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Ethereum hits 45m block gas limit.
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The Ether Machine is introduced.
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Viem v2.33 supports Flashblocks.
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Ethereum Comments Protocol goes live.
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The Ethereum Torch ignites.
The Ethereum block gas limit hit 45 million gas early Monday morning at block number 22,968,004. The increase was triggered automatically after over 50% of validators signaled in favor of it. On Ethereum, the L1 block gas limit can rise without a hard fork when enough validators adjust their node configurations to propose blocks with higher limits. Increasing the gas limit enables each block to carry more data, thereby boosting transaction throughput. The increase is part of broader efforts to scale Ethereum’s L1 capacity toward a 60 million gas target. Two active proposals aim to push the increase. EIP-7935 seeks to raise the gas limit to 150 million by the Fusaka hard fork. Meanwhile, EIP-9698 proposes a 100x exponential increase in the gas limit over the next four years.
The Ether Machine introduced its institutional platform for ETH treasury management, launching with over $1.5 billion in equity financing. Co-Founder and Chairman Andrew Keys personally committed 169,984 ETH to the fund. He positions Ethereum as the foundational infrastructure of the next-generation internet, enabling stablecoins, asset tokenization, and DeFi. The Ether Machine aims to provide transparent, secure, and direct access to ETH-denominated yield. It will actively manage a large ETH balance sheet using staking, restaking, and DeFi protocols. The company’s mission centers on three core objectives: generating yield through staking and DeFi strategies; supporting Ethereum-native projects via investments, research, and open-source contributions; and building institutional infrastructure solutions for validator management.
Wevm released Viem v2.33, the latest version of its TypeScript interface for Ethereum, introducing support for Flashblocks, a software that streams sub-blocks to nodes every 200 milliseconds. Flashblocks, a component of Flashbots’ Rollup Boost, offers rapid confirmation times and built-in revert protection. Viem serves as a modern alternative to frameworks like Ethers.js and web3.js, focusing on stability, developer experience, smaller bundle sizes, and high performance. Viem is widely used by developers to streamline complex Ethereum transaction workflows.
Ethereum Comments Protocol (ECP) introduced its protocol for posting onchain comments and threads directly on Ethereum Layer 2s, without requiring user profiles or a full social stack. The protocol is open-source, with no vendor lock-in, and enables users to comment on any onchain object by referencing a unique identifier. ECP is part of a modular Ethereum-native social stack, featuring SIWE for login, ENS for identity, Ethereum Follow Protocol for social graphs, and XMTP for messaging. ECP uses a hook-based architecture to allow developers to make onchain content programmable. ECP is now live on Base, with the first integration on Interface, a social feed for onchain activity.
The Ethereum Foundation has ignited The Ethereum Torch, an NFT that represents a ceremonial flame and is being passed from wallet to wallet among prominent members of the Ethereum community in the run‑up to its 10th anniversary on July 30, 2025. The initiative celebrates the individuals and values that define Ethereum, with each torchbearer holding the NFT for 24 hours. The torch’s journey started with ConsenSys founder Joe Lubin and will culminate on July 30, 2025, when The Torch NFT will be burned. On that same day, users will have the opportunity to mint a separate commemorative NFT to mark Ethereum’s milestone birthday.
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