor: Dev Tools Guild

The Dev Tools Guild unites critical Ethereum developer tooling to collectively fund projects and their maintainers (think Protocol Guild but for dev tooling), and boost coordination between protocol and dev tools developers.

Member projects:

Smart contract languages: Solidity & Vyper

Client libraries: alloy, ethers.js, Nethereum, viem, web3.py & Web3j

Frameworks and developer environments: Ape, Foundry & Scaffold-ETH

Standardization tooling: Sourcify

Follow @devtoolsguild, Visit devtoolsguild.xyz, Fund at donate.devtoolsguild.eth

Ecosystem

Justin Drake’s lean Ethereum vision:

Defense (fort mode): 100% uptime, survive anything (e.g. nation states & quantum computers)

Offense (beast mode): gigagas L1, teragas L2, realtime zkVMs, DAS, beacon chain 2.0, blobs 2.0, EVM 2.0 & hash-based cryptography

Ethereum mainnet turns ten:

“believe in somETHing” campaign on X

ETH metrics:

Gas (gwei): 1.1 average, 0.2 - 10.2 (16.3 for zero net issuance)

ETH supply change: 17k net issuance

ETHUSD: $3,619 – $3,934 (all time high $4,878, November 10, 2021)

ETH ETFs: 4.57% of ETH supply

ETHBTC: 0.032 (0.165 for the Flippening)

Developers

Foundry:

v1.3.0: forge lint (built-in linter), invariant test time-based campaigns & coverage-guided fuzzing, table tests and improved EIP712 support

Forge-std v1.10.0: added getRawBlockHeader, stopRecord, setSeed, EIP7702: attach/sign delegation and EIP712: hash struct/type/typed data

OpenZeppelin Contracts MCP: generate contracts with AI using Contracts Wizard templates

Ethereum Community Foundation BlobKit (TypeScript): use blobs as ephemeral, verifiable data layer

Halmos (symbolic testing): invariant testing guide

Content coin metadata: find/load coins created via Zora & Uniswap v4 pool

Linda Xie: vibe code a Farcaster mini app

TrueBlocks Create Local App: Go-based scaffolding for TrueBlocks/Wails desktop apps

Safe Research: encryption in web3

ERCs (application layer standards):

ERC7994: Purpose-bound ERC20 with multi-condition unlocking

ERC7995: Encrypted data

ERC7996: Contract Feature Detection

Reminder: Holešky testnet being deprecated, migrate to Hoodi

Security

Base builders: free security reviews from Coinbase’s Protocol Security team

Arbitrum Audit Program selected audit firms to provide subsidized contract audits

Applications

Bring Argentina onchain

CoW Swap cross-chain swaps in a single transaction

Enterprise

PayPal Pay with Crypto, including ETH & USDC, coming to US merchants

Visa expands stablecoin support including PayPal USD & EURC

Regulation

Roman Storm trial: jury deliberations continue Monday (jury events to watch for)

Free Roman Storm campaign

Virgil Griffith out of home confinement

US President’s working group digital asset report

US SEC:

Project Crypto: modernize rules/regulations so financial markets can move onchain

In-kind creation/redemption permitted for crypto ETFs

ZachXBT: Cameron Redman convicted in relation to X account compromises

Paid listings

abcoathup seeks paid work. DM to chat

Dev Tools Guild: July update

Listings: $100 in ETH/USDC (max 70 characters). Email abcoathup at gmail

General

WOO X $14M stolen: team members device compromised in phishing attack

PSE: Metal MSM v2: GPU acceleration improvements for Multi-Scalar Multiplication on Apple devices

Trail of Bits: exploiting end-of-life home network devices

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## Comments

**tim**: > Price: $2000 in ETH/USDC. 50% discount for August 2025 and 20% discount for multiple issues.

Wild, considering that they have 50 subscribers