Vitalik Buterin Reflects On Strengths, Weaknesses of Ethereum, ‘Hardening’ the Blockchain The co-founder and intellectual leader of the largest smart-contracts blockchain ecosystem addressed a packed room at the EthCC conference in Brussels.

MEV Has Spread to Bitcoin, in Subtler Forms Than on Ethereum There are several ways to front-run a pending bitcoin transaction. One in particular could lead to private mempools, and thus centralization of authority on the blockchain.

Ethereum’s Next Upgrade, ‘Pectra,’ Could Include Relief for Institutional Stakers, Wallet UX Improvements Developers’ aim with Pectra is to make some minor code changes while simultaneously working on a bigger code change, Verkle trees, for the following upgrade.

Far Out Sci-Fi Ideas Inspired by New Ethereum Token Designs

Ethereum Platform Infura’s Step Toward Decentralization Includes Microsoft, Tencent Infura, from the Ethereum developer ConsenSys, is so dominant that it’s been cast as a potential single point of failure. Now it’s creating a “decentralized infrastructure network” to help protect against outages – enlisting a “federated” group of partners.

Blockchain Startup Kinto Plans ‘First KYC’d’ Ethereum Layer-2 Network After Raising $5M The Kinto network, built with the Optimism’s OP Stack, features native know-your-customer (KYC) checks and investor accreditation mechanism to help onboard regulated financial institutions.

The Protocol: Kraken Awakens – as Ethereum L2 Candidate In this week’s edition of The Protocol newsletter, we explain how Kraken is reportedly considering launching its own layer-2 blockchain, following Coinbase’s recent launch of a similar network, amidst a broader trend of companies creating Ethereum-based transaction solutions.

Nil Foundation Plans New Ethereum Rollup With Zero-Knowledge Proofs, Sharding The foundation claims that this will be the first ZK rollup that enables sharding, combining two popular scaling technologies.

Ethereum Has Layer 0 Power. But It Could Still Blow It Before it becomes foundational infrastructure for the next stage of the internet, there are three risks that the blockchain needs to avoid, says Paul Brody, head of blockchain at EY.

Ethereum’s Dencun Upgrade Is a Step Toward a Scalable Settlement Layer: Goldman Sachs The upgrade will enhance the blockchain’s scalability using rollups, will optimize gas fees and improve the network’s security, the report said.

South Korean Investors Prefer Altcoins to Majors, Tron to Ethereum: DeSpread Research Koreans trade differently to the rest of the world, market data shows.

This Cybersecurity Pro Gets Paid to Hack Ethereum – for the Good of the Network One technique that these Ethereum Foundation security researchers use to protect the blockchain is “fuzzing,” a term borrowed from the software-development industry that’s become a common way of checking to make sure a system is secure and resilient.

POL Contracts Go Live on Ethereum Mainnet as Part of Polygon 2.0 POL token will power every blockchain that runs atop the Polygon network.

Scroll Confirms Mainnet Live, as Co-Founder Predicts Speed Gains Over Ethereum Blockchain data showed that Scroll’s smart contract was deployed on Oct. 8, but the team held off making its official announcement until this week.

Ethereum’s New Low-Fee Regime May Put Its ‘Ultra Sound Money’ Thesis to Test The Ethereum network’s revenue from fees dropped to its lowest level since April 2020 as speculative activity disappeared and users migrated to layer 2s, IntoTheBlock said.

Ethereum Has Nearly Cleared Out Validator Queue, a Sign of Weak Staking Demand The waiting time to deploy new validators to the Ethereum network has diminished to just five hours from a peak of 45 days in early June.

Ethereum Has Become More Centralized Since the Merge and Shanghai Upgrades: JPMorgan The increase in staking has reduced the appeal of ether from a yield perspective, the report said.

The Protocol: Which Ethereum Layer-2 Project ISN’T Competing to Land Celo? In this week’s issue of The Protocol, we highlight layoffs hitting key firms as well, and how blockchain projects are competing for new mandates – specifically big Ethereum layer-2 developers like OP Labs, Polygon and Matter Labs vying to provide the technology for the Celo blockchain’s new network

The Most Pressing Issue on Ethereum is Validator Size Growth If appetite for staking on Ethereum does not slow meaningfully over the next several months, the size of Ethereum’s validator set could become problematic for the blockchain, says Christine Kim, Vice President of Research at Galaxy Digital.

Opposing Centralization in Ethereum Staking