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0/ Updates from the last two weeks in the Ethereum ecosystem, a guest thread by Ethereum Daily creator @ethereumdaily.eth 

I’m thrilled to share this thread to recap the most notable updates & announcements from Ethereum builders over the last few weeks 🧵👇

*L1 News & Core Development*

1/ Core Devs have agreed to launch a new testnet, Hoodi, on March 17th to complete Pectra testing. Once successfully forked, the hard fork will be scheduled to go live on mainnet 30+ days later. And Fusaka planning is already up and running in parallel!

ACDE Recap

A new testnet, Hoodi, is going live Monday to wrap up Pectra testing, if you need to test validator exits, be on the lookout for it! Everything else can be tested on Sepolia &amp; Holesky. 

Pectra will be scheduled 30+ days after Hoodi forks successfully,  pending infra… https://t.co/FK05GmtPnk

timbeiko.eth

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*L1 News & Core Development*

1/ Core Devs have agreed to launch a new testnet, Hoodi, on March 17th to complete Pectra testing. Once successfully forked, the hard fork will be scheduled to go live on mainnet 30+ days later. And Fusaka planning is already up and running in parallel!

https://x.com/TimBeiko/status/1900232845194649787

2/ Nethermind Ready for Pre-Merge History Expiry Support on May 1st with 1.31 release. Once activated, full nodes will reduce pre-merge storage needed by approximately 50% (down to 320GB from the 700GB needed today)

History-expiry update:
More than 80% of Ethereum full node disk space is occupied by history, so data not needed to validate new blocks. 

With the latest 1.31.* releases, @NethermindEth is fully ready to drop pre-merge history via ERA files.

Dropping history requires… https://t.co/UbN7bR0Pvv

Marek Moraczyński

2/ Nethermind Ready for Pre-Merge History Expiry Support on May 1st with 1.31 release. Once activated, full nodes will reduce pre-merge storage needed by approximately 50% (down to 320GB from the 700GB needed today)

https://x.com/M25Marek/status/1896682044912030087

3/ Sigma Prime's Lighthouse 7.0 enables light client support! This boosts decentralization by letting users verify transactions directly on Ethereum without relying on centralized RPCs, even on resource-constrained devices like smartphones

Vitalik loves light clients and we do too: 

Lighthouse is enabling 𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐜𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐛𝐲 𝐝𝐞𝐟𝐚𝐮𝐥𝐭, making trust-minimised consumers (i.e. wallets) more viable than ever! 

With this rollout the share of beacon nodes providing light client data is… https://t.co/dtNURMLivO

Sigma Prime

3/ Sigma Prime's Lighthouse 7.0 enables light client support! This boosts decentralization by letting users verify transactions directly on Ethereum without relying on centralized RPCs, even on resource-constrained devices like smartphones

https://x.com/sigp_io/status/1896790151290142741

4/ Fidelity has filed with the CBOE to add staking to it's FETH ETF. If approved, this would be the first financial product to provide access to yield bearing ETH, or any other token.

JUST IN: $4.5 trillion asset manager Fidelity files S-1 form for Spot Ethereum ETF with staking included. https://t.co/KHNTt02qld

Watcher.Guru

4/ Fidelity has filed with the CBOE to add staking to it's FETH ETF. If approved, this would be the first financial product to provide access to yield bearing ETH, or any other token.

https://x.com/WatcherGuru/status/1772999593577390172

5/ New nonprofit org "Ether Guild" announced to promote ETH as money (to those that don't already know ;) ). Stay tuned for their educational initiatives and community quests to direct funding and advance shared ETH-supporting goals

Introducing Ether Guild:

A group of hyper-focused ETH supporters, working to elevate ETH, the money, in service of Ethereum, the computer.



🧵👇 https://t.co/9a9o9HYBho

ethismoney.eth

5/ New nonprofit org "Ether Guild" announced to promote ETH as money (to those that don't already know ;) ). Stay tuned for their educational initiatives and community quests to direct funding and advance shared ETH-supporting goals

https://x.com/ethismoneyHQ/status/1899104142897086854

6/ The EF granted funding to ZKnox, an open-source research org enhancing Ethereum’s efficiency and security against quantum threats. They've already used Number Theoretic Transform (NTT) tech to cut certain transaction costs by 12x

1/ Introducing ZKnox @zknoxhq ! This new research organization is at the forefront of advanced cryptography, backed by a grant from the Ethereum Foundation. Their mission: provide high impact open source code that improves Ethereum security and efficiency.

Ethereum Foundation

6/ The EF granted funding to ZKnox, an open-source research org enhancing Ethereum’s efficiency and security against quantum threats. They've already used Number Theoretic Transform (NTT) tech to cut certain transaction costs by 12x 

https://x.com/ethereumfndn/status/1896592240228893072

7/ Aave is shipping! Over the last two weeks they have announced the institution-focused Project Horizon, proposed new tokenomics to conduct $1M worth of buybacks every week for one year, and added EURC support on Base

Introducing Project Horizon—our new initiative at Aave Labs focused on building institutional DeFi products. https://t.co/97BAAyvwZ0

Aave Labs announces Project Horizon, a new initiative focused on building institutional DeFi products.

Learn more:

https://t.co/IPruxFuvrH

Aave

7/ Aave is shipping! Over the last two weeks they have announced the institution-focused Project Horizon, proposed new tokenomics to conduct $1M worth of buybacks every week for one year, and added EURC support on Base

https://x.com/aave/status/1900188291418513783

8/ Circle launches CCTP V2, enabling instant cross-chain USDC settlement, enhanced post-transfer composability via Hooks, and 1:1 burn-and-mint without liquidity pools. Live on Ethereum & Base, coming soon to Arbitrum & Linea!

The future of cross-chain is here with CCTP V2!

Now available on @avax, @base, and @ethereum. Support for @LineaBuild, @arbitrum, and @solana is coming soon, with more blockchain expansions expected this year.

⚡ Fast Transfer: cross-chain USDC settlement in seconds
🔀 Hooks:… https://t.co/eK9InRuv6W

Circle

9/ Lido released its Composable Staking Module V2 Vision, aiming to scale beyond 10% share of stake, onboard solo stakers and DAOs, and enable custom modules like slashing protection for institutions or high-risk/high-yield staking

10/ Gitcoin's GG23 features 6 Community Rounds: Regen Coordination, GoodDollar GoodBuilders, Token Engineering, Superchain Retro Round, Regen Rio de Janeiro, Gitcoin Grants Garden, and Web3 for Universities. Applications open 3/17, donations start 4/2

https://x.com/gitcoin/status/1900273769450541324

9/ Lido released its Composable Staking Module V2 Vision, aiming to scale beyond 10% share of stake, onboard solo stakers and DAOs, and enable custom modules like slashing protection for institutions or high-risk/high-yield staking

https://x.com/LidoFinance/status/1899476896909345019

8/ Circle launches CCTP V2, enabling instant cross-chain USDC settlement, enhanced post-transfer composability via Hooks, and 1:1 burn-and-mint without liquidity pools. Live on Ethereum & Base, coming soon to Arbitrum & Linea!

https://x.com/circle/status/1899446974941905132