EF ships Clear Signing standard.
Aztec takes Protocol Guild pledge.
Aave burns seized rsETH.
Brevis ships Pico Prism 2.0.
The Ethereum Foundation launched Clear Signing, an open standard designed to end blind signing, where raw hex transaction data is approved without signers being able to read what they're signing. The standard ships four coordinated infrastructure pieces, including an updated ERC-7730 for human-readable transaction descriptors, a neutral mirrorable registry, ERC-8176 for auditor attestations built on the Ethereum Attestation Service, and ERC-8213 providing cryptographic fingerprints. Working group members include Ledger, Trezor, MetaMask, WalletConnect, Cyfrin, Fireblocks, Zama, and Sourcify.
The Aztec Foundation committed 1% of the AZTEC token supply to Protocol Guild as part of the Protocol Guild 1% pledge. Aztec joins EtherFi, Taiko, EigenLayer, Puffer Finance, and Aligned in taking the pledge. The tokens are deposited into the organization's immutable four-year vesting contract and will vest to 187 Ethereum core contributors spanning client teams, research, and coordination roles. Protocol Guild has distributed more than $38 million to core contributors.
Kelp and Aave burned the exploiter's rsETH on Arbitrum, seized during the controlled liquidation of the attacker's rsETH collateral positions on Aave. KelpDAO says the 117,132 rsETH deficit is being progressively refilled from Aave's Recovery Guardian and Kelp's Recovery Safe into the LayerZero OFT adapter on Ethereum mainnet. Kelp expects to unpause rsETH withdrawals within 24 hours of the first tranche hitting the adapter, after which deposits, redemptions, bridging, and claims will resume as normal. Kelp has deprecated all L2-to-L2 routes as it migrates to Chainlink CCIP.
Brevis released Pico Prism 2.0, the latest rebuild of its real-time Ethereum block prover, achieving a 5.3x improvement in proving efficiency over its predecessor. Pico Prism 2.0 achieves 6.1 seconds per proof with 99.9% of blocks finalizing within the 12-second slot, running on 16 RTX 5090 GPUs across two machines, a quarter of the GPU count required by Pico Prism 1.0. The release meets the Ethereum Foundation's stated real-time proving targets of sub-10-second average latency and hardware costs under $100K.
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