| 1 | Mar 28, '23 | It's happening 🎊 Shapella is scheduled on mainnet for epoch 194048, scheduled for 22:27:35 UTC on Apr. 12, 2023 📆 Client releases compatible with the upgrade are listed in the an | 32× | 976k | 2.3k | 854 | 83 |
| 2 | Mar 16, '23 | 6209536 4/12/2023, 10:27:35 PM UTC | 19.2× | 587k | 1.5k | 444 | 60 |
| 3 | Mar 7, '25 | ethereum will win | 14.5× | 442k | 2.5k | 220 | 20 |
| 4 | May 22, '24 | Last week, Ethereum L1 client, research, testing and devops teams gathered for Nyota ✨, a week long interop event focused on Pectra, PeerDAS and Verkle. We also hosted a first of i | 14.1× | 430k | 1.2k | 787 | 52 |
| 5 | Feb 27, '24 | Blobs are coming .oO Dencun is scheduled for mainnet activation at epoch 29696, occurring March 13 at 13:55 UTC. See the announcement below for client release versions and other us | 14× | 427k | 1.7k | 1.2k | 60 |
| 6 | Mar 12, '24 | Less than 24h before Dencun .oO! Since the announcement, many client teams have shipped performance & stability improvements. The blog post has been updated to list both minimu | 11.8× | 360k | 1.7k | 1.3k | 22 |
| 7 | Jan 11, '24 | Blobs are coming to Goerli .oO On Jan 17, at 6:32 UTC, Dencun will activate on the testnet! It will be the last network upgrade before Goerli shuts down in a few months. More info | 11.2× | 341k | 839 | 441 | 26 |
| 8 | Jan 25, '24 | More testnet blobs on the way .oO Dencun will activate on Sepolia Jan 30, and on Holesky Feb 7. If running a node on either network, now's the time to update it! Assuming both of t | 10.9× | 333k | 875 | 517 | 27 |
| 9 | Mar 18, '24 | Quick Goerli update: while originally the network was expected to remain active for ~1 month post Dencun, nearly all validators have been shut down over the past few weeks. Conside | 10.3× | 314k | 1.4k | 1.3k | 12 |
| 10 | Apr 3, '25 | Reconfiguring AllCoreDevs To deliver on Ethereum's ambitious L1 roadmap, we should decouple planning and execution. To that end, I'm proposing we reorient ACD to focus on scoping f | 10.1× | 307k | 908 | 318 | 100 |
| 11 | Jul 19, '24 | My team at the EF, Protocol Support, is hiring someone for the first time in years to help us across all of the things: AllCoreDevs, the Ethereum Protocol Fellowship, Summer of Pro | 9.7× | 297k | 550 | 205 | 86 |
| 12 | May 30, '22 | 📣 Ropsten Merge Announcement 📣 Ethereum's longest lived PoW testnet is moving to Proof of Stake! A new beacon chain has been launched today, and The Merge is expected around June | 9.0× | 0 | 2.7k | 889 | 104 |
| 13 | Apr 10, '23 | Shapella is in two days - last chance to upgrade your node if you haven't already 📆👀! | 8.5× | 260k | 486 | 237 | 0 |
| 14 | Dec 12, '23 | At long last, another here's another long-form #AllCoreDevs update: it covers Dencun, the EIP process changes, and the Prague/Electra planning kickoff 😄 | 8.2× | 250k | 767 | 615 | 17 |
| 15 | Nov 30, '23 | Dencun will be the last fork deployed on Goerli and client & testing teams will be exiting their validators in the months after it activates, ‼️ You should migrate to another n | 7.8× | 237k | 515 | 428 | 13 |
| 16 | Jan 20, '25 | If you could force everyone at the EF, from Vitalik to a hypothetical new hire on their first day, to do 3-10 things onchain tomorrow, what would they be? | 7.5× | 230k | 641 | 45 | 122 |
| 17 | Mar 13, '24 | Dencun is both the most complex fork we've shipped since the Merge, and tied for "most total EIPs in a fork" with Byzantium. There were more teams than ever involved in the process | 7.3× | 224k | 2.5k | 348 | 41 |
| 18 | Aug 11, '22 | 58750000000000000000000 | 7.3× | 0 | 2.5k | 624 | 25 |
| 19 | Nov 8, '25 | Fusaka is ready for mainnet 🌃🎉! It will activate at slot 13,164,544, on December 3, 2025, 21:49:11 UTC. The fork introduces PeerDAS, a significant scaling milestone, as well as a | 6.8× | 206k | 1.1k | 232 | 70 |
