EVM Gazette – December 1, 2025
Issue #13
Highlights
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).
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
EIP-8094 – eth/vhash - blob-aware mempool
EIP-XXXX – MEVless protocol
ERC-8091 – Privacy Address Format
ERC-8092 – Associated Accounts
ERC-8093 – Private ERC-20
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
Circle Gateway is now live on Arc Testnet.
The testnet for spot trading on Lighter is now live.
Lighter now has equities perp trading.
Tenderly is now compatible with Monad mainnet.
Sonic mainnet v2.1.2 is now live, introducing Pectra compatibility and other improvements.