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Ethereum’s roadmap, without the noise. We’re excited to welcome @cheekygorilla0x of @ProtocolGuild to Devcon 8! 🦍 From upcoming upgrades to the bigger picture, they’ll break down what’s next for Ethereum, why it matters, and how it all fits together.
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yes! Lido was the very first @ProtocolGuild funder, critical early support for the new project still in the top 10 of the All-Time donor leaderboard 💪dune.com/protocolguild/proto…
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Join us this Friday, Aug 28th @ 15.00 UTC for a livestream discussing @alignedlayer's pledge, with @rj_aligned, @trent_vanepps and @cheekygorilla0x
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Account Abstraction (AA) means Ethereum becomes more programmable while maintaining simplicity and composability, while also making it easier to onboard new users. The Ethereum core developer community is committing to AA for Hegotá, the next hardfork after Glamsterdam.
AA update: The Frame Transactions EIP was moved today to Scheduled status for the Hegotá upgrade. It was proposed as a headliner and moved in March of this year to Considered status. There was strong consensus that it was important to ship Account Abstraction in Hegotá even if the specific implementation was still up for debate. There's been a lot of progress in the past few weeks as another implementation, EIP-8130, became a contender. This EIP is scheduled to be shipped on @base in September. It spurred productive conversation async and in a breakout this past Tuesday about the best way to not fracture standards across the ecosystem by shipping two incompatible Account Abstraction implementations between the L1 and L2s. The crux of the issue is arriving at a shared transaction type that both preserves flexibility and future-proofness for the L1 and allows L2s to statically analyze transactions for performance and DoS-resistance reasons. At a minimum, we should make sure that the AA scheme we adopt for the L1 is flexible enough that 8130, or any future account system, can be built on top of it so that from the user's perspective the same account can work across L1 and L2s. Authors of both EIPs, core devs, researchers, and testing teams have been working toward a solution that respects the imperative to get Account Abstraction in the next fork without delay but avoids fracturing ecosystem standards. That said - Account Abstraction _will_ ship in Hegotá, so core devs decided today to move EIP-8141 from Considered to Scheduled today. This was made with the caveat that the version of Account Abstraction that ships in Hegotá may significantly change from what's on the Hegotá Meta EIP right now: potentially the EIP number, the transaction type, etc. The move to Scheduled doesn't materially change the conversation that's been happening over the past few weeks or enshrine the current spec. When an EIP is proposed as a headliner and moved to Scheduled, it just signals an intention to make the fork schedule dependent on that feature being shipped. It's more common than not for the implementation to change significantly between being Scheduled and shipping. Big appreciation to @_chunter of @base, @Offchain, @EthLabs_org, and client teams for moving the conversation forward. Progress is ongoing and can be followed at the AA breakouts on Tuesdays at 14:00 UTC or asynchronously on Forkcast.
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my view at @ProtocolGuild - here's the current ethereum core protocol political economy: 15 orgs and 32 teams deeply engaged in the upgrade process lots of institutional succession this year + more changes to come đź‘€ it's critical we fund independent teams where gaps emerge!
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1/ The Q3 2026 Membership Audit for Protocol Guild has concluded. For the 17th consecutive quarter, PG has updated its membership list, reaffirming its status as an onchain institution representing Ethereum’s core protocol contributors Thread below ↓
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3/ Protocol Guild's membership is now 190, with a cumulative protocol contribution of 719 years. This change includes 9 new members & 15 new alumni, a net decrease of 6 (-3.1%) members from 196 of last quarter. Funding challenges remain, and PG will be adapting to meet them.
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4/ Their donation represents alignment in the most literal sense: ensuring that the people building on Ethereum and the people building Ethereum itself share in the value they collectively create. On behalf of Ethereum's core protocol contributors, thank you Aligned team 🫡
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1/ Announcing the ACD Fund: a new allocation dedicated to critical core dev roles. Our first allocation funds @nixorokish's ACDE coordination, in partnership with @EthCoordinate (fka EthStaker). Read More → protocolguild.org/blog/20260…
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4/ Read the @EthCoordinate announcement here:
Enter: EthCoordinate. tl;dr: EthCoordinate is a crypto-native organization born inside the EthStaker community, bringing together separate efforts under one umbrella to help with Ethereum governance coordination, support Forkcast, increase stakeholder engagement on proposed or upcoming EIPs and, of course, continue providing software, tooling, and technical support for home stakers. EthStaker started in 2020 when a loosely connected group of Ethereum enthusiasts joined efforts to speed up the development of the beacon chain. The organization steadily evolved, incorporating as a 501(c)4 nonprofit and taking up initiatives around independent participants of Ethereum's consensus mechanism, aka home stakers. Throughout the years, it has played a decisive role in coordinating the launch and operation of devnets, testnets, and mainnet hard fork upgrades; facilitating information flows and generally connecting dots that needed connecting. This year's tectonic organizational changes in the ecosystem have opened up functional gaps in Ethereum coordination. To close these gaps and continue supporting the network, EthStaker's core members are joined by mission-aligned fresh blood to aggregate efforts under one name to produce greater results than operating independently. EthCoordinate is a natural evolution of EthStaker; as Ethereum mainnet heads to its third radical consensus protocol change at a steady pace, it’s time for EthStaker to recalibrate around what Ethereum’s evolving community needs. Our mission is to facilitate interaction between stakeholders of the ecosystem to accelerate the adoption of the Ethereum network and to provide continuity for governance operations. We believe that the Ethereum mainnet is an unparalleled bedrock for the augmentation of humanity's productivity output and that ETH, the asset, is the token that aligns the incentives of all actors involved. We stand up for our values, combining technical rigor with pragmatism for Ethereum to continue being the most accessible and credibly neutral global blockchain. The team is 10 long-tenured Ethereum professionals and currently our main work streams are: ⇥ Maintain a high-quality venue for independent stakers to remain engaged and informed ⇥ Facilitate coordination around core protocol development and adjacencies ⇥ Develop and steward Forkcast, the most popular platform to track the research and engineering initiatives around Ethereum's core protocol ⇥ Facilitate research, discussion, and coordination around protocol economics in support of Ethereum's long-term economic health ⇥ Maintain open source tools and documentation used by participants of the consensus set We're energized for this chapter in Ethereum coordination & our role in it.
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5/ If you want to support her work directly, send funds to this Safe address: 0x1843116a25F380a0e1F1e7507Aa18Dc620706CCb app.safe.global/home?safe=et…
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