As much as people like to shit on EF, I don't see nearly enough appreciation for the insane amount of work the team has put in throughout the year. Let’s go through some of these to remind some folks: 1. Protocol / Research ➤ Shipped two major upgrades, Pectra and Fusaka. 󠁯➤ Major progress on Verkle Trees, pushing Ethereum closer to a stateless future with lighter, easier-to-run nodes. 2. Privacy(PSE) ➤ Launch of @leanEthereum, the cleanest attempt yet at a minimal, privacy-preserving Ethereum client. ➤ Significant improvements in ZK proving efficiency and new privacy primitives shipped: private voting, private attestations, and ongoing work on private mempools. 3. Ecosystem Development (EcoDev) ➤ Officially established the EcoDev division, now 37 people working across founder support, enterprise acceleration, grant management and many other teams. ➤ Provided high-touch support to hundreds of startups across infra, L2s, tooling, DeFi, gaming, social, and AI-crypto. ➤ Launched Founders Lab, Mentor network and many other initiatives. ➤ Launched multiple hubs in London, Berlin and soon the Middle East. ➤ Started a dedicated Enterprise / Institutions team engaging with the largest global organizations adopting Ethereum. 4. L2s / Appchains: ➤ Onboarded and supported major L2 moves like @Celo @JovayNetwork @Ronin_Network and more to come. ➤ The @Lighter_xyz stress tests showed Ethereum’s strength as a base layer, where diverse appchains can experiment with throughput without compromising decentralization or settlement. 5. Community & Events ➤ Ran the biggest @EFDevcon ever in Argentina with record-breaking attendance and ticket sellouts, and closed the conference with the announcement of @ethmumbai. And many many more.....