Welcome to Issue #7 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.

• Track EIP-7251 (Max EB) Consolidation Requests on Etherscan
• A set of handy converter tools for you to convert between various data types right on the explorer
• Use the AI-powered Code Reader to learn about any smart contract source code

• Get Estimated Block Countdown Time by BlockNo
• Get Block Number by Timestamp

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Switch to Etherscan API V2

Make the switch by May 31, 2025, as access to the V1 API will be disabled after this date.

• EIP-7702 Authorized Contract Leaderboard
• Ethereum Foundation announces the Trillion Dollar Security (1TS) initiative
• EF reveals organizational chart
• How to enable age verification on the internet today using zero-knowledge proofs
• DOJ proceeds with case against Tornado Cash's Roman Storm
• Obol Stack launches as the enterprise-grade software delivery for the Ethereum economy
• Compilation of perspectives from +40 ETH core contributors looking back at Pectra
• Zellic details how they retrieved every contract on Ethereum
• Alloy launches as the simplest & fastest Rust toolkit for the EVM
• Biconomy demo using 7702: seamless multichain execution with a single signature
• Ethereum stablecoin volume hits record $908 billion as institutions & tech giants jump in
• Pectra introduced smart account but it also made draining faster and easier to miss
• Only 30 days left before the Great Recategorization goes live on L2BEAT
• How to make ETH L1 scaling more friendly to users running local nodes for personal use
• SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce says most existing crypto assets are not securities
• UXScout launches to track adoption of 7702 and related EIPs (e.g. 5792)
• L2BEAT article on how native rollups aim to reshape Ethereum
• Succinct introduces the Succinct Network Architecture and the $PROVE Token
• U.S. House passes GENIUS act cloture with 66-32 vote, advancing stablecoin regulation
• 94% Mainnet EVM blocks proven in under 1 Ethereum slot (12s)

• Nethermind and Erigon clients will officially be supporting Arbitrum chains
• Starknet has just leveled up to a pure Stage 1 ZK Rollup

Ethereum numbers for the past week:

• Transactions: 9.6M (up 1.83%)
• Account Abstraction Transactions: 14,831 (up 20.89%)
• Median Base Fee: 1.525 gwei, Max Base Fee: 24.87 gwei
• Total Burnt Fees: 2,262.21 ETH (down 19.92%)
• Total Blob Fees: 23.86 gwei (down 100%)