| 20 | Jun 2, '25 | I’m thrilled to introduce Protocol: a new structure for @ethereumfndn’s R&D teams! Our focus: scale L1, scale blobs, and improve UX, without compromising on Ethereum's core val | 6.7× | 206k | 1.1k | 175 | 56 |
| 21 | Feb 14, '25 | Pectra is coming to Ethereum testnets 🌃 On Feb 24th, at epoch 115968, the upgrade will go live on Holesky. Then, on Mar 5, at epoch 222464, it will activate on Sepolia. Assuming b | 6.0× | 185k | 1.1k | 266 | 117 |
| 22 | Jun 23, '24 | Confirming we managed to send out an update. We should have locked down all external access, but still confirming. | 5.8× | 177k | 415 | 375 | 14 |
| 23 | Mar 13, '24 | Dencun went live, we've had blobs land in blocks on mainnet .oO 🎉 | 5.6× | 170k | 1.3k | 173 | 12 |
| 24 | Sep 15, '22 | We're good. It's done. We Merged. Holy shit. Amazing work everyone 🥂🐼! | 5.4× | 0 | 2k | 510 | 13 |
| 25 | Feb 22, '25 | ELI5 why we cannot "rollback" Ethereum? After yesterday's Bybit hack, crypto commentators are again asking why Ethereum cannot "rollback" the chain to reverse the hack. While exper | 5.4× | 165k | 1.3k | 343 | 407 |
| 26 | Apr 23, '25 | Ethereum's next network upgrade, Pectra, is coming to mainnet on May 7th, at epoch 364032 🎉 Pectra introduces EIP-7702, several improvements to validator UX, a doubling of the blo | 5.4× | 164k | 1.4k | 358 | 99 |
| 27 | Feb 8, '24 | Blobs are coming to mainnet at slot 8626176 .oO | 5.3× | 160k | 750 | 160 | 19 |
| 28 | May 3, '23 | It's been a while, but here's another AllCoreDevs update 😄 It mostly covers where we're at in planing Dencun 🏝️, and shares an Informational EIP I wrote 📜, as well as some speak | 5.2× | 158k | 284 | 171 | 12 |
| 29 | Nov 16, '24 | One last devcon week announcement: the EF is running its first ever "formal" internship program next summer ☀️ We'll have both software engineering and research internships across | 4.8× | 147k | 641 | 200 | 140 |
| 30 | Dec 28, '24 | To wrap up the year, here is one more AllCoreDevs update: summarizes process changes over the year, what's coming after Pectra and my thoughts about The Social Layer! Link below, e | 4.8× | 145k | 544 | 329 | 43 |
| 31 | Dec 5, '24 | The EF is hiring someone to help coordinate application, wallet and infrastructure standards across the ecosystem 🦄 More info on the role and application link below 👇 | 4.6× | 141k | 626 | 240 | 47 |
| 32 | Feb 21, '23 | Sepolia Shapella scheduled for Feb 28, 4AM UTC 🌃 Read about the upgrade, and find links to the specs, client releases and withdrawals FAQ here: 😄 | 4.4× | 133k | 379 | 193 | 8 |
| 33 | Mar 14, '23 | Goerli forked! | 4.3× | 132k | 730 | 106 | 7 |
| 34 | Dec 23, '24 | Fresh off the press, here's another AllCoreDevs update covering all things Pectra: how we got to the final scope and a brief overview of each of the EIPs included. I planned to bun | 4.1× | 127k | 535 | 325 | 27 |
| 35 | Apr 12, '22 | @TripleSack It won't be June, but likely in the few months after. No firm date yet, but we're definitely in the final chapter of PoW on Ethereum | 4.1× | 0 | 1k | 259 | 43 |
| 36 | Aug 5, '25 | In June, we introduced Protocol: a new structure to align the EF around our three strategic goals — Scale L1, Scale Blobs, Improve UX — without compromising on hardness or security | 4.0× | 123k | 669 | 133 | 81 |
| 37 | Apr 12, '23 | Withdrawals are on Etherscan - you know it's official 🫡 | 3.7× | 113k | 668 | 103 | 7 |
| 38 | Mar 19, '25 | If Ethereum had to nominate a "chief economist" tomorrow, who should that be? | 3.5× | 108k | 448 | 22 | 32 |
| 39 | Aug 11, '22 | pandas on the screen! | 3.5× | 0 | 1.1k | 319 | 10 |
| 40 | Feb 6, '25 | Pectra is going live 🥳 Holesky will fork at slot 3710976 (Mon, Feb 24 at 21:55:12 UTC) Sepolia will fork at slot 7118848 (Wed, Mar 5 at 07:29:36 UTC) Assuming Sepolia goes smoothl | 3.5× | 107k | 952 | 180 | 55 |
