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Glamsterdam changes what it costs to create storage. So we went through Taiko's bridge to find what that breaks before it ships.

It broke something. The fix is in front of the DAO now.

Attention all Taiko Node Runners!

We’ve released an execution engine and client update for alethia-reth and taiko-client for Hoodi & Mainnet. This release contains updates for maintainability. Please update your nodes as soon as possible to prevent unexpected issues!

Update to stay connected:

alethia-reth: v1.4.1

taiko-alethia-client: taiko-alethia-client-v2.7.0

simple-taiko-node: v2.6.3

Attention all taiko-geth Node Runners!

We’ve released a mandatory execution engine upgrade for taiko-geth for both networks containing consensus-sensitive fixes. If you are currently running alethia-reth, no changes need to be made. Please update your nodes as soon as possible to prevent unexpected issues!

We’d also like to take the opportunity to strongly recommend users switch to alethia-reth as per our previous announcement. Users may speed up their sync progress upon switching with our new public L2 alethia-reth snapshots at snapshots.taiko.xyz.

Update to stay connected:

taiko-geth: v2.7.0
simple-taiko-node: v2.6.2

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Yesterday was officially my last day as CTO @taikoxyz .

I'm starting my own company outside crypto (more on that in the coming weeks) with an incredible co-founder. I'll stay on as an advisor and independent Security Council member to keep Taiko safe and help the team deliver on the mission in this next chapter.

The past year has been an incredible ride. We launched preconfirmations, revamped the entire protocol to make it 10x more efficient, and I got to work with some of the smartest people I've ever met, people who are deeply aligned with the values that got me into Ethereum in the first place.
I also learned a lot about how to be a leader during adverse situations. It is no secret that this crypto cycle has been hard, especially for infrastructure projects and scaling solutions. We had to let go some very talented people, suffered a security incident during this period, and I had to lead the response to the hack, on which was easily the most stressful week of my life. There’s no easy way to deal with it, but I feel very proud of how the team responded.

While all of this was happening, AI agents exploded. I found myself using claude code and codex every hour of my waking day. My productivity skyrocketed and I was building agents and tools nonstop, both inside Taiko and on personal projects. At some point it became obvious this wave was too big to miss, and I fell in love with bringing agents to real world problems. I'd also been growing an itch to finally become a founder. Having gone from individual contributor, to working and then leading teams at some of the leading companies in the industry. I felt my calling.

I came to Taiko with the mission to make the protocol and the engineering team more efficient, and we achieved it. The world has not yet moved on-chain, and a lot of the cases we were excited about have not materialized yet, but I’m still confident they eventually will and that teams aligned with crypto’s ethos and scaling without compromises will gain more share and ultimately succeed.

I'm deeply grateful for the opportunity to lead Taiko's engineering team, and happy to stay involved with the team and the ecosystem as an advisor. I’m also incredibly excited about this new chapter in my life, and look forward to sharing more of what we’re building soon.

Stay based!

Pheasant Super App is now live on @taikoxyz!🥁

Experience Taiko through a single AI-powered interface built to make onchain interactions feel effortless.

Just tell Pheasant what you want to do, and it turns your intent into onchain execution.
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TAIKO has been removed from the investment warning list on major Korean exchanges, including Upbit and Bithumb.

Following the news, $TAIKO surged 15.9%.

The designation was lifted after the exchanges reviewed Taiko’s explanation of the security incident and its follow-up measures, concluding that the underlying concerns had been resolved.

Boundless set out to build a zero-knowledge proving network. We ended up building something bigger: a global network that coordinates GPU capacity at scale.

Today, we’re expanding into AI.

@sshankar on what’s next:

Taiko is ready to come back online.

The June 21 attack path is closed, the fixes have been reviewed by independent security experts, and we have a clear, staged plan to restore the chain. We're doing it in four careful steps, to ensure user’s security and stability before it goes live:

1. Deploy the fixes and confirm the chain's finalized state is correct, with no forged checkpoints or attacker claims reachable. This will go through the Security Council.

2. Replenish the bridge so every L2 asset is backed 1:1, verifiable on-chain by anyone.

3. Bring the network back: transfers, swaps and trading on L2, live again.

4. Reopen the bridge: after we see the chain finalizing successfully and the network stable, the bridge will be unpaused via a proposal from our Security Council. At this point, operations have been fully restored and users will be able to move funds to and from Taiko freely. We're reopening with conservative withdrawal quotas as an added safeguard, which we don't expect to limit anyone's ability to move assets.

No user will lose funds. We're coming back stronger than before.

We'll never DM you first and there's no claim site, only trust this account.