Welcome to Issue #13 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.

• Etherscan Card: Etherscore. Explore onchain achievements and reputation
• Code Reader: Leverage the power of AI to seamlessly learn about any smart contract source code
• Input Data Messages: Read and filter onchain messages between addresses, or connect your wallet to send one yourself

• eth_blockNumber: Returns the number of most recent block
• eth_getBlockByNumber: Returns information about a block by block number

FEATURED

Etherscan API V2: Multichain

Access EVM data across 60+ chains with a single API key, by specifying the chain ID.

• Ethereum hit by most security incidents in h1 2025: SlowMist
• Circuit unveils recovery system to solve crypto's 'permanent loss' conundrum
• Local Ethereum #6: June 2025 Roundup
• Argot Collective secures foundational founding from the Ethereum Foundation
• Euros are now earning more on Aave Ethereum market than in any other fintech
• As of today, all Ethereum execution clients support history pruning for pre-merge data
• Ethereum defi project Ondo aims to take on Robinhood with jump into tokenized stocks
• Vitalik proposes gas limit cap of 16.77M per transaction to reduce risk of DoS attacks
• US government drops appeal in Tornado Cash lawsuit
• Vitalik: Why I used to prefer permissive licenses and now favor copyleft
• Besu new release defaults 45M gas limit, history expiry, parallel tx processing
• Key notes from Justin Drake's appearance at EthCC (Gigagas ETH L1 / 10K TPS)
• Virtuals launches Agent Commerce Protocol (ACP) Public Beta
• Michael Silberling recovers ETH from Coinbase's deprecated wallet via L1 transaction
• 58 global meetups now planned for Ethereum's 10 year anniversary
• U.S. Senator Cynthia Lummis unveils digital asset tax legislation
• Ethereum is powering Wall Street's future, crypto scene at Cannes shows how far it's come
• Sreeram Kannan shares plans for company restructuring at Eigen Labs, layoffs 25% of staff
• Brian Armstrong shares the early days of Coinbase
• How the DeFi Mullet will bring the benefits of Ethereum to billions of real users

• Arbitrum TVL surges to $2.5b as RWA activity accelerates
• Robinhood engages with regulators over tokenized equities: Bloomberg

Ethereum numbers for the past week:

• Transactions: 9.68M (down 4.35%)
• Account Abstraction Transactions: 20,574 (down 64.37%)
• Median Base Fee: 0.567 gwei, Max Base Fee: 9.47 gwei
• Total Burnt Fees: 900.46 ETH (down 55%)
• Total Blob Fees: 25.77 gwei (up 3.45%)