| 41 | Sep 15, '22 | All looking good, we're waiting for epoch 146876 to finalize to call it complete 👀 | 3.4× | 0 | 1.6k | 169 | 8 |
| 42 | Mar 1, '25 | If we play our cards right, we'll remember today as one of the most consequential turning points in Ethereum's history. The last few months have been, to put it mildly, tumultuous. | 3.3× | 101k | 1.3k | 202 | 116 |
| 43 | Sep 26, '25 | Fusaka is coming to Ethereum's testnets 🌃 - Holesky: Oct 1st - Sepolia: Oct 14 - Hoodi: Oct 28 Read the full announcement for client release info and to learn about the update's f | 3.2× | 98k | 760 | 168 | 53 |
| 44 | May 7, '25 | Thank you to everyone who contributed to getting Pectra shipped securely 🦒 It’s been one of the most complex forks to scope, test and ship. Grateful for the opportunity to help sh | 3.1× | 96k | 1.8k | 212 | 36 |
| 45 | Jun 16, '22 | 🧊 Gray Glacier Upgrade Announcement 🧊 At block 15,050,000, the Ethereum network will undergo the Gray Glacier fork to push back the difficulty bomb, *hopefully* for the last time | 3.0× | 0 | 787 | 336 | 10 |
| 46 | Aug 17, '22 | Merge Mainnet Readiness Checklist is all checked out ✅ Feels good 😁 | 3.0× | 0 | 878 | 287 | 15 |
| 47 | Jul 30, '25 | TL;DR: Ethereum's roadmap is making the impossible inevitable 🗺️ | 3.0× | 93k | 520 | 84 | 42 |
| 48 | Jul 27, '22 | 📢📢📢 Goerli/Prater Merge Announcement 📢 📢📢 Prater will run through the Bellatrix upgrade on August 4th, and merge with Goerli between August 6-12th: if you run a node or valid | 2.8× | 0 | 812 | 259 | 26 |
| 49 | Mar 14, '22 | Kiln, the next iteration of Ethereum merge testnets, is now live 🔥🧱 Highly recommended that node operators, application developers, stakers, tooling/infra providers test their se | 2.8× | 0 | 770 | 263 | 43 |
| 50 | Nov 29, '21 | Fresh off the press: "How The Merge Impacts Ethereum’s Application Layer" 🔥 If you are an Ethereum application/infra/tooling dev, or just curious about how the merge affects contr | 2.8× | 0 | 756 | 240 | 104 |
| 51 | Oct 4, '22 | kinda wild ethereum is now just running PoS in the background like it's no biggie ✨ | 2.7× | 0 | 1.3k | 91 | 2 |
| 52 | Sep 29, '23 | Very cool to see a TradFi company directly fund Ethereum core development out of its profits ⛓️🛡️ Hope they can set an example for the many businesses in the space that are built | 2.6× | 80k | 733 | 101 | 5 |
| 53 | Apr 15, '21 | Berlin is here 🇩🇪 | 2.5× | 0 | 933 | 209 | 3 |
| 54 | Aug 24, '22 | .@Ethereum’s transition to proof-of-stake is happening 🎉 Client releases are out - update your node! First part of The Merge, Bellatrix, happens on Sept 6. Full transition ETA: Se | 2.5× | 0 | 764 | 225 | 12 |
| 55 | Apr 28, '25 | EOF was removed from the Fusaka network upgrade today. I've articulated my rationale for the decision in the PR to the Meta EIP: I recommend watching the full call for context: | 2.5× | 76k | 462 | 67 | 64 |
| 56 | Jun 18, '21 | London is now finally ready to hit testnets 🇬🇧🎉 Next week, Ropsten, will upgrade, followed by Goerli & Rinkeby the weeks after. Read this to find out how to prepare for the | 2.4× | 0 | 812 | 220 | 14 |
| 57 | Dec 20, '21 | Over the past few months, client teams have been working tirelessly to implement a new set of merge milestones. They are now live on a new testnet: Kintsugi 🍵! Here's how you can | 2.4× | 0 | 641 | 241 | 21 |
| 58 | Jul 7, '21 | ... and it's merged ✅! Expect client releases end of this week / early next week, and a proper announcement early / mid next week 🇬🇧 | 2.4× | 0 | 820 | 194 | 17 |
| 59 | Mar 5, '25 | We finalized 🥳 | 2.3× | 70k | 519 | 47 | 4 |
