Author: Michael Johnson

The Ethereum stake limit has been raised to 2,048 ETH per validator as the Pectra upgrade goes live. ETH price has jumped 7.3% to $1,966. Historical May strength and undervaluation signal potential rebound. Ethereum (ETH) has rallied sharply in the hours following the launch of its Pectra upgrade, marking the cryptocurrency’s strongest single-day gain in months. Ethereum validator transformation with Pectra upgrade The Pectra upgrade, activated on May 7, introduces a maximum stake limit increase to 2,048 ETH per validator, streamlining operations by reducing the need for multiple node setups. By allowing validators to stake larger sums in a single…

Community & educationAccount Abstraction Afterhours – Season 2Mirko Garozzo & Francesco AndreoliProducing educational videos with thought leaders in the account abstraction ecosystem, with Season 2 focusing on the application layer and how dapps are using account abstraction.Community & educationACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC)Scientific conference on advances in theory, empirics, and applications at the interface of economics and computation.Community & educationA General Forum on Ethereum Localism (GFEL): Boulder 2025OpenCivicsEvent in Boulder, USA that explored Ethereum’s real-world use cases in the realm of social impact and public goods through talks, unconference sessions, and a quadratic funding allocation to local community…

Thanks to Marius Van Der Wijden for creating the test case and statetest, and for helping the Besu team confirm the issue. Also, kudos to the Besu team, the EF security team, and Kevaundray Wedderburn. Additionally, thanks to Justin Traglia, Marius Van Der Wijden, Benedikt Wagner, and Kevaundray Wedderburn for proofreading. If you have any other questions/comments, find me on twitter at @asanso tl;dr: Besu Ethereum execution client version 25.2.2 suffered from a consensus issue related to the EIP-196/EIP-197 precompiled contract handling for the elliptic curve alt_bn128 (a.k.a. bn254). The issue was fixed in release 25.3.0. Here is the full…

Ichimoku and RSI indicators show no bullish momentum. The coming days could determine whether DOGE stages a recovery or slides into a deeper correction. DOGE lags behind Bitcoin and Ethereum amid broader altcoin pullback. Dogecoin is navigating a volatile phase as its price hovers just above key support levels. After hitting a local high near $0.2, DOGE has trended downward, raising fresh doubts about the memecoin’s strength in the current market. While leading cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum continue to consolidate, Dogecoin has struggled to maintain momentum. The asset risks erasing nearly all gains from the past 30 days unless…

Whales have increased Ethereum (ETH) holdings from 15.5M to 19M ahead of Pectra. Pectra upgrade will enable account abstraction, validator scaling, and 2× blob capacity. ETH price currently faces key resistance at $1,855 and support at $1,755. Ethereum network stands on the brink of its transformative Pectra upgrade with mere hours to go, and ETH traders and HODLers alike are scanning on-chain and technical indicators for clues to the next directional move. Ethereum whale accumulation signals conviction As the Pectra upgrade approaches, Ethereum’s largest stakeholders, holding between 1,000 and 10,000 ETH, have quietly increased their reserves even as prices hovered…

Corporations, US presidential candidate Mitt Romney reminds us, are people. Whether or not you agree with the conclusions that his partisans draw from that claim, the statement certainly carries a large amount of truth. What is a corporation, after all, but a certain group of people working together under a set of specific rules? When a corporation owns property, what that really means is that there is a legal contract stating that the property can only be used for certain purposes under the control of those people who are currently its board of directors – a designation itself modifiable by…

In the first part of this series, we talked about how the internet allows us to create decentralized corporations, automatons that exist entirely as decentralized networks over the internet, carrying out the computations that keep them “alive” over thousands of servers. As it turns out, these networks can even maintain a Bitcoin balance, and send and receive transactions. These two capacities: the capacity to think, and the capacity to maintain capital, are in theory all that an economic agent needs to survive in the marketplace, provided that its thoughts and capital allow it to create sellable value fast enough to…

In the first two parts of this series, we talked about what the basic workings of a decentralized autonomous corporation might look like, and what kinds of challenges it might need to deal with to be effective. However, there is still one question that we have not answered: what might such corporations be useful for? Bitcoin developer Jeff Garzik once suggested that one application migh be a sort of decentralized Dropbox, where users can upload their files to a resilient peer-to-peer network that would be incentivized to keep those files reliably backed up. But aside from this particular example, what…

The purpose of this post is not to say that Ethereum will be using Slasher in place of Dagger as its main mining function. Rather, Slasher is a useful construct to have in our war chest in case proof of stake mining becomes substantially more popular or a compelling reason is provided to switch. Slasher may also benefit other cryptocurrencies that wish to exist independently of Ethereum. Special thanks to tacotime for some inspiration, and for Jack Walker for improvement suggestions. Proof of stake mining has for a long time been a large area of interest to the cryptocurrency community.…

I first wrote the initial draft of the Ethereum whitepaper on a cold day in San Francisco in November, as a culmination of months of thought and often frustrating work into an area that we have come to call “cryptocurrency 2.0″ – in short, using the Bitcoin blockchain for more than just money. In the months leading up to the development of Ethereum, I had the privilege to work closely with several projects attempting to implement colored coins, smart property, and various types of decentralized exchange. At the time, I was excited by the sheer potential that these technologies could…