EVM Gazette – February 11, 2026
Issue #22
Highlights
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.
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
Alloy released v1.6.3
Medusa released v1.5.0
Voltaire released v0.3.1
The annual Solidity Developer Survey is now live.
L2s and EVM Alt-L1s
MegaETH mainnet is now fully open to the public
ERC-8004 agents are on Scroll, MegaETH, and Avalanche C-Chain
Move contracts can now be deployed on Arbitrum
Ronin’s Saigon Testnet has completed its migration to Optimism
Robinhood Chain Testnet is now live on Arbitrum
RISE Mainnet Genesis has begun