<![CDATA[EVM Gazette]]>https://www.evmgazette.comhttps://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uYKm!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5704c159-457c-4d54-a614-7bb62fc33b2b_600x600.pngEVM Gazettehttps://www.evmgazette.comSubstackSat, 18 Apr 2026 08:35:36 GMT<![CDATA[EVM Gazette – February 19, 2026]]>https://www.evmgazette.com/p/evm-gazette-february-19-2026https://www.evmgazette.com/p/evm-gazette-february-19-2026Thu, 19 Feb 2026 14:01:58 GMTHighlights

  • Monad has released their own fork of Foundry

  • LUCID, an encrypted mempool, is proposed for Hegota

  • Solidity released v0.8.34 with an important bug fix

  • Tomasz steps down as EF Co-Executive Director

AllCoreDevs Update

Two modifications to the eth p2p protocol, eth/70 and eth/71, are now CFI for Glamsterdam.

Regarding Hegota, Justin Florentine and Anders Elowsson presented LUCID, an encrypted mempool, as a headliner proposal.

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Ethereum News & Discussion

  • The Ethereum Foundation released a blog post on updated priorities for the Protocol organization in 2026.

  • The Ethereum Protocol Studies program is returning for 2026.

  • The Ethereum Foundation introduced the Platform team, focused on delivering “the strongest possible Ethereum platform, where L1 and L2s are best positioned to support users, apps, and all organizations building on Ethereum.”

  • The Ethereum Foundation’s leadership is changing: Tomasz is stepping down and Bastian Aue is serving as interim Co-Executive Director.

  • A new account on X, Blockspace Forum, has quickly gained attention, and appears to be dedicated towards improving Ethereum’s block construction infrastructure.

  • The L1 zkEVM team had their first breakout call.

  • OpenAI and Paradigm have collaborated on EVMbench, a new benchmark for AI agents finding vulnerabilities in EVM code.

Research Update

  • RLNC Optimizations by Gottfried Herold

    • The post analyzes communication overhead in Random Linear Network Coding for Ethereum data dissemination and proposes several linear-algebraic and randomness-structure optimizations—such as reducing transmitted coefficient data, using projective coordinates, exploiting shared sender/receiver subspaces, and carefully restricting coefficient distributions—that preserve RLNC’s high success probability while significantly lowering bandwidth and computational costs in adversarial settings.

  • PrivateX402: Privacy-Preserving Payment Channels for Multi-Agent AI Systems by Conor McMenamin and Artem Grigor

    • PrivateX402 is a privacy-preserving, cost-efficient payment channel protocol for multi-agent AI systems that allows a single user deposit to fund many agents while hiding per-agent allocations from on-chain observers, ensuring verifiable settlement and dispute resolution without a trusted intermediary through a combination of Merkle-committed budgets, off-chain cumulative receipts, TEE/ZK-verified settlement proofs, and batched epoch-based claims.

  • Attempt for a new Economic Model: Audit Ready Yet? by SkopiaOutis

    • A deterministic, causally grounded economic protocol (“The Ontological Protocol v1.0”) is proposed that replaces token-balance-based value with graph-structural value attribution via burn-based thermodynamic costs, ripple propagation in a causal DAG, and an ontological stasis mechanism coupled to planetary constraints, formalized in a 75-page audit-ready specification with fixed-point arithmetic and a canonical execution pipeline, for which the author now seeks expert review, implementation collaboration, and economic simulation/attack analysis.

  • ZK API Usage Credits: LLMs and Beyond by Davide Crapis and Vitalik Buterin

    • The post proposes a zero-knowledge, stake-based credit system for API metering in which users make a single on-chain deposit and then issue many unlinkable, rate-limited requests—proving solvency via ZK-STARKs over accumulated refunds and enforcing both economic anti-spam guarantees and policy compliance through dual staking and slashable-but-not-seizable collateral, thereby enabling privacy-preserving, Sybil-resistant, and efficiently metered access to services such as LLM inference and Ethereum RPC.

New EIPs/ERCs

  • EIP-8158 – Invariant Layout Guard Opcode

  • EIP-8159 – eth/71 - Block Access List Exchange

  • EIP-8163 – Reserve EXTENSION (0xae) opcode

  • EIP-8164 – Native Key Delegation for EOAs

  • ERC-8160 – Primary Agent Registry

  • ERC-8161 – Transferable Tokenized Vault Requests

  • ERC-8162 – Agent Subscription

Client and Client-Related Updates

Tooling, Languages & Libraries

  • Solidity released v0.8.34.

    • This includes an important bug fix. Read the blog post on the bug here.

    • Read the blog post on the version release here.

  • Soldeer released v0.10.1.

  • Alloy released v1.7.3.

  • Ape released 0.8.48.

  • Hardhat released v3.1.8 and v2.28.6.

L2s and EVM Alt-L1s

  • LayerZero announced their new blockchain, Zero. It appears to use the EVM.

  • L2BEAT has updated their stage 1 requirements, and formerly stage 1 L2s that are no longer stage 1 per the new criteria have approximately 6 months to fulfil the new criteria before they are downgraded to stage 0. Read the thread here.

  • Optimism is partnering with Succinct to accelerate ZK proving on the Superchain. Read the blog post here.

  • Monad has released Monad Foundry, a custom fork of Foundry specifically catering to Monad.

  • Base is moving away from the OP Stack towards their own, unified stack.

]]><![CDATA[EVM Gazette – February 11, 2026]]>https://www.evmgazette.com/p/evm-gazette-february-11-2026https://www.evmgazette.com/p/evm-gazette-february-11-2026Wed, 11 Feb 2026 14:02:38 GMTHighlights

  • Vitalik wrote a post on how the old L2 vision no longer makes sense

  • MegaETH mainnet now open to the public

  • Move contracts can now be deployed on Arbitrum

  • New ERC for “facet-based diamonds”

AllCoreDevs Update

Last week had an ACDC call, so no ACD update this issue.

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Ethereum News & Discussion

  • Vitalik wrote a polarizing post on X discussing why the original vision of L2s no longer makes sense.

    • He shared a follow-up post here.

  • Carl Beekhuizen proposed faster slots for Hegota.

  • The EF’s Academic Secretariat team announced their first iteration of the PhD Fellowship Program.

  • The EF blog posted a retrospective on Trillion Dollar Security Day at Devconnect.

  • Hayden Adams reports that a lawyer informed him that Uniswap won in a case started against them by Bancor for alleged patent infringement.

Research Update

  • New Opcode Proposal 1: PACK Structured Data Construction by ghasshee

    • The post proposes a family of EVM ‎PACKn opcodes that construct opaque, first-class structured values directly on the stack from multiple 256-bit words, enabling more efficient and expressive handling of nested data structures for on-chain interpreters and DSL runtimes while remaining backward compatible and opening paths for future extensions like unpacking and element access.

  • New Opcode Proposal 2: L/R Structured Skip Region by ghasshee

    • The post proposes two new EVM opcodes, L and R, that delimit non-executable, nestable skip regions in bytecode to safely embed arbitrary structured data and metadata within contract code, thereby improving analyzability, enabling rich compiler-generated tables and descriptors, and preserving backward-compatible, deterministic execution semantics.

  • Early Rejection of Adversarial BALs by Nero_eth

    • The post identifies a validation asymmetry in Ethereum’s proposed Block-Level Access Lists whereby adversaries can over-declare storage reads to nullify batch I/O and force maximal block execution before invalidation, and proposes a lightweight gas-budget feasibility check—verifying that remaining gas suffices to pay the minimum cold SLOAD cost for all undeclared reads—to enable early rejection of such adversarial blocks without altering the BAL format or sacrificing parallelization benefits.

  • Synchronous Composability Between Rollups via Realtime Proving by jbaylina

    • Realtime proving enables “based rollups” to achieve synchronous, atomic composability between L1 and heterogeneous L2s by coupling data availability with a single validity proof and mediating cross-chain calls through proxy contracts and an on-chain execution table that records, verifies, and, when necessary, reverts multi-rollup state transitions without requiring L1 protocol changes.

  • LUCID: Encrypted mempool with distributed payload propagation by aelowsson

    • LUCID proposes a modular encrypted mempool and distributed payload propagation scheme for Ethereum that combines fork-choice enforced inclusion lists, sealed transactions, and auditable builder bids to improve censorship resistance and MEV protection while maintaining compatibility with existing mechanisms like ePBS and BALs and enabling scalable, trustless, and optionally decentralized decryption workflows.

  • Incentive Compatibility under Informational Decentralization by trevelyan

    • The post introduces a paper arguing that, contrary to classical impossibility results based on the Revelation Principle, incentive-compatible decentralized mechanisms become feasible when the base-layer preserves privacy and informational compartmentalization, enabling rational off-protocol coordination that trades off ex post verifiability for lower enforcement costs and lies outside the scope of standard direct or staking-and-slashing models.

  • Analysis of different aggregation functions for EIP-8037 under different elasticity regimes by misilva73

    • Model-based evaluation of sum, max, and burst base-fee aggregation functions for EIP-8037’s multidimensional metering shows a fundamental trade-off between throughput gains and state growth, with a burst-only pricing rule plus very high state repricing best for maximizing throughput and a max-based rule with moderate state repricing best for balancing scaling and state bloat, thereby motivating empirical estimation of burst-resource price elasticities to choose between these policy regimes.

  • Solving Spam, State Bloat, and Fee Volatility with a Single Parameter by lavender

    • Proposes introducing a protocol-level minimum execution base fee on Ethereum to bound EIP-1559’s fee decay from below, thereby restoring sustainable burn and validator revenue, re-pricing spam and state growth externalities, and stabilizing the chain’s economic security as L1 capacity scales far beyond organic demand.

  • Linearly-homomorphic signatures for RLNC by Dan Boneh, b-wagn, and arantxazapico

    • The post proposes replacing homomorphic commitments in Random Linear Network Coding–based Ethereum block propagation with a linearly-homomorphic signature scheme adapted from Boneh–Freeman–Katz–Waters, enabling peers to efficiently verify that linearly combined network-coded blocks lie within the valid block subspace while mitigating pollution attacks and significantly reducing network communication overhead at the cost of increased local computation.

  • Hyper-scaling state by creating new forms of state by vbuterin

    • Proposes hyper-scaling Ethereum’s state capacity by introducing new, cheaper but more constrained state forms (e.g., temporary and UTXO-like storage tiers) alongside existing permanent state, thereby rebalancing execution–storage costs, preserving backward compatibility for current applications, and enabling most high-volume workloads (tokens, NFTs, short-lived protocol state) to migrate to scalable, tiered storage while keeping a smaller core of composable permanent state.

New EIPs/ERCs

  • EIP-8146 – Block Access List Sidecars

  • EIP-8148 – Custom sweep threshold for validators

  • EIP-8149 – Multi KZG Point Evaluation Precompile

  • EIP-8151 – Private Key Deactivation Aware ecRecover

  • ERC-8144 – Multi-Chain GS1 Product Identifier Resolver

  • ERC-8147 – Locality-Preserving Storage Layout for Binary Trie

  • ERC-8150 – Zero-Knowledge Agent Payment Verification

  • ERC-8152 – Content-Addressable Logic Modules (CALM)

  • ERC-8153 – Facet-Based Diamonds

  • ERC-8154 – Multichain Agents and Agent Relationships

  • ERC-8155 – Kernel-Orchestrated Modular Contracts

  • ERC-8156 – Agent Onchain Metadata Extension (ERC-8004 Compatible)

  • ERC-8157 – Minimal Tipping Interface

Client and Client-Related Updates

Tooling, Languages & Libraries

L2s and EVM Alt-L1s

]]><![CDATA[EVM Gazette – February 2, 2026]]>https://www.evmgazette.com/p/evm-gazette-february-2-2026https://www.evmgazette.com/p/evm-gazette-february-2-2026Mon, 02 Feb 2026 14:02:56 GMTHighlights

  • New Frame Transaction EIP for native account abstraction

  • Ethereum L1 zkEVM 2026 roadmap published

  • Lighter EVM – new EVM rollup with native Lighter interop

  • Optimism publishes post-quantum roadmap for Superchain

AllCoreDevs Update

As far as Glamsterdam scoping, the discussion didn’t result in anything very meaningful for application developers. The devs just decided to CFI EIP-7610 which prevents an edge case where users currently can theoretically deploy contracts to addresses with non-zero storage.

What is of interest for app devs however is that presentations were given for proposed headliners of the Hegota hard fork.

  1. Jannik Luhn gave a presentation on EIP-8105 (Universal Enshrined Encrypted Mempool (EEM)). Currently, users of the public mempool are liable to be exploited by MEV searchers who can, for example, sandwich their trades. This EIP would introduce a native, encrypted mempool that would prevent the aforementioned exploitation. This EIP depends on EPBS (EIP-7732). You can listen to his presentation here.

  2. Felix from the geth team gave a presentation on EIP-8141 (Frame Transaction). This would constitute a form of native account abstraction, and a generalization of the earlier EIP-7701. Its main motivation appears to be enabling an off-ramp from ECDSA-based authentication to post-quantum schemes, but its generality allows for other signing schemes as well (like passkeys based on secp256r1). You can listen to the presentation here.

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Ethereum News & Discussion

  • Discussion began on EIP-8141, a new account abstraction proposal that is a step towards post-quantum security for Ethereum.

  • Kevaundray started a thread on Ethereum Magicians detailing the L1 zkEVM roadmap for 2026.

  • The fabric repository by the Ethereum Fabric team was recently cleaned up. See the update from Jason Vranek here.

