A major version upgrade! It has so many new cool features, quite a big leap: flat state, very small archive that you can sync pretty fast, significantly faster head processing, improved networking, and more

Ethereum archive nodes, three ways - soon in @Nethermind 2.0 1/ Full flat archive: every block since genesis - 1.8 TB, or 2.1 TB with receipts ~15x disk reduction.

In the next release, we will ship a 1.8 TB Ethereum archive node. This means the @Nethermind client becomes a complete node for all use cases: - Performant and stable full node with super fast snap sync - Compact archive node *1.8 TB without receipts; with receipts, it’s ~2.2 TB.

Introducing the Platåberget testnet! Its our Glamsterdam focused testnet to help the community test all the upcoming changes. Please get involved with the testing efforts! blog.ethereum.org/2026/08/17…

Ethereum turns 11 today. Since mainnet went live on July 30, 2015, Ethereum has: → Never halted. Not once, across 11 years of continuous block production. → Become the settlement layer for stablecoins, holding more than half of all supply → Taken the largest share of tokenized real world assets of any network → Built the largest DeFi ecosystem in crypto, ~8x the next largest chain by TVL → Grown the largest developer ecosystem in the industry → Become the default venue for institutions coming onchain No company owns it. No one can switch it off. Credibly neutral. Everything onchain is verifiable. Here's to the next 11 years as Ethereum becomes the home of finance.

Great dashboard for tracking Ethereum client performance, created by the EthRex team. @Nethermind has been the fastest client to process approximately 80% of Ethereum blocks (last 12 hours results). Full dashboard: grafana.ethrex.xyz/d/client-…

2026 is the year that we take back lost ground in terms of self-sovereignty and trustlessness. Some of what this practically means: Full nodes: thanks to ZK-EVM and BAL, it will once again become easier to locally run a node and verify the Ethereum chain on your own computer. Helios: actually verify the data you're receiving from RPCs instead of blindly trusting it. ORAM, PIR: ask for data from RPCs without revealing which data you're asking, so you can access dapps without your access patterns being sold off to dozens of third parties all around the world. Social recovery wallets and timelocks: wallets that don't make you lose all your money if you misplace your seedphrase, or if an online or offline attacker extracts your seedphrase, and *also* don't make all your money backdoored by Google. Privacy UX: make private payments from your wallet, with the same user experience as making public payments. Privacy censorship resistance: private payments with the ERC-4337 mempool, and soon native AA + FOCIL, without relying on the public broadcaster ecosystem. Application UIs: use more dapps from an onchain UI with IPFS, without relying on trusted servers that would lock you our of practical recovery of your assets if they went offline, and would give you a hijacked UI that steals your funds if they get hacked for even a millisecond. In many of these areas, over the last ten years we have seen serious backsliding in Ethereum. Nodes went from easy to run to hard to run. Dapps went from static pages to complicated behemoths that leak all your data to a dozen servers. Wallets went from routing everything through the RPC, which could be any node of your choice including on your own computer, to leaking your data to a dozen servers of their choice. Block building became more centralized, putting Ethereum transaction inclusion guarantees under the whims of a very small number of builders. In 2026, no longer. Every compromise of values that Ethereum has made up to this point - every moment where you might have been thinking, is it really worth diluting ourselves so much in the name of mainstream adoption - we are making that compromise no longer. It will be a long road. We will not get everything we want in the next Kohaku release, or the next hard fork, or the hard fork after that. But it will make Ethereum into an ecosystem that deserves not only its current place in the universe, but a much greater one. In the world computer, there is no centralized overlord. There is no single point of failure. There is only love. Milady.

🎉Fusaka is on, more blobs very soon! 🎉

Keep in mind you will need @dotnet 10 SDK for compiling master now: dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/d…

Nethermind 🫱🏿‍🫲🏽 Besu interop on block access list local devnet 🚀 Exciting first steps towards Amsterdam fork!

First goes Holesky, October 1. Update your nodes!

In the upcoming Fusaka hardfork, Ethereum will modify the gas costs and allowed inputs for the ModExp precompile through two EIPs: EIP-7883 and EIP-7823. We encourage all developers and infrastructure providers to review their smart contracts, gas estimation algorithms, and related tooling for potential impacts. For a detailed impact analysis, refer to the reports by @nero_eth: 🔍 github.com/nerolation/eth-78… github.com/nerolation/eth-78…

Stress-test ePBS (EIP-7732) vs. Electra on 1 GigaGas L1 (avg 200 MGas blocks ~4 s exec) w/ @potuz_eth over 4 epochs: Electra: 28 orphaned blocks (lost rewards) ePBS: 0 orphaned blocks EIP-7732 is a game-changer for Ethereum L1 scaling! 🔥

What are the performance benefits of EOF (EVM Object Format)? At the @SuccinctLabs residency, my benchmarks reveal ZK proving EOF is ~3x more efficient and runs 2.69x faster than the current EVM version ⛽ (link below)

Update everyone! Hardfork season is getting to it's final stage. Happy hardfork!