On November 26, the U.Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals overturned sanctions imposed by the U.Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) against a decentralized cryptocurrency mixing service (a blockchain-based technology used to enable transaction anonymity) accused of facilitating money laundering.

Execution layer focused protocol call (ACDE #201): Pectra upgrade: Mekong testnet: 97% participation, client teams fixing issues Pectra-devnet-5 spec: ideally launch devnet before the holidays EIP2537 BLS precompile: 2-3x gas cost increase proposed, agree async EIP7623 increase calldata cost: scheduled for inclusion in Pectra, discuss on testing call which devnet to add to EIP7762 increase min blob base fee: not included for now, discuss at RollCall (L2 standards) & consensus layer call (ACDC) next week EIP4803 limit transaction gas: proposed to retroactively include History expiry plan: pre-merge expiry set for May discussed if new eth/70 protocol needed (EIP7639) All Core Devs process improvements: added Declined for Inclusion EIP status and non-consensus changing EIPs can be included in upgrade Meta EIPs Client testing call #15: Mekong testnet deposit processing fixed and Pectra-devnet-5 spec discussions Pectra system contracts for consolidations, withdrawals & block hash lookup; used instead of precompiles, implemented in Assembly Stateless implementers call #28 (formerly Verkle): file based approach for preimage distribution and implementation in progress of EIP7736 leaf-level state expiry Bandwidth availability shows reasonable to increase blob count EVMMAX implementers call #Poseidon planned as first use case Slashing event: 21 validators slashed for attestation violation SOLO: proposal for liquid staking using portion of stake unlikely to be lost, without needing governance, trusted hardware or permissioned operator sets Lido at 28.1%, still too close to 33.threshold Client diversity (via clientdiversity.org): Execution layer: Geth ~43% & Nethermind ~36% (estimate based on 74% self reported data) Consensus layer: Prysm 35% Any client bug over 33.could mean loss of finality Better geographic diversity is optimal, particularly outside of North America & Europe Consensus layer: Lighthouse v6.0.hierarchical state diffs (on-disk tree states) for more compact archive nodes, downgrading requires resync Nimbus v24.11.faster forward sync, experimental light client-based sync (testing only) and fixes config mismatch errors for unscheduled upgrades Arbitrum Connect: interface for users to force include transactions during sequencer downtime EIPs (Ethereum improvement proposals): EIP7830: Contract size limit increase for EOF EIP7833: Scheduled function calls EIP7834: Separate metadata section for EOF ERCs (application layer): ERC7831: Multi-chain addressing ERC7832: Sustainable NFT collections ERC7835: wallet_transmitCrossChainIntents method ERC7836: Wallet call preparation API Foundry: forge build 10-36% faster compilation, forge coverage 2x faster Hardhat v2.22.17: adds Solidity v0.8.28 support Ape v0.8.21 (Python contract framework): faster console launch & auto fork chains Frangio: Solidity learnings & working on EVML (EVM language) Tornado Cash reference manual: architecture, Circom circuit, Solidity contracts and client side proof generation & verification eth_simulateV1 explainer: standardized approach for multicall via JSON-RPC Rotki balance scanner (Vyper): query ETH/token balances, deployed on mainnet & L2s Drift (create cached contract calls): adds hooks Safe owner manager: manage Safe multisig owners & thresholds in bulk Vestra $500k exploit on mainnet Clipper (DEX) $460k exploit on Optimism & Base Spectral Syntax v2 $200k exploit on Base via infinite approval ETH Rangers, $25k stipend from EF for public goods security work, December 20 deadline Mimic: Tech Lead Engineer Vyper (Pythonic EVM language) seek a DevRel Nethermind: AI Agent, Infra, Blockchain, Full Stack, BizDev & Researcher.

New Token Below $1 That Could Achieve What Ethereum (ETH) Did in 2017 and Solana (SOL) in 2021 Ethereum became historical in 2017 when it firmly established itself as a transforming agent in the cryptocurrency market. Smart contracts introduced on the platform transformed blockchain technology...