  • asanso shared learnings about post-quantum transaction signatures for Ethereum in a recent article, where he also announced a new breakout call.

Research Update

  • Failure modes in EIP-8037 and state-gas scaling by aelowsson

    • Proposes that EIP-8037’s fixed state-gas pricing can lead to equilibrium underutilization of either state or regular gas as Ethereum scales, and argues that dynamically adjusting state-gas via EIP-8075 or manual state‑gas–only hard forks is necessary to maintain balanced resource usage and preserve L1 scaling gains.

  • Vibes is all you need / vibe collateralized bonds by Citrullin

    • The post proposes a framework for AI-agent mediated “resonant meritocracies” in web3 communities, where participants’ multi-dimensional “frequency” (vitality, harmony, and trust velocity) is quantified to sustain sociostasis and reward supportive behavior, and this quantified “vibe” becomes an on-chain economic primitive via ERC-4626 vaults and ERC-3475 multi-tranche “vibe-collateralized” bonds that fund regenerative, high-trust networks instead of extractive equilibria.

  • Stealth Address + Sub Accounts for 7702 Account by 0xkoiner

    • A proposal for integrating ERC-5564 stealth addresses with EIP-7702 smart accounts is presented, wherein a root 7702 account, backed by KMS-held spending and viewing keys, can deterministically derive and bootstrap unlinkable stealth sub-accounts that are privately funded via Privacy Pools and then upgraded to policy-restricted, P-256–controlled 7702 implementations, enabling use cases such as merchant-managed subscription wallets with strong on-chain spend limits and revocability while preserving user privacy.

  • Application-controlled execution: A case study on cancel prioritization by mikeneuder and Maryam Bahrani

    • The post analyzes application-controlled execution as a way for onchain applications—especially exchanges implementing cancel-prioritized trading—to constrain transaction ordering, comparing four existing implementation patterns (app-chains, onchain batching, off-chain batching, and protocol-enforced proposer commitments) and a fully enshrined consensus-level approach, and argues that while such mechanisms can materially improve user execution quality and preserve native settlement, they introduce significant block-building complexity, weaken composability, and raise new trade-offs around liveness, censorship resistance, and validator participation.

  • What if we only kept 1 year of active state? by weiihann

    • By executing one year of mainnet blocks on full versus aggressively pruned “1‑year active” Ethereum state, the authors demonstrate that discarding inactive state reduces disk usage by approximately 78%, improves end‑to‑end block re‑execution time by roughly 15%, and significantly lowers tail latency for block insertion and state reads, suggesting that rolling‑window state expiry could materially ease hardware requirements and increase throughput headroom for Ethereum clients, pending evaluation of the overheads of real-world expiry and revival mechanisms.

  • zkFOCIL: Implementation & Benchmarking Report by shreyas-londhe

    • The authors implement and benchmark a SNARK-based linkable ring signature scheme for zkFOCIL using Barretenberg’s UltraHonk with IPA commitments to provide anonymity for Ethereum’s inclusion list committee, demonstrating that prover time is already compatible with Ethereum’s 12-second slot while identifying verification time and proof size—largely driven by scalar multiplications and IPA’s linear verification cost—as the key bottlenecks and outlining concrete cryptographic and implementation-level directions (relation-degree reduction, offloading EC work, BLS12-381 support, and Goblin-style curve cycles) needed to make the approach practical for mainnet deployment.

  • Measuring Per-Opcode Proving Time by linoscope

    • Using an extended marginal-cost methodology atop Ethereum Foundation zkEVM benchmarking tooling and multi‑GPU SP1/RISC0 provers, the work empirically derives per‑gas proving-time costs for individual EVM opcodes and precompiles, evaluates the configuration-specific linear relationship between proving time, gas, and zk cycles, and demonstrates that zk cycles are an inconsistent proxy for prover performance across operations, motivating ZK‑aware gas metering and targeted zkVM/client optimizations.

New EIPs/ERCs

Client and Client-Related Updates

Tooling, Languages & Libraries

L2s and EVM Alt-L1s

  • The Lighter team introduces Lighter EVM, an EVM-equivalent rollup that possesses native interop with Lighter.

  • The Optimism X account published an article outlining “a post-quantum roadmap for the Superchain”.

  • Alejandro from Sei wrote a thread on a recent paper on a protocol for transaction sharding in multiple concurrent proposer blockchains.

  • Monad v0.12.7 is now live on mainnet.

]]><![CDATA[EVM Gazette – January 26, 2026]]>https://www.evmgazette.com/p/evm-gazette-january-26-2026https://www.evmgazette.com/p/evm-gazette-january-26-2026Tue, 27 Jan 2026 07:11:53 GMTHighlights

  • Monad upgraded to 0.12.6.

  • Hardhat released v3.1.5.

  • EIL team introduces WeissChannels.

  • Monad is discussing improvement proposals MIP-3 & MIP-4.

AllCoreDevs Update

Nothing big for this past week, as the call was ACDC. However, it was noted that BALs (EIP-7928) will increase block sizes by 100% (~70-80 KiB).

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Ethereum News & Discussion

Research Update

  • Crypto Native Cash: Bridging physical Cash and DeFi by Citrullin

    • A crypto-native cash system is proposed that binds on-chain assets to NFC-enabled physical banknotes via an ERC‑4337 smart-account governance model with distinct keys for physical possession, regulatory authority, and economic ownership, enabling cash-like offline micropayments, authority-gated high-value transfers, recoverability from physical loss, and psychologically intuitive onboarding into DeFi through tangible, programmable money.

  • Worst-Case Block Size and Calldata Repricing for Glamsterdam by Nero_eth

    • The post analyzes how Ethereum’s current calldata and access list gas pricing still permits adversarially large worst-case block sizes under Glamsterdam and proposes two complementary EIPs—repricing access lists as calldata and raising or flattening calldata byte costs—to tightly couple gas usage to raw data size, thereby improving worst-case propagation guarantees and enabling safe future block gas limit increases.

  • AI Agent assisted merit driven token distribution by Citrullin

    • TinyMeritRank proposes a soulbound AI–mediated, Sybil-resistant token distribution protocol that replaces attention and airdrop farming with verifiable, network-evaluated advancement, using Personalized PageRank-based reputation, staged committee scoring, and slashing mechanisms to align incentives toward constructive contributions and make malicious behavior economically unprofitable.

  • A small step towards data-driven protocol decisions - Unified SlowBlock metrics across clients by CPerezz (original proposal and spec by rjl493456442)

    • The post proposes a standardized, cross-client framework for Ethereum execution-layer “slow block” metrics—defining common JSON fields for timing, state access, throughput, and cache behavior—aimed at enabling comparable performance analysis across clients, supporting data-driven protocol decisions (e.g., EIP evaluation), improving network health monitoring and anomaly detection, and inviting further extensions such as per-transaction metrics, opcode counts, and detailed Merkleization statistics.

  • What If Smart Contracts Could Trade on ‘Binance’? Introducing a Smart Contract Callable Trading Infrastructure for DeFi on Any Chain by 0x1cc

    • A smart contract–callable trading infrastructure is proposed that, via a deterministic off-chain engine and oracle-style cross-chain gateway, enables on-chain protocols on any chain to invoke exchange-grade spot and perpetual trading with advanced order types while materializing positions as composable on-chain assets, thereby transforming trading from an isolated venue into programmable execution infrastructure for DeFi.

  • Second Thoughts: How 1-second subslots transform CEX-DEX Arbitrage on Ethereum by nuconstruct (research in collaboration with AnteroE)

    • Reducing Ethereum’s slot time from 12 seconds to 1‑second subslots, modeled via a risk‑averse CEX–DEX arbitrageur facing probabilistic DEX execution and calibrated to Binance/Uniswap v3 data, increases arbitrage transaction counts by roughly 5x and volumes by about 2x by compressing outcome variance, expanding the set of risk‑adjusted profitable opportunities—especially in low‑fee pools—and revealing substantial latent demand for faster on-chain execution.

  • Web3 collateralized bonds by Citrullin

    • A framework for Web3 collateralized bonds is proposed in which ERC‑3475/4626-based, risk‑tranchified credit portfolios are collateralized by real‑world supply chains via Web2 APIs and governed by AI‑driven social reputation systems, with the aim of reproducing and surpassing traditional bond markets’ risk–return profiles entirely on‑chain.

  • Reducing BAL Size with 10 GigaGas/s EVM Throughput in the Presence of I/O by Po, Qi Zhou

    • A performance evaluation of three block-level access list (BAL) designs for Ethereum shows that a minimal “parallel I/O BAL,” which omits read values and explicit read hints, can still deliver approximately 78% of the execution throughput of a full, read-heavy BAL (10.8 vs. 13.9 GGas/s on a 16-core machine) while reducing BAL size to about one-third, thereby establishing a practical upper bound on BAL-enabled parallelism and motivating parallel I/O BAL as the preferred throughput–overhead trade-off for future L1 scaling.

  • RFC: Endogenous Parameterization for Post-Asset Economies (The Ontological Protocol v3.3) by SkopiaOutis

    • A DAG-based, thermodynamically grounded “Ontological Protocol” is proposed that endogenously prices information via proof-of-sacrifice burns, quantifies causal attribution using algorithmic information theory–based compression, and enforces non-decaying structural persistence, with a cybernetic PID-controlled minting mechanism tuned to a branching ratio near unity to support deep yet non-spammy causal chains, thereby addressing AI attribution and value flow measurement in post-asset, zero-marginal-cost economies without reliance on external oracles or governance.

  • Native DVT for Ethereum staking by vbuterin

    • A protocol-level extension to Ethereum staking is proposed that natively supports simple, threshold-based distributed validator configurations by allowing a single overfunded validator to register multiple “virtual identities” with M-of-N signing, thereby achieving DVT-like fault tolerance, improved security, and greater decentralization without reliance on complex off-chain coordination or BLS linearity.

  • Economic take from a Philosopher - Attempt for a new Economic Model (OS) by SkopiaOutis

    • Proposes an ontologically grounded, cybernetic reformulation of capitalism—“The Ontological Protocol”—that reintroduces ethics as thermodynamically and biologically compatible feedback constraints on an otherwise hegemonic, formally value-neutral economic operating system whose assimilation of democracy has undermined its own long‑term sustainability.

New EIPs/ERCs

Client and Client-Related Updates

Tooling, Languages & Libraries

L2s and EVM Alt-L1s

  • Monad mainnet upgraded to 0.12.6.

  • Monad is discussing MIP-3, a proposal to change the cost of additional memory to be linear instead of quadratic.

  • Monad is discussing MIP-4: a new opcode for reserve balance introspection.

  • Stable will be upgrading to v1.2.0 on February 4, which will include changes like USDT0 being the gas token.

  • The docs for Monad’s Validator Delegation Program are live.

]]><![CDATA[EVM Gazette – January 19, 2026]]>https://www.evmgazette.com/p/evm-gazette-january-19-2025https://www.evmgazette.com/p/evm-gazette-january-19-2025Tue, 20 Jan 2026 04:47:51 GMTHighlights

  • EIP-7954 (32KB contract code size limit) moves to CFI

  • Slither released new versions including CLZ opcode support

  • MegaETH open-sourced their stateless validator client

  • Mantle completed their Limb hard fork

AllCoreDevs Update

This past ACDE #228, core devs agreed to consider EIP-7954 for inclusion in Glamsterdam. If implemented, this would raise the contract code size limit from 24KB to 32KB.

That aside, a whole host of EIPs were declined for inclusion in Glamsterdam this call, including the following:

  • EIP-5920 (PAY opcode)

  • EIP-7793 (Conditional Transactions)

  • EIP-8051 (Precompile for ML-DSA signature verification)

  • EIP-7971 (Hard Limits for Transient Storage)

  • EIP-8032 (Size-Based Storage Gas Pricing)

  • EIP-7907 (Meter Contract Code Size And Increase Limit)

  • EIP-7903 (Remove Initcode Size Limit)

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Ethereum News & Discussion

  • In a tweet, Vitalik outlined features that he believes Ethereum’s value proposition depends on.

  • Geth made an important security release on January 13 to address an issue that could impact node liveness.

  • Growthepie shared data about the impact of how blob fee structure changed since Fusaka.

  • 8004scan has been updated to the v1 spec of ERC-8004.

  • Proposals for the headliner of the next fork Hegotá, are now open and will remain so until February 4.

  • bids.pics, a site by Toni Wahrstatter designed to show MEV builder bids, now shows the proposer as well.

  • Vitalik tweeted about the importance of the simplification of the Ethereum protocol.

Research Update

  • Two-resource metered-gas equations for EIP-8037 by aelowsson

    • A comparative analysis of metered-gas update equations for Ethereum’s EIP-8037—spanning max, average, weighted and Euclidean norm formulations, with symmetric and asymmetric targets—argues that separating state-creation gas from regular gas and tuning nonlinearity and target/limit ratios can preserve scaling, stabilize base-fee dynamics under lopsided demand, and offers multidimensional accounting as a minimal alternative.

  • ENS with IBAN Resolvers: Unify settlment layer of DeFi and TradFi by Citrullin

    • A proposed ENS extension attaches verifiable virtual IBANs to ENS domains and uses a hierarchical resolver (global, country, bank) with EIP‑712 verification and an off‑chain “burn and proxy” fallback to enable wallets to treat IBANs as first-class on‑chain routing identifiers, unifying p2p settlement across DeFi and TradFi while raising governance and privacy questions.

