Applications and privacy

Barnabé: while everyone was making 11x11 pixel art on Ethereum's birthday, Umia Finance launched its testnet

03:55; he went through the testnet flow and sees it as a glimpse of fully onchain venture funding with futarchy primitives like conditional tokens.

https://x.com/barnabemonnot/status/2083657946026717616 2026-08-02

StarkWare: private swaps with the lowest privacy fees on the market are live on Starknet, powered by avnu

18:56.

https://x.com/StarkWareLtd/status/2083884540871995523 2026-08-02

Standards repo

EIPs CI: a minimal stack to unblock htmlproofer and the artifact flow

And EIP-1: unblock htmlproofer and artifact-driven review workflows (minksy-ux), submitted.

https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/pull/12069 2026-08-02

EIP-1: unblock htmlproofer and artifact-driven review workflows

EIPs CI: a minimal stack to unblock htmlproofer and the artifact flow and EIP-1: unblock htmlproofer and artifact-driven review workflows (minksy-ux), submitted.

https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/pull/12070 2026-08-02

Other updates

brucexu_eth: why he started onchain arbitrage research in a bear market, and why he sees arbitrage as an essential way of thinking

22:17.

https://x.com/brucexu_eth/status/2083935229757337948 2026-08-02

ethresear.ch: dynamic leverage pricing for non-transferable time credits, addressing skill mismatch in volunteer and public-good labor

13:54.

https://ethresear.ch/t/dynamic-leverage-pricing-for-non-transferable-time-credits-solving-skill-mismatch-in-volunteer-public-good-labor/25602 2026-08-02

Community

tayvano: it was never about security, but a lazy signal

02:23.

https://x.com/tayvano_/status/2083634624551645445 2026-08-02