EVM Gazette – November 17, 2025

Issue #11

Highlights

• 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.

Ethereum News & Discussion

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

  • soispoke wrote a rebuttal

• 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

• EIP-8078 – Hardfork Meta - Heka/Bogota

• EIP-XXXX – GETDEPLOYER opcode

• EIP-8080 – Let exits use the consolidation queue

• EIP-8079 – Native rollups

• ERC-XXXX – Time-Bound Access Control Interface

• ERC-XXXX – ZKMeta Metadata Interface

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

• heimdall-rs released 0.9.2

• eth-infinitism/account-abstraction released ERC-4337 v0.9.0

• Hardhat released v3.0.14

• Silverback released 0.7.33

• alloy released v1.1.1

• Echidna released 2.3.0-RC.2

• porto released 0.2.37

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