Privacy: private payments in the account model

Magicians: VOSA, Virtual One-time Sub-Account, a simplified privacy primitive for EVM

(louisliu2048), 09:57: trades some fund flow privacy for simplicity and compliance, essentially UTXO without Merkle trees using O(1) spent markers with epoch cleanup, where addresses exist only as mapping keys and are used once.

https://ethereum-magicians.org/t/vosa-virtual-one-time-sub-account-a-simplified-privacy-primitive-for-evm/27809 2026-02-23

ethresear.ch: Anonymous PGC, practical anonymous and confidential payment for account based blockchains

(yuchen1024), 16:26, accepted at EUROCRYPT 2026 and extending the 2019 PGC design that used Twisted ElGamal for confidential transfers, later adopted by Solana.

https://ethresear.ch/t/anonymous-pgc-practical-anonymous-confidential-payment-for-account-based-blockchains/24185 2026-02-23

Gas and Glamsterdam

ACDT #71

21:00, per Ethereal news #13: bal-devnet-3 is planned for March 4 with EIP-8037 hardcoded for 100M gas because dynamic cost is hard to implement in the testing framework; epbs-devnet-0 is also planned for March 4.

https://forkcast.org/calls/acdt/071/ 2026-02-23

Ethereal news #13

ACDT #71, 21:00, per Ethereal news #13: bal-devnet-3 is planned for March 4 with EIP-8037 hardcoded for 100M gas because dynamic cost is hard to implement in the testing framework; epbs-devnet-0 is also planned for March 4.

https://ethereal.news/ethereal-news-weekly-13/ 2026-02-23

ethresear.ch: Optimal Aggregation Functions for EIP-8037 Under Empirical Elasticities

(misilva73), 15:32, combining the throughput versus state growth trade off with measured price elasticities to find the optimal aggregation function and repricing multiplier.

https://ethresear.ch/t/optimal-aggregation-functions-for-eip-8037-under-empirical-elasticities/24184 2026-02-23

Other updates

EF blog: the EF's commitment to DeFi

(Charles St. Louis and the App Relations Team): the EF wants DeFi to be permissionless, censorship resistant, privacy first, self custodial and open source.

https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2026/02/23/commitment-to-defi 2026-02-23

Encrypt The Mempool #1 agenda

22:58; EIP-7928 Breakout #13 agenda, 21:11; RPC Standards #21, 13:20.

https://ethereum-magicians.org/t/encrypt-the-mempool-1-march-4-2026/27813 2026-02-23

EIP-7928 Breakout #13 agenda

Encrypt The Mempool #1 agenda, 22:58; EIP-7928 Breakout #13 agenda, 21:11; RPC Standards #21, 13:20.

https://ethereum-magicians.org/t/eip-7928-breakout-13-feb-25-2026/27812 2026-02-23

RPC Standards #21

Encrypt The Mempool #1 agenda, 22:58; EIP-7928 Breakout #13 agenda, 21:11; RPC Standards #21, 13:20.

https://ethereum-magicians.org/t/rpc-standards-21-feb-23-2026/27811 2026-02-23

Community

VitalikButerin: security means minimizing the gap between user intent and actual system behavior, and user experience can be defined the same way

02:24; nero_eth: Glamsterdam is coming, be ready for scaling, 21:58.

https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/2025653045414273438 2026-02-23

nero_eth: Glamsterdam is coming, be ready for scaling

VitalikButerin: security means minimizing the gap between user intent and actual system behavior, and user experience can be defined the same way, 02:24; nero_eth: Glamsterdam is coming, be ready for scaling, 21:58.

https://x.com/nero_eth/status/2025948432578318348 2026-02-23