Privacy: local models and EIP-8288

Vitalik: a self-experiment

07:11. The goal is personalized recommendations from his health and travel data without leaking private information to frontier models, starting with a local model.

https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/2106537633056969024 2026-10-04

EIP-8288 PR: bind block_deps_hash to the aggregation circuit's digest

(AnkushinDaniil).

https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/pull/12417 2026-10-04

Other updates

EIP-7928 PR: align EXT pre-state validation costs

EIP-7495 clarification of inactive field merkleization was merged.

https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/pull/12418 2026-10-04

EIP-7495 clarification of inactive field merkleization

EIP-7928 PR: align EXT pre-state validation costs; EIP-7495 clarification of inactive field merkleization was merged.

https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/pull/12419 2026-10-04

Magicians: ERC-8436 Agent Collective Decision Framework

07:55.

https://ethereum-magicians.org/t/erc-8436-agent-collective-decision-framework/29850 2026-10-04

Aztec: permissionless, programmable, unstoppable privacy

23:40.

https://x.com/aztecnetwork/status/2106786639515410533 2026-10-04

Community

Koeppelmann: the same privacy techniques could let an unaligned AI agent hide that it is the ultimate beneficial owner of a query

18:55.

https://x.com/koeppelmann/status/2106714889255542992 2026-10-04

Eli Ben-Sasson: scale, privacy, post-quantum security

14:02.

https://x.com/EliBenSasson/status/2106641020859404312 2026-10-04