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Ephemeral Rollup: The New “L1.5” of Ethereum TLDR; Ethereum’s core job has always been verifying state transitions. While rollups made that verification succinct, they at the same time hold their use…
We took our shielded pool and pushed formal verification from the written spec down to the bytecode on a testnet: what it bought, what it cost, and where it stopped.
ChainSecurity’s EIP-8037 findings and the agentic hunt for affected contracts, RPC providers adopting FCR, an EIP-8288 explainer, and Devcon plans
Confidential fund shares on Ethereum, with a complete register of record.
What shipped, what Glamsterdam and Hegotá change for stablecoins, custody, staking and shielded pools, and where the chain goes after.
In collaboration with @winderica TLDR: we port Tornado Cash to Flock, a post-quantum binary-field SNARK, proving a depth-32 withdrawal over SHA-256 in under 30 ms, and describe a simple recovery prot…
ETH as a programmable store of value, a formally verified Fast Confirmation Rule, the Cambridge research week, Quick Slots on a devnet, and what L2s need from blobs
Why AI raises Ethereum’s opportunity, FCR in production on Gnosis Chain’s bridge, Quick Slots considered for Hegotá, and Glamsterdam on Sepolia
Thanks to Justin , Vitalik , Kev , Alex , Tau , Ignacio for the discussions, feedback and comments. EIP-8288 lets transactions depend on post-quantum signatures (leanSPHINCS) and STARK proofs (leanST…
Pay like a card, settle like Ethereum Card-terminal UX for payments from any rollup, with no bridge, no middleman and no one new to trust. That’s what stacking FCR and EEZ unlocks: about two slots to…
Ethereum PropAMMs: today and tomorrow \cdot by Mike and Maryam – October 7, 2026. \cdot Special thanks to George for inspiring this article by highlighting nuances we missed in our previous article a…
Every client already keeps bytecode that no account points at. That never mattered, because code sits outside the state root. SETCODEFROM lets any transaction add to the pile, and the partitioned bin…
Convert Store.time to Store.time_ms (#5667) Convert Store.genesis_time to Store.genesis_time_ms (#5668) Update and use time-related helpers (#5671) Use millisecond helpers in second-based time helper…
Accountability for Encrypted Mempools Authors: Aditi Partap , Arantxa Zapico Introduction The prevalence of sandwich attacks on Ethereum highlights a fundamental vulnerability in public mempools: bec…
Quick Slots moved to Considered for Inclusion, FCR went live with Chainlink, and a first batch of L2 and alt-DA blob interviews
Chainlink CCIP 2.0 integrates Ethereum’s Fast Confirmation Rule, confirming Ethereum transactions in 12–24 seconds instead of 13 minutes
PQ SAP - PQ Anonymity Thanks Hy, @mmjahanara , @Pierre , @winderica , and kassandra for useful discussion and feedback. TLDR; This post is the 2nd post of a series of posts on Stealth Address Protoco…
Quick Slots specs merged, decoupled consensus formally verified, a unified account standard effort, and how far blobs can scale
A runtime-agnostic way to turn on-chain events into ordered local state, with reorg recovery and durable checkpoints.
Use .copy() consistently (#5601) Add saturating_sub helper function (#5620) Add executable gossip validation functions for heze (#5605)
An ecosystem survey for Quick Slots, L2 blob demand, native AA migration paths, and progress on fast confirmation and finality
Here’s a half thought alternative to EIP 8198 that has quite some interesting advantages with minor tradeofs. Let’s get straight to the point. Slots remain 12 seconds. Proposer commits to a builder a…
Twenty ecosystem voices on how EIP-8198 Quick Slots can make Ethereum faster while preserving its core properties
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Prysm team ranking of consensus-layer EIPs proposed for inclusion in Hegotá.
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.
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
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…