| 60 | Jun 10, '22 | We just wrapped up a *very* eventful @ethereum #AllCoreDevs Agenda: Stream: Will recap here, but IMO if you only listen to a handful of calls per year, this one should be on your l | 2.3× | 0 | 500 | 247 | 87 |
| 61 | Feb 23, '23 | Credit where credit is due: the @coinbase team has done an amazing job over the past year engaging with the @ethereum ecosystem 👏 Looking forward to seeing them push L2 developmen | 2.1× | 65k | 592 | 50 | 4 |
| 62 | Mar 5, '21 | We're in agreement about 1559 and a difficulty bomb pushback going into London 🔥🎉 | 2.0× | 0 | 744 | 139 | 3 |
| 63 | Nov 21, '21 | Lots of thoughts on the conversations this weekend, and while I think there is a charitable interpretation to some of the criticisms, let me start by saying it's pretty rich to cri | 2.0× | 0 | 815 | 112 | 37 |
| 64 | Apr 22, '22 | Biggest takeaway from Devconnect is a confirmation that Ethereum is the most exciting infinite game in the world 🦄 | 2.0× | 0 | 824 | 115 | 10 |
| 65 | Jun 24, '21 | We have a block! Took a bit longer than expected, but London is live on Ropsten 😅 | 2.0× | 0 | 774 | 128 | 3 |
| 66 | Nov 29, '24 | We can add this to Ethereum natively, just gotta get this in a spot where we can ship it 🤝 | 1.9× | 59k | 454 | 48 | 62 |
| 67 | May 7, '25 | Pectra has gone live and finalized 🎉 ! Testing of the newly activated EIPs continues. | 1.9× | 58k | 1k | 138 | 14 |
| 68 | Sep 14, '22 | gm (good merge) 🐼 | 1.9× | 0 | 835 | 94 | 0 |
| 69 | May 27, '22 | Another merge-heavy @ethereum #allcoredevs today 😁 TTD, beacon chains, Ropsten, difficulty bomb, we covered it all! Agenda: Stream: Recap below ⤵️ | 1.9× | 0 | 500 | 152 | 37 |
| 70 | Jun 21, '22 | This has been mentioned a few times already, but here is a proper announcement for the deprecation and shutdown timelines for Kiln, Ropsten & Rinkeby 🌅 Time to move to Goerli | 1.9× | 0 | 368 | 236 | 12 |
| 71 | Apr 13, '22 | Didn't expect my tweets from yesterday to cause such a reaction 😅 I appreciate that it can be hard to parse the progress on The Merge when you aren't deep in the process. Tried to | 1.8× | 0 | 589 | 139 | 43 |
| 72 | Jan 16, '24 | Here's an overview of everything that's been proposed (so far) for Prague/Electra 👀 See the full thread on @EthMagicians 🧙♀️ | 1.8× | 56k | 385 | 139 | 67 |
| 73 | Jun 3, '22 | 📣 Ropsten Merge Update 📣 As mentioned in the Ropsten Merge Announcement, the terminal total difficulty (TTD) at which The Merge happens on Ropsten must be overridden by node oper | 1.8× | 0 | 485 | 155 | 13 |
| 74 | Mar 25, '22 | Later than expected, here is another ACD update, fresh off the press 🔥 2500 words to cover the latest Merge updates ⛓, Shanghai highlights 🌃, harmonizing EL & CL governance p | 1.8× | 0 | 488 | 158 | 22 |
| 75 | Jun 8, '22 | We have some transactions included in post-merge Ropsten blocks 🥳 h/t @Butta_eth | 1.8× | 0 | 681 | 115 | 5 |
| 76 | Jun 30, '22 | Sepolia, the second of three public testnets, is merging 🎉 If you run a node on the network, now is the time to upgrade to an EL/CL combo 🤖 Hashrate has been volatile, so we may | 1.8× | 0 | 489 | 175 | 13 |
| 77 | May 4, '22 | AllCoreDevs Update 011 out now 💫 Entirely focused on The Merge, I walk through what we're expecting across shadow forks, testing efforts, and testnet deployment... ... in other wo | 1.7× | 0 | 443 | 149 | 24 |
| 78 | Apr 10, '24 | Uniswap is one of the most salient examples of what Ethereum can enable: simple but powerful primitives that can be used at scale by ~anyone with minimal trust assumptions 🦄 | 1.7× | 53k | 432 | 33 | 8 |
| 79 | Jun 8, '22 | With Ropsten now on PoS, friendly reminder that many testnets will be shut down by EOY: - Kiln: shut down soon after mainnet merge ❌ - Rinkeby: won't be merged, shut down by EOY ❌ | 1.7× | 0 | 616 | 120 | 24 |
