EVM Gazette – November 10, 2025
Issue #10
Highlights
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.
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
Nimbus released v25.11.0
Nimbus-eth1 released v0.2.2
Lodestar released v1.36.0
Teku released 25.11.0
go-ethereum released v1.16.7 (“Ballistic Drift Stabilizer”)
Besu released 25.11.0
Grandine released 2.0.0
Lighthouse released v8.0.0 (“Brosephamons”)
Reth released v1.9.1
Nethermind released v1.35.2
Prysm released v7.0.0-rc.0
commit-boost-client released v0.9.1
Tooling, Languages & Libraries
L2s and EVM Alt-L1s
Multiple alt-L1s took extraordinary measures to limit the damage caused by the Balancer hack:
Berachain was halted and patched
Sonic froze specific wallets
Starknet is now using their new S-two prover, which is faster and less costly for proving than their previous prover, Stone
The Taiko Alethia whitepaper is now live. You can read it here
Starkware proposed Ztarknet, a Starknet L2 for Zcash
6 members have been elected to join the ArbitrumDAO Security council
Offchain Labs published a new article on their Universal Intents Engine, a solution for Arbitrum and Ethereum interoperability.
Monad’s testnet has been upgraded