Welcome to Issue #1 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.

• New Transaction Action UI: Key transaction highlights are now shown at the top of the page
• Internal Transactions Decoder: View and decode Internal Transactions' input data in a human-readable format
• New Internal Transactions UI: ETH transfers from internal transactions now have a dedicated section in the Transaction Details page

• Check Contract Execution Status
• Check Transaction Receipt Status

FEATURED

Etherscan API V2: Multichain

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

• EY upgrades Nightfall with zero-knowledge tech for private Ethereum transactions
• Snubb - a multichain token approval scanner in your terminal
• Weekly Ethereum blob fees plummet 73% to lowest levels since start of 2025
• Lighthouse Team view on Fulu
• Ethereum's first Protocol Research Call Highlights and History
• Hackers preloading counterfeit Android phones with crypto-stealing malware: Kaspersky
• Pectra upgrade to go live on Ethereum mainnet on May 7 2025
• Proposal to reconfigure Ethereum AllCoreDevs
• EigenLayer finally ready to launch crucial missing feature
• samczsun to dedicate majority of their time to build the best SEAL
• Post on Ethereum's degrading developer experience
• Lighthouse detailed postmortem on Pectra Holesky incident

• Engineering recap of week 4 of MegaETH's testnet
• Optimism allocates 2M+ OP for this month's rewards for Dev tooling and Onchain Builders
• Scroll Ceno zkVM that slashes proof sizes and verification times is in active development
• Gateway FM is now offering Rollup-as-a-Service (RaaS) for Arbitrum Orbit
• Spire Labs launches based L3 appchain on testnet
• Lens introduces Developer Dashboard to build onchain apps faster
• The 100 most active builders on Base last week just received 2 ETH in rewards
• Bonsai introduces Smart Media Protocol (SMP) with embedded agentic capabilities

Ethereum numbers for the past week:

• Transactions: 8.65M (up 1.23%)
• Account Abstraction Transactions: 12,581 (up 0.53%)
• Median Base Fee: 0.543 gwei, Max Base Fee: 37.41 gwei
• Total Burnt Fees: 955.12 ETH (up 83.44%)
• Total Blob Fees: 21.23 ETH (up 567.61%)