Ethereum Foundation shifts focus to user experience, layer-1 scaling

Ethereum Foundation Shifts Focus to Near-Term Scaling, User Experience Following Leadership Restructure

Recent comments from Ethereum Foundation co-executive director Tomasz Stańczak signal a significant intensification of the organization's focus on addressing immediate scaling challenges and enhancing user experience within the Ethereum ecosystem. "Within the EF we will shift much of our research effort toward near‑term goals, aiming to address user experience and scaling challenges in the next two protocol upgrades," Stańczak said this week in …

Why Arbitrum’s New Auction Lane Changes the Game

In this interview, Ed Felten, Co-Founder and Chief Scientist at Offchain Labs, discusses Timeboost, a new transaction ordering system launched on Arbitrum. Built to tackle issues like front-running, network congestion, and latency races, Timeboost introduces an express lane allocated through sealed-bid auctions.  Ed explains how this approach improves fairness and efficiency without disrupting the experience for everyday users or developers, and…

Ethereum Foundation Shifting Focus to ETH Scaling and User Experience, Says Executive Director

Vitalik Buterin will be stepping away from the day-to-day coordination of the Ethereum Foundation. Tomasz K. Stanczak, the co-executive director of the foundation, says recent changes in leadership will free up the ETH co-creator’s time “for research and exploration” rather than crisis response. “Each time Vitalik shares insights or communicates a direction, he accelerates major…

Upgrading Ethereum's World Computer

Vitalik Buterin has introduced what he describes as a “radical idea for the future of the Ethereum execution layer.” The Ethereum co-founder suggests replacing the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) with RISC-V, a low-level virtual machine language widely used outside the blockchain space.💡The Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) is the part of the Ethereum network that runs smart contracts and dApps. It acts like a decentralized computer, ensuring that …

DevRel in web3: Building systems that scale while the ecosystem is still taking shape

“Don’t optimize for today. Build the scaffolding for scale.” Intro The pace of web3 is dizzying. Protocols evolve weekly. Docs lag behind releases. Tooling is in flux. Community sentiment shifts with the market. For Developer Relations teams, that means operating in a state of constant motion and navigating uncertainty while trying to create structure and momentum. On our DevRel team at Midnight, we’re not just reacting, we're designing systems…

Ethereum's Based Rollups Are Gaining Momentum, Aiming to Unify Fragmented L2 Space

As ETH market dominance hits new multi-year lows, Ethereum community members are looking to based rollups to help address issues of liquidity and user fragmentation across Ethereum Layer 2 (L2) blockchains.In an X post earlier this month about upcoming Ethereum developments, the blockchain’s co-founder, Vitalik Buterin, mentioned based rollups, noting that they are already “making rapid progress.”Rollups are a kind of Ethereum L2 scaling solutio…