| 80 | Feb 4, '22 | Another @ethereum #AllCoreDevs wrapped up this morning. Deep dives into The Merge & Shanghai, one of my favorite calls in a while 😁 Def recommend the full recording as the sig | 1.7× | 0 | 431 | 148 | 40 |
| 81 | Mar 30, '22 | What are the most important things to get right in the next 2-3 years for Ethereum to thrive? | 1.7× | 0 | 493 | 58 | 37 |
| 82 | Mar 15, '22 | And it seems to have worked 🎉 Post-merge blocks are being produced by validators, and they contain transactions! Just waiting on finalization now 👀 | 1.6× | 0 | 578 | 119 | 13 |
| 83 | Aug 18, '22 | We wrapped up another @etherum #AllCoreDevs earlier, covering all things Merge as well as mev-boost and censorship resistance at the protocol level. This was a much less "procedura | 1.5× | 0 | 462 | 112 | 75 |
| 84 | Nov 10, '21 | 🏹🏔 Arrow Glacier is coming 🏔🏹 The upgrade will go live on block 13,773,000, around December 8th. Only change is pushing back the difficulty bomb... hopefully for the last time | 1.5× | 0 | 431 | 126 | 10 |
| 85 | Jul 6, '21 | Yep, unless someone objects in the next 24h, London should land on August 4th. A few client teams have "👍'd" it already, but we want to be sure no one has a serious objection. Kee | 1.5× | 0 | 545 | 104 | 12 |
| 86 | Aug 4, '21 | 🇬🇧⛏ London Mining Misconceptions Thread ⛏🇬🇧 Over the past day or so, I've received a bunch of questions/seen concerns about London activating for miners, so hoping to clear a f | 1.4× | 0 | 413 | 149 | 31 |
| 87 | Apr 23, '21 | As for London timelines, this is roughly what we are going for. We didn't want to set blocks on this call given that code is still not merged in clients and we are still waiting on | 1.4× | 0 | 426 | 108 | 25 |
| 88 | Sep 15, '22 | Good day to try a Vitalik for the first time 🍷🍵 | 1.3× | 0 | 670 | 16 | 1 |
| 89 | Aug 4, '23 | it’s wild how quickly we’ve taken the merge for granted relative to the degree of skepticism before it happened | 1.2× | 37k | 514 | 49 | 2 |
| 90 | Aug 5, '21 | With everything on my London TODO list basically done, I think I've finally shifted from stress to excitement 😅🎉! Can't wait to see this go live in 11h-ish hours 🇬🇧! | 1.2× | 0 | 551 | 46 | 1 |
| 91 | Nov 15, '21 | Team roadmap for next year 👀 | 1.2× | 0 | 548 | 49 | 4 |
| 92 | Mar 13, '24 | Finalized 🫡 | 1.2× | 36k | 691 | 60 | 5 |
| 93 | Mar 8, '21 | 🇩🇪 Berlin is coming 🇩🇪 The next @ethereum upgrade is going live soon - in two days on the first testnet, and April 14th on mainnet. Read all about it here and keep an eye out f | 1.2× | 0 | 450 | 93 | 5 |
| 94 | Jun 4 | After taking a few weeks off, I'm excited to kick off @ETHConf next week talking about what it will take to make Ethereum reasonably necessary for the world 😄 If you're around NYC | 1.1× | 35k | 492 | 50 | 28 |
| 95 | Sep 23, '22 | This is the #1 problem on Ethereum I'd love to see someone come up with a solution to. Many issues to work through, even beyond the privacy itself, but *if* we got it done, it coul | 1.1× | 0 | 392 | 77 | 17 |
| 96 | Sep 6, '22 | I've said "we might have merged by then" twice on meetings today and it feels pretty surreal tbh! It's happening ✨ | 1.0× | 0 | 478 | 47 | 0 |
| 97 | Dec 14, '24 | Ethereum is fairly safe + scalable. It is mature experimental tech. Consider relying on it for mission critical apps, even if not absolutely necessary! | 1.0× | 31k | 483 | 31 | 8 |
| 98 | Feb 3, '21 | First deployment of 1559 on ETH 🔥🚀! Only price tweet you’ll ever from me, promise 😅 | 1.0× | 0 | 427 | 40 | 4 |
| 99 | Oct 8, '21 | Incredible week. Thank you to all the devs and researchers who made this work 🙏🏺 | 0.9× | 0 | 455 | 37 | 2 |
| 100 | Nov 15, '24 | best @EFDevcon ever, 10/10, no notes 👏 | 0.8× | 26k | 619 | 33 | 11 |
| 101 | Mar 7, '25 | ethereum will win. | 0.7× | 21k | 438 | 20 | 2 |
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