Native AA: guarantors

EIP-8141: extend with guarantors, flexible nonces and signer binding

(pedrouid), submitted. A guarantor is a payer primitive that admits a transaction to the public mempool even when the sender's `VERIFY` frame is unsafe to simulate; it adopts PR #11555's `APPROVE_GUARANTEE = 0x4` scope and canonical paymaster guarantor mode verbatim.

https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/pull/11681 2026-05-17

Transaction logs and privacy

EIP-7708: use EIP-8246 to simplify

(marioevz), merged, making EIP-8246 a dependency to remove the ETH burn log edge case completely.

https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/pull/11634 2026-05-17

EIP-7979: add a section on optional validation for new opcodes

(gcolvin), submitted and merged.

https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/pull/11680 2026-05-17

Eli Ben-Sasson: few people understand how hard privacy with composability is; STRK20 is basically a privacy layer that lets users do full DeFi operations, not just transfers

21:02.

https://x.com/EliBenSasson/status/2056012473925287998 2026-05-17

Other updates

ethresear.ch: Trustless Agents Plus (TAP), a home for ERC-8004 agents fragmented across chains

18:49.

https://ethresear.ch/t/trustless-agents-plus-tap-home-for-fragmented-erc8004-agents/24888 2026-05-17

ERC: Verifiable Invoice Commitment (VIC), fiscal metadata anchored to onchain payments via an EIP-712 singleton registrar

03:39.

https://ethereum-magicians.org/t/erc-verifiable-invoice-commitment-vic-fiscal-metadata-anchored-to-on-chain-payments-via-eip-712-singleton-registrar/28547 2026-05-17

Community

binji: a chain claiming credible neutrality does not make every app on it neutral; real credible neutrality has to survive every layer of the stack

22:30.

https://x.com/binji_x/status/2056034648946315707 2026-05-17

bkiepuszewski: the original MakerDAO code is still one of the most underappreciated software engineering feats in Web3

14:23.

https://x.com/bkiepuszewski/status/2055912107502170566 2026-05-17