Welcome onboard @irondevx and @andrzej1_1, the newest members to the dev team who will be building the Unified future!

Today, Ethereum has officially received the the Fusaka upgrade. Ethereum + rollups are getting an upgrade which makes them more efficient and cheaper. You might not have expected this to actually benefit Malda and the Unified vision, but it actually does. Let’s take a look: EIP-7939 introduces CLZ and other opcodes that make proof verification cheaper and more efficient. → This will drive down end user costs further and optimize our sequencer operations further. Higher L1 gas limits increases our potential throughput on Ethereum Mainnet, given the low block time and previously even lower throughput this is of course been significantly lower than our capacity on rollups. PeerDAS + Blob Parameter Only (BPO) forks increase the max L2 throughput by 10x, and outsources the decision to validators to adjust the max blob number per block based on market demand. This means validators can safely increase it without the need to wait 6 months for a hard fork. WebAuthn / passkeys are being made easier to support. This significantly opens up the wallet design space, as you remove some technical complexity wallets had to go through to use passkeys. Fusaka is the bridge between old Ethereum and the future snarkified L1. EIP-7939 introduces the mathematical and structural groundwork for (CLZ, Statelessness). I have been a strong believer in this design across all layers, which is why much of Malda operates on a stateless principle. As the tech moves forward the vision for the ecosystem is becoming clearer, the tools which are needed for this new paradigm. The high level vision was always clear → We trust in math ;)

We are beginning sequencer failover validation testing, where we simulate node drops and triggered backups. Deliberately crashing and delaying nodes shows us how well the sequencer is able to recover, and where we need to make improvements.