Hepburn Stage

This talk presents an analysis of the first 100 days of the Ethereum Fusaka hard fork, based on real-world PeerDAS mainnet data. We examine PeerDAS performance and data availability, discuss partial messages, EIP-8077, and the sharded blob mempool, and explain the future of PeerDAS and why 2D encoding is needed.

Partial stateless nodes and VOPS aim to reduce the resource burden of running Ethereum nodes while preserving strong participation in the network. This talk explores the motivation behind these approaches, how they work in practice, and current progress toward making them viable, along with what they could mean for home stakers.

zkAttester clients pave the way towards significantly reducing hardware requirements & sync times. Attesters verify ZK proofs, eliminating re-execution. This unlocks massive L1-scaling while fostering a leaner, decentralized network.

ePBS is set to reshape how block building and proposal work in Ethereum. This talk breaks down how ePBS functions in practice and what it will mean for stakers, including changes to validator responsibilities, interactions with builders and relays, and day-to-day operations. It focuses on giving home stakers a clear, practical understanding of how to navigate and operate within an ePBS-enabled network.

FOCIL is an upcoming protocol change expected in the Hegota network upgrade. This talk covers how FOCIL came about, how it’s designed to work, and what it will mean for validators in practice. It also looks ahead to future directions like blob transaction support and potential integration with encrypted mempools, giving stakers a clear view of what to expect.

Running a home staking node behind CGNAT presents real challenges for peer-to-peer connectivity, limiting inbound connections and weakening network participation. This setup is increasingly common across Latin America, Asia-Pacific, and Africa, and is steadily expanding into Europe and North America. This talk explains why CGNAT creates peering issues at both the consensus and execution layers, and how dual-stack (IPv4 + IPv6) connectivity provides a practical and effective solution. It covers the current state of client support, highlighting implementations that work well today, and walks through how home stakers can set up dual-stack networking to improve peer connectivity and resilience.

Ethereum’s issuance is at a key inflection point. This talk explores the current issuance landscape, the tradeoffs around validator incentives and network health, and frameworks for addressing it for long-term sustainability.

Justin Drake presents and discusses an Ethereum Staking Strawmap.

Test your knowledge of Ethereum staking with this fun trivia game from Lamboshi and Jonathan.

Client diversity makes Ethereum more resilient. But it also means that, from time to time, different clients disagree on which chain is valid, leading to a fork. When that happens, how can validators make sure they're voting for the correct side? This talk explores how multi-node validator clients (like Vero and Vouch) help validators navigate such situations safely by combining the views of multiple client implementations.

A discussion of the roadmap, progress, and direction for L1 and L2 scaling with Marius.

Since the introduction of the 0x02 validator withdrawal credentials (for compounding validators with up to 2048 ETH balance), this type of WCs hasn’t seen meaningful adoption among solo and home stakers. Let’s delve into the reasons and look at two innovations in the Ethereum space that might change it!

What would it look like if DVT infrastructure borrowed Ethereum’s best habits? This talk explores how SSV is building with SIPs, specs, interop, and client diversity, and why that matters for trust-minimized, fault-tolerant staking.

In 2026, Rocket Pool is still Ethereum’s only fully permissionless liquid staking protocol. The protocol’s recent “Saturn One” upgrade made running a node even more accessible for over 1,500 global operators. Work has already begun on Saturn Two, which will bring more industry-leading improvements. Running a node in 2026 comes with unique challenges and opportunities. As a contributor to the leading decentralised staking protocol, Ken is unquely qualified to share an update on where staking is at today, and where it’s heading.

This talk will be an explanation of all the things we have learned about Ethereum's scaling work. Specially related to it's state. We will learn what should we expect in the future. What would and would not make sense to do according to all the data

Blockchain archive solutions are broken. They are complicated, hard to maintain, expensive, and have poor performance. If a solution is not found in the near-long term, the issues with archive nodes will start affecting pruned nodes as well.