Welcome to Issue #8 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 transaction links now show a summary of the key actions performed in each transaction, right in the link preview
• Get a quick view of blob count per block in the Blocks page
• Check if a token meets the ERC-20, ERC-721, or ERC-1155 standards

• Get An Address's Nametag such as "Coinbase 10", as well as associated labels such as "exchange"
• Get Daily Average Block Size

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• LayerZero introduces OneSig, an open-source solution for multichain execution
• Circle takes aim at Swift with cross-border payments network
• Coinbase data breach impacted 69k user accounts
• Conduit introduces Developer Suite for RPCs, account abstraction, and indexing
• Here's 21 things the global Ethereum ecosystem got done in the last few weeks
• Cetus reached out to the hacker to negotiate the return of customer funds
• 90% of Ethereum attestations arrive within 2s, 6s slots are comfortably achievable
• EigenLayer introduces Verifiable Apps page v1
• Hackers using fake Ledger Live app to steal seed phrases and drain crypto
• Bungee v2 is here: the open liquidity marketplace
• EF Research posts and collabs : week of May 16 - May 23
• Remix Contract Verification plugin has been updated to use the Etherscan v2 API
• ~153,000 validators / ~14.5% of all Ethereum validators signaling for 60M block gas limit
• Bring Argentina Onchain: a collective campaign to show what's already happening in ARG
• Sharplink gaming announces $425M private placement to initiate ETH treasury strategy
• Sepolia & Hoodi at 60M gas limit, how are they performing?

• ZKsync introduces Prividium, an enterprise-grade blockchain platform
• StarkWare introduces S-two prover for client-side proving on everyday devices

Ethereum numbers for the past week:

• Transactions: 9.5M (down 1.25%)
• Account Abstraction Transactions: 12,255 (down 17.37%)
• Median Base Fee: 1.071 gwei, Max Base Fee: 26.34 gwei
• Total Burnt Fees: 1,583.26 ETH (down 30.01%)
• Total Blob Fees: 25.25 gwei (up 5.83%)