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Zebra 3.0.0-rc.0 Release - Zcash Foundation The Zcash Foundation is pleased to announce the release of Zebra 3.0.0-rc.0. This release candidate includes the mainnet activation height for the Zcash Network Upgrade 6.1 (NU6.1) which will…

This release candidate includes the mainnet activation height for NU6.1 and significant updates to Zebra’s CI and Docker setup, as well as performance optimizations. zfnd.org/zebra-3-0-0-...

The first edition of the new Bread Updates newsletter has been sent to inboxes everywhere! In this edition we cover
- $BREAD distribution cycle #15
- the deep dive into our rebrand
- the first blog for our game-changing Ethereum scaling solution, Gas Killer

📚 Let´s co-create Bread Cooperative´s Knowledge, Research and Development initiative!🧑‍🤝‍🧑

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🍞 With a community of researchers, developers, and activists? 🦑

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It’s a good list. I would suggest Namecoin/Zerocoin and Swarm.

Solidity Summit 2025 | Solidity Programming Language La Rural, Buenos Aires, Argentina - 11/18/2025 - 11/18/2025

⏳ Reminder: Solidity Summit attendee applications are still open.

Here's how you can attend:
1. Click 'Attend' on soliditylang.org/summit/
2. Verify (or buy if you haven't yet) your DevConnect ticket
3. Apply for a Summit ticket!
🎟️https://devconnect.org/calendar?event=soliditysummit

🔒 The builders behind the world’s most powerful anonymity network are coming to RealFi.

Join @torproject.bsky.social tomorrow at 1:30 pm ET for a 90-min workshop introducing Arti, a new Rust-based Tor implementation bringing censorship resistance & privacy directly into apps.

🗓️ bit.ly/3VSmUvM

April 7, 2025, former @torproject.bsky.social and @ethereum.foundation developer Virgil Griffith was released from prison. He took time to mentor me from prison. I am now in #WiEP, have a startup for #EtherISC, w/2 AI Insurance Agents. He’s working at Georgetown now. He’s a good guy. Wish him well.

Threads From the 2025 Cypherpunk Retreat Key takeaways from the Cypherpunk Retreat, where 100 leading builders advanced privacy-tech coordination.

8/ Read the full Threads From the 2025 Cypherpunk Retreat. ⤵️

GitHub - ethereumjs/ethereumjs-monorepo: Ethereum L1 Protocol Stack and EVM in TypeScript Ethereum L1 Protocol Stack and EVM in TypeScript. Contribute to ethereumjs/ethereumjs-monorepo development by creating an account on GitHub.

🎊 Grant Announcement: EthereumJS Maintenance & Development!

Maintenance and evolution of the EthereumJS monorepo’s core libraries, ensuring the packages remain reliable, secure, and up-to-date with the latest protocol changes.

github.com/ethereumjs/e...

Devconnect ARG — Ethereum World's Fair Nov. 17th – 22nd, 2025

Seats at the Summit are limited. If you haven't yet applied, get your ticket before they run out.

📝 Note: You CANNOT get access to a Solidity Summit attendee ticket without a DevCon ticket
So make sure to get your Devconnect ARG ticket asap.
tickets.devconnect.org

See you in Argentina!

From today, Breadchain will now be known as Bread Cooperative.

This is an evolution driven by community feedback and a focus on making sure the tools we build reach those who need them most.

Same mission. Same team. Clearer path forward.

Check the 🧵 for links!

Why Socialists should NOT cede crypto to the Right - The Blockchain Socialist For this interview I spoke to Joshua Citarella (@JoshuaCitarella on social media), an artist, researcher, and Twitch streamer who studies niche online communities. He authored the book the Politigram ...

For nearly a decade Citarella has been tracking the trends of Gen Z and their shifting and extreme online politics that have led to extreme actions. If anyone predicted this trend, I would say its him. I published this interview back on October 30, 2022.

theblockchainsocialist.com/why-socialis...

Great news!

The case for privacy: GG24 MACI <> Allo Capital Note: This is a late submission for inclusion in the GG24 Domain and Gitcoin match. While initial traction was slow, momentum picked up quickly after the Snapshot vote, and we have now secured over $4...

