Layer 1

News from our interop sprint, our updated Hegotá view, and getting faster Ethereum into users’ hands

The code that encrypts a private payment so that one recipient can read it, and finds that payment again among thousands of others.

Make repeated value transfers cheaper by charging account changes once per transaction and refunding accounts that return to original state

Adds opcodes for addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division that revert on overflow, underflow, or division by zero

Replace the RIPEMD-160, MODEXP, and BLAKE2f precompiles with equivalent EVM bytecode

Records the last-written block number of each account and storage slot as consensus-level state metadata.

A canonical validity layer for private ETH and compatible ERC-20 transfers via a system contract and a split-proof architecture.

Delay all priority fee credits from transactions to end of block

Make mempool messaging vhash aware

Linearize Memory Costing and replace the current quadratic formula with a page-based cost model.

Separate state root computation from block validation

Allow EIP-7702 delegated EOAs to update delegation through code while permanently disabling residual ECDSA authority.

Introduce a new instruction allowing contracts to create clones using EIP-7702 delegation designations

Migration of execution blocks to SSZ

Eliminate ORIGIN tech debt to lay groundwork for account abstraction and close security holes

Discussion thread for decoupling stake deposits from validator registration

What happens to the fee market when Glamsterdam changes transaction gas costs and the gas limit rises from 60M to 200M? More capacity should ease pressure on fees, but cheaper gas also attracts deman…

Changes in the September 9 and 10, 2026 updates to the Ethlabs Hegotá view

s/o Toni for the artwork by Thomas , based on ideas and discussions with Vitalik and Toni Introduction Frame Transactions ( EIP-8141 ) allow applications to define their own validation and gas paymen…

AA collaboration, progress on faster Ethereum, and lessons from L2 developer outreach

YAY! Another fork with 10+ repricing EIPs Just what we needed after the Glamsterdam repricings… Joking aside, repricings are an important piece of the Ethereum roadmap that can have both positive and…

Special thanks to Toni Wahrstätter, Vitalik Buterin, Derek Chiang, and Iván Litteri for reviewing and sharing feedback on this post. A founding principle of Ethereum is to create an environment that…

Add casts to uint operations with different types (#5527) Define sha256 \& blake3 spec functions (#5555) Replace remerkleable with eth-ssz-specs (#5520) Load gossip validation state from the store (#…

This is an opinion piece from myself and @CPerezz . We would like to thank @fradamt for catching an error. In this opinion piece, we discuss how EIPs proposed for Hegotá can impact our current work o…

Originally, I started this discussion in the Eth R&D discord server: i have a (general) question to the core devs: i think we’ve been doing a lot of progress wrt formal verification and i believe in…

It is that time of the year in which I post about my personal interests, or rather wish lists, for Ethereum. I have already tried this topic before and will touch on that below, but before we get int…

A durable append-only Merkle tree for note commitments. Builds the entire Tornado Cash tree in 19 milliseconds, 450x faster than the TypeScript library this ecosystem runs.

Account abstraction on L1, motivations and principles of fast Ethereum, and a fast finality formalisation milestone

Add frame abstraction for transaction validation, execution, and gas payment

The current state of the account abstraction debate between EIP-8130 and Frame Transactions (EIP-8141), and how the ACD should decide between them.

Notes from the first Ethlabs offsite: a sign in Hunter NY, five emerging theses, and a new team member

ePBS, distilled by mike – august 24, 2026. . Thanks to potuz , Terence , Kubi , gd , Apriori , and Christian (ultra sound relay) for comments and review. Review does not necessarily imply agreement w…