Ethereum (ETH)

Looking To The Future Kieran Mesko's most anticipated developments in privacy: private information retrieval... a way to query your shielded balance without the computational overhead that currently makes it significantly heavier than a simple public chain lookup. He also highlighted EIP-7702 and related account abstraction proposals that would allow programmatic control over transaction entry points, enabling smart wallets and privacy wallets to define their own conditions for whether a transaction should even attempt to execute. He describes @RAILGUN_Project as already functioning effectively as a smart wallet in this sense, and sees these EIPs as making that architecture significantly more usable and accessible to ordinary users. Bitcoin Takeover S17E27 with @mesquka

Today, the EF is changing shape, concluding a months-long process of reorganization as part of the implementation of the Mandate and the Treasury Management Policy. We come out of this process with the structure, activities, and people necessary for execution on the critical tasks ahead of us, but also with 54 fewer colleagues, roughly 20% of the EF, many of whom will be finding ways to contribute to Ethereum from outside the EF in the coming weeks. Find a brief introduction to the new structure, and learn more about how we are supporting the people who are leaving in the full post below:

This year, the EF is decreasing its budget by roughly 40%, which entails some difficult decisions. The goal of the decreases was set out in the Treasury Management Policy last year: the EF is transitioning into being a long-term-oriented endowment-based organization, shifting from its pre-2026 average of spending ~15% of its remaining funds each year, toward a post-2030 target of ~5% per year. Often, when an organization goes through something like this, people try to pretend that nothing of great value was lost, that it is an efficiency increase, that the only people cut are unproductive dead weight, and everyone else stopped partying, studied the blade, entered cracked S-tier beast mode, and this was sufficient to make up up for the downside. I will not try to pretend this. I respect my EF colleagues far too much to pretend that there was not much that is lost. They are brilliant people. They are dedicated engineers of whom some have worked on the Ethereum protocol for nearly a decade. They have brought a bri

While Ethereum reserves on exchanges are plunging and hitting historic lows... The amount of ETH locked in staking continues to rise, setting new historic highs. It's beautiful to see something like this. I don't know if you're noticing, but a generational token shift is occurring in Ethereum between short-term lettuce hands and diamond hands that truly understand the potential and hold unshakeable long‑term conviction. For many it's the end of the world, Ethereum is dead, overvalued, has failed, is a failed project, worth nothing, serves no purpose, is another scam, makes no sense... But for others we are facing a rare, exceptional, wonderful, extraordinary opportunity. Choose your poison. ethereum:native

The @ethereumfndn Ethereum Foundation announces the departure of 54 employees (about 20% of total) and a broad internal reorganization plan.

Vitalik Buterin says the Ethereum Foundation is reducing its budget by about 40%, moving to a long-term endowment model, and prioritizing funding for Ethereum’s next major upgrade. https://t.co/ca99gmN6KK