Welcome to Issue #2 of the Weekly Dev Bytes.

Every week, we bring you the key builder updates and developments from across the Ethereum ecosystem. Let's dive into it.

• Turn on Advanced Mode to add private name tags directly in listing pages by hovering over an address
• Blockscan Multichain Explorer: A simple explorer for your everyday onchain interactions
• Verify your contract on multiple chains with a single API key from Etherscan, instead of creating a new API key on each explorer

• Get Contract ABI for Verified Contract Source Codes
• Get Contract Source Code for Verified Contract Source Codes

FEATURED

Etherscan API V2: Multichain

Access EVM data across 50+ chains with a single API key, by specifying the chain ID.

• AMA about the maxEB change coming in Pectra
• Coinbase publishes ultimate guide to Ethereum's Pectra upgrade
• Ethereum privacy: the road to self-sovereignty
• LastPass hack: address sweeps 1,345 wallets, links 95 victims to $430M thefts
• RISC Zero introduces R0VM 2.0 to prove faster, build bigger, and trust every result
• Ethereum Protocol Fellowship Cohort 5 recap
• Vitalik outlines a maximally simple L1 privacy roadmap
• Celestia introduces mamo-1 public testnet with 128MB blocks & 21.33MB/s throughput
• Vitalik new blog on "Why I support privacy"
• Ethereum's simplified roadmap: scale blobs, scale L1, improve UX (L2 interop + app layer)
• Ethereum Foundation updates from Co-Executive Director Tomasz
• Foundry MCP server is lightweight and gives your agents and LLMs on-chain capabilities
• Privy wallet introduces login with whatsapp

• ArbitrumDAO is evolving its governance to leverage dedicated teams and improve efficiency
• Across integrates with ZKsync's ZK stack: bridging the ZK-powered future
• Unichain NYC hackathon winners
• Lens introduces v1 Developer Program
• RISE Testnet is now live, unlocking Infinite Speed for the Masses
• ZKsync airdrop distribution contract admin account compromised, minting 111M unclaimed $ZK
• Spire introduces DA Builder to reduce DA costs for rollups, lowering tx fees for users
• Taiko x Commit-Boost x Fabric: a partnership for Ethereum-wide preconfirmations
• Everclear, a crosschain clearing and settlement protocol, launches mainnet

Ethereum numbers for the past week:

• Transactions: 9.2M (up 6.29%)
• Account Abstraction Transactions: 10,434 (down 17.07%)
• Median Base Fee: 0.573 gwei, Max Base Fee: 127.38 gwei
• Total Burnt Fees: 1908 ETH (up 99.77%)
• Total Blob Fees: 65.41 ETH (up 208.10%)