Devcon 8 Early Bird Tickets Now On Sale
General admission tickets are priced at $349 and are purchasable with ETH via Pretix, with Wave 1 opening in June at $699.
The Ethereum Foundation opened Early Bird ticket sales for Devcon 8, with general admission priced at $349. The tickets are only purchasable using ETH payments via built Pretix, an open-source ticketing platform. Tickets are available at tickets.devcon.org. Devcon 8 takes place from November 3 to 6, 2026, in Mumbai, India. Future sale waves will open at higher prices.
Wave 1 launches in June at $699. Discounted and free tickets are available or coming soon for Indian residents, core developers, OSS contributors, and students; Indian student tickets start at $25 and international student tickets at $99, with applications open now.
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Carl Beek Departs Ethereum Foundation
Beek becomes the latest in a string of high-profile EF exits, alongside Ethereum researcher Julian Ma, who also announced his departure today.
Ethereum developer Carl Beek announced that May 29th will be his last day at the Ethereum Foundation, becoming the latest in a string of notable departures from the organization. Beek joined the EF at the age of 23 and contributed to some of Ethereum's most significant technical milestones, including the KZG ceremony and early Beacon Chain architecture.
Beek also co-authored EIP-7935 to raise the mainnet gas limit and authored Quick Slots EIP-8198 for reducing slot duration. His departure follows a wave of EF exits since Tomasz Stańczak stepped down in February 2025, including Trent Van Epps, Barnabé Monnot, Tim Beiko, Raúl Kripalani, and Ethereum researcher Julian Ma, who also announced his departure today. Danny Ryan and Dankrad Feist left the EF in 2024 and 2025.
ETHConf lands in NYC June 8-10, bringing together 5,000+ attendees, 150+ speakers, and 100+ companies across Ethereum, stablecoins, and institutional adoption.
Get your tickets at ethconf.com and use code ETHDAILY for 30% off General and 20% off VIP.
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Ethereum Targets 10-Second Finality
Ben Edgington kicks off a new blog series laying out a practical path from ~1,000-second finality to under 10 seconds.
Ben Edgington, a former Ethereum client developer and current finality researcher at the Ethereum Foundation, published the first edition of a new blog series outlining a practical path to reducing Ethereum's time to finality from roughly 1,000 seconds to under 10 seconds. The core strategy is decoupling, which could alone deliver a meaningful initial speedup.
Currently, finality votes and fork-choice votes are bundled into a single attestation structure, which ties the finality process to the rhythm of individual slots. Separating the two would allow finality to operate on its own timescale, consuming otherwise-idle network bandwidth and removing the slot-length constraint.
Further incremental improvements will be designed to be deployable independently. Edgington notes that we must achieve fast finality without excluding home stakers or reducing validator set diversity. The Ethereum Strawmap places decoupled consensus as a headliner candidate for the I* fork, currently anticipated in late 2027.
ETHConf lands in NYC June 8-10, bringing together 5,000+ attendees, 150+ speakers, and 100+ companies across Ethereum, stablecoins, and institutional adoption.
Get your tickets at ethconf.com and use code ETHDAILY for 30% off General and 20% off VIP.
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