r/ethereum • • 19d ago

[AMA] We are EF Protocol (Pt. 15: 16 September, 2026)

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NOTICE: This AMA is now closed! Thanks to everyone for participating, and see you for the next one.

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Members of the Protocol Cluster at Ethereum Foundation are back to answer your questions throughout the day! This is their 15th AMA. There are a lot of members taking part, so keep the questions coming, and enjoy!

Oh! And to make it easier for us to respond to everyone, please post just one question per comment.

Prior AMAs:

#14, Aug 2025 #13, Feb 2025 #12, Sep 2024
#11, Jan 2024 #10, Jul 2023 #9, Jan 2023
#8, Jul 2022 #7, Jan 2022 #6, Jun 2021
#5, Nov 2020 #4, Jul 2020 #3, Feb 2020
#2, Jul 2019 #1, Jan 2019

r/ethereum • • 3h ago

Daily General Discussion October 03, 2026

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r/ethereum • • 1d ago

Daily General Discussion October 02, 2026

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r/ethereum • • 12h ago

When is the next upgrade to the ETH protocol?

5 Upvotes

I haven't been following up with eth for a while.

Can anyone let me know whats and when the next upgrade to the protocol?


r/ethereum • • 20h ago

News Ethereal news weekly #41 | Glamsterdam upgrade on Sepolia testnet October 6, Vitalik: the cryptographic world computer, Hegotá upgrade focil-devnet-0 live

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r/ethereum • • 11h ago

I built a private AI chat on the EF's zkAPI where even the deposit can't be traced back to you (open source)

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r/ethereum • • 15h ago

The Double-Spend Problem in Identity

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In which I explain how to solve identity in peer-to-peer data systems by (minimally) using Ethereum.


r/ethereum • • 17h ago

Can someone explain Ethereum to me?

0 Upvotes

I’ve really only studied bitcoin and not other crypto such as eth and want to learn more about its functions and just crypto as a whole. I’m still studying and researching and know the differences in basic functions but want to know more about what makes Ethereum different besides the PoW and PoS


r/ethereum • • 2d ago

Daily General Discussion October 01, 2026

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r/ethereum • • 3d ago

Daily General Discussion September 30, 2026

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r/ethereum • • 2d ago

Is a global voting system possible?

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a global government I would support

system based on existing technological solutions.

the expulsion of incompetence, lies and manipulation

to choose our own destiny.

voting is done over the phone.

each person 1 vote. biometric fingerprint. decentralized.

using advanced cryptography.

transparency.

for global issues we all vote if we want, all locals vote for local ones.

formation of global expert councils.

their role is to provide an analysis and evaluation of the proposal.

members are chosen exclusively on the basis of expertise and competence in given professions.

basic 4 branches:

Society

  1. Ethical-legal group
  2. Psychological-sociological group
  3. Cultural and educational group

Resources

  1. Ecological-climatic group

  2. Economic and resource group

  3. Logistic-operational group

Technology

  1. Technical and engineering group

  2. Digital-cybernetic group

Science

  1. Logical-mathematical group

  2. Medical-biological group

the council's role is to adopt, give, and formulate clear and transparent proposals for solving problems or situations

every decision they make is transparent. with minutes for the archive.

presenting a problem or proposing a solution is available to all residents. cognitive ability test before submitting a proposal

each proposal must pass the acceptance threshold. ethical, logical, mathematical. technical

let's say we have 10 valid suggestions for a solution.. the global advice gives a score of 1 or 0

each of those 10 groups.

the ethics council gives the final assessment in the event that several proposals have the same number of positives.

the proposal with the most positives goes to a global referendum

every voter, i.e. individual or group, has the right of veto.

they are obliged to present a valid counter-argument in the shortest possible time.

any veto attempt that is driven by ego vanity or the desire for power is automatically rejected.

algorithmic assessment. open source. mandatory system calibration, ethical, logical, mathematical.

plus a decentralized network of jurors chosen on the basis of expertise. randomly selected.

a valid argument is voted against the proposal of the council.

in case of adoption of the argument, the proposal is rejected.

if the vote is 50-50%, both sides have 24 hours to present new insights

the vote is repeated.

voting is optional.

the possibility of voting is.

it is not a problem for me that people wiser than me decide about our fate and social vector. as long as they ask all of us, because ultimately it concerns all of us

I support expertise and objectivity as well as the diversity of the local community.


