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Futures of Ethereum II: Improving Censorship Resistance
27 Feb 2025
16 min read
This piece on the Futures of Ethereum explores its ongoing fight for censorship resistance, examining the impact of regulatory pressure, the role of Proposer-Builder Separation (PBS), and potential solutions like encrypted mempools to keep the network neutral and decentralized.
Defining Interest Rates for Stablecoins
27 Feb 2025
10 min read
In this article about stablecoins, we shed light on interest rates, a critical factor behind their stability. We explore governance-driven, algorithmic, and game-theoretic models for setting these rates, showing how issuers balance decentralization, risk, and market efficiency.
Futures of Ethereum I: From Beacon Chain to Beam Chain
27 Feb 2025
18 min read
Building on Ethereum's 2024 developments, this article explores the Beam Chain proposal introduced by Justin Drake at Devcon, aiming to overhaul Ethereum's consensus layer by addressing MEV insights, leveraging SNARK advancements, and eliminating Beacon Chain's technical debt.
Chain Abstraction: Orchestrating Towards the New Internet's Composability
27 Feb 2025
26 min read
The article explores blockchain fragmentation issues and introduces chain abstraction as a solution to unify state, liquidity, and assets across multiple chains. It highlights Socket protocol's role in enabling seamless user experiences and multichain composability for dApps and developers.
ERC-7683: Unifying Ethereum With Cross-Chain Intents
27 Feb 2025
25 min read
This article explores ERC-7683, a standard for crosschain intents that enables seamless multichain transactions, improves liquidity flow, and fosters interoperability through shared infrastructure and industry collaboration.
EIP-7762 & EIP-7691: Making Ethereum Blobs Great Again
27 Feb 2025
13 min read
The article explores EIP-7762 and EIP-7691, focusing on optimizing blob pricing and increasing blob throughput to enhance Ethereum's data availability layer, while balancing scalability, consensus security, and rollup efficiency.
Bringing Permissionless Lending: Making Sense of Euler
27 Feb 2025
12 min read
Explore how Euler v2 revolutionizes DeFi lending with modular architecture, ERC-4626 vaults, and permissionless customization, enabling tailored lending markets, seamless interoperability, and efficient value capture for diverse assets and users.
EIP-7685: General Purpose Execution Layer Requests
28 Feb 2025
27 min read
EIP-7685 introduces a framework for Ethereum's execution layer to handle general-purpose contract-triggered requests. The article explores how the proposal enhances interaction between the execution and consensus layers, enabling more versatile operations.
EIP-7623: Repricing Calldata For Ethereum Transactions
28 Feb 2025
13 min read
This article delves into EIP-7623, a proposal to increase calldata costs in Ethereum transactions, aiming to reduce maximum block sizes and improve network efficiency. Discover how this change impacts data-heavy transactions and the broader Ethereum ecosystem.
Understanding Blockchain Governance
28 Feb 2025
8 min read
Blockchain governance includes formal mechanisms like protocol upgrades and on-chain voting, alongside informal processes such as community discussions and social media influence. Understanding these dynamics is key for stakeholders shaping the future of blockchain ecosystems.
ERC-5564 & ERC-6358: Unlocking Privacy on Ethereum with Stealth Addresses
28 Feb 2025
17 min read
This article explores the inner workings of ERC-5564 and ERC-6358, revealing how stealth addresses enhance privacy on Ethereum. Learn how these proposals enable secure, unlinkable transactions without changing the core protocol.