Week of Sep 5, 2026 Sat–Fri, UTC

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

We are excited to announce the release of the Solidity Compiler v0.8.37!

On August 14, 2026, shaheenfazim reported a bug in the Solidity code generator through the Ethereum Foundation's bug bounty program. When delete is applied to an element of a bytes array located in m…

On February 4, 2026, a bug in the IR-based code generator was reported by Carl from Cantina Security through the Ethereum Foundation bug bounty program. The bug causes the arguments of a custom error…

We have released Solidity v0.8.37. This is primarily a bugfix release. It contains three important bugfixes, two rated low/medium severity and one very low, as well as fixes for two smaller miscompil…

On July 30, 2026, Ng Sze Hon reported a bug in the IR pipeline's stack-to-memory mover (the "stack limit evader") through the Ethereum Foundation's bug bounty program. The mover works around the EVM'…

v3.6.1 is a bugfix and security release recommended for all users. It fixes a downloader regression that could silently replace a valid local snapshot (#23859), a peer-ban bypass that let a banned Ca…

Stakely is launching two products built on stVaults, Lido protocol’s modular staking infrastructure.

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…

We dealt with 48 total incidents over the past week. Read more for losses by threat category, what we collected, and IOCs.

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

Every year since January 2019, teams from the Ethereum Foundation have spent an afternoon or two on r/ethereum answering questions from the community. The format hasn’t really changed: one thread, te…

> [!WARNING] > This release bumps the database schema (v3 → v4). The migration runs automatically at startup and rewrites nothing, so upgrading is a plain restart. It does mean a v26 datadir can no l…

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…

This release adds the hardhat-slang-solx plugin, which lets you compile your contracts with our new slang-solx compiler. Read the announcement blog post, or get started with our guide to compiling wi…

Ethereum development needs to be faster. Today we're releasing hardhat-slang-solx , a Hardhat plugin that swaps in Nomic Foundation’s new Solidity compiler backend: slang-solx. Across our benchmark s…

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…

In May, the Protocol cluster welcomed a trio of new cluster coordinators and promised updates to follow. After months of settling in and aligning with contributors cluster-wide, across the EF and acr…

This is the EF Protocol cluster’s tier list for Hegotá. We evaluated the 62 EIPs proposed for inclusion, each with a tier and a short note on the grade. It is the first time the cluster has published…

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…