Ben Edgington
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Delivering the Superchain future @OPLabsPBC . Formerly @ConsenSys . Older than Vitalik's dad. Views are my own.
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Some of my favourite recent upgrades to Upgrading Ethereum:
😎 Dark mode
🔍 Search
🍴 Annotated Fork Choice
Check out all the shiny new things here,
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Ethereum 2.0 merge Interop devnet confirmed. Let's go! 🚀
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I've just finished presenting the future of
#Ethereum
to almost 350 people at one of the world's largest payments networks.
Probably nothing 😉
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Today the Ethereum mainnet experienced its first ever inactivity leak.
Unsure what that means? Everything you never wanted to know is right here:
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From today, I am officially an Optimist!
As Lead Technical Program(me) Manager
@OPLabsPBC
I will, "grow and manage the core development program, working with engineering, product, and governance teams towards the success and decentralization of the collective."
Let's go! 🚀🚀🚀
Sneaking out some personal news on a Sunday.
After 6.3 fabulous years, I have left
@Consensys
.
Kindly indulge me in a brief farewell thread 👇
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Sneaking out some personal news on a Sunday.
After 6.3 fabulous years, I have left
@Consensys
.
Kindly indulge me in a brief farewell thread 👇
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If I believed that Lido was committed to decentralisation and the future of Ethereum I might have responded differently.
Good luck to whoever takes it - hope you are ready to fight the good fight.
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I just realised that it is exactly 2 years since a bunch of us got together in a basement in Berlin and first discussed putting a beacon chain at the the heart of
#Ethereum
2.0.
This was a total re-architecting of the project, but, oh my, it's turning out well.
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Here's your "On the Verge of the Merge" edition of What's New in Eth2:
See you all on the other side!
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The latest What's New in Eth2 is out!
Reorgs, Ropsten, research, regular recordings - and lots of other stuff that doesn't alliterate, all in the usual place:
#Ethereum
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What's New in [the protocol formerly known as] Eth2? 🤔
The very latest on
- Altair
- Rayonism
- The Merge
- Staking
- Explainers
- Research
- ...and more!
All at the usual place, and worth every penny:
#Ethereum
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I showed my daughter my one and only viral tweet.
She said "Haha it says 'Translate Tweet' because none of the words are in English" 🤣😂🤣
My family exists to keep me humble.
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So, we will push back the Ethereum difficulty bomb.
We say it won't delay the Merge. I sincerely hope not. Every extra week on PoW generates close to 1 Million tonnes of CO2 emissions.
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Is solo staking "economically rational"?
Yes, of course. Because we understand that without an army of solo stakers the value of Ethereum is basically zero.
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Happy New Year, everybody!
Here's your first of 2022 🎉
Loads going on as ever - apparently Eth2 doesn't stop for holidays 😅
#Ethereum
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What's New in Eth2?
A relatively brief
#Ethereum
2.0 update for you this week:
I think everybody is heads-down shipping code right now 😅
Enjoy!
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Enough proof-reading, I'm going cross-eyed. Here you go:
✅ BLS Signatures
First cut done.
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It might not be entirely obvious from the pic 😂, but this is the Teku
#eth2
client from
@PegaSysEng
fully synced with the Lighthouse testnet from
@sigp_io
and happily tracking the chain head 🎉
It's happening...
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Did we actually discuss a **potential Merge date** in public? Have we all gone cray-cray??
Read all about it in What's New in Eth2!
Usual handy location:
#Ethereum
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What's New in
#Ethereum
2?
Find all the freshest news here: 📰
In this one, I explain why I am continuing to call Eth2 "Eth2". This is more controversial than you might imagine!
There's plenty of other news as well 🙂
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It's easier than ever to find the latest
#Ethereum
2.0 news. Just pop along to for What's New in Eth2 🚀
(Thank you
@icebearhww
for the domain name tip-off! ❤️)
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I have no idea what's going on at Sushi. But I was
@josephdelong
's teammate/quasi-boss for over 2 years, and I absolutely know that he is one of the good guys.
There has been a lot of drama within Sushi and overt manipulation coming from outside Sushi.
As a leader I don't want to discuss these topics as I think our work products speak for themselves, but this absurd defamation has risen to a level I can't tolerate.
