• Justin Drake's Lean Ethereum vision.

• The SEC launches Project Crypto.

• Alchemy launches Cortex.

• Devs discuss concerns over EIP-7825.

Ethereum researcher Justin Drake unveiled Lean Ethereum, his personal 10‑year vision for the network. It frames two modes: fort mode, a defensive strategy designed to survive nation‑state attacks and the coming quantum era, and beast mode, an offensive push for aggressive scaling, with short‑term gains expected in 6–12 months and long‑term goals of 1 gigagas/sec on L1 and 1 teragas/sec on L2 (~1M TPS). Lean Ethereum introduces three key upgrades: lean consensus, lean data, and lean execution. The upgrades are enabled by real‑time zkVMs, data availability sampling (DAS), and ubiquitous verification across browsers, wallets, and phones. Drake’s vision is to make Ethereum secure, massively scalable, and always online, without compromise.

SEC Chairman Paul S. Atkins announced Project Crypto, a new initiative to make the U.S. the global leader in crypto and blockchain by modernizing SEC rules for onchain markets and providing clear classifications to determine when tokens are securities, commodities, stablecoins, or collectibles. The plan seeks to encourage crypto projects to launch onshore in the U.S. Project Crypto will enable the tokenization of stocks, bonds, and other assets while allowing DeFi systems to coexist with TadFi. The plan also prioritizes self‑custody, enables side‑by‑side trading of non‑security and security tokens on regulated venues, and introduces an innovation exemption to speed new business models.

Alchemy launched Cortex, a blockchain engine built to deliver speed, scalability, and reliability for onchain applications. Trained on 7 years of data and trillions of requests, Cortex powers the Alchemy platform with sub‑50 ms average response times, elastic scaling to millions of concurrent requests, and 99.995% uptime. Cortex enables developers to build high‑performance apps without infrastructure overhead.

During this week’s ACDE Call #217, core developers discussed concerns over EIP‑7825, a proposal seeking to set a hard cap per transaction at the protocol level. The cap aims to improve network stability, resource efficiency, and predictability. Analysis of 251 million mainnet transactions showed that only 0.038% would exceed a 16.7 million gas threshold, leading to EIP‑7983, which proposes a lower cap of 16.8 million gas. EIP‑7825 was included in Fusaka devnets and is under consideration for the Fusaka upgrade planned for early November 2025. Some developers warned that a 16.8m cap could break existing dapp workflows, while others favored retaining 30m to preserve flexibility for complex contracts. Vitalik Buterin supported moving forward with a gas cap, noting that we risk suffering a permanent penalty to avoid a one-time switching cost, although he is open to delaying the change.

• Nethermind v1.32.4 release

• Holesky slated for deprecation

• Ethereum 10yr POAP recap

• 10yrs of EIPs visual

• Edge City Patagonia tickets

• Marius’s Ethereum journey

• Glamsterdam Community Call #01

• OP Kailua goes live via Conduit

• ETH Treasuries

Disclaimer: Content is for informational purposes only, not endorsement or investment advice. The accuracy of information is not guaranteed.

• Justin Drake's Lean Ethereum vision.

• The SEC launches Project Crypto.

• Alchemy launches Cortex.

• Devs discuss concerns over EIP-7825.

Ethereum researcher Justin Drake unveiled Lean Ethereum, his personal 10‑year vision for the network. It frames two modes: fort mode, a defensive strategy designed to survive nation‑state attacks and the coming quantum era, and beast mode, an offensive push for aggressive scaling, with short‑term gains expected in 6–12 months and long‑term goals of 1 gigagas/sec on L1 and 1 teragas/sec on L2 (~1M TPS). Lean Ethereum introduces three key upgrades: lean consensus, lean data, and lean execution. The upgrades are enabled by real‑time zkVMs, data availability sampling (DAS), and ubiquitous verification across browsers, wallets, and phones. Drake’s vision is to make Ethereum secure, massively scalable, and always online, without compromise.

SEC Chairman Paul S. Atkins announced Project Crypto, a new initiative to make the U.S. the global leader in crypto and blockchain by modernizing SEC rules for onchain markets and providing clear classifications to determine when tokens are securities, commodities, stablecoins, or collectibles. The plan seeks to encourage crypto projects to launch onshore in the U.S. Project Crypto will enable the tokenization of stocks, bonds, and other assets while allowing DeFi systems to coexist with TadFi. The plan also prioritizes self‑custody, enables side‑by‑side trading of non‑security and security tokens on regulated venues, and introduces an innovation exemption to speed new business models.

Alchemy launched Cortex, a blockchain engine built to deliver speed, scalability, and reliability for onchain applications. Trained on 7 years of data and trillions of requests, Cortex powers the Alchemy platform with sub‑50 ms average response times, elastic scaling to millions of concurrent requests, and 99.995% uptime. Cortex enables developers to build high‑performance apps without infrastructure overhead.

During this week’s ACDE Call #217, core developers discussed concerns over EIP‑7825, a proposal seeking to set a hard cap per transaction at the protocol level. The cap aims to improve network stability, resource efficiency, and predictability. Analysis of 251 million mainnet transactions showed that only 0.038% would exceed a 16.7 million gas threshold, leading to EIP‑7983, which proposes a lower cap of 16.8 million gas. EIP‑7825 was included in Fusaka devnets and is under consideration for the Fusaka upgrade planned for early November 2025. Some developers warned that a 16.8m cap could break existing dapp workflows, while others favored retaining 30m to preserve flexibility for complex contracts. Vitalik Buterin supported moving forward with a gas cap, noting that we risk suffering a permanent penalty to avoid a one-time switching cost, although he is open to delaying the change.

• Nethermind v1.32.4 release

• Holesky slated for deprecation

• Ethereum 10yr POAP recap

• 10yrs of EIPs visual

• Edge City Patagonia tickets

• Marius’s Ethereum journey

• Glamsterdam Community Call #01

• OP Kailua goes live via Conduit

• ETH Treasuries

Disclaimer: Content is for informational purposes only, not endorsement or investment advice. The accuracy of information is not guaranteed.