Here is a comprehensive update on the latest Ethereum (ETH) news, covering technical upgrades, network developments, and ecosystem trends:
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### 1. **Latest protocol upgrade: Dencun (March 2024)**
- **Core Improvement**: Introduced **EIP-4844 (Proto-Danksharding)**, which significantly reduced the transaction costs of Layer 2 (such as Optimism, Arbitrum) (the Gas fee of some L2s dropped by more than 90%).
- **Other important EIP**:
- EIP-1153: Temporary storage optimization to reduce on-chain storage costs.
- EIP-4788: Optimize cross-chain communication and oracle efficiency.
- **Impact**: The L2 ecosystem activity has been significantly improved, user transaction costs have been reduced, and Ethereum's "modularization" roadmap has been accelerated.
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### 2. **Next stage upgrade: Pectra (Prague/Electra, expected in early 2025)**
- **Key points**:
1. **EIP-7251 (Increase validator staking limit)**: The ETH staking limit for a single validator is increased from 32 ETH to 2,048 ETH, simplifying the operations of large stakers.
2. **EIP-3074 (Account Abstraction Upgrade)**: Allows ordinary wallets (EOA) to obtain functions similar to smart contract wallets (such as batch transactions, gas payment).
3. **EOF (EVM Object Format)**: Optimize the code execution efficiency of the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM).
- **Goal**: Improve network scalability, security and user experience.
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### 3. **Ethereum Roadmap Progress**
- **The Surge**: Moving towards the goal of 100,000+ TPS through Dencun upgrades and the popularization of L2 Rollup.
- **The Scourge (MEV-Resistance and Decentralization)**: Researching MEV-resistant (miner-extractable value) solutions such as PBS (Proposer-Builder Separation).
- **The Verge (light client)**: The Verkle tree is under development and will support stateless verification and light nodes in the future.
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### 4. **Ecological hotspot**
- **Restaking**: Protocols such as EigenLayer drive the restaking economy of ETH, attracting over $15 billion in TVL.
- **L2 competition**: zkSync, Starknet, Base and other L2s are competing fiercely in terms of user volume and application innovation.
- **DeFi Renaissance**: Protocol upgrades such as Uniswap v4 and Aave v3, combined with a low-gas environment, have helped TVL rebound to $60 billion.
### 5. **ETH market data (as of August 2024)**
- **Price**: about $3,000 - $3,500 $ETH
