EVM Gazette – February 2, 2026
Issue #21
Highlights
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.
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.
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.
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
EIP-8138 – Hardfork Meta - BPO3
EIP-8140 – Token Gas Payments for EIP-8130
EIP-8141 – Frame Transaction
EIP-8142 – Block-in-Blobs (BiB)
ERC-8139 – Authorization Objects (AO)
ERC-XXXX – Authentication SBT using Credential
ERC-XXXX – Smart Credentials
Client and Client-Related Updates
Tooling, Languages & Libraries
Voltaire released v0.2.27
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.