ETHEREUM

Ethereum remains the gravity center of the smart contract economy: most of the dollar-denominated value, most of the developer mindshare, and the platform every L2, L3 and sidechain ultimately settles back to. This cluster covers Ethereum as it actually evolves — protocol upgrades, gas market dynamics, the ETH supply trajectory after the Merge, restaking on EigenLayer, the slow restructuring of mainnet into a settlement layer, and the L2 ecosystem that increasingly carries execution.

We follow what changes on-chain rather than what Twitter argues about. EIP proposals that ship matter more than the ones that get debated. Mainnet gas spikes tell us something about who is using the network and what for. ETH ETF flows, validator queue length, and the share of staked supply quietly redraw the picture of Ethereum's economic security every quarter. The cluster's job is to make those signals legible without hopium.

Topics covered in depth: the rollup-centric roadmap (Optimism, Arbitrum, Base, Linea, Scroll, zkSync), Ethereum's monetary policy after each upgrade, MEV and proposer-builder separation in practice, account abstraction (ERC-4337) adoption, and how Ethereum competes — and chooses not to compete — with newer L1s. If you want a single venue to read about Ethereum without partisan framing, this is it.