Validator spotlight: @denodes_io "We believe validators should contribute beyond uptime by helping ecosystems grow through technical expertise and community support." deNodes is an independent team that maintains reliable validator infrastructure across multiple blockchain networks, including Monad, Celestia, and Aztec. It joined Espresso's testnet in Sept 2024, became a genesis validator at mainnet launch, and has supported the ecosystem throughout with education & tooling.
Validator spotlight: @Nethermind "Fast removes the wait. Reliable removes the doubt." That's how Nethermind describes what Espresso brings to them, and they bring the credibility to back it up. A core contributor to Ethereum since 2017, Nethermind builds and maintains one of the most widely deployed execution clients on the network. They run staking and node infrastructure at scale, alongside a security practice spanning audits and formal verification. On Espresso since October 2025, they see fast shared finality as one of the unsolved problems for chains today. Decentralizing Espresso was a natural next step.
Earlier this year, @stakedotlink launched stESP, a liquid staking token for ESP. Today, the Espresso Foundation seeded an ESP/stESP Curve pool with ~$230,000 in initial liquidity to back it 🧵 https://t.co/tJKuxsX8WT
The Composables are now on ApeChain 🦍 With RARI Chain sunsetting, @ApeChainHUB made sense as the new home for our genesis NFT collection: a thriving ecosystem already using Espresso for real-time finality. Every holder has been airdropped their NFT. No action needed. https://t.co/unc6DmmpQt
Espresso's Chief Scientist and professor at NYU @benediktbuenz has spent his career pushing the limits of cryptographic proof systems. Today, alongside @ronrothblum from @SuccinctLabs and NYU PhD student William Wang, he co-created Flock. The fastest SNARK prover ever built.
RARI Chain is shutting down. Our genesis NFT collection, The Composables, lives there. Here’s our plan for ensuring The Composables live on. Before @RariChain closes, we’ll take a snapshot of all holder wallets. We’ll then remint the collection on a new chain and airdrop directly to those wallets. No action needed from holders right now. Just make sure your Composables are in a self-custody wallet you control. We’ll share more as details are confirmed.
The bug bounty program has received a high volume of submissions since launch. To give each report the attention it deserves, we're pausing new submissions while we work through the queue. We'll share an update when the program reopens. Thanks to everyone who's engaged so far.
The first boosted staking rewards milestone is here. It has been three months since we launched ESP. If you staked at least 50% of your airdrop within 14 days of claiming, and have remained staked, you've earned a 256% boost on your accrued staking rewards. Claim details coming soon.
A note on wallet activity: The Espresso Foundation will move a significant amount of $ESP between internal wallets this week as part of routine custody operations. No tokens are being distributed or liquidated. These are internal transfers between Foundation-controlled addresses.
