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Pierre published Towards Native Post-Quantum Private ETH on ethresear.ch, laying out the cryptographic work needed to enshrine post-quantum privacy in the L1 and arguing that protecting against harvest-now-decrypt-later alone is not enough. soispoke submitted an EIP-8081 change proposing EIP-8272 recent roots for Hegotá. forshtat added a POST_TX frame mode and a TXDIFF opcode to EIP-7906, both merged. Vitalik adjusted EIP-7864 to the partitioned binary tree (PBT) design. aelowsson analyzed issuance offsets and increased penalties under low, zero or negative issuance.

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Native post-quantum privacy

ethresear.ch: Towards Native Post-Quantum Private ETH

22:53 (Pierre). The L1 strawmap lists L1-native private post-quantum transfers as a north star. Privacy solutions in production today rely on elliptic curve primitives or unsatisfying hardware assumptions; some argue protecting against harvest-now-decrypt-later (HNDL) attacks is enough, but the post notes that once a cryptographically relevant quantum computer exists, adversaries could carry out undetectable attacks with catastrophic losses, and recovery mechanisms such as turnstiles would require heavy social layer coordination. Using Zcash Sapling (about 620k shielded ZEC) as an example, it shows that delivering post-quantum shielded ETH takes far more than switching proof systems.

https://ethresear.ch/t/towards-native-post-quantum-private-eth/25291

Frame transactions and the state tree

Issuance policy

ethresear.ch: Properties of issuance offsets and increased penalties under low/zero/negative issuance policies

22:57 (aelowsson). Ethereum is debating an issuance reduction. If the base reward per increment goes toward zero, the incentive to perform attestation duties disappears; two ways to keep it are an "issuance offset" applied during epoch processing, or increased penalties. The post analyzes both and does not propose a specific reward curve.

https://ethresear.ch/t/properties-of-issuance-offsets-and-increased-penalties-under-low-zero-negative-issuance-policies/25292

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