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Apples of the Infinite Garden: A Children's Book on EIP-7918

Audrey the Auctioneer, Pontus the Ponderer and Therese the Tree Tender have started an apple orchard in a huge garden. The friends have a vision: feeding the world with apples. Let's follow them on their journey 🧵👇

Gonna steal this idea for all upcoming EIPs

Supporting privacy for everyone, and making the necessary tools open source, universal, reliable and safe is one of the important challenges of our time.

Researcher
Co-author of EIP-7212 
Ex- @getclave

Large language models provide us not with truth, but with the aggregate of public discourse.

That is why.

Applications for the sixth cohort of the Ethereum Protocol Fellowship are open.

If you are an experienced software engineer curious about Ethereum core development, this is for you.

Summer of Protocols

Final weekend to enter the Terminological Twists protocol sci-fi contest. Deadline April 14.

https://protocolized.summerofprotocols.com/p/terminological-twists

Select a term for a technical or procedural concept with protocolish connotations and write a short story that explores some unexpected and startling implication of the concept. Examples to consider: packet switching, boot sequence, cap-and-trade, chain of custody, kill-chain, zero-knowledge proof, multisig, social distancing, fuel partitioning, priority boarding, self-checkout, vampire sneeze, 5-second rule, first-in-first-out.

Writing with AI is so much more fun than I thought it would be. It’s a great creative sparring partner.

Ethereum: a protocol for surviving the singularity.

Cohort 5 of the Ethereum Protocol Fellowship wrapped up late last year.

5 months, 30 fellows, a ton of meaningful contributions to Ethereum core.

Some highlights 👇

Food

Recently found the magic of tea cocktails (cockteas 😅) for a delicious NA beverage.

What happens when a smart city learns to balance perception like bandwidth? Fault Tolerance explores the quiet horror of being optimized out of existence.

tl;dr: I co-wrote some sci-fi. I'd love if you'd give it a read.

🧵

Maybe the prettiest thing I’ve ever plates…

Devconnect ARG

Devconnect is coming to Buenos Aires, Argentina from 17-22 November 2025!! 🌞🇦🇷

Devconnect ARG will be different: We want to support an effort the local community has already started — bringing Argentina onchain.

Read about Devconnect ARG & how you can get involved👇

If you are reading this and run a Holesky validator, please get it back online ASAP and remove your slashing protection DB (to allow you to attest to the valid minority chain).

Holesky validators: we are coordinating a mass slashing event tomorrow Feb. 28 around 15:00 UTC. 

You should: 

1. Update your node (see screenshot)
2. Sync your node to head (new CL branches will help)
3. Right before slot 3737760, disable slashing protection

More info here:… https://t.co/oJlcpm3acC

Post call update: 

We did not have enough validators online to finalize, but we saw less slashings than expected. 

Therefore, we're going to try and get enough validators online to finalize a block over the next couple days.  

If we haven't finalized a block by the Monday…

timbeiko.eth

If you are reading this and run a Holesky validator, please get it back online ASAP and remove your slashing protection DB (to allow you to attest to the valid minority chain).

https://x.com/timbeiko/status/1895505271407223287?s=46

popup-ama

No. And I'm also not a capitalist. Both are 20th century ideologies.

(And they are words that have been stretched and abused to the point of meaninglessness: remember, in the 1990s, Microsoft called Linux "communist": https://www.theregister.com/2000/07/31/ms_ballmer_linux_is_communism/ )

I support freedom, global equality of opportunity, kindness and cooperation, human welfare and progress.

These are timeless principles. The question is how to use the tools we have available to achieve these values in the context of the 21st century. I've written at length about the kinds of mechanisms I personally support, but I definitely do not think that I am the only source of good ideas, I think figuring out the best approach is a shared project of both thinking and also increasingly real world experimentation.

I support freedom, global equality of opportunity, kindness and cooperation, human welfare and progress.

Ready to dive into and learn more about the Ethereum protocol? Ethereum Protocol Studies is back for 2025 and here to help!

Ready to dive into and learn more about the Ethereum protocol? Ethereum Protocol Studies is back for 2025 and here to help!

https://blog.ethereum.org/2025/02/05/ethereum-protocol-studies

How can I make my social media impulse to open Farcaster instead of Twitter?

Happy new year, Farcaster 🎉

2025 is going to be a big one for Ethereum ✨

Job market is like online dating

Hiring is dating from woman's POV: a deluge of applicants to sift through looking for the diamond in the rough

Applying is dating from man's POV: putting yourself out there, getting ghosted, if lucky getting rejected, hoping for that 1st date

JoshD

@joshdavis.eth