Infrastructure
What is MEV protection? Ethereum, Base, Arbitrum, Arc
Learn how MEV works on Ethereum, Base, Arbitrum and Arc, when you need MEV Protection or Optimized Submission, and how to configure both on Chainstack nodes.
Learn how MEV works on Ethereum, Base, Arbitrum and Arc, when you need MEV Protection or Optimized Submission, and how to configure both on Chainstack nodes.
Learn what an archive node is, when your app needs one instead of a full node, and how Ethereum, BNB Smart Chain, Solana and Robinhood Chain store and serve historical state.
Ethereum gets privacy on two fronts in 2026: validator anonymity via Vitalik’s Lean Chain, and confidential EVMs like Oasis Sapphire. Different problems, different users.
Ethereum’s biggest protocol change since the Merge lands in H2 2026. ePBS moves block building into the protocol, BALs enable parallel execution. What to do about it.
Vitalik Buterin proposed replacing the EVM with RISC-V to scale Ethereum with zk-proofs. Here’s how it works, what zkVMs already prove, and what could delay it.
Ethereum runs proof of stake. This guide walks the full validator lifecycle — stake, propose, attest, finalize — then shows how all of it maps to beacon blocks, state, and SSZ.