Ethereum Foundation Begins Staking ETH

The Ethereum Foundation has begun staking 70,000 ETH from its treasury, starting with a deposit of 2,016 ETH.

The Ethereum Foundation has begun staking 70,000 ETH from its treasury, starting with a deposit of 2,016 ETH. The staking rewards will flow back to the foundation treasury to support Ethereum ecosystem initiatives. It is using minority clients, multiple Beacon and Execution client pairings, and a mix of hosted and self-managed infrastructure across jurisdictions. The Foundation is running distributed signers via Dirk and managing validators with Vouch. Its validators use Type 2 (0x02) withdrawal credentials, enabling balance consolidation, reduced key management, and flexible exits. Blocks will be built locally rather than through proposer-builder separation sidecars.

Ethereum community member YQ introduced ETH2030, an experimental reference client implementing Ethereum’s full proposed 2030 Layer 1 roadmap. The codebase was produced using Claude Code and embeds go-ethereum for execution and networking. ETH2030 targets the draft EF Protocol L1 roadmap spanning 65 upgrades across the consensus, data, and execution layers. The project reveals how deeply interdependent Ethereum’s planned upgrades are: 3-slot finality is dependent on Block Access Lists (BALs), which is dependent on gas repricing and blob schedule adjustments. If fully implemented, the roadmap would unlock orders-of-magnitude gains in throughput, faster finality, and stronger decentralization.

L2BEAT introduced L2BEAT Interop, a new dashboard for tracking blockchain interoperability, including how chains connect and how value flows between them. Users can select any pair of ten supported chains to track cross-chain activity, transfer sizes, transfer times, tokens, protocol-level details, and transfer mechanisms. L2BEAT also outlined a framework that categorizes interoperability protocols into non-minting, lock-and-mint, and burn-and-mint models. USDC currently accounts for the largest share of asset transfers. The new page aims to bring transparency to cross-chain activity and showcase the associated risks.

Uniswap published a temperature check proposal to expand v2 and v3 protocol fees across multiple chains and upgrade how v3 fees are managed. The proposal would activate protocol fees on all v3 pools, rather than a selected subset, and route L2 fees back to Ethereum mainnet for UNI token burns. It is the first proposal under the new “UNIfication” governance framework, expanding protocol revenue capture.

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

The Ethereum Foundation has begun staking 70,000 ETH from its treasury, starting with a deposit of 2,016 ETH. The staking rewards will flow back to the foundation treasury to support Ethereum ecosystem initiatives. It is using minority clients, multiple Beacon and Execution client pairings, and a mix of hosted and self-managed infrastructure across jurisdictions. The Foundation is running distributed signers via Dirk and managing validators with Vouch. Its validators use Type 2 (0x02) withdrawal credentials, enabling balance consolidation, reduced key management, and flexible exits. Blocks will be built locally rather than through proposer-builder separation sidecars.

Ethereum community member YQ introduced ETH2030, an experimental reference client implementing Ethereum’s full proposed 2030 Layer 1 roadmap. The codebase was produced using Claude Code and embeds go-ethereum for execution and networking. ETH2030 targets the draft EF Protocol L1 roadmap spanning 65 upgrades across the consensus, data, and execution layers. The project reveals how deeply interdependent Ethereum’s planned upgrades are: 3-slot finality is dependent on Block Access Lists (BALs), which is dependent on gas repricing and blob schedule adjustments. If fully implemented, the roadmap would unlock orders-of-magnitude gains in throughput, faster finality, and stronger decentralization.

L2BEAT introduced L2BEAT Interop, a new dashboard for tracking blockchain interoperability, including how chains connect and how value flows between them. Users can select any pair of ten supported chains to track cross-chain activity, transfer sizes, transfer times, tokens, protocol-level details, and transfer mechanisms. L2BEAT also outlined a framework that categorizes interoperability protocols into non-minting, lock-and-mint, and burn-and-mint models. USDC currently accounts for the largest share of asset transfers. The new page aims to bring transparency to cross-chain activity and showcase the associated risks.

Uniswap published a temperature check proposal to expand v2 and v3 protocol fees across multiple chains and upgrade how v3 fees are managed. The proposal would activate protocol fees on all v3 pools, rather than a selected subset, and route L2 fees back to Ethereum mainnet for UNI token burns. It is the first proposal under the new “UNIfication” governance framework, expanding protocol revenue capture.

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• Arbitrum Mentorship Program

• Ex Nihilo privacy project announced

• Obol introduces ObolClaw

• Solidity compiler revertStrings

• Rainbow to launch smart wallets

• Aave hits $575m on Mantle

• Coinbase opens stock trading

• Firefly to integrate XMTP

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