EVM Gazette – November 3, 2025
Issue #9
Highlights
New minor version v5.5.0 of OpenZeppelin Contracts contains breaking changes
Arc Public Testnet is now live
New Ethereum for Institutions website
December 3 Fusaka Mainnet date confirmed
AllCoreDevs Update
Per this past week’s ACDC, Fusaka Mainnet dates are now confirmed: November 3 for client releases and December 3 for the mainnet fork. In addition, both Sepolia BPO 2 and Hoodi Fusaka forks have taken place.
A large number of EIPs were added this past week (see the list further down this article), and a number of them came under discussion during ACDC 168. The deadline for scoping proposals from the client teams has been adjusted to November 13.
There was also a discussion regarding FOCIL during the ACDC, with soispoke estimating that including FOCIL in Glamsterdam would alter the fork’s timeline by around 2 months.
Finally, a new name was proposed for the next consensus layer upgrade: Heka.
Ethereum News & Discussion
The Ethereum Foundation launched a new Ethereum for Institutions site.
Ethereum Foundation’s Founder Success team is now listing roles for teams building on Ethereum on Cyfrin Updraft.
abcoathup has proposed EIP-8066 (see below) and is soliciting a mascot for the Glamsterdam upgrade.
Vitalik wrote a new post: “I think it’s ok to allow stage 1 rollups shorter withdrawal windows (1-2 days), but we should be more conservative on stage 2”.
Research Update
Selecting Optimal Outbound Neighbors (SOON) for fast, bandwidth‑efficient propagation in P2P networks by soispoke
SOON proposes an RTT‑aware eager‑push rule that forwards messages to a node’s fastest peers within a fixed budget Δ, demonstrably reducing end‑to‑end latency and bandwidth while preserving coverage in well‑mixed GossipSub overlays, with small random backbones and lazy gossip retained for robustness and practical deployment.
Hybrid Encrypted Mempools by Benedikt Wagner and Julian
A hybrid encrypted mempool design for Ethereum combines user-initiated reveals with non-interactive threshold decryption and data-availability sampling to eliminate selective-reveal MEV, preserve censorship resistance, and enable unpredictable in-protocol randomness, while outlining concrete cryptographic requirements (silent setup, small keys, CCA2 security, succinct ciphertexts) and acknowledging liveness, latency, rotation, and coordination trade-offs.
New EIPs/ERCs
ERC-8060 – Native ETH embedding in NFTs
EIP-8062 – Add sweep withdrawal fee for 0x01 validators
ERC-8063 – Groups - Multi-Member Containers
ERC-8064 – Management Token Permit
ERC-8065 – Zero Knowledge Token Wrapper
EIP-8066 – Upgrade Mascots
ERC-8067 – Management Token Permit
EIP-8068 – Neutral effective balance design
EIP-8069 – Prevent consolidation overflow withdrawals
EIP-8070 – Sparse Blobpool
EIP-8071 – Prevent using consolidations as withdrawals
EIP-8072 – Transaction Inclusion Subscription
EIP-8073 – Dynamic State Pricing for Steady Growth
ERC-8074 – Self-Describing Bytes via EIP-712 Selectors
Client and Client-Related Updates
Lodestar released v1.36.0-rc.2
Besu released 25.11.0-RC2
Reth released v1.8.3
Grandine released 2.0.0.rc1
Erigon released v3.2.2
Nimbus released v25.10.0
Helios released 0.10.1
rbuilder released v1.2.21
mev-boost released v1.10
required for Fusaka
Tooling, Languages & Libraries
L2s and EVM Alt-L1s
The Arc Public Testnet is now live.
Base plans to double their gas limit by the end of the year.