1/🪩@ethereum turned 10 last week. To celebrate, we brought together hundreds of builders, artists, and dreamers under one roof. Here's the recap for this magical night :

Ethereum turns 10🎉 and we're hosting an epic birthday celebration in SF alongside robots, AI, arts, music & more. This Wednesday at 4pm Come join us with @tkstanczak from @ethereumfndn, @ETHGlobal, @daimopay , @EspressoSys, and @PrismaXai at the @frontiertower.

1/ AI is coming to Ethereum. And Ethereum is ready to be its backbone. This Friday, @EthereumHouseSF hosts a gathering of the builders shaping AI x Ethereum — in the city that’s the global capital of AI. Here’s why it’s important👇

1/ The first ever Ethereum House event is happening this Friday! Join us to explore the future of Ethereum UX with builders from @RobinhoodApp, @MetaMask, @ycombinator, @privy , @worldcoin, @StanfordCrypto, and @ethereumfndn

I'm thrilled to co-lead Ethereum House @ethereumhouseSF with Mia @_mia_56_ Downtown SF now has a builders studio for Ethereum ecosystem builders inside @frontiertower! Come and code, demo, brainstorm IRL. Grab a desk, host an event, and shape Ethereum’s next decade with us. DMs open!

1/ I am excited to announce Lantern Capital @lanterncap_ , in partnership with @NethermindEth, with @tkstanczak joining as General Partner on behalf of Nethermind. Lantern Capital is an early stage venture capital firm, investing in founders accelerating machine-to-ledger communication in the near-AGI era.

Pectra is live on Ethereum mainnet! - Smart account wallet UX features now active - L2 scaling data storage blobs increased by 2x - Validator UX improvements live Community members will continue to monitor for any issues over the next 24 hours.

Aztec’s Public Testnet is live. The privacy revolution is finally here.

Our discussions about the Layer 1 scaling roadmap have been extensive, and the feedback so far suggests that the community appreciates our ambition. Turning that ambition into reality now depends on the focus of the core development teams and researchers. Following the recent changes in leadership at the Ethereum Foundation, we aimed, among other things, to free more of Vitalik’s time for research and exploration, rather than day‑to‑day coordination or crisis response. Each time Vitalik shares insights or communicates a direction, he accelerates major long‑term breakthroughs. His recent posts on RISC‑V and zkVMs have advanced promising avenues, while his writing on privacy has helped realign the community around the Ethereum Foundation’s core values. I want to make clear that Vitalik’s proposals will always carry weight, but they are intended to start conversations and encourage progress in difficult research areas. Community review may refine them significantly or even reject them. We want the same freedom for our other researchers, who show courage by posing difficult questions and suggesting alternative approaches, for example @drakefjustin and @dankrad. Ethereum researchers often ask that readers recognize the exploratory nature of their posts and proposals. Focus remains essential. Within the EF we will shift much of our research effort toward near‑term goals, aiming to address user experience and scaling challenges in the next two protocol upgrades. We are concentrating on Layer 1 scaling, support for Layer 2 scaling, and significant UX improvements (including interoperability) in the Pectra, Fusaka, and Glamsterdam upgrades. In parallel we are exploring ways to bring forward projects that currently look three to five years away. Posts from our top researchers help some of them to ship within one or two years through initiatives such as next‑generation execution and consensus layers.