• Trade-offs of EIP-7928.

• EF Trillion Dollar Security initiative.

• BTCS secures $58 million to buy ETH.

• EigenDA V2 goes live on testnet.

Ethereum researcher Toni Wahrstätter outlined the trade-offs of EIP-7928, a proposal to improve Ethereum L1 scalability using Block-level Access Lists (BALs). BALs specify which accounts and storage slots a block's transactions will interact with. By knowing in advance which parts of the state will be accessed, validators can parallelize disk reads. Wahrstätter notes that Access BALs are compact and lightweight, minimizing bandwidth and storage costs, but they only enable parallel disk reads, not full execution parallelism. Execution BALs, while slightly larger, strike a strong balance by enabling both parallel I/O and EVM execution. State BALs offer the most complete execution context but are significantly larger in size. Overall, the Execution BAL model provides the best trade-off between performance and size and forms the basis of EIP-7928.

The Ethereum Foundation launched the Trillion Dollar Security (1TS) Initiative, an ambitious, ecosystem-wide effort to enhance Ethereum’s security to a level capable of supporting trillions of dollars in value. The initiative aims to position Ethereum as an infrastructure that exceeds the safety and reliability of traditional legacy systems. Trillion Dollar Security means billions of individuals feel confident storing thousands of dollars onchain and organizations are comfortable placing over $1 trillion in value within a single Ethereum application. The initiative consists of three components: comprehensive security mapping, targeted improvements, and transparent communication. The EF is actively seeking input from users, developers, and security researchers.

BTCS Inc., a blockchain infrastructure services provider previously known for bitcoin mining, announced it has secured a financing facility of up to $57.8 million to purchase ETH. An initial $7.8 million tranche has already been issued and is being deployed to acquire ETH. BTCS plans to scale its Ethereum-based operations. It will use the freshly acquired ETH to deploy additional validator nodes, enabling the company to generate recurring revenue from staking rewards. BTCS will also leverage its Builder+ platform, a proprietary system designed to optimize block construction and maximize gas fee revenue. By increasing its ETH holdings, BTCS aims to expand its role in the Ethereum ecosystem.

EigenDA V2, an upgrade enabling high-throughput and scalable data availability, is now live on Ethereum's Holesky and Sepolia testnets. The release delivers Visa-scale throughput of 50 MB/s—a 3x increase over the 15 MB/s capacity of EigenDA V1—and supports up to 250,000 ERC-20 TPS with sub-10 second latency. The V2 implementation introduces a split-plane architecture, horizontal sharding, GPU-accelerated erasure coding, parallel multicast channels, and a reservation-based, fixed-fee accounting model. Backed by the economic security of EigenLayer restakers, EigenDA provides secure, decentralized, and cost-effective data availability for rollups

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