smartprogrammer.eth 🦇🔊 @Smartprogrammer

I built JobStash to help people find crypto jobs. Now I need the Ethereum community’s help finding mine. My time at Nethermind has ended. I’m looking for an Engineering Manager, Head of Engineering or Technical Program Director role with ownership across people, technology and execution. At Nethermind, I led engineering delivery for Surge, a $1.6M program, and worked across business development, strategic accounts and incident response. Thanks @Smartprogrammer for leading the product and @tkstanczak for trusting me with Surge. Before that, I grew JobStash to 100k+ users, hired and managed a seven-person team, and owned its data and agentic AI systems. Former Principal Engineer. 20+ years in software. I care deeply about Ethereum and want my best work yet in Ethereum, infrastructure, AI or developer tooling. Amsterdam-based; U.S./EU citizen; open to remote. CV: docs.google.com/document/d/1uv… Know the right team? Please DM me or repost.

@M25Marek @Nethermind Tagging @ethrex_client and @class_lambda here. Thank you for the dashboard, really keeps us on our toes 🙏

Great dashboard for tracking Ethereum client performance, created by the EthRex team. @Nethermind has been the fastest client to process approximately 80% of Ethereum blocks (last 12 hours results). Full dashboard: grafana.ethrex.xyz/d/client-cmp-v…

Looking back at Nethermind's core development journey over the years makes me incredibly proud of what the team has accomplished. The Resiliency Phase Before the Merge, there was effectively no alternative to Geth. It was by far the most stable and performant execution client, and execution client diversity barely existed. That concentration posted a major risk to Ethereum's resilience and one of its core properties: never going down. Today, Nethermind stands alongside Geth as one of the leading execution clients, with each accounting for roughly 30% of the network. The Ethereum Scaling Phase Once execution client diversity became a reality, the next major challenge was scaling Ethereum. Ethereum had been stuck at around a 30M gas limit for a long time. Nethermind led much of the performance engineering effort, demonstrating that Ethereum could safely operate at significantly higher throughput. Beyond setting an example, many of our optimisations and ideas were adopted by other client teams, helping raise performance across the whole Ethereum. Just as importantly, we helped establish a performance engineering culture within Ethereum core development, bringing a more data-driven approach to gas limits and gas pricing. That work was later adopted and expanded by the EF. Ethereum still has plenty of room to scale, but we're moving in the right direction. What's Next We’re now focused on the next set of challenges: 1. Executing on the Strawmap while leveraging AI as much as possible and exploring how AI agents can make Ethereum development increasingly autonomous. 2. Making Ethereum post-quantum resilient. It's part of the Strawmap, but it's important enough to deserve a separate point. 3. Accelerating institutional adoption of Ethereum. 4. Improving RPC layer - from hardening and design to making it verifiable.

1/ Announcing Ethereum Institutional An independent non-profit dedicated to accelerating the institutional adoption of Ethereum, its L2s, applications and overall ecosystem.

When I joined crypto, people talked about "banking the unbanked". That was a long time ago. In the meantime we built a bunch of cool tech - it was fun! But nobody banked the unbanked. Today, MiniPay is launching @gnosispay. Now you've probably not heard about MiniPay and maybe you find it a weird wallet. But they do onboard many people to crypto who aren't banked otherwise. And they got a custody-maximized card now.

MiniPay @minipay

3 weeks ago

Your dollars. Your card. Anywhere. 🌍 The MiniPay Card is rolling out— a stablecoin-powered Visa card that spends globally straight from your wallet. Up to 5% cash back, paid in digital gold and stablecoins. The first wave is going out now. Claim your spot →

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UBS and Nethermind have completed two joint proofs of concept showing that a public, permissionless network can support the compliance and operational needs of regulated financial institutions. The PoCs show that banks and asset managers can apply strong compliance controls through the infrastructure they run on top of Ethereum, without changing how the protocol itself works. We built and tested a node that applies customizable compliance rules to outgoing transactions, and a routing component that sends approved bundles directly to selected block builders. Both validated end-to-end on Sepolia, no live transactions. This is what enterprise-grade blockchain infrastructure built on deep protocol expertise looks like in practice. We plan to build on this work with @UBS. Full release: ubs.com/global/en/medi…

"The moment Reth and Ethrex started delivering, execution client performance jumped" You forgot about the Nethermind team. Nethermind’s contribution to performance doesn’t stop at our own client. Many clients, including Reth and Ethrex, have benefited from our optimizations in their own clients significantly. Additonally, we kicked off the right approach to performance engineering for all Ethereum clients.

MiniMax M3, Open-Weight, Now On Hugging Face , with only ~428B parameters and ~23B activated parameters Weights: huggingface.co/MiniMaxAI/Mini… MiniMax Sparse Attention: huggingface.co/papers/2606.13…

MiniMax (official) @MiniMax_AI

a month ago

Introducing MiniMax M3: The First Open-Weights Model to Combine Three Frontier Capabilities - Coding & Agentic Frontier: 59.0% SWE-Bench Pro, 66.0% Terminal Bench 2.1, 34.8% SWE-fficiency, 28.8% KernelBench Hard, 74.2% MCP Atlas - MiniMax Sparse Attention scales context to 1M -

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The Ethereum ecosystem is lucky to have Friederike, Martin, Stefan and the entire Gnosis team on its side. The products they built are really useful and have pushed the space forward. But what stands out most is how they handled themselves under pressure these past years. Owning problems fast, in public and standing behind their users every time. Today was no exception. Not sure what to say in moments like this except: thank you. Keep being awesome.

@koeppelmann I thought cl clients enabled it. But the website only mentioned lighthouse. @potuz_eth do you know if prysm has it? Whats the flag for that if it does?

Is posting state diffs somehow preferred over posting transactions? Is there any other advantage to posting state diffs than potentially having smaller footprints in blobs thus better utilization of them? Am i the only one who prefers transactions being posted for history preservation and ease of reexecution?

1/ We're thrilled to welcome @aztecFND as the latest project to take the 1% Pledge 🎉 1% of the AZTEC token supply has been deposited into Protocol Guild's 4-year vesting contract to support 187 Ethereum core contributors across client teams, research, and coordination

Watch our partners explain why they're doubling down on synchronous composability. @OctantApp 🤝 @Nethermind 🤝 @blockscout 🤝 @growthepie_eth 🤝 @LineaBuild 🤝 @centrifuge

.@CoWSwap protects its users! Even though the hack was caused by something outside CoWSwap’s control - the domain registrar - CoW DAO decided to reimburse affected users. If you were affected, reach out!

And we just made another breakthrough! This is the first in-production system enabling instant swaps on an L2 using L1 liquidity, directly through the native bridge.

Nethermind @Nethermind

2 months ago

No third-party bridge. No custodial risk. A user on an L2 swaps xDAI to USDC using a Sushiswap liquidity pool on Gnosis L1. The rollup accesses L1 liquidity natively and settles the result back to L2 in a single transaction. 15 seconds.

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No third-party bridge. No custodial risk. A user on an L2 swaps xDAI to USDC using a Sushiswap liquidity pool on Gnosis L1. The rollup accesses L1 liquidity natively and settles the result back to L2 in a single transaction. 15 seconds.

@bnjmn_marie Please try the soft taper approach, found great results with this one x.com/i/status/20502…

smartprogrammer.eth 🦇🔊 @Smartprogrammer

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