This post examines the potential timing dynamics at play between validators and builders, particularly in the context of post EIP-4844 with blob transaction enabled. We analyze various scenarios, discussing preventable measures for each.

have recounted the history and prehistory of crypto elsewhere — the path from PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) through e-gold to Bitcoin. Now I want to take a look at what happened next, what went wrong with the Ethereum vision of the future, and how we can turn things around to make the blockchain the powerhouse of the future that it was always meant to be. I need to talk about magic and rules. I’ve seen a fair bit of magic over the years, and I understand when it needs rules.

Vitalik’s latest roadmap is very similar to last year’s. This is the first time a year has passed with the Ethereum roadmap remaining stable, suggesting we finally have an endgame in sight with a sustainable design. Obviously, a lot of work needs to be done over the next several years, but for the first time, it feels like we know how to scale blockchains massively without compromising on important tenets like ease of verification, open-source development, and economic security & sustainability. (Side note: other blockchain projects may compromise on these, at least in the short-medium term, just saying these are historically important tenets for Bitcoin and Ethereum communities)

According to on-chain analyst @ai_9684xtpa, an address starting with 0xdc1 bought 2060 ETH through MetaMask Swap for approximately $4.94 million at an average price of $2399.

The market shows ETH has broken through $2,400 and is now trading at $2,400.43, with a daily increase of 5%. The market is volatile, so please be prepared for risk control.

On December 31st, data from the Ethereum official website shows that the current number of validators on the beacon chain has exceeded 900,000, reaching 900,276, with a total network staking amount of 28,704,153 ETH and an APR (annual return rate) of 3.48%.

On December 31st, according to Etherscan data, the current Ethereum network gas fee has dropped to 10 gwei.

Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin declares that the role of single slot finality (SSF) is the most straightforward approach to tackling the majority of shortcomings on the Ethereum Proof-of-Stake (PoS) design.

On December 30th, according to official sources, the Ethereum IERC20 inscription protocol recently launched DPoS staking mining function. Currently, staking inscription $ethi is supported, which can be withdrawn at any time. The DPoS points obtained from staking can be exchanged for new PoW inscription tokens in the later stage. Within a few hours of launching this function, it attracted a staking volume of over 10 million $ethi inscriptions (total supply of 21 million), and the total staking amount TVL exceeded 22 million US dollars.

To empower the BTC and ETH ecosystems, the ZKSpace team has rebranded and upgraded to ZKBase. As an infrastructure protocol based on ZK (Zero Knowledge) proof technology, ZKBase is dedicated to providing scalability solutions for mainstream blockchains such as Ethereum and Bitcoin, and building decentralized cross-chain and Layer2 ecosystems. Our new official website, zkbase.org, is now live.