nero_eth: last week core devs delayed the Hoodi fork to study the ChainSecurity report, and over the weekend people worked to get a better picture of the impact
15:12.
EIP-8037 impact assessment and supporting specs
Barnabé: a busy weekend letting our agents loose on gas repricings and mechanism changes
00:31.
Ethlabs week 18: vulnerabilities found in Glamsterdam, agents came to the rescue
(Derek Chiang, published as an X article). EIP-8037/8038 exist to limit state growth: state grows about 116GB a year today, and raising the gas limit from 60M to 200M extrapolates to about 387GB a year. After the ACD call, fradamt and nero_eth each had agents scan for affected contracts, then set up a GitHub repo where agents claim tasks and record findings, joined by several EF and Ethlabs researchers; given their sensitivity, the findings were held for the ACDT call. A second coordination repo targets EIP-8198 quick slots, looking for projects that hardcode 12-second slots and would break at 10 seconds.
EIP-8053: gas units at the contract boundary
Was merged, keeping milli-gas inside the EVM and specifying how it works with EIP-8037 and EIP-8141.
EIP-8141: charge the EIP-8037 legacy share as extra execution gas
(LukaszRozmej, a follow-up PR).
Magicians: EIP-8456 CALLSTATUS instruction
Opened at 21:54.
ladislaus0x: Sepolia has activated Glamsterdam, and with ePBS validators can attest to beacon blocks before verifying payload execution, giving zkEVM provers more time
19:44; Sepolia's gas limit is already 200M.
Privacy and post-quantum
EF: glad to support wallet tools advancing privacy
22:48. After this past week of attacks and exploits, privacy and security cannot be isolated goals; when privacy is the default, you can worry less about attackers using your onchain history against you.
lambdaclass: Miden mainnet is live with its first partners
22:10.
EIP-8288: validate recursive inputs and mempool wrappers
(Marchhill), bounding recursive proof and list counts, defining canonical wrappers within 2 MiB, and using the elided pooled form for blob transactions.
StarkWare: in less than a week the Falcon Challenge cut Falcon-512 verification costs by 50.2%
23:30, from 48.4M to 24.1M gas.
Other updates
ACDT #102
ChainSecurity and Dedaub are running the gas repricing investigation and are due to report in two weeks; a fix for the builder onboarding race condition was approved; the next ACDT is in two weeks because of Devcon.
New EIP: batched KZG point evaluation via EIP-2537
(an informational EIP by EPF 7 fellows).
ethbeat: native proof verification would let Ethereum verify ZK proofs itself, and the EIP-8357 draft has been merged
20:48.
gakonst: solar's EVM codegen ships this week, more than 100x faster than solc
01:53.
Aztec: V6 launch partner Olla Finance brings liquid staking
22:12.
ethresear.ch: Lean verification of EIP-7002 system-call success and FIFO requests
23:46.
FOCIL Breakout #45
Is set for October 27 at 20:00, and EIPIP #132 for November 18.
EIPIP #132
FOCIL Breakout #45 is set for October 27 at 20:00, and EIPIP #132 for November 18.
Community
Vitalik: okay with Kimi 3.1 deliberately leaving out top-end offensive cyber capabilities from its training data
08:46; discriminating against use cases is much less bad than discriminating against users. 2,705 likes.
Eli Ben-Sasson: crypto agility will become non-negotiable for crypto projects
13:48.