Prototype Revival: The New Week in Ethereum News
At @ERCRef, we’re experimenting with a prototype revival of Week in Ethereum News:
wie.ercref.org
Background
The original Week in Ethereum News was founded by @evan_van_ness and long edited by @abcoathup.
It has been a cornerstone for the Ethereum builder community for years — surfacing weekly progress for developers, researchers, and the wider ecosystem. It was a pity that it discontinued at the end of 2024
What’s New
Our prototype aims to:
- Carry forward the original spirit
- Combine AI + human editorial review
- Make Ethereum’s weekly progress easier to follow
- Gradually decentralize governance
This is still a work-in-progress, and we welcome feedback.
Try It Out
Check out the prototype here:
wie.ercref.org
You can subscribe and share feedback directly on the site.
Open Source
The code that generates the episodes and website is open-sourced.
Special thanks to:
And of course, our deep respect to @WeekInEthNews, @evan_van_ness, and @abcoathup for their initiatives and inspiration.
We’d love your thoughts, feedback, and suggestions as we continue building this together.
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Please see the episode of Sept 26, 2025 here.
if you like it, please like, subscribe, share or even better, contribute (we are open sourced!)
if there are something you don’t like, please share with us by filing a github issue here:GitHub · Where software is built about how you like it to be improved.
Hey @xinbenlv, thanks for this new project. As cofounder of a spanish web3 dev community, WIEN was an awesome way to keep our community updated every single week, and was my fav newsletter in web3 ecosystem for a long time. I’ll follow ERCRef in X and subscribe. Cheers from Spain!
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This is great initiative! We all loved the old “this week in ethereum”.
How do you plan to fund this effort? By continuous grants? Andrew had to cancel his revival of the newsletter due to not finding funding for it.
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Thank you for the kind words, @ivanmmurcia
@microbecode
So far we have been supporting it via grant from Namefi.io for the use of AI models.
Since its largely AI-curated, the cost of machine is much lower compare to human time at the moment.
If other folks have ideas or source of grants, we would be happy to hear too but we do want to ensure this remain a public good project built by and for an open contributor community.
Week in Ethereum News and ethdevnews both used manual collection and curation of Ethereum news. This was a 7 day a week full time job for me (plus all the time Evan put in), hence the cost.
I hope to bring back ethdevnews if I can get funding.
I still assign EIP/RIP/ERC numbers and curate summaries for ACDC/ACDE (though Forkcast is rapidly improving info about protocol calls).
Though this work is unfunded, so isn’t sustainable long term.
I noticed that "New Week in Ethereum News* linked to my recent summary in the latest issue.
I think this project needs a new name e.g. I went with ethdevnews and should differentiate itself with different headings/wording. It feels a bit weird to see phrases that Evan and I came up with.