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0/ Updates from the last two weeks in the Ethereum ecosystem, a guest thread by Ethereum Daily creator @rue1776 

I’m thrilled to share this thread to recap the most notable updates & announcements from Ethereum builders over the last few weeks 🧵👇

*L1 News & Core Development*

1/ Core Devs have agreed to launch a new testnet, Hoodi, on March 17th to complete Pectra testing. Once successfully forked, the hard fork will be scheduled to go live on mainnet 30+ days later. And Fusaka planning is already up and running in parallel!

ACDE Recap

A new testnet, Hoodi, is going live Monday to wrap up Pectra testing, if you need to test validator exits, be on the lookout for it! Everything else can be tested on Sepolia &amp; Holesky. 

Pectra will be scheduled 30+ days after Hoodi forks successfully,  pending infra… https://t.co/FK05GmtPnk

timbeiko.eth

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*L1 News & Core Development*

1/ Core Devs have agreed to launch a new testnet, Hoodi, on March 17th to complete Pectra testing. Once successfully forked, the hard fork will be scheduled to go live on mainnet 30+ days later. And Fusaka planning is already up and running in parallel!

https://x.com/TimBeiko/status/1900232845194649787

2/ Nethermind Ready for Pre-Merge History Expiry Support on May 1st with 1.31 release. Once activated, full nodes will reduce pre-merge storage needed by approximately 50% (down to 320GB from the 700GB needed today)

History-expiry update:
More than 80% of Ethereum full node disk space is occupied by history, so data not needed to validate new blocks. 

With the latest 1.31.* releases, @NethermindEth is fully ready to drop pre-merge history via ERA files.

Dropping history requires… https://t.co/UbN7bR0Pvv

Marek Moraczyński

2/ Nethermind Ready for Pre-Merge History Expiry Support on May 1st with 1.31 release. Once activated, full nodes will reduce pre-merge storage needed by approximately 50% (down to 320GB from the 700GB needed today)

https://x.com/M25Marek/status/1896682044912030087

3/ Sigma Prime's Lighthouse 7.0 enables light client support! This boosts decentralization by letting users verify transactions directly on Ethereum without relying on centralized RPCs, even on resource-constrained devices like smartphones

Vitalik loves light clients and we do too: 

Lighthouse is enabling 𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐜𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐛𝐲 𝐝𝐞𝐟𝐚𝐮𝐥𝐭, making trust-minimised consumers (i.e. wallets) more viable than ever! 

With this rollout the share of beacon nodes providing light client data is… https://t.co/dtNURMLivO

Sigma Prime

3/ Sigma Prime's Lighthouse 7.0 enables light client support! This boosts decentralization by letting users verify transactions directly on Ethereum without relying on centralized RPCs, even on resource-constrained devices like smartphones

https://x.com/sigp_io/status/1896790151290142741

4/ Fidelity has filed with the CBOE to add staking to it's FETH ETF. If approved, this would be the first financial product to provide access to yield bearing ETH, or any other token.

JUST IN: $4.5 trillion asset manager Fidelity files S-1 form for Spot Ethereum ETF with staking included. https://t.co/KHNTt02qld

Watcher.Guru

4/ Fidelity has filed with the CBOE to add staking to it's FETH ETF. If approved, this would be the first financial product to provide access to yield bearing ETH, or any other token.

https://x.com/WatcherGuru/status/1772999593577390172

5/ New nonprofit org "Ether Guild" announced to promote ETH as money (to those that don't already know ;) ). Stay tuned for their educational initiatives and community quests to direct funding and advance shared ETH-supporting goals

Introducing Ether Guild:

A group of hyper-focused ETH supporters, working to elevate ETH, the money, in service of Ethereum, the computer.