  • Data-driven analysis on EIP-7907 by CPerezz

    • A data-driven worst-case benchmark of EXTCODESIZE on Geth with caches disabled shows sub-linear but substantial code-read scaling (8.5x time from 0.5KB to 64KB), placing 64KB contracts at roughly the 1-second block budget under 60M gas and supporting a recommendation to raise the max contract size to 64KB without repricing, while deferring decisions on larger sizes (≥128KB) until BALs and ePBS are deployed and cross-client measurements are available.

  • Migration Strategies for EOAs under the Quantum Threat: Breakages, and Open Questions by Marcolopeez

    • A concise survey of execution-layer migration strategies to protect Ethereum EOAs against a future cryptographically relevant quantum computer—comparing native post-quantum signatures (with a focus on hash-based schemes), ERC‑4337 account abstraction, native AA (RIP‑7560/EIP‑7701), EIP‑7702 delegation and key‑deactivation variants—while foregrounding practical compatibility breakages (ecrecover-based auth, ERC‑2612 permit/off‑chain signing, tx.origin assumptions, L2 cross‑chain drift) and adversarial/MEV risks during transitions, and inviting community input, measurements, and collaboration alongside emergency hard‑fork contingency planning.

  • Trust minimized transaction simulation using state proofs by Sednaoui

    • A trust-minimized wallet simulation framework verifies transaction prestate via Merkle Patricia Trie proofs and unanimous multi-node state-root consensus, then executes locally with REVM to eliminate single-provider reliance, delivering stronger security guarantees than opaque RPC-based simulators while acknowledging trade-offs in availability, prestate completeness, conditional execution/MEV variance, and practical gaps relative to full light clients.

  • Using Rateless Coding for DAS by MoritzGrundei

    • A case for replacing fixed-rate codes in data availability sampling with on-demand rateless coding—specifically Random Linear Network Coding—to dramatically lower false negatives and improve decentralization by generating MDS-like samples without storage or dispersal overhead, yielding field-size–bounded failure probabilities and superior repair/dissemination properties compared to Reed–Solomon–based schemes.

  • Combining preconfirmations with based rollups for synchronous composability by vbuterin

    • A hybrid rollup design combines low-latency sequenced blocks with slot-ending certificates that enable builders to publish L1-based blocks for brief windows of synchronous L1–L2 composability, achieving near-L1 atomicity and coordination under ePBS-like assumptions while accepting revert-on-L1-reorg risk, timing-sensitive latency gaps, and limited permissionlessness mitigable via forced-inclusion channels.

  • Blob Analysis after Fusaka and BPO Updates by leobago

    • An empirical evaluation of Ethereum’s blob throughput post-Fusaka and BPO updates finds persistent underutilization of increased capacity and significantly elevated missed-slot rates at high blob counts (16–21), suggesting heightened reliability risk under heavier load and recommending a moratorium on further capacity increases until high-count miss rates normalize and real demand materializes.

New EIPs/ERCs

  • EIP-8125 – Temporary Contract Storage

  • ERC-8126 – AI Agent Registration and Verification

  • ERC-8127 – Human Readable Token Identifiers

  • ERC-8128 – Signed HTTP Requests with Ethereum

Client and Client-Related Updates

Tooling, Languages & Libraries

  • Silverback released 0.7.36

  • Slither released 0.11.5 and 0.11.4

    • CLZ opcode support

    • Solidity custom storage layout

    • new detector: unindexed-event-address

    • new detector: reentrancy-balance

  • Echidna released 2.3.1

  • Ape released 0.8.47

  • Weasel released v0.4.5

  • solx released 0.1.3

  • Voltaire released v0.2.12

  • Alloy released v1.4.3

  • Hardhat released v3.1.4

L2s and EVM Alt-L1s

  • MegaETH open-sourced their stateless validator code.

  • Mantle completed the Limb hard fork, enabling new compatibility with Ethereum’s Fusaka features.

  • The Boundless project is introducing “Boundless for Rollups”, a means for OP-stack rollups to gain fast finality.

]]><![CDATA[EVM Gazette – January 12, 2026]]>https://www.evmgazette.com/p/evm-gazette-january-12-2025https://www.evmgazette.com/p/evm-gazette-january-12-2025Tue, 13 Jan 2026 06:17:32 GMTHighlights

  • Bloom filters are staying in Glamsterdam

  • Weasel: new AI tool for Solidity development & auditing

  • Tempo introduced their native token standard, TIP-20

  • Arbitrum’s Dia upgrade is now live

AllCoreDevs Update

In order to increase the quality and efficiency of reporting for our intended audience, the focus of this section is shifting to changes that stand to impact the experience of people developing on and securing the applications being built on Ethereum and rollups.

It was planned for EIP-8037 (State Creation Gas Cost Increase) to have a finalized proposal by ACDE 227 on January 5. That didn’t come to fruition, although there was an update. Because of this delay, decision on its inclusion will be pushed to the following ACDE.

There are a couple competing proposals for increasing the maximum contract size. EIP-7907 (Meter Contract Code Size And Increase Limit) proposes increasing the maximum contract size to 64KB while metering code exceeding 24KB. EIP-7954 (Increase Maximum Contract Size) meanwhile proposes simply increasing the maximum contract code size to 32KB and initcode size from 48KB to 64KB. However, the exact scope for EIP-7907 appears to require finalization, so either it’s worked on in the week between this ACDE and the following, or the choice for contract code size increase in Glamsterdam will be strictly between EIP-7954 and doing nothing.

EIP-7997 is a proposal by @frangio to include a CREATE2 factory contract in the precompile range in order to facilitate deterministic multi-chain deployments. Currently EVM developers resort to workarounds in order to accomplish this, so this EIP would stand to reduce developer workload and barrier to entry for secure multi-chain deployment. During ACDE 227, this was moved to CFI due to a push from Felix at Geth who noted “simple changes that benefit the community should just be included in Glamsterdam”.

EIP-8058, which would have reduced gas costs for deployments of duplicate bytecode, has been withdrawn from Glamsterdam for re-working in H*.

EIP-7668, which would have removed bloom filters from execution blocks due to lack of usage among developers today, has been declined for inclusion in Glamsterdam.

EIP-7745, which proposed a light-client-friendly replacement for bloom filters, has also been declined for inclusion in Glamsterdam.

In other news, Blob-Parameter-Only Fork 2 (BPO2) went live on January 7, achieving 21-blob blocks, further improving rollup throughput.

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Research Update

  • Non-Reactive Finance (NoRFi) - A Deterministic Foundation for DeFi by hooftly

    • A deterministic, time-driven DeFi architecture (“NoRFi”) replaces oracle-led liquidations with isolated, NFT-based Positions and explicit encumbrance to enforce bounded, computable outcomes across self‑secured credit, bilateral credit with optional early exercise, yield‑bearing limit orders, and index tokens—prioritizing legible invariants, non‑intermediated safety, and agent‑friendly composability while inviting scrutiny of residual MEV, accounting edges, and trust surfaces.

  • Block & Blob Propagation with PeerDAS by Pierre-Louis, mempirate from Chainbound

    • An empirical study of Ethereum’s PeerDAS rollout finds that increasing blob counts systematically degrades block and blob validation latency and validator attestation rates—especially in the tail and under PBS’s latency-sensitive dynamics—while showing little clear effect on orphan rates, motivating a proposal for a global supernode “seeding network” to accelerate dissemination and mitigate emergent, economically driven blob-limiting behavior.

  • The Pairwise Paradigm by kronosapiens

    • A reflection on lessons from years of pairwise methods in distributed governance argues that fully continuous mechanisms can retain administrative efficiency while being productized into epochs for usability; contends that independence of irrelevant alternatives is overrated; and maintains that while cardinal preference intensity matters, measurement noise and operational overhead often degrade signal—hence the appeal of constrained cardinality approaches like QV/QF.

  • Solving Ethereum’s Fragmentation Problem With Sync Composability by alonmuroch

    • A proposal for an Ethereum Single Execution Environment argues that synchronous composability—enabling arbitrary, stateful, bi‑directional cross‑chain contract calls with atomicity and synchronicity—can resolve rollup‑driven fragmentation by unifying UX/DevX, liquidity, and dApp deployment, and calls for ecosystem‑wide fast finality, formal research and standardization, and coordinated adoption to prevent strategic decoupling of major rollups from Ethereum.

  • Recursive-STARK-based bandwidth-efficient mempool by vbuterin

    • A recursive-STARK-based mempool design is proposed that aggregates validity proofs across nodes—forwarding objects without per-object proofs and periodically broadcasting a single recursive STARK identified by object hashes or bitfields—thereby maintaining constant per-node bandwidth while enabling post-quantum verification for execution signatures, consensus signatures, and blob root availability despite individual STARKs’ large size.

New EIPs/ERCs

  • EIP-8120 – MLOAD8 and CALLDATALOAD8 Opcodes

  • EIP-8123 – RPC Method for Transaction Gas Limit Cap

  • ERC-8118 – Agent Authorization

  • ERC-8119 – Key Parameters

  • ERC-8121 – Delegated metadata resolution via hooks

  • ERC-8122 – Minimal Agent Registry

  • ERC-8124 – ERC-20 Alias Metadata Extension

Client and Client-Related Updates

Tooling, Languages & Libraries

  • Voltaire released v0.1.47

  • Aderyn released v0.6.7

  • Weasel released v0.4.0

    • Weasel appears to be a new set of skills for use with AI agents like Claude Code, Cursor, and Windsurf.

  • Alloy released v1.4.0

  • Hardhat released v3.1.3 and v2.28.3

L2s and EVM Alt-L1s

  • Tempo introduced their native token standard, TIP-20.

  • Arbitrum’s ArbOS Dia upgrade is now live.

  • On January 14, BSC mainnet will be undergoing the Fermi upgrade. Nodes must update to v1.6.4 before 2026-01-14 02:30:00 AM UTC.

]]><![CDATA[EVM Gazette – January 5, 2026]]>https://www.evmgazette.com/p/evm-gazette-january-5-2025https://www.evmgazette.com/p/evm-gazette-january-5-2025Mon, 05 Jan 2026 14:03:39 GMTHighlights

  • Lighter released code for operation verification

  • Vitalik shared a new year’s address

  • Many new ERCs, including “Bound Signatures” from wjmelements

  • Patrick Collins resurrected discussion on EIP-831

AllCoreDevs Update

Calls were cancelled for the last while. ACDE in place of ACDT today.

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Ethereum News & Discussion

  • Vitalik published a new blog post arguing that in a world where Big Government, Big Business, and Big Mob are all strengthening, we must preserve balance of power by mandating diffusion—through policies, adversarial interoperability, and pluralistic systems—to enable rapid progress without hegemonic concentration.

  • The Ethereum Foundation Blog published a new post on hosting Devcon 8 in Mumbai

  • PatrickAlphaC resurrected discussion on EIP-831

  • Former EF researcher Dankrad wrote a blog post about a new consensus algorithm by Commonware which, although it requires >80% honesty, it only requires 1 round of voting.

  • Vitalik wrote a new year’s address on X.

  • Tevm released the Beta version of Voltaire, a new Ethereum library for “Agentic Coders”.

Research Update

  • Wormholes and the cost of plausible deniability by mmjahanara, pierre

    • Argues that Ethereum wormhole designs relying on plausible deniability are fundamentally insecure under 160-bit addresses due to collision-driven inflation risks and constrained anonymity sets (notably in EIP-7503 via beacon_block_root), proposes that fixing anonymity may be feasible but true deniability likely requires rethinking the architecture—potentially via beacon deposit–based primitives—and highlights L1 changes as possible enablers.

  • Does FHE deserve this much attention? by miha-stopar

    • Argues that FHE merits significant attention for its unique ability to enable composable, non‑interactive computation over encrypted state without hardware trust—positioned against ZKPs, MPC, and TEEs with distinct trade-offs—yet practical deployment hinges on maturing performance, key‑management and decryption (often via committees), and the emergence of verifiable FHE, which is crucial both for trustless off‑chain execution and for future encrypted AI training and inference.

  • Demystifying Blockchain KV Lookups: From O(log N) to O(1) Disk I/O by ping-ke, Qi Zhou, Po

    • Under realistic caching where Bloom filters (excluding LLast) and index metadata fit in memory (~0.1%–0.9% of DB size), Pebble’s random-read key-value lookups empirically exhibit near-constant disk I/O (~1.0–2.4 I/Os per Get) largely independent of database size, challenging the conventional O(log N) assumption and yielding actionable cache sizing guidelines for blockchain execution-layer storage.

New EIPs/ERCs

  • EIP-8115 – Batch priority fees at end of block

  • EIP-8116 – Replace cumulative receipt fields

  • ERC-8109 – Diamonds, Simplified

  • ERC-8110 – Domain Architecture for Diamonds

  • ERC-8111 – Bound Signatures

  • ERC-8112 – Token Transfer With Signature

  • ERC-8113 – Series Accounting for Incentivized Vaults

  • ERC-8114 – NFT Transfer With Signature

  • ERC-8117 – Compressed Display Format for Addresses

Client and Client-Related Updates

Tooling, Languages & Libraries

  • Nethereum released 5.8.0

  • Ape released 0.8.45

  • Hardhat released v3.1.2 and v2.28.2

    • These releases add support for Solidity 0.8.32 and 0.8.33

  • Remix Project released v1.5.1

  • Alloy released v1.2.1

L2s and EVM Alt-L1s

  • Gattaca has joined as the ninth member of the Taiko Security Council.

  • The RISEx public testnet is now live.

  • Paradex has launched Privacy Perps on mainnet. However, as a consequence of implementation details, this has resulted in the L2 moving from the “Rollups” tab to the “Others” tab on L2Beat.

