Account privacy and crypto agility

StarkWare: Shadow Accounts are live on Starknet

20:58, a STRK20 privacy primitive that lets apps offer a "public to private" switch. Eli Ben-Sasson: one click to switch, keeping the world from piecing together your full DeFi activity, 21:30.

https://x.com/StarkWareLtd/status/2110007213331026343 2026-10-13

Eli Ben-Sasson: one click to switch, keeping the world from piecing together your full DeFi activity

StarkWare: Shadow Accounts are live on Starknet, 20:58, a STRK20 privacy primitive that lets apps offer a "public to private" switch. Eli Ben-Sasson: one click to switch, keeping the world from piecing together your full DeFi activity, 21:30.

https://x.com/EliBenSasson/status/2110015406819688802 2026-10-13

StarkWare: assessing Ethereum's cryptographic agility across 8 criteria, it passes only 3

15:59. Eli Ben-Sasson: rather than quantum-resistant cryptography, let's talk about crypto agility, 18:49.

https://x.com/StarkWareLtd/status/2109931907396116818 2026-10-13

Eli Ben-Sasson: rather than quantum-resistant cryptography, let's talk about crypto agility

StarkWare: assessing Ethereum's cryptographic agility across 8 criteria, it passes only 3, 15:59. Eli Ben-Sasson: rather than quantum-resistant cryptography, let's talk about crypto agility, 18:49.

https://x.com/EliBenSasson/status/2109974728203010131 2026-10-13

EIP-8141 PR: clarify transient storage and deploy targets in the trace rules

(Marchhill); ERC-7562 blocking SETCODEFROM was merged.

https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/pull/12494 2026-10-13

ERC-7562 blocking SETCODEFROM

EIP-8141 PR: clarify transient storage and deploy targets in the trace rules (Marchhill); ERC-7562 blocking SETCODEFROM was merged.

https://github.com/ethereum/ERCs/pull/2066 2026-10-13

Magicians: Frame Transaction Breakout #7 (October 20)

22:35.

https://ethereum-magicians.org/t/frame-transaction-breakout-7-oct-20-2026/29961 2026-10-13

Other updates

L2BEAT: most privacy protocols don't make you invisible, they help you blend in

19:59, which is why the size of the crowd matters; the privacy treasure hunt is over, with all the solutions in one place, 21:56.

https://x.com/ethbeat_org/status/2109992318526734451 2026-10-13

the privacy treasure hunt is over, with all the solutions in one place

L2BEAT: most privacy protocols don't make you invisible, they help you blend in, 19:59, which is why the size of the crowd matters; the privacy treasure hunt is over, with all the solutions in one place, 21:56.

https://x.com/ethbeat_org/status/2110021892149256561 2026-10-13

ethresear.ch: Informed Diffusion, making home builders publish fast

13:36; Rapidblocks, take two: a pipelined consensus for independent blocks, 15:27.

https://ethresear.ch/t/informed-diffusion-making-home-builders-publish-fast/26151 2026-10-13

Rapidblocks, take two: a pipelined consensus for independent blocks

Ethresear.ch: Informed Diffusion, making home builders publish fast, 13:36; Rapidblocks, take two: a pipelined consensus for independent blocks, 15:27.

https://ethresear.ch/t/rapidblocks-take-two-a-pipelined-consensus-for-independent-blocks/26152 2026-10-13

EIP-8253 adds mainnet prestate values and genesis/devnet allocations

Merged.

https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/pull/12495 2026-10-13

ERC-8107 PR: robustness hardening and a nonce-guarded clearDenial

Merged.

https://github.com/ethereum/ERCs/pull/2067 2026-10-13

Community

Fede: in Cambridge with Justin Drake, LambdaClass, the EF and more than a hundred cryptographers

05:58.

https://x.com/fede_intern/status/2109780756893401501 2026-10-13

binji: upgrading a live network with zero downtime while scaling it 230%, Glamsterdam deserves more attention

14:52.

https://x.com/binji_x/status/2109915194935677134 2026-10-13