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Vitalik published The Extremely Lean Chain on ethresear.ch, pushing consensus state responsibility to stakers, who manage and occasionally ZK-prove their own state, while adding strong validator privacy. nero_eth published Native UTXOs on Ethereum, borrowing Bitcoin's one-shot payment objects so that receiving a payment need not add state forever. soispoke announced that keyed nonces (EIP-8250) and recent roots (EIP-8272) are officially proposed for Hegotá. An EIP-8141 change allowing arbitrary signature data was merged. ACDT #86 was held in the evening.

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Consensus: an extremely lean chain and validator privacy

ethresear.ch: The Extremely Lean Chain

14:00 (vbuterin). With Lean upgrades such as single-slot finality and recursive-STARK-based quantum-resistant signature aggregation, stakers take responsibility for managing and occasionally ZK-proving their state, removing end-of-epoch processing (which in few-slot finality may run every 16 seconds) and possibly letting consensus scale to millions of validators.

https://ethresear.ch/t/the-extremely-lean-chain/25369

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