Opinion: What Berlin Blockchain Week Told Us About Where Crypto Is Heading
Reflections from Berlin Blockchain Week on institutional adoption, agentic infrastructure, Ethereum's roadmap, and where serious builders are heading.
By Sigma Prime
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analysis
8 posts
The Pectra Holesky Incident
This article analyzes the Pectra upgrade on Holesky that resulted in long non-finality and adverse network conditions. We explore ways the Lighthouse team recovered from non-finality and how current and future optimizations will make the Lighthouse client more robust during periods of non-finality.
Lighthouse Attestation Simulator
Introduction to the Lighthouse Attestation Simulator
By Paul Hauner
Inactivity leak under MaxEB (EIP-7251)
Explore the effects of EIP-7251 (Increase the MAX_EFFECTIVE_BALANCE) on the beacon chain's inactivity leak mechanism
By Dapplion
Lighthouse User Survey Results
An exploration of the results from the first Lighthouse User Survey.
By Mac Ladson
New Blockprint Graphs and Visuals
Announcing a graphical interface for Blockprint
Understanding Attestation Packing Efficiencies
Analysis of Attestation Packing Efficiency throughout time.
By Mac Ladson
Purity in the EVM
A definition of purity in the Ethereum EVM with strategies for detecting purity on-chain.
By Paul Hauner
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