UBS and Nethermind have completed two joint proofs of concept showing that a public, permissionless network can support the compliance and operational needs of regulated financial institutions. The PoCs show that banks and asset managers can apply strong compliance controls through the infrastructure they run on top of Ethereum, without changing how the protocol itself works. We built and tested a node that applies customizable compliance rules to outgoing transactions, and a routing component that sends approved bundles directly to selected block builders. Both validated end-to-end on Sepolia, no live transactions. This is what enterprise-grade blockchain infrastructure built on deep protocol expertise looks like in practice. We plan to build on this work with @UBS. Full release: ubs.com/global/en/media/disp…

Looking back at Nethermind's core development journey over the years makes me incredibly proud of what the team has accomplished. The Resiliency Phase Before the Merge, there was effectively no alternative to Geth. It was by far the most stable and performant execution client, and execution client diversity barely existed. That concentration posted a major risk to Ethereum's resilience and one of its core properties: never going down. Today, Nethermind stands alongside Geth as one of the leading execution clients, with each accounting for roughly 30% of the network. The Ethereum Scaling Phase Once execution client diversity became a reality, the next major challenge was scaling Ethereum. Ethereum had been stuck at around a 30M gas limit for a long time. Nethermind led much of the performance engineering effort, demonstrating that Ethereum could safely operate at significantly higher throughput. Beyond setting an example, many of our optimisations and ideas were adopted by other client teams, helping raise performance across the whole Ethereum. Just as importantly, we helped establish a performance engineering culture within Ethereum core development, bringing a more data-driven approach to gas limits and gas pricing. That work was later adopted and expanded by the EF. Ethereum still has plenty of room to scale, but we're moving in the right direction. What's Next We’re now focused on the next set of challenges: 1. Executing on the Strawmap while leveraging AI as much as possible and exploring how AI agents can make Ethereum development increasingly autonomous. 2. Making Ethereum post-quantum resilient. It's part of the Strawmap, but it's important enough to deserve a separate point. 3. Accelerating institutional adoption of Ethereum. 4. Improving RPC layer - from hardening and design to making it verifiable.

Own the platform, security, identity, and AI infrastructure a fully remote company across 50+ countries runs on. Nethermind is hiring an IT Department Lead. Reports to the CIO. 5+ yrs leading infra. Remote. jobs.ashbyhq.com/nethermind/…

AI agents need economic rails. @tkstanczak of @nethermind explores why autonomous systems operating onchain represent an entirely new asset class and what that means for how we build. Live on the Main Stage at ETHConf.

Great ecosystems are built by great teams. Cohort 1 brings together founders and innovators shaping the future of Ethereum's financial infrastructure.

ETHConf, next week. The institutions come to Ethereum: SEC on tokenized securities, DTCC on settlement, BlackRock on why they want to be onchain. It all settles on the execution layer. We've been building that layer since 2017. In NY all week. Come talk infrastructure.

The Ethereum ecosystem is lucky to have Friederike, Martin, Stefan and the entire Gnosis team on its side. The products they built are really useful and have pushed the space forward. But what stands out most is how they handled themselves under pressure these past years. Owning problems fast, in public and standing behind their users every time. Today was no exception. Not sure what to say in moments like this except: thank you. Keep being awesome.

A ZK circuit can do exactly what it's supposed to and the system around it still gets drained. The risk lives in what the protocol assumes the proof means. Michael Belegris on the bugs our ZK audit team keeps finding: nethermind.io/blog/zk-circui…

Your team takes the break. We take the audit. A few slots open July 1 — August 15. Adjusted rates. AuditAgent Pro included so the codebase is ready before we start. Smart contracts and ZK circuits. nethermind.io/audit-slots

Uniswap ran a free AuditAgent scan, an AgentArena competition on UniswapX, and adopted the AuditAgent Business Plan in three months. Cody Born, Principal Engineer at @Uniswap, on what AuditAgent changed in their development workflow:

We built the OIF Starknet integration to extend the framework past EVM. Permissionless intents have to reach every chain. nethermind.io/blog/open-inte…

Pluto ran a DKG ceremony with Charon. Two DVT clients in one ceremony, a first. Same client diversity model Ethereum landed on at L1, now reaching the middleware.

Auditors aren't QA. When the first days of an engagement go to integration bugs the team would catch on testnet, that's time off the review. When pass one goes to dead code and common vulnerability patterns, that's time not spent on bugs only auditors can find.