𝓪 𝓽𝓱𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓭 💕
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Your newest news in
#Ethereum
2.0 is here!
Sorry it's a bit late, and a bit rushed. I took some time off; it was nice 😎
Back now, refreshed and raring to go 🚀
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This morning my daughter was angry with me for working on wasteful Ethereum (she's been reading about NFTs) 😠
So I told her what I _actually_ do.
Now she's proud that her dad's been working full time for the last three years to fix this 😇
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🎈✨🎈✨
It's that What's New in Eth2 time of the week again!
Catch up with the Beacon Chain at six months old, and all the latest explainers, media and research.
Always at .
#Ethereum
[P.S. Pls forgive any typos; I have drunk wine 🍷]
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🎄 Did Christmas come early?
No, it's only your last pre-festivities edition of What's New in Eth2 🎁
Here with your usual regular mashup of staking, Merge, news and opinion. Lots of Kintsugi stuff in this one.
#Ethereum
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I'm blown away by recent progress on the
#Ethereum
2.0 execution layer!
@VitalikButerin
,
@wjvill
,
@cdetrio
and
@alexberegszaszi
presented at the Scaling Ethereum conference today. All terrific, but Casey's brief history review at ~1h46 was my fave.
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Hey peeps, just dropped a new chapter.
As promised, the definitive account of Deposits and Withdrawals.
The incremental Merkle tree is a beautiful thing to behold 🌲👀
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🚂The world may have stopped, but
#Ethereum
2.0 just keeps on chugging.
I've made up to date with all the latest, and I even dare to express an opinion or two 😅
Enjoy!
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It's that What's New in Eth2 time of the week again 🎉
This one has a 🐼 in it!
- Latest on Altair and The Merge
- Attestation packing
- Client diversity rants
- EDCON
- Explainers
- Research
and all that jazz (oh, and some jazz 🎷)
#Ethereum
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📰 The latest
#Ethereum
2.0 news 📰
Find out what's new in Eth2 at !
Altair progress, explainers, media, research updates - all that good stuff and more 😀
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It's that What's New in Eth2 time of the week 🥳
Always available at
Catch up with the latest on the Kiln testnet,
#TestingTheMerge
, and a whole bunch of less important stuff.
#Ethereum
#Eth2
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Huge milestone: it's the 1000000th edition of What's New in
#Eth2
🙌🎉
All the news, as ever, at
Another juicy editorial - I'm enjoying writing these 😎
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Oh my,
@Allnodes
does not mess about.
I first discussed this with their CEO on Monday - by Thursday all done and announced.
Let's see if any of the other big operations can be as nimble.
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Edition 75 of What's New in Eth2 just dropped at 🔥
As well as the usual updates, we talk client diversity, decentralised staking, research on sharding, monitoring your validators, and so much more.
Worth every penny! 😀
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The latest What's New in
#Eth2
is out!
Very late this week, sorry. Just hoping I made it in time for
@WeekInEthNews
😅
Catch up with the latest on Altair, Prater, the Merge, and our favourite topic: naming things.
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I'm going to be generous here and apply Hanlon's razor - that
@LidoFinance
simply don't get it.
But it is getting increasingly hard not to conclude that they are bad-faith actors.
Hoooooly shit. Here's
@LidoFinance
, on the topic of solo node operators. (source: )
- “We think that most of the stake should be managed by professional operators”
- “Most solo operators are not rational … they do it for fun”
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Fed up with Libra-Twitter yet? Yep, me too.
Get away from it all with the latest What's New in Eth2!
We've got massive updates on recent
#Ethereum
2.0 phase 0 and phase 2 progress 🎉
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Lots of people asking how much ETH was burned by yesterday's inactivity leak. Back of envelope (assumes 8 epoch leak, 65% validators offlne):
About 28 ETH (c. 0.0006 ETH/offline validator).
However, attestation rewards were zero for the duration, so that's ~50 ETH not issued.
Today the Ethereum mainnet experienced its first ever inactivity leak.
Unsure what that means? Everything you never wanted to know is right here:
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Quite enjoying drinking champagne at 8am. Should do this more often 🍾
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PS I know some will wonder about The Book - I'm still planning to finish it one day! Meanwhile, I'm aiming to get it up to date for Deneb over the next weeks.