  • Lighter posted a thread on X regarding their publishing the code that verifies Lighter operations.

]]><![CDATA[EVM Gazette – December 22, 2025]]>https://www.evmgazette.com/p/evm-gazette-december-22-2025https://www.evmgazette.com/p/evm-gazette-december-22-2025Mon, 22 Dec 2025 14:03:05 GMTHighlights

  • Solidity released v0.8.32 and v0.8.33

  • New release candidate for OpenZeppelin contracts update

  • MegaETH’s runtime, MegaEVM, has been documented

  • New proposed criterion by L2Beat for Stage 1

AllCoreDevs Update

This past ACDE, geth developer Marius Van Der Wijden made the case to prioritize gas repricing EIPs for Glamsterdam in an effort to prepare the chain for 60Mgas/s. As part of it, he successfully petitioned for the following EIPs to be moved to CFI:

  • EIP-7904 (downscoped such that only the operations that are performing worse than the 60Mgas/s floor will be repriced)

  • EIP-7976

  • EIP-7981

  • EIP-8038

In addition, following discussion, EIP-2780 was transitioned to CFI.

A number of EIPs were moved to DFI during the call:

  • EIP-2926

  • EIP-7686

  • EIP-7923

  • EIP-7973

The following calls were cancelled:

  • December 22

  • December 25

  • December 29

  • January 1

Additionally, January 5 is being repurposed from an ACDT to ACDE.

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Ethereum News & Discussion

  • The EF blog published a post by George Kadianakis, Cryptography Research Team Lead, about the state of the security foundations for the L1 zkEVM project and the path forward.

  • Solarity developer Artem Chystiakov reported that the new transaction gas limit cap introduced with Fusaka had the impact of preventing 384-bit ECDSA signature verification.

  • The current list of milestones/projects for 2026 important for zkEVM L1, curated by Kevaundray Wedderburn, is currently awaiting approval by two teams.

  • The first devnet for BALs is live.

  • The L2Beat team proposed an addition to the criteria for Stage 1 rollups based on the following question: “Can users exit, in the presence of malicious operators, even if the Security Council disappears?”

    • See the X thread here

Research Update

  • Exploring Dynamic Casing Checksums to Mitigate Address Poisoning by Mistuhamizu

    • A wallet/UI-only mitigation for Ethereum address poisoning is proposed wherein senders validate a recipient’s address using a short-lived receiver code to derive a dynamic EIP-55–style checksum casing via Keccak256(addr || code), replacing human prefix/suffix checks with deterministic verification that fails for attacker-crafted lookalikes lacking the shared code, thereby adding an off-chain second confirmation without protocol changes.

  • On In-Protocol Gas Futures by Julian

    • Proposes replacing EIP‑1559 with an in‑protocol gas futures market to enable predictable, hedgeable blockspace pricing by issuing, trading, and settling gas futures (via inclusion-list rights), arguing that fee burn and base-fee manipulability make EIP‑1559 incompatible with functional derivatives and that futures, despite allocative efficiency trade‑offs, would improve investment certainty and UX.

  • Understanding the Practical Disk I/O Cost of KV Lookups in Blockchain Systems by ping-ke, Qi Zhou, Po

    • Pebble’s LSM-tree read path, under realistic caching where non-LLast Bloom filters and top-level plus internal indexes fit in memory (≈0.1%–0.9% of DB size), exhibits effectively O(1) random-read behavior with I/Os per Get converging from ~2.2–2.4 to ~1.0–1.3 across 22 GB–2.2 TB datasets, demonstrating that practical disk I/O costs are governed by metadata cache residency rather than LSM depth, with data block caching contributing minimally under pure random reads.

  • Gas/Security-Bit for PQ Signatures on EVM: Dataset + Methodology by pipavlo82

    • A reproducible methodology and dataset for normalizing EVM signature verification costs via gas-per-secure-bit—across distinct execution surface classes and protocol “envelope” weakest-link constraints—demonstrates that comparing PQ schemes (e.g., ML‑DSA‑65 vs Falcon‑1024) requires explicit security-equivalent denominators and scope-consistent benches (including a PreA design that offloads public structure while cryptographically binding it), with provenance-captured snapshots and an extensible case graph that also models future entropy/attestation surfaces using H_min.

  • EIP-8077: Nonce Gap Simulation Report by leobago

    • A Monte Carlo study of sharded blob mempools quantifies same-slot nonce gaps under varying shard counts and sender skewness, finding up to roughly 36% of blob transactions affected with random shard assignment—rising with shards and skewness—and argues for EIP-8077’s sender/nonce metadata to enable informed fetching that reduces gaps, bandwidth waste, and block-building inefficiencies.

  • Universal Enshrined Encrypted Mempool EIP by jannikluhn

    • An Ethereum EIP proposes enshrining a scheme-agnostic encrypted mempool that defers transaction visibility until inclusion to mitigate front running and weak censorship, introduces a key provider registry with a directed trust graph and an encrypted transaction type executed via envelope-first fee payment and PTC-attested decryption, preserves plaintext compatibility and chain liveness under key failures, and leaves provider incentives and punishments to off-chain mechanisms while detailing security tradeoffs (key withholding, reorgs, key-ID front running, and builder collusion).

New EIPs/ERCs

  • EIP-8108 – Stateless Block Witnesses with Verkle Proofs

  • EIP-XXXX – Domain-centric Architecture for Diamonds

Client and Client-Related Updates

Tooling, Languages & Libraries

L2s and EVM Alt-L1s

  • Traces and asset diffs are now available on the Tempo block explorer

  • The Galileo upgrade is now live on Scroll mainnet, with Ethereum Fusaka compatibility, ZK proving, and a new fee structure.

  • MegaETH is now welcoming builders to deploy and test their apps on mainnet.

  • ZKsync proposed a TZE for Zcash that would enable a trustless bridge to Ethereum.

  • MegaETH documented their runtime, MegaEVM, with differences from the ordinary EVM including a multidimensional gas model.

]]><![CDATA[EVM Gazette – December 18, 2025]]>https://www.evmgazette.com/p/evm-gazette-december-18-2025https://www.evmgazette.com/p/evm-gazette-december-18-2025Thu, 18 Dec 2025 14:03:04 GMTHighlights

  • Trustless payments staying in ePBS

  • EF exploring directions to mitigate state growth

  • Postmortem on Prysm incident published

  • New research on Ethereum’s blockspace market

AllCoreDevs Update

Blob parameter only fork 1 went live on December 9 and went well. The issue with Prysm that occurred on December 4 has been addressed with subsequent releases.

Some may be aware of the recent debate on X about whether trustless payments should be included in ePBS. However, on this last ACDC #171, the core devs decided on keeping the feature in, pending any development on whether there are security issues.

FOCIL has been declined for inclusion in Glamsterdam, and it remains considered for inclusion in Heka.

CFI’d EIPs for Glamsterdam now include EIP-7688, EIP-8080, and EIP-8061.

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Ethereum News & Discussion

  • The Ethereum Foundation blog published a post from the Stateless Consensus team arguing that Ethereum’s state growth threatens decentralization, resilience, and censorship resistance, and outlining complementary directions – state expiry, state archiving, and partial statelessness with improved RPC – aimed at bounding active state, lowering storage/serving costs, and sustaining higher throughput without compromising network neutrality.

  • In a new post, Vitalik argues for a future of diverse “tribes,” permanent hubs, and government‑hosted zones that collaboratively innovate culture, governance, and rules—distributing progress beyond today’s centralized power centers.

  • The Prysm team released a postmortem on the incident that occurred shortly after the Fusaka mainnet fork.

  • Charles Cooper of Vyper shared his opinion against the inclusion of EIP-8024 in Glamsterdam.

  • nixorokish is soliciting reflections on the upgrade processes followed for Ethereum through 2025.

Research Update

  • Staircase Unrestricted Uncle Maker Attack by JingansiHandsomeman

    • A refined risk framework for timestamp-based Nakamoto consensus reveals that “riskless” uncle-maker attacks incur overlooked difficulty growth risk, and introduces minimal risk control with two new strategies—UUM and SUUM—that calibrate timestamps to remain cost-free while boosting adversary rewards (to 28.41% and 33.30% at 25% hash power), supported by simulations and on-chain evidence of real-world timestamp manipulation by multiple mining pools.

  • TrustMesh: Consensus as Emergence, Security from Behavior by YanAnghelp

    • TrustMesh proposes a locally driven, reputation-weighted consensus architecture where rounds produce independently valid history without global views or forks, demonstrating emergent convergence—averaging 88.7% agreement among 30 nodes under adversarial, randomized reputations—through monotonic score aggregation and diluted influence, with theoretical final synchronization, Sybil-resistant reputation dynamics, and applicability to non-consistent consensus domains rather than monetary ledgers.

  • Post Quantum Signature Aggregation: a Folding Approach by tcoratger

    • A decentralized, post-quantum signature aggregation framework for Ethereum replaces BLS with XMSS and achieves scalable, accountable attestations by using SNARK-backed recursion—contrasting full recursive SNARK verification with specialized folding/accumulation schemes (Neo, WARP)—to produce a single succinct proof tied to a global participation bitfield while distributing Aggregate and Merge operations across a P2P network.

  • Trustless payments by BrunoMazorra (joint w/ jcschlegel, quintuskilbourn, boz1, LuisVCorreia)

    • Advocating for enshrined, trustless payments in EIP-7732, the authors argue that despite manageable capital and operational costs, sealed-bid dynamics, and free-option considerations, the mechanism enhances permissionless proposer–builder coordination, improves fairness and resilience, and should be implemented now given the lack of viable alternatives and the risks of entrenching out-of-protocol trust.

  • An Observation on Ethereum’s Blockspace Market by Kubi Mensah, Alexander Tesfamichael, Kevin Lepsoe, Justin Drake

    • An analysis of Ethereum’s out-of-protocol blockspace market under PBS identifies misaligned price discovery, fragile relay economics, concentration risks, latency instability, and gated services as core deficiencies, and proposes principles for transparent pricing, sustainable incentives, end-to-end robustness, fair access with privacy, proposer agency, explicit capacity discipline, portability without proximity lock-in, and open, verifiable service interfaces to incrementally increase realized blockspace value while preserving credible neutrality and decentralization.

New EIPs/ERCs

  • EIP-8101 – Payload Chunking with Chunk Access Lists

  • ERC-8102 – Permissioned Pull

  • EIP-8105 – Universal Enshrined Encrypted Mempool

  • EIP-XXXX – Ethereum Virtual Machine File System

  • ERC-XXXX – Event-based Compliance Framework for RWA

  • ERC-XXXX – ENS Trust Registry for Agent Coordination

Client and Client-Related Updates

Tooling, Languages & Libraries

L2s and EVM Alt-L1s

  • StarkWare – cairo-contracts released v3.0.0

  • The Arbitrum blog published a post describing how WebAssembly via Arbitrum Stylus delivers near-native, predictable, and safer onchain execution as a delivery ISA that coexists with the EVM.

  • The Gelato blog published a post on Turbo, a new sequencer for rollups that is already deployed on Kraken Ink, Reya, and Camp.

  • The Tempo project unveiled “Tempo Transactions” in a new blog post.

]]><![CDATA[EVM Gazette – December 10, 2025]]>https://www.evmgazette.com/p/evm-gazette-december-10-2025https://www.evmgazette.com/p/evm-gazette-december-10-2025Wed, 10 Dec 2025 02:51:45 GMTHighlights

  • Fusaka has hit mainnet as of December 3, introducing PeerDAS

  • New Solidity release v0.8.31

  • Tempo testnet is now live

  • Controversy around ePBS trustless payments

AllCoreDevs Update

Per the discussion on ACDT 62, the decision on whether to include trustless payments in ePBS will be made during the next ACDC.

It was noted during ACDE 225 that a Prysm bug caused mainnet participation to drop to ~79%. By the time of the call on December 4, participation recovered to ~98%.

In addition, new scoping decisions have been made for Glamsterdam:

  • CFI

    • EIP-7778

    • EIP-7708

    • EIP-7843

    • EIP-8024

    • EIP-8070

  • DFI

    • EIP-8011 (multidimensional gas; noteworthy as this was quite well-researched)

    • EIP-8053

    • EIP-8059

    • EIP-8057

    • EIP-7791

    • EIP-7819

    • EIP-7979

    • EIP-8013

    • EIP-7619

    • EIP-7932

    • EIP-8030

    • EIP-6404

    • EIP-6466

The decision on FOCIL is deferred to next ACDC.

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Ethereum News & Discussion

  • Fusaka mainnet went live on December 3, 2025. Its most notable addition is PeerDAS, which will result in the gradual increase of the network’s blob capacity, ultimately allowing rollups to increase their throughput.

  • The Solidity blog published a recap of the 2025 edition of the Solidity Summit

  • The Ethereum Foundation blog published a recap of Devconnect Argentina

  • The Ethereum Foundation blog posted an outline of their allocations for Q3 2025 of the Ecosystem Support Program

  • A conversation emerged on X where some voiced their disagreements with the push to include trustless payments in ePBS.

  • The eth_proofs X account posted talks from Ethproofs Day.

  • BuilderNet released v1.6 on December 2. Check out the blog post here.

  • Prysm encountered an issue that resulted in degradation of participation on mainnet. However, the Ethereum network continued despite this due to client diversity.

  • Fusaka BPO1 is now live, with up to 15 blobs being posted on mainnet.

Research Update

  • Tracing bad funds through shielded pools by MichaelConnor

    • A proposal for shielded pools that embeds re-randomized, selectively decryptable lineage metadata in notes—revealed only when a deposit is blacklisted—to let users privately quantify and “decontaminate” tainted value while minimizing global graph leakage, at the cost of MPC key-holder trust, periodic reset operations, and significant circuit complexity.