🧵👇 https://t.co/9a9o9HYBho

ethismoney.eth

5/ New nonprofit org "Ether Guild" announced to promote ETH as money (to those that don't already know ;) ). Stay tuned for their educational initiatives and community quests to direct funding and advance shared ETH-supporting goals

https://x.com/ethismoneyHQ/status/1899104142897086854

6/ The EF granted funding to ZKnox, an open-source research org enhancing Ethereum’s efficiency and security against quantum threats. They've already used Number Theoretic Transform (NTT) tech to cut certain transaction costs by 12x

1/ Introducing ZKnox @zknoxhq ! This new research organization is at the forefront of advanced cryptography, backed by a grant from the Ethereum Foundation. Their mission: provide high impact open source code that improves Ethereum security and efficiency.

Ethereum Foundation

6/ The EF granted funding to ZKnox, an open-source research org enhancing Ethereum’s efficiency and security against quantum threats. They've already used Number Theoretic Transform (NTT) tech to cut certain transaction costs by 12x 

https://x.com/ethereumfndn/status/1896592240228893072

7/ Aave is shipping! Over the last two weeks they have announced the institution-focused Project Horizon, proposed new tokenomics to conduct $1M worth of buybacks every week for one year, and added EURC support on Base

Introducing Project Horizon—our new initiative at Aave Labs focused on building institutional DeFi products. https://t.co/97BAAyvwZ0

Aave Labs announces Project Horizon, a new initiative focused on building institutional DeFi products.

Learn more:

https://t.co/IPruxFuvrH

Aave

7/ Aave is shipping! Over the last two weeks they have announced the institution-focused Project Horizon, proposed new tokenomics to conduct $1M worth of buybacks every week for one year, and added EURC support on Base

https://x.com/aave/status/1900188291418513783

8/ Circle launches CCTP V2, enabling instant cross-chain USDC settlement, enhanced post-transfer composability via Hooks, and 1:1 burn-and-mint without liquidity pools. Live on Ethereum & Base, coming soon to Arbitrum & Linea!

The future of cross-chain is here with CCTP V2!

Now available on @avax, @base, and @ethereum. Support for @LineaBuild, @arbitrum, and @solana is coming soon, with more blockchain expansions expected this year.

⚡ Fast Transfer: cross-chain USDC settlement in seconds
🔀 Hooks:… https://t.co/eK9InRuv6W

Circle

8/ Circle launches CCTP V2, enabling instant cross-chain USDC settlement, enhanced post-transfer composability via Hooks, and 1:1 burn-and-mint without liquidity pools. Live on Ethereum & Base, coming soon to Arbitrum & Linea!

https://x.com/circle/status/1899446974941905132

9/ Lido released its Composable Staking Module V2 Vision, aiming to scale beyond 10% share of stake, onboard solo stakers and DAOs, and enable custom modules like slashing protection for institutions or high-risk/high-yield staking

summary

The vision for Lido CSM V2 is here ✨

https://t.co/7okCX6N0Ui

TLDR:
• Scale CSM to a double-digit percentage share of Lido stake.
• Increase meaningful participation of Community Stakers.
• Keep CSM rewards share structure competitive.

👇

Lido

9/ Lido released its Composable Staking Module V2 Vision, aiming to scale beyond 10% share of stake, onboard solo stakers and DAOs, and enable custom modules like slashing protection for institutions or high-risk/high-yield staking

https://x.com/LidoFinance/status/1899476896909345019

10/ Gitcoin's GG23 features 6 Community Rounds: Regen Coordination, GoodDollar GoodBuilders, Token Engineering, Superchain Retro Round, Regen Rio de Janeiro, Gitcoin Grants Garden, and Web3 for Universities. Applications open 3/17, donations start 4/2

https://x.com/gitcoin/status/1900273769450541324

Community Rounds have been announced! 🤝 Here are the 6 Community Rounds that Gitcoin will provide matching funds to:

🌐 Regen Coordination
🛠️ GoodDollar GoodBuilders
⚡️Token Engineering the Superchain Retro Round
🌿 Regen Rio de Janeiro 
💐 Gitcoin Grants Garden
🎓 Web3 for… https://t.co/CmVlPSChh5

Gitcoin

Obol Distributed Validators (DVs) are coming to the @Spire_Labs Based Stack!

