#951 - LayerZero Publishes KelpDAO Post-Mortem, Devcon 8 Tickets Open
LayerZero full post-mortem on rsETH bridge exploit, Devcon 8 Early Bird tickets go on sale, and Toni Wahrstätter explains BALs.
LayerZero post-mortem.
Devcon 8 Early Bird tickets.
Block-Level Access Lists explained.
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LayerZero Labs published a full post-mortem on the April 18 attack on KelpDAO's rsETH bridge. The attack began on March 6, when a LayerZero developer was tricked into cloning a malicious GitHub repo that dropped malware on their macOS machine and opened a path into LayerZero's internal RPC infrastructure. The attacker poisoned two internal RPC nodes to feed forged chain state to the DVN signing service, producing a valid attestation for a fabricated cross-chain message that unlocked 116,500 rsETH on Ethereum. LayerZero says it will no longer sign as the sole required attestor.
The Ethereum Foundation opened Early Bird ticket sales for Devcon 8, with general admission priced at $349. Tickets are only purchasable with ETH via Pretix at tickets.devcon.org. Wave 1 launches in June at $699. Devcon 8 takes place from November 3 to 6, 2026, in Mumbai, India. Discounted and free tickets are available or coming soon for Indian residents, core developers, OSS contributors, and students.
Ethereum researcher Toni Wahrstätter published an explainer on EIP-7928, the execution-layer headliner in the Glamsterdam upgrade. The proposal attaches a Block Access List to every Ethereum block, a structured record of every account and storage slot a block touches, along with a log of what changed after each transaction. BALs let clients parallelize execution, prefetch state from disk, and compute post-state roots on the fly. Combined with ePBS, Wahrstätter frames the two proposals as a 10x scaling improvement with no hardware upgrades required.
Vitalik outlines privacy efforts
PSE PlasmaBlind payments
L2Beat lists Ronin
Tydro case study
Lighter RFQ in beta
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#946 Ronin Completes Migration To Ethereum L2
Ronin completes its OP Stack L2 migration, Ben Edgington kicks off an Upgrading Finality series, and L2BEAT adds Gnosis Chain.
Ronin migrates to Ethereum L2.
Ethereum targets 10-second finality.
L2BEAT lists Gnosis Chain.
Japan Blockchain Fnd stablecoin.
Ronin, a gaming-focused blockchain home to Axie Infinity, completed its migration from an independent sidechain to an Ethereum Layer 2 built on the OP Stack. The transition was led by rollup infrastructure provider Conduit, with EigenDA for data availability. Ronin dropped annual RON emissions from 45 million to 5 million tokens per year, with rewards now flowing through a new Proof of Distribution system that allocates RON to builders based on network activity. The Ronin Treasury will earn sequencer fees and 1.25% of Ronin Marketplace fees.
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 finality votes from fork-choice votes. The Ethereum Strawmap places decoupled consensus as a headliner candidate for the I* fork, currently anticipated in late 2027.
L2BEAT added Gnosis Chain to its Ethereum L2 analytics tracker. Gnosis Chain is an Ethereum sidechain with over $300 million in assets secured through its canonical bridge. The listing comes amid growing interest in the Ethereum Economic Zone (EEZ), a proposed framework that could enable synchronous interoperability between EVM-compatible chains. L2BEAT noted that the Gnosis bridge is secured by two 4/7 multisigs and administered by an 8/15 multisig, with the central validator deposit contract also upgradable by the 8/15 multisig.
Japan Blockchain Fnd stablecoin
ETHPrague 2026 recap
Blockaid's Risk Exposure
Agent x402 volume hits $50m
rsETH first tranche deposit
Fe vs Vyper compiler discourse
Ethereum Security QF ends tomorrow
RocketPool development roadmap
Ledger pauses IPO
Tydro migrates to Chainlink
TokenLogic Phase II extension
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#945 - Ethereum Foundation Launches Clear Signing Standard
The Ethereum Foundation ships Clear Signing, Aztec takes the Protocol Guild pledge, Kelp's rsETH recovery enters its final stage, and Brevis releases Pico Prism 2.0.
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.
Besu 26.5.0 release
JP Morgan tokenized fund
Privacy Pools v2 live on testnet
Uniswap API supports payment flows
Succinct introduces data confidentiality
Charms goes live on Base
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