  • ProofLedger: Core Tenets and Mathematical Framework Based on ProofLedger Documentation by belgutu

    • A proposed three-layer “Continuous Verifiable Reality” protocol—combining reputation-weighted oracles securing physical RWAs, legally bound ERC‑721 digital twins, and Basel III–aligned risk modeling—claims to enable high‑throughput institutional adoption while delivering quantified benefits (40–60% risk‑weight reductions, 20–30% capital relief, and faster settlement), supported by explicit oracle economics and verification discounts translating data integrity into measurable regulatory capital efficiency.

  • Framework for AltDA Secure Integration on Ethereum by bxue-l2

    • A formal framework for secure AltDA integration in Ethereum L2s models derivation as deterministic transformations from L1 AltDA commitments to blobs to rollup payloads, requiring binding commitments, total and correct Data Availability Verifiers with recency checks, and deterministic decoding to prevent forks and halts under malicious sequencer behavior, and it outlines light-client verification and references audited implementations adhering to these principles.

  • Threshold Encrypted Mempools with mev-commit Preconfirmations by pepae

    • A threshold-encrypted mempool integrating Shutter keypers with mev-commit preconfirmations enables blind builder commitments enforced by slashing and oracle-verified top-of-block inclusion, mitigating frontrunning and censorship today without consensus changes while outlining tradeoffs, security analyses, validator-sidecar integration, a Hoodi testnet PoC, and a roadmap toward end-to-end pre-execution privacy and potential in-protocol enforcement.

New EIPs/ERCs

  • ERC-8095 – Directory of certified smart-contracts

  • EIP-8096 – Increase Gas Cost of Point Evaluation

  • ERC-8097 – In-Ground Asset Token

  • ERC-8098 – ZW-Token – Irreversible ERC-20

  • ERC-8100 – Representable State Contract

Client and Client-Related Updates

Tooling, Languages & Libraries

  • Alloy released v1.1.3

  • Solidity released v0.8.31

    • Release announcement here

    • Fusaka upgrade

    • clz(x) opcode

    • constant state variables for custom storage layout

  • soldeer released v0.10.0

  • Medusa released v1.4.1 and v1.4.0

  • Silverback releasd 0.7.35

  • remix-project released 2.0.1

L2s and EVM Alt-L1s

]]><![CDATA[EVM Gazette – December 1, 2025]]>https://www.evmgazette.com/p/evm-gazette-december-1-2025https://www.evmgazette.com/p/evm-gazette-december-1-2025Mon, 01 Dec 2025 14:03:50 GMTHighlights

  • FOCIL CFI for Heka/Bogota

  • New fast inclusion RPC, “Full Send” by Spire

  • Sonic mainnet upgrade introduces Pectra compatibility

  • Foundry v1.5.0 released

AllCoreDevs Update

Glamsterdam scoping continued this past ACDC. Here’s a summary of the decisions:

  • FOCIL: DFI for Glamsterdam, CFI for Heka/Bogota – opinions to be taken during ACDE the following week, with the final decision on a potential early SFI during ACDC 171

  • 8071: DFI

  • CFI 8061 or 8080 on next call (choose one or the other, or identify a resolution between the two)

  • 8062: DFI

  • 8045: CFI

  • 7688: to decide during next call

The FOCIL decision appears quite unusual, as ordinarily one would expect decisions for headliners to be made closer to the launch of the prior fork (Glamsterdam). However, FOCIL has received sustained support for inclusion in Glamsterdam from different stakeholders, so a potential compromise being made to pre-confirm its inclusion in Heka/Bogota makes sense. This is especially considering its main benefit would be to enhance the censorship-resistance properties of Ethereum, which is one of the network’s major selling points (in line with its aim to behave as a credibly neutral entity).

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Ethereum News & Discussion

  • Vitalik introduces Plinko, a private information retrieval protocol that uses client-side preprocessing and invertible PRFs to enable private, single-server reads with roughly square-root communication and compute, making large-scale private queries practical.

  • Solicitation has begun for suggestions on the I-star name for the Consensus Layer upgrade after Heka

  • Nick Mudge of EIP-2535 Diamonds noted that the Solidity team’s recent deep dive on Core Solidity included that inheritance will be removed from the language

  • abcoathup, formerly an editor of Week in Ethereum News, is now starting a new newsletter, Ethereal News.

  • The Spire team shared a new RPC featuring MEV protection and fast inclusion of Ethereum mainnet transactions.

  • Murat of Primev has shared a sneak peak of Fast Protocol, a new consumer facing protocol built on top of mev-commit and FastRPC.

  • Bankless recently hosted a summit inviting speakers from around the Ethereum ecosystem. Recordings of the talks have been shared on their X page.

  • Nethermind is hosting a Fusaka Upgrade livestream on December 3.

  • Erigon released a blog post about the Historical Proofs Data Model they introduced in their 3.3.0 release.

Research Update

  • Integrated in-protocol distributed history and state storage by vbuterin

    • A proposal integrates blobs, random sampling, and access lists to enable scalable, verifiable, and resilient in-protocol storage of Ethereum history and state.

  • Do L2 Sequencers Really Need Threshold Randomness? A Case for Minimal PQ-Verifiable VRFs by pipavlo82

    • A minimal, deterministic, post-quantum–verifiable PRF/VRF tailored to single-operator L2 trust domains is argued to better satisfy requirements of reproducibility, ultra-low latency, and auditability than threshold/DKG randomness—complementing Hybrid Encrypted Mempools’ global unpredictability—by eliminating multi-party fragility and liveness coupling while preserving PQ-verifiable commitments.

  • DeDe Protocol: A Trustless Settlement Layer for Physical Delivery by pablo-chacon

    • “DeDe is a minimal Ethereum-based protocol for decentralized physical delivery. It handles settlement, not logistics: No fleet, no terminal, no app, no routing, no identity. Just trustless escrow, deterministic parcel lifecycle, and immutable protocol fees.”

  • How CREATE2 Prevents Initial Deposit Leakage in Privacy Systems by pememoni

    • Depositing assets to a precomputed CREATE2 address before contract deployment decouples deposit timing, deployer identity, and wallet creation signals, thereby eliminating the initial-deposit metadata leak in confidential payment systems and enabling stronger operational privacy when combined with encrypted transfers and neutral relayers.

  • When Lists Go Super Saiyan: A Numerical Example Above the Elias Bound by asanso

    • A reproducible numerical experiment on a tiny Reed–Solomon code demonstrates list-size explosion in a regime strictly between the trivial interpolation threshold and the Elias list-decoding capacity, empirically refuting the folklore “up to 1−ρ” conjecture by observing dozens of codewords within a single Hamming ball and aligning with refined Elias-style entropy bounds.

  • Trustless payments: right vibe, more trust? by alextes

    • Trustless builder payments in EIP-7732, while enabling pipelining, risk shifting Ethereum’s current open relay-based, near–second-price market toward sealed-bid, first-price, private proposer–builder relationships that reduce price discovery, raise entry barriers, and increase reliance on social trust and tight integrations—bringing operational downsides (uncancellable, rate-limited, collateralized bids; penalties for misses; inability to express preferences) and potentially collapsing today’s multi-relay, multi-builder diversity despite a plausible upside under extreme censorship scenarios.

New EIPs/ERCs

Client and Client-Related Updates

Tooling, Languages & Libraries

  • Ape released 0.8.42

  • Foundry released v1.5.0

    • improved fuzzer that uses Solar

    • support for browser extension wallets

    • new way to interact with ERC20 tokens using cast

    • all Foundry binaries published as npm packages

  • Solarity released v3.3.0

    • includes critical bug fixes

  • Silverback released 0.7.34

  • Hardhat released v2.27.1 and v3.0.16

    • support added for Fusaka hardfork

L2s and EVM Alt-L1s

]]><![CDATA[EVM Gazette – November 24, 2025]]>https://www.evmgazette.com/p/evm-gazette-november-24-2025https://www.evmgazette.com/p/evm-gazette-november-24-2025Mon, 24 Nov 2025 14:03:29 GMTHighlights

  • Ethereum Interoperability Layer presented at Devconnect

  • Aztec’s ignition chain is now live

  • Airbender can prove Ethereum L1 blocks on 2x5090

  • Monad mainnet is now live

AllCoreDevs Update

No calls this week as ACDT was postponed for two weeks (see last issue) and ACDE was cancelled by Ansgar.

Besu did, however, release their tiering for non-headliner EIPs for Glamsterdam.

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Ethereum News & Discussion

  • Devconnect Argentina was hosted this past week. Check out the calendar here

  • The Account Abstraction team at the EF posted a proposal on the EF blog about the Ethereum Interoperability Layer.

    • See the corresponding Ethereum Magicians post here

    • See Yoav Weiss’s presentation at Devconnect here

    • See a deep dive presentation by Shahaf Nacson here

  • jochem-brouwer shared feedback on EIP-7973: Warm Account Write Metering

  • Offchain Labs posted an article on ethresear.ch arguing in favor of WASM as an ISA rather than Vitalik’s proposal of RISC-V. See a summary below in the Research Update section.

  • ETHGAS, a proposer confirmation market, announced that “Realtime Blocks” on Ethereum Mainnet were produced using their service.

  • New documentation has been released for Hardhat 3. Check it out here.

  • Sigma Prime shared an article by one of their developers, Jimmy Chen, on Lighthouse-Reth integration.

  • Justin Drake shared a new development from zkSync’s Airbender team that they can now prove L1 blocks using just two 5090s with ~1kW.

Research Update

  • State Locks as Proposer Commitments by OnticNexus

    • A proposal for Ethereum “state locks” formalizes slashable proposer commitments that guarantee a transaction executes against a user-specified snapshot of storage slots (democratizing first-access conditions beyond Top-of-Block), details the protocol flow with preTip/postPayment incentives, clarifies out-of-bounds and accidental overlap risks with mitigation via simulation, exclusivity, and attestations, and motivates applications in arbitrage, preconfirmations, gas optimization (ideal TALs), and ZK-friendly fraud proofs distinguishing snapshot versus first-access violations.

  • State root of the internet by barryWhiteHat

    • A proposal to make web2 data portable and attributable by introducing a trusted or IO-based notary that controls TLS shared keys—enabling server-verifiable “signing” of API responses, scalable p2p distribution of notarized data (including an optimistic decryption approach for large blobs), and a practical path toward eventual user/server signatures despite current trust assumptions and implementation complexity.

  • The possibility to conduct MEV with modern GPU-optimized code by Kenun99

    • Proposes compiling a Solidity MEV router to PTX to execute on GPUs, replacing CPU-bound EVM simulation and enabling tens of thousands of concurrent bundle evaluations; demonstrates 3.3–5.1M tx/s (~100,000× over Lanturn), attributes latency gains to bypassing forking and execution bottlenecks, and reports Q1 2025 opportunities totaling 426.43 ETH profit across 2–14 tx bundles, while maintaining predictable runtime overhead (≈7.03 s cold load; ≈0.30 s per-search state load; linear VRAM scaling).

  • State growth scenarios and the impact of repricings by misilva73

    • An isoelastic demand analysis projects Ethereum state to exceed the critical 650 GiB threshold by mid‑2027 under higher block gas limits, and shows that repricing state‑creation operations reduces annual state growth across elasticity combinations with only modest throughput tradeoffs; equilibrium base fees rise mainly with burst‑side elasticity, and when state demand is inelastic, higher state prices increase base fees, motivating alignment on acceptable state growth and further empirical measurement.

  • Dynamic Penalties for ePBS by jcschlegel (joint work with BrunoMazorra)

    • Dynamic penalties for Ethereum’s ePBS are proposed to curb builders’ “free option” by escalating penalties with correlated missed payloads while keeping average costs low for honest actors, validated by theory and backtests showing robustness across tolerated failure rates α and windows T, implementable with minimal spec changes (penalty state, pending payment fields, epoch processing), and optionally paired with static rewards to sustain high payload delivery without making penalties game-able.

  • Three Fundamental Problems in Ethereum Public Goods Funding: A Research Agenda by dwddao, sejalrekhan97, qgolem, and Julian Zawistowski

    • A research agenda identifies deployment, allocation, and impact as unresolved mechanism-design challenges in Ethereum public-goods funding, proposing coordinated theoretical, empirical, and infrastructural work to advance protocol-level capital allocation.

  • Why RISC-V Is Not a Good Choice for an L1 Delivery ISA, and Why WASM Is a Better One by Mario Alvarez, Matteo Campanelli, Tsahi Zidenberg, and Daniel Lumi

    • Arguing that an L1 should decouple the smart-contract delivery ISA from the proving ISA, the authors contend WASM is superior to RISC‑V for Ethereum’s L1 dISA due to its type safety and instrumentation, robust compiler ecosystem, efficient executability across commodity hardware, and forward compatibility via compilation to whichever ZK‑optimized pISA wins over time, thereby preserving decentralization while enabling rapid prover innovation.

  • The Anoma protocol adapter is live on Ethereum by cwgoes

    • Anoma’s Ethereum-deployed Protocol Adapter instantiates the Anoma Resource Machine (ARM)—a resource‑centric, intent‑native, privacy‑preserving state architecture audited and Rust/RISC0‑powered—enabling execution of Anoma transactions on Ethereum, cross‑compatibility with EVM via forwarders, and permissionless deployment to other chains, thereby unlocking applications like shielded trading, conditional funding, and dark‑pool structured finance.

