Ben Edgington
@benjaminion_xyz
Ex @OPLabsPBC and @Consensys_Teku. Older than Vitalik's dad.
Some of my favourite recent upgrades to Upgrading Ethereum: 😎 Dark mode 🔍 Search 🍴 Annotated Fork Choice Check out all the shiny new things here, eth2book.info/latest/part3/f…
🫡 @preston_vanloon So thankful to have core devs of such courage and stature, in this and the tc sanctions case.
1st defense witness: Preston Van Loon Storm lawyer Klein: Where do you live? Van Loon: Nashville, Tennessee. I am an Ethereum developer. I have contributed meaningfully since 2018. It is exciting & novel with promising use cases Klein: Did we pay your travel? Yes
How it started; how it's going. Bitcoin on brink of bailing out chancellor 🤯
I feel like the the launch of the @devtoolsguild was years in the making. Having always been passionate about open source, I never appreciated the funding challenges until I created by own open source library. This post is my story. It starts with Linux, ends with Ethereum.
How did the Dev Tools Guild come about? In our origin story post, founding guild coordinator @conorsvensson breaks it down. Have a read 👀 at devtoolsguild.xyz/blog/devtoolsg…
the ethereum merge online and in-person watch parties in sept 2022 truly an incredible experience! shout out to anyone who was around then and still around today 🫡
define ‘you had to be there’
I may be naive, I may be too much of an optimist. But it is my hope with @devtoolsguild we can achieve something in #Ethereum that could not be solved in web2 - providing sustainable funding for the maintainers of critical dev tools. More is at stake in #web3 as hackers are…
168.3 million downloads. 3 years of paid licensing. I still need a day job. Companies are building products on top of ImageSharp and can’t be bothered to pay. This is what it’s like building OSS in .NET. #dotnet
CDF of Ethereum block propagation delays across countries, measured relative to the fastest node per slot (block first seen). Only a few countries (FI, CH) achieve sub-100 ms delays; most show 200–500 ms median lag. This represents a lower bound estimate for block propagation.
It's official, @BlockdaemonHQ is upgrading to Distributed Validators! This partnership is a major milestone — Blockdaemon runs infrastructure for 400+ institutions and secures over $110B+ in assets. Together, we are creating the new standard for institutional staking. Full…
I know many affected parties have dismissed this topic for the most, but during Berlinterop it became fairly clear that client engineers favor ePBS over the alternatives. This thread is an appeal for affected parties to voice your concerns/requests ahead of the next breakout
A REPL for BLS12-381 curve operations 😍 Would have been a huge help back when I was writing all the BLS tests for Teku. Still great for debugging, and just playing around!
Wanna verify a BLS12-381 signature manually? You might do it like this
Wanna verify a BLS12-381 signature manually? You might do it like this
New post on EthResear.ch! Accelerating blob scaling with FullDASv2 (with getBlobs, mempool encoding, and possibly RLC) By: - cskiraly 🔗 ethresear.ch/t/22477 Highlights: - The FullDASv2 design aims to enhance data scalability in blockchain by using advanced…
I well remember @MihailoBjelic cornering me at EthCC in 2018 to pitch his idea for a souped-up side-chain - he leaves an impression 😄 Incredible to see what it became! Congrats on everything, Mihailo. I miss your epic twitter shit-posting - maybe time for a comeback?
PSA: After much thought and reflection, I’ve decided to step down from the board of the Polygon Foundation, and wind down my day-to-day involvement with Polygon Labs. I was introduced to crypto in 2013 (damn, time flies). By 2017, I was deep down the rabbit hole, fascinated by…
jAvA iS sLoW 🤪
Besu is now the 2nd fastest EL client on Ethereum 🚀
Just released a blog post on Ethereum block processing performance! Check it out 👇 hackmd.io/@8AY4P2cSSJaZl…
We’re passionate about home stakers and local node operators, and we want to maximize their impact on Ethereum. As the ecosystem evolves, discussions are ongoing about node requirements, roles, and tradeoffs to enhance decentralization and scalability. Vitalik recently sparked a…
the eth core devs don’t tweet a lot about just how hard the work that they do is so let’s talk about it: 1. every line of code they merge can move more money than most banks process in a quarter. there is no staging server for that. 2. they swap consensus logic for a 400B +…
1/ “Credible neutrality” is Ethereum’s secret weapon. It’s not sexy. It’s not easy to explain. But it’s why Ethereum matters and why it can outlast everything else. Here’s what it means, and why it’s so powerful: