Partnered with Axiom with support from the Ethereum Foundation to formally verify the functional correctness of the OpenVM RISC-V extension using Lean Prover.

Omer Firmak, a developer with experience at Nethermind, joined Conduit to build EVM infrastructure.

Hiring for two remote positions: Founding Protocol Engineer (Web3 + AI) and Product Manager (AI x Web3 Security).

Nethermind is speaking at the Optimism Scaling Summit in Denver, streamed worldwide, alongside teams from Kraken, Dromos Labs, Celo, X Layer, Alchemy, Startale Group, Succinct Labs, LayerZero, Morpho, Gauntlet, Base, Spark, Flashbots, and OP Labs.

Partnered with ChainSafe, Obol Collective, Sigma Prime, and Develp to operate a DVT-powered stVault on Lido Finance V3's Ethereum Client Team Vault.

Recognized as one of the fastest Ethereum clients, leading performance benchmarks with a small margin ahead of ethrex_client according to ethPandaOps mainnet testing data from January 26, 2026.

Implemented a performance improvement that increased block execution throughput by 20-25%, raising ethrex client performance from 514 to 637 mgas/s and reducing latency from 64ms to 57ms on test servers.

Mainnet client achieves an average of 772 mgas/s on production servers.