  • Does decentralized consensus really need a chain? What happens if emergence replaces history? by YanAnghelp

    • A conceptual proposal challenges the necessity of a globally ordered chain for decentralized consensus, positing a historyless, topology-driven model based on strictly local, behavior-derived trust (L.O.P. Principles), and solicits theoretical scrutiny on convergence, finality, partition risks, and applicability of impossibility results and related frameworks (CRDTs, epidemic consensus) to assess whether consensus can emerge without shared history.

New EIPs/ERCs

  • EIP-8082 – Contract Event Subscription

  • ERC-8085 – Dual-Mode Fungible Tokens

  • ERC-8086 – Privacy Token

  • ERC-8087 – Encrypted Hashed Arguments and Calls

  • ERC-8088 – Cross-Chain Tracking Standard

  • ERC-8089 – Smart Contract Development Lifecycle Registry

  • ERC-8090 – Relayer-Protected Gasless Swaps

Client and Client-Related Updates

Tooling, Languages & Libraries

  • alloy released v1.1.2

  • remix-project released v1.2.0

  • Foundry released v1.5.0-rc1

    • improved fuzzer

    • browser extension wallet support

L2s and EVM Alt-L1s

  • Monad mainnet is now live as of November 24, 9am ET

  • ENS announced on X that they are moving Namechain to Nethermind’s Surge

  • Aztec’s Ignition Chain is now live

  • MegaETH announced Frontier, the release of their Mainnet Beta chain, going live early December.

  • Zircuit opened the waitlist for their institutional yield solution, Zircuit Finance.

]]><![CDATA[EVM Gazette – November 17, 2025]]>https://www.evmgazette.com/p/evm-gazette-november-17-2025https://www.evmgazette.com/p/evm-gazette-november-17-2025Mon, 17 Nov 2025 20:47:18 GMTHighlights

  • Significant debate on FOCIL’s inclusion in Glamsterdam

  • A year of progress since Justin Drake’s Beam Chain announcement

  • RISE announcing new order book and perp DEX features

  • Echidna fuzzer prepping a new minor version: 2.3.0

AllCoreDevs Update

Per ACDT and ACDC, blob-parameter-only (BPO) forks 1 and 2 on Hoodi reportedly went well. This is the last fork before Fusaka activates on mainnet on December 3.

During ACDC there was some discussion on whether it would be appropriate to have separate EIPs for each BPO.

ACDC also saw teams give their feedback on possible EIPs for inclusion in Glamsterdam. The most vigorously debated one was FOCIL, which aims to improve Ethereum’s censorship-resistance properties. Vitalik even offered his opinion on this call. Click here if you want to listen to what he had to say.

Make sure to scroll further down this issue to see more back-and-forth that happened off-call.

Note: next two ACDT calls are being skipped.

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Ethereum News & Discussion

  • Barnabe wrote a post on X commenting on what’s at stake in the potential inclusion of FOCIL in Glamsterdam

  • ralexstokes wrote a post on Ethereum Magicians on his preferred approach to Ethereum development through 2026, including inclusion of EIPs in Glamsterdam and Heka/Bogota

  • Justin Drake wrote a post on X celebrating a year since his Beam Chain announcement, and summarizing the leanEthereum project

  • Vitalik co-authored “The Trustless Manifesto” with Yoav Weiss and Marissa Posner.

  • Damian Straszak wrote a post on shielded pool adoption on Ethereum

  • EF released the 7th edition of their Checkpoint series

Research Update

  • QSort - Fair Validator Selection through Quadratic Sortition and Aging Boost by alonmuroch

    • QSort introduces a stake-aware, time-fair sortition mechanism that combines quadratic weighting of validator stake, epoch-by-epoch aging boosts, and publicly verifiable shuffling to mitigate dPoS centralization, ensure predictable rotation with ≥⅔ stake coverage for Byzantine fault tolerance, and smooth activation/exit via delegation and un-staking queues.

  • Fair Decisions through Plurality: Results from a Crowdfunding Platform by Joel Miller, Eric Glen Weyl, Chris Kanich

    • We discuss an algorithmic intervention aimed at increasing equity and economic efficiency at a crowdfunding platform that gives cash subsidies to grantees. Through a blend of technical and qualitative methods, we show that the previous algorithm used by the platform – Quadratic Funding (QF) – suffered problems because its design was rooted in a model of individuals as isolated and selfish. We present an alternative algorithm – Connection-Oriented Quadratic Funding (CO-QF) – rooted in a theory of plurality and prosocial utilities, and show that it qualitatively and quantitatively performs better than QF. CO-QF has achieved an 89% adoption rate at the platform and has distributed over $4 Million to date. In simulations we show that it provides better social welfare than QF. While our design for CO-QF was responsive to the needs of a specific community, we also extrapolate out of this context to show that CO-QF is a potentially helpful tool for general-purpose public decision making.

  • Chain-Native and Chain-Extension by Lawliet-Chan

    • Blockchain design should separate immutable, protocol-level “native” functions from flexible smart-contract “extensions,” advocating cautious downward migration of widely-used features while proposing specialized appchains—like a MEV-resistant, UTXO-based orderbook DEX with native matching and a Python plugin layer—as the optimal path for performance, security, and ecosystem coherence.

  • Smart-Contract or EOA Spend Authority for Private Accounts by AdamGagol

    • A mechanism for ZK private accounts ties spending authority exclusively to a standard EVM controller—via EIP‑712‑signed SpendAuthorizations committed in a dedicated Merkle tree and matched by prover‑generated ZK proofs using a separable proving_key—preserving custody under familiar wallet/multisig controls, enabling delegated proving and key rotation without on‑chain leakage, and constraining privacy loss to the observable fact of a controller‑initiated operation.

  • Synchronous Composability vs. Intents: Two Paths to Ethereum-Wide Interop by alonmuroch

    • Arguing that Ethereum’s next milestone is reconnection rather than throughput, the post analytically contrasts protocol-native synchronous composability—extending atomic, deterministic, cross-rollup execution via coordination layers or cryptographic equivalence—with user-declared intents—outcome-focused, asynchronous fills mediated by off-chain solvers—mapping trade-offs across execution determinism, latency (block-synchronous vs market-dependent), expressiveness (Ethereum-wide composability vs solver-bounded complexity), and suitability (atomic multi-chain dApps and flash logic vs consumer-grade bridging and routing), concluding that synchronous composability unlocks single-transaction, multi-domain experiences while intents optimize UX through liquidity-backed competition.

  • Modeling the Worst-Case Parallel Execution under EIP-7928 by Nero_eth

    • Perfect parallelization under EIP-7928 enables transaction independence, but including gas_used in block-level access lists—despite added complexity—allows reordering that halves worst-case makespan versus ordered list scheduling, whereas OLS offers predictable linear scaling amid heterogeneous validator hardware.

  • Implementing Privacy Pools on EBSI for Institutional Programmable Privacy & Compliance by EugeRe

    • A proposal to adapt Privacy Pools for compliant, privacy-preserving asset transfers within the EU’s EBSI by leveraging Verifiable Credentials, off‑chain proof generation, and EDIC‑governed association sets, thereby bridging Ethereum’s public‑good infrastructure with institutional identity standards to enable regulatory‑aligned anonymity and spur further research on integrating POI frameworks and consensus‑layer inclusion guarantees.

  • Compression-based state expiry by gballet

    • Proposes a phased, compression-based expiry of cold Ethereum state—initially whole inactive accounts, later finer-grained slots—to reduce IO and disk footprint while preserving UX via era-structured archives and controlled resurrection, and highlights sync and data availability risks requiring new algorithms.

  • EIL: Trust minimized cross-L2 interop by yoavw

    • EIL outlines a trust-minimized, account-centric interop standard for Ethereum L2s that enables single-signature multichain calls, fast atomic value transfers via a cross-chain paymaster and staked liquidity providers, and L1-enforced disputes, achieving near-single-chain UX while maintaining censorship resistance, self-custody, and onchain verifiability, and anticipating efficiency gains with EIP‑7701 and future trustless messaging.

New EIPs/ERCs

Client and Client-Related Updates

  • mev-boost released v1.10.1

    • required for Fusaka

  • rbuilder released v1.2.24

  • Nethermind released 1.35.2.1

  • Reth released v1.9.2

  • Prysm released v7.0.0

    • initial mainnet release for Fulu

Tooling, Languages & Libraries

L2s and EVM Alt-L1s

  • New Metal L2 governance proposal to activate Upgrade 17 (the Jovian Hardfork)

  • RISE announced two new products as part of their evolution

    • RISE MarketCore, a fully onchain, EVM composable orderbook layer for all apps
      RISEx, the first Integrated Perps DEX, where DeFi coexists with CEX-grade perps

  • Nillion announced plans for increased integration with Ethereum, including mention of a Nillion L2

]]><![CDATA[EVM Gazette – November 10, 2025]]>https://www.evmgazette.com/p/evm-gazette-november-10-2025https://www.evmgazette.com/p/evm-gazette-november-10-2025Mon, 10 Nov 2025 14:02:42 GMTHighlights

  • Balancer V2 hacked for over $100M

  • Slot announced for Fusaka Mainnet activation on December 3

  • Founders Lab for founders building on Ethereum at Devconnect

  • Starknet upgraded to S-two prover

AllCoreDevs Update

The December 3 date for Fusaka on Ethereum Mainnet is now official. However, it did appear uncertain for some time this past week as during ACDT, a number of client teams did not have their Fusaka Mainnet releases ready by the earlier-discussed November 3 date. While a number of client teams have rolled out their mainnet releases over the past week, it appears Prysm has yet to do so as of now.

Most of the EL client teams released their opinions on the EIPs to include in Glamsterdam during ACDE:

Besu is expected to release their list this coming week.

You may benefit from listening to the latter half of ACDE 224 if you want more of the rationale behind the rankings above, as core devs got into discussion about what and what not to include and why.

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Ethereum News & Discussion

  • EF published a post discussing EF’s new grants program. It’s comprised of two tracks: Wishlist and RFP.

  • EF published a post: “2 weeks to Devconnect: Everything you need to know”.

  • EF published a post announcing the activation time for Fusaka mainnet: “slot 13,164,544 (December 3, 2025, 21:49:11 UTC)”.

  • nixorokish started a thread on Ethereum Magicians soliciting community feedback on non-headlining features in Glamsterdam.

  • abcoathup started a thread on Ethereum Magicians soliciting input on the hard fork after Glamsterdam.

  • Vitalik published a blog post, “Galaxy brain resistance”, that argues in favor of principled, track-recorded, low-risk actions over rationalizations that justify anything (inveitabilism, longtermism abuse, aesthetic bans, bad finance, power-maximization, and “change from within”).

  • There was substantial discussion on EIP-7923 on Ethereum Magicians over the past week.

  • Balancer V2’s Composable Stable Pools were hacked for $128M across multiple chains. See analyses by Certora and Trail of Bits.

  • The founder success team at the EF announced Founders Lab, a mentorship initiative for founders building on Ethereum.

Research Update

  • A trivial form of PBS: MEV Lock by potuz

    • A proposal leveraging EIP‑7732 introduces stake‑weighted, randomly selected 0x03 validators as pure builders—stripped of rewards/penalties and uncapped in stake—to eliminate the free‑option problem, decouple proposer‑builder communication, simplify consensus economics by shifting MEV returns toward builders and ETH holders (with optional MEV burn via stake charges), while acknowledging centralization risks, the need for FOCIL, potential staking‑pool adaptations, and collusion dynamics moderated by permissionless entry.

  • The Future of State, Part 1: OOPSIE - A new type of Snap Sync-based wallet/lightclient by CPerezz

    • OOPSIE proposes a hybrid wallet/light client that locally maintains a user‑selected subset of Ethereum state with Merkle multiproof‑verified authenticity anchored to finalized headers, prioritizing snap‑sync over RPC to deliver faster offline‑tolerant UX, improved privacy, and resilience, while reframing state expiry as feasible only if an ecosystem of incentivized providers serves authenticated witnesses and range‑constrained proofs rather than relying on centralized RPC endpoints.

  • The Future of State, Part 2: Beyond The Myth of Partial Statefulness & The Reality Of ZKEVMs by CPerezz

    • Ethereum’s march toward stateless, ZK-verified execution renders “partial statefulness” untenable without cryptographic witness maintenance and explicit incentives, as missing trie paths, composability-driven dependency sprawl, and unpriced state-serving push the data layer toward centralized RPC custodians; a viable path requires lightweight account-hash sidecars enabling proof-capable partial nodes and an incentivized snap-sync market to sustain decentralized state availability.

New EIPs/ERCs

  • EIP-8075 – Adaptive state cost to cap growth & scale L1

  • ERC-8076 – Based Custodial Cross-Token Protocol

  • EIP-8077 – eth/XX - announce transactions with nonce

Client and Client-Related Updates

Tooling, Languages & Libraries

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]]><![CDATA[EVM Gazette – November 3, 2025]]>https://www.evmgazette.com/p/evm-gazette-november-3-2025https://www.evmgazette.com/p/evm-gazette-november-3-2025Mon, 03 Nov 2025 14:02:42 GMTHighlights

  • New minor version v5.5.0 of OpenZeppelin Contracts contains breaking changes

  • Arc Public Testnet is now live

  • New Ethereum for Institutions website

  • December 3 Fusaka Mainnet date confirmed

AllCoreDevs Update

Per this past week’s ACDC, Fusaka Mainnet dates are now confirmed: November 3 for client releases and December 3 for the mainnet fork. In addition, both Sepolia BPO 2 and Hoodi Fusaka forks have taken place.

