EVM Gazette – November 24, 2025
Issue #12
Highlights
Ethereum Interoperability Layer presented at Devconnect
Aztec’s ignition chain is now live
Airbender can prove Ethereum L1 blocks on 2x5090
Monad mainnet is now live
AllCoreDevs Update
No calls this week as ACDT was postponed for two weeks (see last issue) and ACDE was cancelled by Ansgar.
Besu did, however, release their tiering for non-headliner EIPs for Glamsterdam.
Ethereum News & Discussion
Devconnect Argentina was hosted this past week. Check out the calendar here
Vitalik gave a talk on Ethereum’s roadmap
Read a summary of the talk by tcoratger here
The Account Abstraction team at the EF posted a proposal on the EF blog about the Ethereum Interoperability Layer.
jochem-brouwer shared feedback on EIP-7973: Warm Account Write Metering
Offchain Labs posted an article on ethresear.ch arguing in favor of WASM as an ISA rather than Vitalik’s proposal of RISC-V. See a summary below in the Research Update section.
ETHGAS, a proposer confirmation market, announced that “Realtime Blocks” on Ethereum Mainnet were produced using their service.
New documentation has been released for Hardhat 3. Check it out here.
Sigma Prime shared an article by one of their developers, Jimmy Chen, on Lighthouse-Reth integration.
Justin Drake shared a new development from zkSync’s Airbender team that they can now prove L1 blocks using just two 5090s with ~1kW.
Research Update
State Locks as Proposer Commitments by OnticNexus
A proposal for Ethereum “state locks” formalizes slashable proposer commitments that guarantee a transaction executes against a user-specified snapshot of storage slots (democratizing first-access conditions beyond Top-of-Block), details the protocol flow with preTip/postPayment incentives, clarifies out-of-bounds and accidental overlap risks with mitigation via simulation, exclusivity, and attestations, and motivates applications in arbitrage, preconfirmations, gas optimization (ideal TALs), and ZK-friendly fraud proofs distinguishing snapshot versus first-access violations.
State root of the internet by barryWhiteHat
A proposal to make web2 data portable and attributable by introducing a trusted or IO-based notary that controls TLS shared keys—enabling server-verifiable “signing” of API responses, scalable p2p distribution of notarized data (including an optimistic decryption approach for large blobs), and a practical path toward eventual user/server signatures despite current trust assumptions and implementation complexity.
The possibility to conduct MEV with modern GPU-optimized code by Kenun99
Proposes compiling a Solidity MEV router to PTX to execute on GPUs, replacing CPU-bound EVM simulation and enabling tens of thousands of concurrent bundle evaluations; demonstrates 3.3–5.1M tx/s (~100,000× over Lanturn), attributes latency gains to bypassing forking and execution bottlenecks, and reports Q1 2025 opportunities totaling 426.43 ETH profit across 2–14 tx bundles, while maintaining predictable runtime overhead (≈7.03 s cold load; ≈0.30 s per-search state load; linear VRAM scaling).
State growth scenarios and the impact of repricings by misilva73
An isoelastic demand analysis projects Ethereum state to exceed the critical 650 GiB threshold by mid‑2027 under higher block gas limits, and shows that repricing state‑creation operations reduces annual state growth across elasticity combinations with only modest throughput tradeoffs; equilibrium base fees rise mainly with burst‑side elasticity, and when state demand is inelastic, higher state prices increase base fees, motivating alignment on acceptable state growth and further empirical measurement.
Dynamic Penalties for ePBS by jcschlegel (joint work with BrunoMazorra)
Dynamic penalties for Ethereum’s ePBS are proposed to curb builders’ “free option” by escalating penalties with correlated missed payloads while keeping average costs low for honest actors, validated by theory and backtests showing robustness across tolerated failure rates α and windows T, implementable with minimal spec changes (penalty state, pending payment fields, epoch processing), and optionally paired with static rewards to sustain high payload delivery without making penalties game-able.
Three Fundamental Problems in Ethereum Public Goods Funding: A Research Agenda by dwddao, sejalrekhan97, qgolem, and Julian Zawistowski
A research agenda identifies deployment, allocation, and impact as unresolved mechanism-design challenges in Ethereum public-goods funding, proposing coordinated theoretical, empirical, and infrastructural work to advance protocol-level capital allocation.
Why RISC-V Is Not a Good Choice for an L1 Delivery ISA, and Why WASM Is a Better One by Mario Alvarez, Matteo Campanelli, Tsahi Zidenberg, and Daniel Lumi
Arguing that an L1 should decouple the smart-contract delivery ISA from the proving ISA, the authors contend WASM is superior to RISC‑V for Ethereum’s L1 dISA due to its type safety and instrumentation, robust compiler ecosystem, efficient executability across commodity hardware, and forward compatibility via compilation to whichever ZK‑optimized pISA wins over time, thereby preserving decentralization while enabling rapid prover innovation.
The Anoma protocol adapter is live on Ethereum by cwgoes
Anoma’s Ethereum-deployed Protocol Adapter instantiates the Anoma Resource Machine (ARM)—a resource‑centric, intent‑native, privacy‑preserving state architecture audited and Rust/RISC0‑powered—enabling execution of Anoma transactions on Ethereum, cross‑compatibility with EVM via forwarders, and permissionless deployment to other chains, thereby unlocking applications like shielded trading, conditional funding, and dark‑pool structured finance.
Does decentralized consensus really need a chain? What happens if emergence replaces history? by YanAnghelp
A conceptual proposal challenges the necessity of a globally ordered chain for decentralized consensus, positing a historyless, topology-driven model based on strictly local, behavior-derived trust (L.O.P. Principles), and solicits theoretical scrutiny on convergence, finality, partition risks, and applicability of impossibility results and related frameworks (CRDTs, epidemic consensus) to assess whether consensus can emerge without shared history.
New EIPs/ERCs
EIP-8082 – Contract Event Subscription
ERC-8085 – Dual-Mode Fungible Tokens
ERC-8086 – Privacy Token
ERC-8087 – Encrypted Hashed Arguments and Calls
ERC-8088 – Cross-Chain Tracking Standard
ERC-8089 – Smart Contract Development Lifecycle Registry
ERC-8090 – Relayer-Protected Gasless Swaps
Client and Client-Related Updates
Teku released 25.11.1
Erigon released v3.3.0-rc.2
Reth released v1.9.3
Lighthouse released 8.0.1
rbuilder released v1.2.28
rollup-boost released v0.7.11
Tooling, Languages & Libraries
alloy released v1.1.2
remix-project released v1.2.0
Foundry released v1.5.0-rc1
improved fuzzer
browser extension wallet support
L2s and EVM Alt-L1s
Monad mainnet is now live as of November 24, 9am ET
ENS announced on X that they are moving Namechain to Nethermind’s Surge
Aztec’s Ignition Chain is now live
MegaETH announced Frontier, the release of their Mainnet Beta chain, going live early December.
Zircuit opened the waitlist for their institutional yield solution, Zircuit Finance.