Monday in New York: Etherealize will bring together more than 150 executives from major U.S. institutions for the Institutional Ethereum Forum, hosted by @ethereumfndn. More than $250 trillion in assets will be represented at the forum to discuss Ethereum's role as the future of financial infrastructure.

Polaris can only be built on Ethereum. Ethereum will win because protocols like Polaris can only be built on Ethereum. We spent two years building a fully on-chain, counterparty-free infrastructure. The final result is as follows:

Alice performs a private swap on L1. In short: Currently, privacy protocol users rely on broadcasters who can view, pre-process, and censor their transactions. This article will demonstrate step-by-step how four future protocol upgrades will eliminate this dependency. Native AA (EIP-8141) and 2D nonce allow users to submit transactions themselves without off-chain infrastructure. Cryptographic frame transactions hide swap parameters only after block order confirmation. FOCIL guarantees transaction inclusion as long as an honest includeer can see the pending transaction in the public mempool. 👇🧵

Introducing Codex FX. The new standard for conversion between fiat currency and stablecoins. Exchange any currency for any amount.

🔒🖼️ New Post: Encrypted Frame Transactions 🔒🖼️ In short: Encrypted frame transactions, based on LUCID and EIP-8141, hide execution parameters (target, call data, amount) before block order locking. This design enables simultaneous encrypted execution in the same time slot, interleaving of plaintext/encrypted transactions, and future compatibility with the PQ scheme. 👇🧵

Once @leanethereum is fully deployed, Ethereum will become the only mainstream blockchain to possess both of the following: (i) theoretically optimal security under synchronous conditions (requiring 51% honesty of online validators); and (ii) strong economic finality under asynchronous conditions. Most "semi-centralized fast chains" only choose (ii), PoW chains only choose (i), while Ethereum possesses both.

An excellent article explains the importance of Ethereum's dynamic availability consensus, which provides both economic finality and ensures that the chain can continue to move forward even if economic finality is impossible.

The new fast confirmation rules mechanism ensures that Ethereum will not roll back after just one time slot (12 seconds). Security assumptions include: (i) the vast majority of users are honest; and (ii) network latency is less than 3 seconds. While slightly less robust than economic finality, it is already very robust for many application scenarios.

FOCIL 🤝 Native Account Abstraction Given the recent discussion about which EL titles Hegota's FOCIL might contain, this article explains how FOCIL and FrameTxs interact. In short: FOCIL achieves censorship resistance by using low-cost post-state checks to detect when a builder mistakenly excludes a transaction from a block. This works well for EOA and EIP-7702 accounts. However, for the native account abstraction, its effectiveness depends on running arbitrary code that could access the account's external state. 👇🧵

The quick rule confirmation feature is fantastic! After years of development, it's finally online! I'm so excited!