A large number of EIPs were added this past week (see the list further down this article), and a number of them came under discussion during ACDC 168. The deadline for scoping proposals from the client teams has been adjusted to November 13.

There was also a discussion regarding FOCIL during the ACDC, with soispoke estimating that including FOCIL in Glamsterdam would alter the fork’s timeline by around 2 months.

Finally, a new name was proposed for the next consensus layer upgrade: Heka.

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Research Update

  • Selecting Optimal Outbound Neighbors (SOON) for fast, bandwidth‑efficient propagation in P2P networks by soispoke

    • SOON proposes an RTT‑aware eager‑push rule that forwards messages to a node’s fastest peers within a fixed budget Δ, demonstrably reducing end‑to‑end latency and bandwidth while preserving coverage in well‑mixed GossipSub overlays, with small random backbones and lazy gossip retained for robustness and practical deployment.

  • Hybrid Encrypted Mempools by Benedikt Wagner and Julian

    • A hybrid encrypted mempool design for Ethereum combines user-initiated reveals with non-interactive threshold decryption and data-availability sampling to eliminate selective-reveal MEV, preserve censorship resistance, and enable unpredictable in-protocol randomness, while outlining concrete cryptographic requirements (silent setup, small keys, CCA2 security, succinct ciphertexts) and acknowledging liveness, latency, rotation, and coordination trade-offs.

New EIPs/ERCs

  • ERC-8060 – Native ETH embedding in NFTs

  • EIP-8062 – Add sweep withdrawal fee for 0x01 validators

  • ERC-8063 – Groups - Multi-Member Containers

  • ERC-8064 – Management Token Permit

  • ERC-8065 – Zero Knowledge Token Wrapper

  • EIP-8066 – Upgrade Mascots

  • ERC-8067 – Management Token Permit

  • EIP-8068 – Neutral effective balance design

  • EIP-8069 – Prevent consolidation overflow withdrawals

  • EIP-8070 – Sparse Blobpool

  • EIP-8071 – Prevent using consolidations as withdrawals

  • EIP-8072 – Transaction Inclusion Subscription

  • EIP-8073 – Dynamic State Pricing for Steady Growth

  • ERC-8074 – Self-Describing Bytes via EIP-712 Selectors

Client and Client-Related Updates

Tooling, Languages & Libraries

L2s and EVM Alt-L1s

]]><![CDATA[EVM Gazette – October 27, 2025]]>https://www.evmgazette.com/p/evm-gazette-october-27-2025https://www.evmgazette.com/p/evm-gazette-october-27-2025Mon, 27 Oct 2025 14:37:17 GMTHighlights

  • Holešky shutting down on October 31 – migrate if you haven’t already

  • Gas repricing discussions underway; gas hardcoders beware

  • A new smart contract library from the Perfect Abstractions team

  • The Solidity team published an article on the road ahead for Core Solidity

AllCoreDevs Update

Important reminder: those who want to submit non-headliner EIPs for inclusion in Glamsterdam should at the very least open a PR for them in the EIPs repo by October 30 and make efforts to signal publicly about the proposal (e.g. by commenting in the issue for the upcoming ACDC). With this timing, the team is aiming to get client teams to submit their thoughts on each EIP by November 6, giving perhaps enough time to finalize the Glamsterdam scope by the end of November.

Another important note: Holešky is winding down operations on October 31. Everyone using Holešky should migrate to either Sepolia or Hoodi by that time.

An update for Mainnet: while it seems the December 3 date will be going as planned for the initial Fusaka fork, the first BPO fork will be moving to December 9 from 17, while BPO2 will be Jan 7.

Besu, reth, geth, and Nethermind have been able to get a BAL devnet up and running. So far Besu is passing all tests.

A potentially interesting discussion for smart contract developers took place on this past ACDE (#223): Maria Silva brought up an issue related to gas repricing, noting that compute opcodes are being underpriced due to rounding errors. She proposed solutions two potential solutions to this. Developers should be aware that fixing this issue may result in certain contracts to break due to hardcoded assumptions concerning gas.

ACDE #223 also saw a presentation from CPerezz regarding EIP-8058.

It was also noted during this call that EIP-7667 and EIP-6873 are being removed from the PFI list for Glamsterdam.

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  • Ethereum L1 kept full uptime during an outage for AWS us-east-1. However, a number of L2s suffered disruptions.

  • Toni Wahrstatter posted an explainer on EIP-7825, an update arriving with Fusaka.

  • The Solidity team published a blog post on future improvements to Solidity. They are calling for feedback here.

  • The Ethereum Foundation Ecosystem Support Program announced a grant for Phantom Zone, an R&D organization currently working on Phantom, an encrypted RISC-V VM, and Poulpy, an FHE library.

  • The team at Primev has developed FAST RPC, a way to send Ethereum transactions and have them preconfirmed by block builders as quickly as in milliseconds. See a demo here.

  • Sandeep Nailwal, CEO of Polygon, in the wake of Péter Szilágyi’s memo, wrote a post about his struggles with the Ethereum community.

  • All zkVM verifiers on Ethproofs have met the October deadline to open-source their verifiers.

  • Ignacio Hagopian wrote an article detailing the EF’s approach to benchmarking zkVMs for Ethereum.

  • All talks, slides, summaries, and recordings from the Cambridge workshops at lean week 2025 are now public.

Research Update

  • Zkzkevm: private evm by barryWhiteHat

    • A proposal to enable privacy-preserving EVM contracts by adding two opcodes—pload and pstore—that operate over a Private Storage Tree and Private Nullifier Tree to support private per-user state (with membership and non-nullification proofs) while acknowledging the impossibility of private global state without IO, outlining compilation changes, call-chain sanitization, and tradeoffs for practical private rollups and cartel-style contracts.

  • Nonce Bitmap - Enabling Parallel Transaction Submission for a Parallel Blockchain by 14mp4rd

    • A bitmap-augmented nonce scheme that encodes a 256-slot parallel index in the high 8 bits of Ethereum’s 64-bit nonce enables concurrent transaction submission with minimal state overhead (32 bytes per account), preserves replay protection and backward compatibility for legacy wallets, and offers a pragmatic alternative to random nonces, time-bounded schemes, and 2D nonces for low-latency, high-throughput chains.

  • Variants of Mempool Tickets by Julian

    • Outlines vertically sharded mempool design for Ethereum and evaluates four ticketing variants—Wholesale, Leases (stake/LIFO), Simple, and Loyalty—to mitigate sampling-based DoS by pre-allocating blob propagation rights, arguing for posted-price, potentially free tickets prioritized by fee, emphasizing reduced bandwidth, operational flexibility, and upgradability via contracts rather than hard forks, with trade-offs in censorship risk, liquidity demands, and UX under anticipated PeerDAS-driven throughput growth.

  • Mediabs2022 posted three articles, collectively presenting a unified framework of Ethereum proof‑of‑stake adversarial strategies—starting with one‑epoch inactivation primitives, composing them into Rifle attacks via unidirectional attestations and delayed release, and extending to Unrealized manipulation and Byzantine takeover that use RANDAO grinding to secure favorable proposer slots—aimed at cyclic liveness degradation, checkpoint justification on attacker branches, and systematic reorgs that maximize honest validators’ incentive loss.

New EIPs/ERCs

  • ERC-8056 – Scaled UI Amount Extension for ERC-20 Tokens

  • EIP-8057 – Inter-Block Temporal Locality Gas Discounts

  • EIP-8058 – Contract Bytecode Deduplication Discount

  • EIP-8059 – Gas Units Rebase for High-precision Metering

  • EIP-XXXX – Increase churn limits

Client and Client-Related Updates

Tooling, Languages & Libraries

  • Check out the new Compose library by the team at Perfect Abstractions. A key defining aspect is that it intentionally excludes the use of a number of Solidity language features.

  • Enscribe released a plugin for Hardhat.

  • Echidna released 2.3.0-RC.1

  • Hardhat released v3.0.8 and v3.0.9

  • Nomic Foundation released a blog post on choosing and combining Solidity and Typescript tests in Hardhat

  • Solarity released v3.2.8

    • New ED256 library for 256-bit Twisted Edwards curve arithmetic

  • aderyn released v0.6.5

  • Foundry released v1.4.3 (bugfix)

  • Ape released 0.8.41

  • remix-project released v1.1.3

  • porto released 0.2.34

L2s and EVM Alt-L1s

  • Berachain is introducing BEND, the “credit layer of Berachain”, built on their Proof of Liquidity consensus.

  • Berachain released a new BRIP detailing plans to include preconfirmations that would reduce transaction inclusion latency.

  • MegaETH introduced their MEGA token. Their public sale will be starting today, October 27.

  • Avalanche published the Granite version of the avalanchego client as a pre-release for their Fuji testnet. It includes the following ACPs:

    • ACP-181 P-Chain Epoched Views

    • ACP-204 Precompile for secp256r1 Curve Support

    • ACP-226 Dynamic Minimum Block Times

]]><![CDATA[EVM Gazette – October 20, 2025]]>https://www.evmgazette.com/p/evm-gazette-october-20-2025https://www.evmgazette.com/p/evm-gazette-october-20-2025Mon, 20 Oct 2025 17:56:45 GMTHighlights

  • Dankrad is leaving the EF

  • Ethereum node RPC testing found to be severely lacking

  • Arbitrum (and other rollups) encountered issues handling Fusaka on Sepolia

  • Trustless payments are staying in ePBS

AllCoreDevs Update

The most interesting story to come out of ACDT #57 this past week was regarding RPC testing: Sebastian Bürgel from Gnosis highlights related to a recent post he made on EthResearch, noting that there is a woeful lack of standardization and testing around the RPC layer. A result of this is that while all the clients themselves might come to consensus on state, despite that they would return different data in RPC calls. This means that app developers can’t rely on just any Ethereum node to be a neutral reporter of the blockchain’s state – they need to seek out trustworthy node operators, and this is a quiet force pushing towards centralization of user infrastructure.

During ACDC #167, the Holešky BPO 2 and Sepolia Fusaka forks were reported to have gone well. However, a number of rollups were not expecting the transition to cell proofs that was discussed the week prior, so their Sepolia testnets encountered problems.

Koen from Aztec also brought up an regarding blob retrieval: in order for nodes to practically retrieve all blobs, they must be supernodes. However, this isn’t really feasible for their use case, so they discussed potential solutions. Potuz from Prysm noted that they’re implementing a feature that will facilitate this, and also shared a way to access the requisite data through the EL.

Barnabas brought a proposal to set the mainnet client release date for November 3 and the mainnet fork date for December 3. The date is to be tabled for formal approval during the coming ACDE.

Lin Oshitani brought up the issue of whether trustless payments should be included in the ePBS EIP, and after a long discussion it was decided that it stays in.

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Ethereum News & Discussion

  • Dankrad Feist, a senior researcher at the Ethereum Foundation and the namesake of Danksharding, is leaving to join Tempo.

    • In the wake of this, Péter Szilágyi, former team lead for the geth client, published an old memo outlining his grievances with the Ethereum Foundation and ecosystem.

  • The Ethereum Foundation is now taking applications for their 2026 Internship Program.

  • Marius van der Wijden wrote a post on the EF blog for rollup developers regarding the change in proof format that led to L2 hiccups on the Sepolia Fusaka fork.

  • The Nethermind blog posted a new article on Fusaka EIPs that were co-authored by Nethermind engineers.

  • Justin Drake shared developments on real-time proving for Ethereum L1.

  • solx shared a thread discussing how they always compile successfully with --via-ir, avoiding the “stack too deep” problem.

  • Vitalik posted an article explaining GKR as a way to verify large step-by-step computations quickly—by only checking inputs and outputs—making proofs for things like many hashes or AI inference dramatically faster with a few practical tweaks.

  • mteamisloading published a new website with configurable projections on Ethereum TPS.

Research Update

  • Interactive No Opt-in Stealth Addresses by zemse

    • An interactive CREATE2-based stealth address scheme enables receivers to precompute and share disposable EVM addresses with any sender, then privately sweep funds into a UTXO-style pool via relayers, achieving practical privacy without universal opt‑in while remaining interoperable with other protocols through ERC‑6538, though it does not solve non‑interactive donations and retains traceability once collection occurs.

  • Private Multisig v0.1 by Arvolear

    • A zero-knowledge, EVM-based multisig design combining Merkle membership proofs for anonymity, aggregated ECC ElGamal encryption with non-interactive DKG-derived key shares for confidential and bias-resistant voting, and Solidity/ZK circuits for on-chain verification achieves strong privacy with deterministic KDF-derived babyJubJub identities, while incurring an all-participants-vote requirement and last-voter decryption advantage, alongside practical considerations in proposal management, participant updates, and scalability.

  • Unstoppable Sequencing: Permissionless Batching for Rollup Resilience by RogerPodacter in collaboration with Spire

    • Unstoppable Sequencing proposes a permissionless, blob-shareable batch format and deterministic node process that preserves rollup throughput and censorship resistance during sequencer failure by enabling anyone to embed verifiable transaction batches anywhere in L1 data, aggregate them into partial blocks, and filter invalid transactions at execution—thus democratizing rollup economics (batching, blob access, economies of scale) while retaining optional priority sequencing for premium guarantees and accepting trade-offs in fee attribution, ordering uncertainty, and spam mitigation.

  • State Expiry: In-protocol vs. Out-of-protocol by weiihann

    • State expiry, whether enforced in-protocol or coordinated out-of-protocol, aims to curb Ethereum’s skewed state growth by pruning cold state and requiring resurrection proofs—improving execution performance and decentralization today and especially in a stateless ePBS future—yet faces hard UX, availability, and DoS challenges; near-term experimentation out-of-protocol can de‑risk policy, markets, and infrastructure before any potential enshrinement, with the overarching requirement that the network prevents permanent loss of state.

