big Virgil Griffith news: he's out of home confinement! earlier this year is when he got out of prison. if you're confused, it's a gradual process out of the prison system: prison -> halfway house -> home confinement -> probation So now he'll be on probation for 18-36 months, which means he can't leave his state without approval. plus he has some work restrictions which might make working in crypto difficult for the time being but otherwise he's free to live his life, and he's definitely very happy to be moving on ✌️

Tornado Cash trial update with @davidzmorris. This morning's witnesses included Shakeed Ahmed, the Crema Finance and Nirvana exploiter. Other witnesses spoke for , Alchemy, and Github, all used by Peppersec Inc.

looking forward to this tomorrow! we will be discussing the tradeoffs of various headline EIPs for glamsterdam, the next Ethereum upgrade

50% capacity increase since jan 2025 📈

Excited to share that I've been awarded a research grant from the @ethereumfndn under the 2025 Academic Grants Round to explore how Ethereum can be made secure against quantum adversaries using hash-based arguments: a critical step for the long-term resilience of the network 🧵👇

📊 UPDATE: Ethereum raises block gas limit 25% to 45M, boosting transaction throughput as part of its broader scaling roadmap toward 60M and beyond.

In honor of Ethereum’s 10-year anniversary, leave a message in the @ethtimecapsule, a project by @ShutterNetwork, @EthCC & @ProtocolGuild.

anyone have a contact at @Caldera i can DM? (not security related)

Update from U.S. v. Storm with @davidzmorris. Roman Storm's defense team has raised the spectre of a mistrial after an FBI tracing expert failed to confirm that the prosecution's first witness' stolen funds had in fact been sent to Tornado Cash.

Introduction to EIPs, ERCs, RIPs. EIP: Ethereum Improvement Proposal Protocol-level changes, enforced by the Ethereum clients. Activated via hardforks. Full nodes must upgrade, else fork to opt-out. ERC: Ethereum Request for Comments Application layer standards. Conventions for Solidity, calldata, storage, signatures. Opt-in. Adoption -> network effects. RIP: Rollup Improvement Proposal Provincial laws for rollup city-states. Opt-in for L2s. Opt-out for nodes within an L2. May lead to EIPs. The numbers are shared between EIPs, ERCs, RIPs, assigned sequentially by maintainers. To start one, you will first need to open an Ethereum Magicians forum thread, then make a draft which links to the thread. After which, the specific process depends. Examples: EIP-7939: Count Leading Zeros (CLZ) An opcode in the upcoming Fusaka hardfork that can speed up math operations with smaller bytecode. As a basic math operation that costs as much as a 256-bit `ADD`, this is most suitably implemented as an opcode, which is most suitably implemented as an EIP. ERC-7631: Dual Nature Token Pair Interfaces for how a co-joined fungible and and non-fungible token pair can signal their relationship. Opt-in standard. Allows for better discoverability, better UX. RIP-7767: Gas to Ether contract A contract that burns gas and returns a portion of the gas burned to the caller as the native currency. Due to the adventurous nature of this proposal, this could be piloted as a pre-compile / pre-deploy on rollups first. The tentative mainnet analog is EIP-7791 (GAS2ETH opcode). Difficulty to get adoption / inclusion: EIP > RIP > ERC (approximately) To explain why, each of these deserves their own elaboration in separate threads, best left for future content.