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"Weeks, not months."
Your latest mildly opinionated take on what's occurring in the world of
#Ethereum
2.0 is ready for you!
Get your copy right here:
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Upgrading Ethereum, Capella edition in numbers:
1,064,488 bytes of markdown
125,164 of my very own words
326 PDF pages
100 footnotes
95 diagrams and graphs
1291 internal links (excluding navigation)
535 unique external pages linked to
??% finished.
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Rather than fly to Bogotá, I've updated the book for Bellatrix, including the Annotated Spec.
Probably working on the Consensus chapter for the next little while. Hoping to move a little faster now the Merge is behind us. Patience, young padowan.
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Spending my flight watching The Big Short again. So good!
I think about this movie every time I hear the words "Liquid Restaking Token".
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#TestingTheMerge
- starting to feel like an historic event 😅
Mainnet shadow-fork in 20 mins or so.
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I am utterly and deeply grateful to have been able to devote myself to this astonishing, world-changing project for the last 3 years.
I planted the Eth2 seed ConsenSys, but it was
@ethereumJoseph
's unwavering and generous support throughout that made it flourish. ♥️
Coordinating the genesis of Eth2 has been no small undertaking — involving 5 different client teams, researchers, auditors, and a whole community of testnet validators, Eth2 economists, and security experts sharing critical knowledge. Masterful execution by
@dannyryan
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"It’s been a wonderfully dull eleven days since genesis: apparently it all just works 🎉"
But there's still no shortage of news! Catch up with everything happening in
#Eth2
at the usual place:
Latest edition just out 😀
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The latest What's New in Eth2 is ready for y'all!
🚀 Medalla testnet
🤓 Cryptography
🤯 Great explainers
🎉 EDCON
And so much more!
All in the usual place:
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Vitalik is talking about Ethereum 2.0
I feel vindicated 😝
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I've just been writing up yesterday's little Eth2 beacon chain excitement for next week's What's New in Eth2.
I thought I'd give you a quick tweet-thread preview 👇
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💥 Your regular round-up of
#Ethereum
2.0 news is here:
They want you to believe that Eth2 will never happen. The evidence says otherwise.
Happy weekend everyone 😀
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Deposits done ✅
UPS installed ✅
Node running ✅
Bolly chilled ✅
I'm ready! How you doing?
#Eth2
#BeaconChain
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Hacking on
@Teku_ConsenSys
at the Merge Interop workshop.
Yep, that is
@VitalikButerin
in the background - I don't think he's working on Teku, but who knows?
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Happy Beaconchainiversary, everyone! 🥳
Two full years of flawless running. Looking forward to many happy returns 🎉
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Confession time. Five years ago - back when I was wearing a suit for a living - I used to book phantom customer calls into my calendar on Fridays so I could hide in a meeting room and listen in to All Core Devs calls.
I may be unusual.
This was a great call! Really good sessions on (maybe) modifying the EIP1559 dynamics a little from
@adietrichs
, and a super presentation on moving towards statelessness from
@dankrad
.
Recommended watch. Love listening in to the gigabrains at work.
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Right ho, fellow Eth2 nerds - here's the first cut of a chapter on SSZ (Simple Serialize) 🤓
(Next stop, the Joy of Merkleization.)
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A few weeks ago I upgraded Metal Albert, my home staking rig 🐻
Happy to report that he's now a solid top 20% performer, ahead of most _professional_ staking services, even at the end of some nasty copper ADSL.
Running Teku and Besu. Outperform the pros:
#StakeFromHome
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PSA MetalAlbert is not running MEV-Boost. A few reasons...
1. It's buggy and poorly tested - it caused missed proposals today.
2. I believe in censorship resistance.
3. I just can't be arsed to run and maintain yet another piece of software.
So I guess we're ngmi 🤷♂️
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I've just been on the telly 🙂
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Mainnet Cancun-Deneb upgrade time,
2024-03-13 13:55:35 UTC
Sorry, Aussies, you need to show up to core devs calls if you don't want to keep having upgrades at midnight 😝
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A couple of bits of personal news:
(1) I have sadly decided not to stake on Eth2*
(2) My wife is delighted to be joining the Ethereum community and is very much looking forward to staking the Ether she recently acquired 🎉
*for tax reasons
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