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]]><![CDATA[EVM Gazette – October 13, 2025]]>https://www.evmgazette.com/p/evm-gazette-october-13-2025https://www.evmgazette.com/p/evm-gazette-october-13-2025Mon, 13 Oct 2025 13:03:09 GMTHighlights

  • GAS2ETH opcode proposed for Glamsterdam

  • ERC-8004 gaining traction within the EF

  • New Foundry v1.4.0

  • New push for privacy at the EF

AllCoreDevs Update

One thing noted about the Holešky Fusaka fork during ACDT #56 was that Lighthouse nodes experienced a slightly higher reorg rate. This was under investigation by the Lighthouse devs and they were moving to make a fix for the issue.

Later, the BPO 1 fork went live for Holešky. This caused Nimbus low-core supernodes to become severely resource-constrained, making BPO 2 unviable on these setups. This occurred because the devnets were run using higher-spec’d machines, as opposed to Nimbus’s own testnet deployments (which up til now, didn’t need many cores). Something worth noting for node operators on low-specification hardware in case this isn’t resolved by the time mainnet goes live.

Some clients will also be dropping support for blob proofs in favor of cell proofs, so this should be noted particularly by rollup developers.

A number of non-headliner EIPs were proposed for Glamsterdam during ACDE #222:

  • EIP-8007 – gas repricings

  • EIP-8032 – SSTORE repricing to disincentivize state bloat

  • EIP-7907 and EIP-7903 (alternatives for changing the contract bytecode limit)

  • EIP-5920 – PAY opcode

  • EIP-7791 – GAS2ETH opcode

GAS2ETH is particularly interesting as it would allow contract developers to include a way of paying addresses ETH based on contract usage.

A reminder was given that there will only be one week to continue proposing the non-headliner Glamsterdam EIPs once the Fusaka mainnet date is determined.

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Ethereum News & Discussion

  • Vitalik posted an article arguing that memory access is O(n^(1/3)).

  • It appears ERC-8004 is gaining traction within the EF. Consider reaching out to ai@ethereum.org if you’re building autonomous commerce.

    • If you want to learn more about this ERC, check out this post with a number of links to videos about it.

  • The EF posted an article discussing the formation of the new Privacy cluster, spanning research, protocol, applications, and institutional adoption.

  • The EF also posted about their collaboration with Keyring Network in piloting zkVerified vaults whose first two months of protocol fees fund the defense of Tornado cash developers Roman Storm and Alexey Pertsev, proposing a scalable on-chain blueprint for market-aligned impact funding.

  • ncsgy wrote a thread about Kohaku, a privacy-focused wallet SDK.

  • Public reference materials have been published for the Institutional Privacy Task Force at the EF.

Research Update

  • Removing Pairing, Bulletproofs, or ZKP from Range Proof of Pedersen Commitment by leohio

    • A lightweight EVM-verifiable range proof for Pedersen commitments is proposed that frontloads a one-time zkSNARK-backed Merkle tree setup of aXG leaves and a public anchor U=aB, then verifies transactions without pairings or Bulletproofs using only Chaum–Pedersen DLEQ, Schnorr/ECDSA checks, and simple EC operations (6 ECMUL, 3 ECADD), while mitigating malleability via U=aB and reducing Merkle size through randomized point sets scaled on-chain.

  • The Economics of Instant: An Exploration of Real Time Ethereum by Antero Eloranta

    • Reducing Ethereum’s 12-second block time materially lowers adverse selection in AMMs, enabling lower optimal fees that undercut centralized exchange costs, increasing liquidity provider revenue through more frequent but less toxic arbitrage and higher noise trading volume, with empirical Uniswap v3–Binance analysis suggesting major-asset pools optimally cluster around low single-digit to low-teens basis points and can realize substantial revenue gains—up to an order of magnitude in thin-liquidity cases—while improving trader execution certainty and price freshness.

New EIPs/ERCs

Client and Client-Related Updates

Tooling, Languages & Libraries

L2s and EVM Alt-L1s

  • The ZKsync team announced the Atlas upgrade, enabling “1-second ZK finality”.

  • Monad airdrop claim window is opening on October 14, though there has no official word regarding a mainnet launch date.

  • Fhenix revealed new results regarding threshold FHE decryption.

  • Gelato’s Paymaster and Bundler is live on Mantle.

  • Arc, Circle’s new blockchain, will be launching with a global permissioned validator set.

    • They also posted a new article on “deterministic finality”.

  • Arbitrum published an article for node operators regarding a breaking change coming with Fusaka.

  • Codex published an article regarding how they plan to leverage both stablecoins and x402.

  • Monad published an article addressing base fees.

]]><![CDATA[EVM Gazette – October 6, 2025]]>https://www.evmgazette.com/p/evm-gazette-october-6-2025https://www.evmgazette.com/p/evm-gazette-october-6-2025Mon, 06 Oct 2025 13:19:36 GMTHighlights

  • Holešky testnet forked to Fusaka on October 1.

  • Erigon discontinuing official support for Polygon PoS.

  • New Cairo M Design Document.

  • New deep dive on MonadBFT.

AllCoreDevs Update

The first testnet running Fusaka is out, with Holešky forking on October 1. This not happen without difficulties, however, as there were periods of low participation soon after the fork. Moreover, the first blob-parameter-only (BPO) fork is happening tomorrow.

So, while there are still issues to monitor and iron out with regard to Fusaka, the focus of ACD calls is now shifting towards Glamsterdam. Hence, much of the discussion last ACDC was around a decision regarding ePBS (initially called Enshrined Proposer-Builder Separation, now sometimes called execution payload-block separation) and whether payload-block separation and trustless payments (from the builder to the proposer). Namely, Lin Oshitani of Nethermind Research proposed that payload-block separation and trustless payments should be treated as two separate items. The core devs have not settled on this issue and it’s been deferred.

Beyond that, there is a new update to EIP-7723 that defines a “Champion” role for EIPs that are proposed for a hard fork. In short, if you open a PR to insert an EIP as “Proposed for Inclusion” to the hard fork, then you will be considered the primary point of contact for it aside from cases where that task is delegated.

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Ethereum News & Discussion

  • Ellie Davidson, formerly of Espresso Systems, has joined the Ethereum Foundation as a researcher working on fast finality.

  • Andy Guzman of PSE posted about what appears to be ZK-Kit’s new X account and website.

  • Check out the new Ethproofs Day website for the event at Devconnect.

  • L2 Interop Working Group had their Call #15 on October 1. Check out the call summary here.

  • Erigon is discontinuing official support for Polygon. Find the blog post on this here.

  • Barnabé Monnot and Joshua Rudolf joined Li.Fi on a call discussing improving interoperability UX.

  • Will Corcoran shared a thread on the PQ workshop at Cambridge.

  • A new Ethereum Community Hub will be opening in London, England. Their kickoff celebration will be on October 10.

  • The Ethereum Foundation blog released the sixth issue of their Checkpoint series.

  • The Ethereum Foundation announced new leadership surrounding privacy initiatives.

Research Update

  • Toward Semantic Block Chunking by Toni

    • Semantic payload chunking reframes Ethereum blocks as sequences of independently verifiable execution chunks with separate chunk access lists containing state diffs, enabling streaming validation, bounded-per-chunk computation, and potential parallelization and per‑chunk proofs while preserving block atomicity via a two‑phase validity check that distinguishes individual chunk validation from final state transition verification.

  • Ethereum needs Standards-Punk by SCBuergel

    • Ethereum’s widespread, silent inconsistencies in the critical eth_getLogs RPC—stemming from inadequate, unenforced standards and shallow testing—are corrupting application correctness and accelerating centralization, warranting a formal, versioned RPC standards and conformance body focused first on eth_getLogs, massive scale differential and history-sensitive test fixtures, and accountability mechanisms (release gating, funding tie-ins, public dashboards) to restore deterministic, reproducible interoperability.

  • Best of Both Worlds? A Measured Review of Non-Interactive ZK Fraud Proofs by GCdePaula

    • In adversarial, permissionless settings, non-interactive ZK fraud proofs fail to deliver the claimed “best of both worlds,” exhibiting linear-cost Sybil and censorship vulnerabilities that erode 1‑of‑N liveness, impose ZK-like proving capacity and capital burdens that scale with throughput, and create wasteful coordination races—leaving state-of-the-art interactive fraud proofs comparatively superior under the shared threat model.

New EIPs/ERCs

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Tooling, Languages & Libraries

L2s and EVM Alt-L1s

]]><![CDATA[EVM Gazette – September 29, 2025]]>https://www.evmgazette.com/p/evm-gazette-september-29-2025https://www.evmgazette.com/p/evm-gazette-september-29-2025Mon, 29 Sep 2025 13:03:35 GMTHighlights

  • The Fusaka testnet fork schedule is now officially included in the Meta-EIP.

  • Confirmed 60 million gas limit for Fusaka

  • New OpenZeppelin contracts release candidate.

  • Erigon Nitro alpha release for Arbitrum Sepolia

AllCoreDevs Update

There are two big news items coming from AllCoreDevs this week:

  1. The Fusaka testnet fork schedule (together with BPOs) has been published to the Fusaka Meta EIP (EIP-7607). The mainnet fork dates are yet to be officially included.

  2. On the mainnet Fusaka fork, all clients will be defaulting to a 60M gas limit pursuant to EIP-7935 (which was recently modified to concretize the gas limit).

Some other things of note:

  1. Tim Beiko proposed halting further proposals for Glamsterdam until enough time has passed to move more EIPs from CFI to SFI.

  2. Hadrien Croubois of OpenZepplin proposed EIP-7819 (SETDELEGATE) for Glamsterdam.

  3. wolovim opened a PR to EIP-7723 (“Network Upgrade Inclusion Stages”) that introduces the concept of a champion for proposed EIPs (nixorokish had the interesting idea that this should be the one who opens the PR to include the EIP as proposed in the hard fork meta EIP).

  4. Ansgar Dietrichs will be taking over for Tim Beiko for the time being on AllCoreDevs calls.

Based on the recent addition of the fork timeline to EIP-7607, it looks like Mainnet fork could go live as soon as late November (30 days after Hoodi) but it’s quite probable the team will stick to early December in line with the timeline discussed the week before, especially considering late November might not give much time to recover from the end of Devconnect.

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Ethereum News & Discussion

  • The Ethereum Foundation published a blog post on Fusaka testnet forks.

  • 0xPrincess of nuconstruct announced the TOOL testnet launch on Hoodi. Read about how TOOL works here. (Could we see the demise of PBS?)

  • polymutex is now working on Walletbeat full-time. If you haven’t heard of it, Walletbeat is like the L2BEAT of wallets. Check it out for info on things like which wallets best support privacy.

  • Vitalik defends Base’s position as an L2 and as an “extension of Ethereum”.

  • Ben Adams of Nethermind wrote an article on their work preparing their L1 client for ZK.

  • Vitalik posted a new article, where he argues that our digitized “real life” demands guinely open, end-user-verifiable software, hardware, and biotech to secure trust, prevent centralized leverage, and enable resilient civic, health, and financial systems, starting with a fully open, verification-friendly stack for high-security, low-performance use cases.

  • hildobby of Dragonfly posted an informative thread on blob usage at present.

  • Jihoon Song posted a summary of FOCIL breakout call #20.

  • Frangio started a discussion on Ethereum Magicians about EVM Immediates. It focuses on how opcodes that include operands within them (like PUSH* opcodes, rather than taking their operands from the stack) without breaking backwards compatibility.

  • In case you missed it, donnoh.eth of L2BEAT has been working on a book on native rollups.

  • gcolvin followed up on his feedback to EIP-7923.

  • Check out the AI-powered New Week in Ethereum newsletter. They published an introductory post on Ethereum Magicians.

  • The Walnut team published a call for feedback on their new Solidity debugger, SolDB.

Research Update

  • BALs for Proposer Commitments by jvranek

    • “This post aims to motivate using BALs for preconfs, highlights proposed spec changes to make them proof-friendly, and outlines the complexity trade-offs under discussion in Discord.”

  • Trustless Consensus Manipulation Through Bribing Contracts by 0xsooki

    • Transparent, on-chain bribery contracts leveraging cheap BLS verification enable three practical attacks—PayToAttest (safety-violating ex‑post reorgs with bribes as low as 0.09 ETH), PayToExit (liveness erosion via optimal bribes such as 9.23 ETH to raise stake from 23% to 33%), and PayToBias (fairness manipulation of the RANDAO beacon)—demonstrating that Ethereum’s short‑term economic security hinges on marginally outpaying protocol rewards, and motivating countermeasures including single-slot finality, whistleblowing incentives, and unbiasable randomness.

  • Deep Funding: A Prediction Market For Open Source Dependencies by Elizabeth Yeung, Clément Lesaege, Devansh Mehta.

    • Deep Funding proposes an automated, jury‑resolvable prediction market over a weighted dependency graph of Ethereum OSS repositories, where bots, models, and traders stake on edge weights to dynamically allocate funding based on predicted juror assessments—mitigating sybil incentives, enabling specialization, and scaling credible neutrality through periodic spot‑checks, bonded inclusion, and market‑determined liquidity rather than exogenous prizes.

New EIPs/ERCs

  • ERC-XXXX – On-chain Proof Verification Standard

Client and Client-Related Updates

Tooling, Languages & Libraries

L2s and EVM Alt-L1s

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