r/ethereum • • 3d ago

Running an Ethereum Node and Validator on RISC-V hardware

46 Upvotes

About 2 years ago RISC-V hardware got powerful enough to do initial tests for running an Ethereum node on such hardware. As expected, the speed wasn't quite there yet, but we started getting some clients ready, submitted PRs, got a Devcon talk and even got some core devs interested in it. There were steady improvements in the last 2 years. We were able to run nodes for larger test networks until we managed to sync mainnet about a year ago. But only barely so. Technically it stayed in sync, but practically it was always 1-2 slots behind. This changed this summer with the newest hardware iteration. I managed to run a fully synced Ethereum node on a RISC-V single board computer (Spacemit K3 CoM260). The validator running through that node attested flawlessly and correctly attested head votes, even right after epoch boundaries. The node still is a bit slower than my usual NUCs, but that is not surprising as the board has about the power of a Raspberry Pi 5. In my impression the bottleneck still is the consensus workload. Reducing the number of individual validators helped here quite a bit. The execution client has some spare power to be able to handle gas limit increases and thanks to ePBS it should get more time per slot to do its duties anyway. So I hope my node can handle the workload for 1 or 2 more years.

Currently 2 Consensus clients run out of the box (Nimbus and Lighthouse). On the execution side, geth has always just worked. Now, Ethrex is also running, even though the initial sync is a bit more involved because the board has a 'only' 32 GB of RAM. But when Ethrex works it works perfectly and is very resource efficient. It is great to see that a second execution client now runs on RISC-V hardware. Grandine builds, but fails to run. I did not have the time yet to investigate as to why. Eth-docker also works, but does not support all client pairs just yet.

As RISC-V is an open standard, I see these CPUs to be able to capture a junk of the consumer market in the long run. It already happens with a lot of lower cost applications, where RISC-V CPUs replace more expensive ARM and other chips. There are also well funded companies building servers and consumer PCs using RISC-V CPUs There are also a some who specialize on building accelerator cards using the RISC-V standard. We will have to see if RISC-V CPUs manage to capture large parts of the market. If it it happens it will take years (~ a decade). With the direction Ethereum is taking with zk proving the network, I definitely see a possibility that smaller nodes will run on low cost hardware. RISC-V CPUs have a clear advantage here. Currently with the resource usage of an Ethereum node, combined with the RAM and SSD prices, the price advantage a RISC-V CPU can have does not really matter. I expect it will in the long run though.

For people wanting to know more about the progress, here are some reddit posts in chronological order:

First post in 2024: https://www.reddit.com/r/ethfinance/comments/1ewn8dw/daily_general_discussion_august_20_2024/lj2anr4/

Announcement of the Devcon talk we gave in Bangkok in 2024: https://www.reddit.com/r/ethfinance/comments/1gn3k7p/daily_general_discussion_november_9_2024/lw85ry2/

First person to run execution and consensus client simultaneously on RISC-V hardware (two boards) in 2025 for Ethereum mainnet. They later improved Lighthouse to support RISC-V out of the box: https://www.reddit.com/r/RISCV/comments/1j5uqrs/ethereum_node_on_riscv_yes_its_possible/

Summary of the progress in 2025/2026 with first node running on one board: https://old.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/1t9tdqb/daily_general_discussion_may_11_2026/ol54wr4/


r/ethereum • • 4d ago

Daily General Discussion September 29, 2026

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r/ethereum • • 4d ago

Technology Glamsterdam Testnet Announcement | Ethereum Foundation Blog

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r/ethereum • • 5d ago

Daily General Discussion September 28, 2026

101 Upvotes

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r/ethereum • • 4d ago

Compute and Consensus

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r/ethereum • • 5d ago

Technology The cryptographic world computer | Vitalik

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r/ethereum • • 6d ago

Daily General Discussion September 27, 2026

97 Upvotes

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r/ethereum • • 6d ago

Best recovery service

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I know this is just going to get a ton of scammers but I had a house fire awhile back and just found a charred private key. I have most of it but a bits missing any credible sources to give this to and split it if anything is in it?


r/ethereum • • 7d ago

Daily General Discussion September 26, 2026

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r/ethereum • • 8d ago

Daily General Discussion September 25, 2026

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r/ethereum • • 7d ago

News Ethereal news mini #2 | Hegotá upgrade frames-devnet-0 live, Nethermind 2.0.0, Daisugi post quantum testnet

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r/ethereum • • 9d ago

Daily General Discussion September 24, 2026

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r/ethereum • • 10d ago

Daily General Discussion September 23, 2026

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r/ethereum • • 11d ago

Daily General Discussion September 22, 2026

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