Faster finality and faster blocks

benjaminion: faster finality is coming

15:31, a quick proof of concept on a network a decent fraction of mainnet's size that improved time to finality about 4x, mainly to benchmark decoupled consensus.

https://x.com/benjaminion_xyz/status/2096154357712494719 2026-09-05

barnabemonnot: when you read "decoupled consensus", think faster finality and faster blocks

15:55, with networking setting the speed limit.

https://x.com/barnabemonnot/status/2096160340887097420 2026-09-05

New EIP: fast execution payload broadcast

(kamilsa, merged October 1), replacing the `execution_payload` topic with chunked propagation; it later became EIP-8411.

https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/pull/12299 2026-09-05

Other updates

ladislaus0x: one day later, 28 submissions produced a competitively optimized and formally verified EVM implementation of MODEXP

01:22.

https://x.com/ladislaus0x/status/2095940664978530448 2026-09-05

tcoratger: Bitcoin and Ethereum post-quantum discussions are converging on similar questions

05:30, such as circuits versus VMs and recursion for block-wide PQ signature aggregation.

https://x.com/tcoratger/status/2096002878632575245 2026-09-05

ERC-8414 token-bound task tenders

17:26, adding the demand side to the agent economy: tasks with funds already set aside.

https://ethereum-magicians.org/t/erc-8414-token-bound-task-tenders/29597 2026-09-05

Community

ameensol spoke in Amsterdam on the Tornado Cash case and compliant privacy

11:58.

https://x.com/ameensol/status/2096100580456345724 2026-09-05