Accounts: an authorization layer

Magicians: Separating Authorization from Execution in Ethereum

(recurmj), 05:51: argues authorization is a missing layer of machine state beneath execution, and permissioned pull is the only financial execution semantics that respects it.

https://ethereum-magicians.org/t/separating-authorization-from-execution-in-ethereum/27452 2026-01-18

Roadmap

VitalikButerin: an underrated part of trustlessness, the walkaway test and self sovereignty is protocol simplicity

16:27.

https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/2012819160426807639 2026-01-18

Other updates

EIP-7612 flagged stagnant

(eth-bot), submitted; EIP-5920: move to Stagnant (eth-bot), merged; EIP-7954 flagged stagnant (eth-bot), merged.

https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/pull/11101 2026-01-18

EIP-5920: move to Stagnant

EIP-7612 flagged stagnant (eth-bot), submitted; EIP-5920: move to Stagnant (eth-bot), merged; EIP-7954 flagged stagnant (eth-bot), merged.

https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/pull/10985 2026-01-18

EIP-7954 flagged stagnant

EIP-7612 flagged stagnant (eth-bot), submitted; EIP-5920: move to Stagnant (eth-bot), merged; EIP-7954 flagged stagnant (eth-bot), merged.

https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/pull/10986 2026-01-18

Community

donnoh_eth: Ethereum L1 consistently does more TPS than all validiums and optimiums combined

02:28.

https://x.com/donnoh_eth/status/2012607983289594074 2026-01-18