Ethereum developer Josh Stark announced he is stepping away from the Ethereum Foundation, with his work concluding at the end of April. His departure comes just one day after Ethereum developer Trent Van Epps also revealed he left the organization. Stark joined the Ethereum Foundation in 2019, starting on the Special Projects team. During his time, he helped ship Ethereum's biggest protocol upgrades and organizational changes, and co-led the Trillion Dollar Security (1TS) initiative. Stark emphasized that meaningful progress is never guaranteed, but that extraordinary problems demand extraordinary effort. He also said he plans to take an extended break to rest and reset.

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• OP stake-based transaction ordering.

• ETH Rangers program results.

• Josh Stark departs the EF.

• Lean Staking EIP-8222 draft.

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Optimism proposed to pilot an experimental stake-based transaction ordering system on its network. The mechanism allows users to stake OP tokens in a smart contract to give a chosen address priority in transaction ordering. Read more →

The Ethereum Foundation's Protocol Security Research Team released the outcomes of its ETH Rangers program, which helped recover more than $5.8 million, uncover over 785 vulnerabilities, and identify around 100 North Korean operatives. Read more →

Ethereum developer Josh Stark announced he is stepping away from the Ethereum Foundation, with his work concluding at the end of April. His departure comes one day after Trent Van Epps also left the organization. Read more →

• Lean Staking proposal

• Use cases lab ideas

• Ethereum Security QF updates

• Boundless Prover Node v1.4

• BA Tokenization Workstream

• SEC podcast

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• EtherFi migrates to OP Mainnet.

• Trent Van Epps departs the EF.

• Rainbow launches RNBW staking.

• WLFI locks retail tokens.

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EtherFi, the leading liquid restaking protocol, completed its migration from Scroll to OP Mainnet, bringing more than 70,000 active cards, 300,000 accounts, and $220 million in total value locked to the optimistic rollup. The team said it chose OP Mainnet for its low transaction fees, sub-250ms finality via Flashblocks, 99.99% uptime, and throughput exceeding 20 million gas per second. The EtherFi card allows users spend or borrow against their restaking balances. It combines a self-custody mobile wallet with a Visa credit card, allowing users to either borrow USDC using their assets as collateral or convert those assets into USDC for everyday spending.

Ethereum developer Trent Van Epps announced that he left the Ethereum Foundation last Friday. He will continue his involvement with Protocol Guild, an initiative he founded to fund Ethereum's core protocol development. Protocol Guild is designed to support the long-term sustainability and integrity of the network by maintaining neutrality and preventing any single team from exerting undue influence over development. During his five years at the Foundation, Trent led Protocol Support, coordinated protocol efforts, managed Protocol Guild funding, and supported Ethereum upgrades.

Rainbow, an Ethereum wallet available on mobile and browser, launched staking for its native $RNBW token. By staking, users can earn a share of the wallet's swap fees, automatically distributed as staked RNBW tokens. There is no lockup period, allowing users to unstake at any time. Top-tier stakers can receive up to 100% of their swap fees back in staked RNBW.

• WLFI indefinite lock

• EVM Now open-source release

• Etherscan tokenholders page

• Foundation winds down

• Revoke exploit checker

• CoW Swap post-mortem

• Token rights framework soon

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