Good news from our camp! We are helping to facilitate Privacy public good round on Gitcoin - $150K to privacy builders.

Privacy apps, R&D, education & infra are welcome.

proposal: gov.gitcoin.co/t/the-case-f...

Catwoman and Elektra in DC x Marvel comic cover by Dan Panosian.

Dan Panosian @urbanbarbarian.bsky.social
@dcoffical.bsky.social / @marvelofficial.bsky.social Crossover cover featuring #Catwoman & #Elektra  🔥🔥🔥Bucket list 1:25 Exclusive Retailer Variant!

New Long-Duration Meteor Shower Over Southern Hemisphere

The Cameras for Allsky Meteor Surveillance (CAMS) low-light video survey has detected a meteor outburst of a previously unknown shower in the southern hemisphere this past week, possibly ongoing, with a radiant near the star gamma Horologii. 🧪 🔭

Technical details: www.seti.org/news/new-lon...

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Wikipedia Realtime Changes
Visualized with Wikimedia Stream API and @threejs.org Wikimedia Stream: stream.wikimedia.org/v2/stream/re...

0/ The Ethereum Foundation is committed to supporting the ‘Columbia-Ethereum Research Center on Blockchain Protocol Design’ by matching up to $500,000 in donations each year for the first three years.

🥷 Pretty-printing of Rust ZK constraints | Formal Land Many zkVMs are implemented in Rust, using the Plonky3 library to describe their circuits. While Rust is efficient and expressive for describing complex circuits, it is a complex language when it comes...

✨ New work from our grantee @formalland.bsky.social, formally verifying ZK circuits for zkVMs!

Their new blog post presents how to pretty-print the constraints from a Plonky3 circuit, ensuring their modeling is correct.

formal.land/blog/2025/08...

Days after ERC-20 was published and @ethereum.foundation Devcon 1 ended, @simondlr.com wrote an inspiring piece about the future of Ethereum.

Simon, a contributor to the token standard, gave a legendary talk at Devcon 1.

Talk: m.youtube.com/watch?v=kE5o...
Recap: medium.com/@simondlr/et...

On the Limits of Encrypted Mempools – A Response to a16z Crypto’s Analysts Encrypted mempools aren’t perfect - but they’re powerful. Our response to a16z Crypto highlights real-world progress and where views diverge.

Encrypted mempools aren’t perfect - but they’re powerful. They greatly reduce sandwich attacks, centralization & censorship.

Here’s our view on a16z Crypto’s take on their limits, based on what we’ve learned deploying them:
blog.shutter.network/on-the-limit...

Episode 208 – growthepie – Scaling Ethereum: L2 Ecosystem Growth, Public Goods Funding, and the Path to Ethereum Alignment For episode 208, we welcome Tobias Schreier, Co-Founder of Growthepie, a powerful analytics platform tracking Ethereum ecosystem trends, Layer 2 activity, and public goods funding. We explore what imp...

Layer-2 growth, Ethereum alignment, AI Agents...the ETH ecosystem is evolving rapidly!🌱🚀

We sat down with Tobias Schreier, Co-Founder of growthepie, to break through the noise & unpack key trends shaping Ethereum that every builder needs to know✨🌐

🎧Listen:
www.cryptoaltruists.com/blog/episode...

2025 Roadmap Update This is a 2025 roadmap update detailing what each team is working on until the end of the year.

Visit our blog to read about recent milestones and upcoming work of Solidity, Sourcify, ethdebug, Fe, Act, and hevm: www.argot.org/blog/2025-r...

Besu 25.8.0 is now available
This is a required update for all users.

Highlights:
Performance updates
- Sync is faster
- Sync uses less memory and CPU
- Block creation is faster
Security updates
- Dependency updates inc fixing CVEs

Full release notes:
github.com/hyperledger/...

Volunteer call! 🪄

Help us make the biggest cypherpunk x digital rights event in web3 - congress.web3privacy.info. Join team who wants more free, just & meaningful internet.

Apply: tally.so/r/3lLqKo

Shepherds: Robert & Alisher