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.

Pico Prism 2.0 brings four key upgrades, including a more efficient instruction set, a two-machine distributed architecture with dynamic load balancing across all 16 GPUs, a faster emulator that compiles programs natively rather than interpreting them at runtime, and a ground-up rewrite of the GPU-proving backend. The release meets the Ethereum Foundation's stated real-time proving targets of sub-10-second average latency and hardware costs of under $100K.

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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.

The Clear Signing working group members include Ledger, Trezor, MetaMask, WalletConnect, Cyfrin, Fireblocks, Zama, and Sourcify. Its guiding principle is "What You See Is What You Sign." ERC-7730 descriptors map contract function calls to readable intents and field-rendering instructions, converting raw calldata into a readable display. The descriptors are curated by protocol teams, reviewed, and collected in the EF-hosted registry. Protocols can add support without redeploying contracts.

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• EF Protocol gets new leadership.

• CLARITY Act draft release.

• Aave Labs amends Arbitrum AIP.

• Octant deploys $1m to vaults.

The Ethereum Foundation named Will Corcoran, Kev Wedderburn, and Fredrik as the new leads of its Protocol cluster as Tim Beiko and Barnabé Monnot step down from their roles. The new team takes over the coordination of Glamsterdam, Hegotá, and the protocol strawmap. Beiko and Monnot announced their transitions on X. Read more

The Senate Banking Committee released its CLARITY Act discussion draft ahead of a Thursday markup. The nine-title bill splits SEC and CFTC jurisdiction over digital assets, introduces a Regulation Crypto framework for ancillary assets, and bans deposit-like interest payments on stablecoins. The draft also defines decentralization tests for protocols seeking exemption and sets disclosure standards for token issuers. Read more

Aave Labs posted an amended Arbitrum AIP updating the execution path for the previously approved transfer of 30,765 frozen ETH. A May 8th court order authorized the onchain transfer but required the ETH to move to a wallet controlled by Aave LLC rather than the originally proposed 3-of-4 Gnosis Safe. The recovery objective of restoring rsETH's backing within the Kelp protocol remains unchanged. Read more

• Geth v1.17.3 release.

• Erigon v3.4.1 release.

• Vitalik vibe coding for lean.

• Octant deploys $1m to vaults.

• EIP-8250 is now merged.

• Bitmine stakes 4.7m ETH.

• CoW compensates hijack victims.

• KelpDAO rsETH update.

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