Ben Edgington
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Ex @OPLabsPBC and @Consensys_Teku. Older than Vitalik's dad.
UK
Joined August 2017
Some of my favourite recent upgrades to Upgrading Ethereum: 😎 Dark mode 🔍 Search 🍴 Annotated Fork Choice Check out all the shiny new things here,
eth2book.info
A technical handbook on Ethereum's move to proof of stake and beyond.
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One of my favorite "Meet the Devs" interviews is now available to watch/listen on all @ready4merge podcast channels! 🎙️
The votes are in and this week's show is out! Meet @robocopsgonemad, a full-time #Ethereum developer who works on the @HyperledgerBesu client at @Teku_Consensys. The full interview is now public on: https://t.co/WlM803werx
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I totally get this - my Teku/Besu combo is so trouble-free I just forget it's there for months at a time. But Fusaka is coming soon! Time to upgrade.
when you spend 2.5 hours a week listening to core devs, and the rest of the time talking about client updates, thinking about staking dynamics and ethereum upgrades but you realize you haven't logged into your node in 6 months. and fusaka is in 3 weeks
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🎙️ New Episode: November 11, 2025 -Senate votes to end the shutdown! -Knives out for Chuck Schumer -Democrats are NOT happy -What’s next for Obamacare pandemic subsidies -The end of the Sierra Club -A fond farewell to Nancy Pelosi and her historic insider trading
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Sharing RIG's view on EIP prioritization for Glamsterdam. RIG has (co-)authored many EIPs proposed for Glamsterdam, and we took inspiration from how each client team positions themselves, so we wanted to offer our Glamsterdam view as well. Note that we only take a position on
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We just raised $2.5M from @Consensys, @ConsensysMesh, and @ethereumJoseph to rebuild what drives crypto from the inside out. Because too many founders have been forced to choose speed over sense.
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A quick comparison of the Bank of England's recent stablecoin consultation 🇬🇧 with the GENIUS Act 🇺🇸 Backing model & central-bank deposits BoE: Requires a floor of unremunerated BoE deposits (≥40%) with the remainder in short-term UK government debt (≤60%). Why? deposits at
The Bank of England’s cap on stablecoin ownership is a poison pill for Britain’s financial sector. Britain cannot afford to be left behind.
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Shameful from the Bank of England. Stablecoins represent one of the greatest opportunities for the UK to modernize finance and "export" the pound globally. I urge everyone to stand up against this nonsensical rule-making and call out the BoE.
🚨UK TO CAP STABLECOIN HOLDINGS AT £20,000! 🇬🇧The Bank of England has proposed new rules to regulate, including a £20K limit per user.
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📢Super excited to announce BittyTax v0.6 is now available!🚀 https://t.co/rMY1RaTj5r It’s our biggest update ever!🔥 1. New colour PDF tax report, including split CGT rates for 2024/2025. 2. Report margin trades, futures, or other derivative gains/losses, with support for
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Important:- CoinDesk have deprecated their price API. You will need to remove it from your bittytax.conf config file, see (#318). Fixed Coinbase parser: fixed regex to handle whole numbers, and a ...
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“The validator layer needs redundancy, diversity, and security. That is where Distributed Validators come in — and where Obol has emerged as the clear leader.”
Distributed Validators are reshaping Ethereum’s staking layer by eliminating single points of failure and enabling institutional participation. We’ve backed @Obol_Collective since 2023. Learn more from @veradittakit ⬇️ https://t.co/b99pBUGwn1
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Fusaka is scheduled to activate on mainnet on December 3, 2025 at 21:49:11 UTC. Check rest of thread for EF blog post for further details, and some highlights
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Starting a thread of the Fusaka-mainnet ready software updates: First up, MEV-Boost, software that all validators wanting to earn MEV on #Ethereum must download and run:
mev-boost v1.10 full release is out 🚀 https://t.co/T1ExNk9npv ‼️ required update for Fusaka ‼️ key features: Fusaka changes, new GetPayloadV2 API, Prometheus Metrics, X-Timeout-Ms header big thanks to @BharathVedarth1 & @721Orbit for their work! 🙏
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Besu 25.11.0 - Release is now available This is a required update for Mainnet containing the scheduling for the upcoming Fusaka hardfork. Highlights: Adds Osaka, BPO1, and BPO2 fork times for Mainnet Increases the Mainnet gas limit to 60M. https://t.co/mY3tU10xTg
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25.11.0 - Fusaka Mainnet Release ImportantThis is the Fusaka Mainnet-ready release. This is a mandatory update for Mainnet users. Adds Osaka, BPO1, and BPO2 fork times for Mainnet Increases the Ma...
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Did you know there are 49 proposed EIPs for Glamsterdam?! Could you imagine trying to decide what gets considered for inclusion? Help your local core dev and give em a signal with
this Thursday on ACDE, core devs will start going through the non-headlining features proposed for @ethereum's 2026 upgrade: Glamsterdam. This is the first time there's been an "official process" with deadlines for proposal, so there's a massive list to get through In order to
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open invite to have an open source relationship with Forkcast 😘 https://t.co/mPadAz06RG
every person we've hired (including myself) was someone we've first had an open source relationship with if you believe you are better than the opportunities you have, this is the path if you make enough impact on a project the company will hire you
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Teku v25.11.0 is now available! This is a required update for mainnet containing the scheduling for the upcoming Fusaka fork. Full details and downloads:
github.com
⚠️ This is a required update for mainnet for the upcoming Fulu upgrade! ⚠️ Downloads Available as 25.11.0 on Dockerhub Download the binary distribution: tar.gz (sha256: b616f3c4306d18e61d00cc9109...
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Q4 started with a bang at Obol. Here were the highlights from a packed October 💥🧵
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Should have listened to the missus 😭
Just watched this with Mrs E. Might have been a mistake - she enjoyed it a lot more than I expected (it is very good), but now she's begging me to take all our funds out of defi 😬 Nice to see some old pals anyway (hey @GNSPS!)
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btw. at its peak, this fee spike was running at an annualized burn rate of 72.6 Million ETH or 199k ETH per day 😐 it burned 3,917 ETH over 2 hours 🔥
Not sure if anybody noticed, but blob fees spiked to insane levels yesterday. They peaked at 42,036.2 Gwei (a new record) and stayed above 20k Gwei for ~half an hour. This is exactly what happens once Rollups start to outbid each other during high demand. Average fees are now
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I've been backing @Obol_Collective much longer than that 😛 Same reasons, though.
Distributed Validators are reshaping Ethereum’s staking layer by eliminating single points of failure and enabling institutional participation. We’ve backed @Obol_Collective since 2023. Learn more from @veradittakit ⬇️ https://t.co/b99pBUGwn1
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Sure, I'm still concerned about decentralization on the beacon chain, but in the last five years, the social layer has accomplished two critical goals: 1. client diversity 2. entity share awareness These goals might have seemed unlikely or impossible, but now they're baked in.
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⌛ @gitcoin GG24 Developer Tooling & Infrastructure QF round closes today Please donate to the Dev Tools Guild. Every $1 makes a difference. (1/3)
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