Let’s break down why this matters for Ethereum’s future.

🧵👇 https://t.co/HZVcSkg9bZ

Obol Collective

11/ Obol's Decentralized Operator Ecosystem partners with Spire for proposer commitments and Swell for restaking. This month, Obol also launched and approved Staking Rewards for the OBOL token

11/ Obol's Decentralized Operator Ecosystem partners with Spire for proposer commitments and Swell for restaking. This month, Obol also launched and approved Staking Rewards for the OBOL token

https://x.com/Obol_Collective/status/1900187591590416503

12/ Blackrock and Securitize's BUIDL becomes first onchain money market fund to reach $1 billion in TVL. The fund also distributed $21M in dividends to its holders in its first year.

12/ Blackrock and Securitize's BUIDL becomes first onchain money market fund to reach $1 billion in TVL. The fund also distributed $21M in dividends to its holders in its first year.

https://x.com/Securitize/status/1900279960600010829

13/ Lens Chain introduces Grove: Onchain Controlled Storage, enabling users to control and monetize their content while managing access. Lens also migrated to ZKSync's Elastic Chain for greater scalability and account abstraction

13/ Lens Chain introduces Grove: Onchain Controlled Storage, enabling users to control and monetize their content while managing access. Lens also migrated to ZKSync's Elastic Chain for greater scalability and account abstraction

https://x.com/LC/status/1896985155270787521

14/ The Build & Brew Hackathon by Espresso and partners offers a $100K prize pool and technical workshops from Across, Hyperlane, Offchain Labs, OpenZeppelin, Infura, BootNode, and AWS

https://x.com/EspressoSys/status/1899528896279929223

15/ ERC-7683 has reached 65 app & chain adopters! This marks significant progress towards solving cross-chain interoperability across the various L2s in Ethereum's ecosystem.

15/ ERC-7683 has reached 65 app & chain adopters! This marks significant progress towards solving cross-chain interoperability across the various L2s in Ethereum's ecosystem.

https://x.com/nikokampouris/status/1889917277954514996

16/ Base is...BASED: Flashblocks cuts block times to 200ms, L3 Appchains offer dedicated scalable blockspace, and Smart Wallet SubAccounts streamline UX by reducing popups and managing accounts across L2s

16/ Base is...BASED: Flashblocks cuts block times to 200ms, L3 Appchains offer dedicated scalable blockspace, and Smart Wallet SubAccounts streamline UX by reducing popups and managing accounts across L2s

https://x.com/base/status/1895222961789116481

17/ Celo is coming home to Ethereum and launching as an L2 on March 25th, as a part of the Optimism Superchain! Celo offers a key differentiators among other L2s with its mobile-first design and focus on ReFi and support of emerging markets.

17/ Celo is coming home to Ethereum and launching as an L2 on March 25th, as a part of the Optimism Superchain! Celo offers a key differentiators among other L2s with its mobile-first design and focus on ReFi and support of emerging markets.

https://x.com/Celo/status/1896617306509500661

18/ OP's Futarchy Contest is live! Predict which grant recipients will boost Optimism’s TVL using PLAY tokens. No real money needed. Top forecasters win real OP tokens

18/ OP's Futarchy Contest is live! Predict which grant recipients will boost Optimism’s TVL using PLAY tokens. No real money needed. Top forecasters win real OP tokens

https://x.com/Optimism/status/1899252336155037876

19/ Arbitrum Portal just got an update and serves as a comprehensive ecosystem hub and gateway to discover and access all Arbitrum-based apps, tools, and resources.

19/ Arbitrum Portal just got an update and serves as a comprehensive ecosystem hub and gateway to discover and access all Arbitrum-based apps, tools, and resources.

https://x.com/arbitrumcore/status/1900551561740173434

20/ Builders like these create unmatched innovation on Ethereum and make it the premier place to build a truly permissionless, global, and secure financial system.

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