Announcing Ethlabs: a non-profit R&D lab for Ethereum and ETH Our mission is to make Ethereum the settlement layer of the global economy. The internet became global because shared protocols created a common language between networks. Private systems remained useful, but bounded. Finance is approaching a similar moment. As value, assets, and markets become digital, the world needs shared settlement infrastructure. Ethereum is uniquely positioned to become that shared base layer, the neutral foundation on which users, institutions, and agents can transact without intermediation. What we believe: • We believe credible neutrality matters. Ten years of uptime and the lowest counterparty risk. Ground that cannot be pulled away by any one country, institution, company, or person. • We believe ETH matters. The most valuable, programmable store of value. A decade of broad distribution, deep liquidity in onchain markets, and maximally trustless asset on Ethereum. • We believe DeFi matters. Markets, liquidity, credit, exchange, and coordination, open to anyone. • We believe adoption matters. Principles do not change the world until people benefit from them. We sit between two worlds: real usage from the builders at the frontier, and the protocol that has to support it. We work with users, applications, wallets, L2s, infrastructure teams, institutions, ETH holders, core devs and researchers, then turn what they actually need into protocol work, shared standards, infrastructure, and shipped products. Ethlabs is independent but Ethereum is a shared project. We are one node in a much larger network of stewards. This is the multi-node future. We have spent the better part of the past decade contributing to Ethereum core research and development. We are opinionated and transparent. We move with urgency, learn in public, and course-correct when we’re wrong. We are building a lean, talent-dense team for people who want to do the most important work of their careers: [email protected]

The US benefits when other economies adopt the dollar. People and businesses need to acquire and hold dollars to participate, creating more buy pressure and reinforcing its role as the global standard. L2s do the same for $ETH. Robinhood Chain alone in 2 months has processed $32B in trading volume against ETH pairs and $35M in transaction fees, paid in ETH. Users need ETH to transact, and liquidity providers hold it to support trading. This is what expanding ETH’s monetary role looks like.

After co-leading Protocol at @ethereumfndn, @barnabemonnot is now co-founder of @ethlabs_org, a non-profit R&D lab focused on growing Ethereum. He’s joining the Devcon 8 stage for “Fast Ethereum,” exploring what comes next for Ethereum’s users, builders & agents. Don't miss it!

Faster slots are such an obvious win for Ethereum There are many reasons to care about faster slots because everything built on Ethereum becomes more efficient. That’s true whether you’re an rollup-centrist or a L1 DeFioor At some point, it comes with tradeoffs but we have a fair amount of slack at the moment

First Decoupled Consensus networking benchmarks were just deployed 🔥🎢 Shoutout to @sukunrt and @_pk910_ for doing all the work! And thanks to @ethPandaOps and @parithosh_j for letting us tag onto their huge 1000 node Glamsterdam testbed

shapes is live on mainnet shapes.ripe.wtf

EIP-8198 introduces infra for variable slot timing, enabling Ethereum to gradually shorten slots as bottlenecks are better understood. We published our take on it, supporting the move toward shorter slots while arguing that geo incentives should remain part of the evaluation 👇

wow, people are really willing to pay quite a bit extra to use @RobinhoodCrypto - median fees often spike well above $0.20. That's significantly higher than fees on Ethereum Mainnet.

Ethereum L2 roadmap distracted from L1 scaling for a minute which perhaps was not great but longterm, L2s are insanely bullish because they created a substrate which every major institution in the world can build on while reinforcing the use of ETH (some a little, some a lot) there is no good reason to build your modular chain anywhere else and there are, instead, many reasons not to the current, absurdly low fees to do this (without having to pay to run your own consensus) are a feature, not a bug expect many, many more L2s to come in the next few years