Privacy and app-layer input

ethbeat: we reviewed 16 privacy protocols to understand what they actually hide, who they hide it from, and what is still visible

21:38, publishing the full methodology for feedback.

https://x.com/ethbeat_org/status/2115090782549905429 2026-10-27

EF: who shapes what ships is often a question of input

22:28; the App Enablement team is reaching out to protocols, especially those less active on ACD calls.

https://x.com/ethereumfndn/status/2115103383426384313 2026-10-27

Magicians: app-layer input on EIPs and the roadmap, staking and oracles

22:06 (CPSTL). Teams were asked how they would design for censorship resistance, open source, privacy and security (CROPS) without business or technical limits, what stops them, and which single change would help most; the post lists the EIPs they named, grouped by theme.

https://ethereum-magicians.org/t/app-layer-input-on-eips-and-the-roadmap-staking-and-oracles/30104 2026-10-27

ethresear.ch: Proof of One, one-person-one-identity polling with encrypted ballots

14:42, with reference code and a request for review.

https://ethresear.ch/t/proof-of-one-one-person-one-identity-polling-with-encrypted-ballots-design-and-reference-code-requesting-critical-review/26184 2026-10-27

Account and gas specs

EIP-7906: say where storage-kept nonce changes appear

Was merged.

https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/pull/12562 2026-10-27

EIP-7928: specify BAL integer encoding

Was merged.

https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/pull/12571 2026-10-27

ChainSecurity: Glamsterdam got pushed back, but Devcon is next week

21:42; bring your call paths and they will walk through what the upgrade changes for your protocol on site.

https://x.com/chain_security/status/2115091885660463242 2026-10-27

lightclient: it will probably take an exploit of similar severity on Ethereum before people take funding the protocol seriously

22:32.

https://x.com/lightclients/status/2115104431494799656 2026-10-27

Other updates

ethresear.ch: an inventory of post-quantum P2P migrations in the consensus layer

14:20.

https://ethresear.ch/t/inventory-of-pq-p2p-migrations-in-the-consensus-layer/26183 2026-10-27

Magicians: physical storage for EIP-8297 PBT state

14:55.

https://ethereum-magicians.org/t/physical-storage-for-eip-8297-pbt-state/30092 2026-10-27

StarkWare: private points trading is live on ArcX

20:11; Aztec: ravenhouse lets you collect, bid and prove community membership without sharing more than you want, 04:07.

https://x.com/StarkWareLtd/status/2115068790127931398 2026-10-27

Aztec: ravenhouse lets you collect, bid and prove community membership without sharing more than you want

StarkWare: private points trading is live on ArcX, 20:11; Aztec: ravenhouse lets you collect, bid and prove community membership without sharing more than you want, 04:07.

https://x.com/aztecnetwork/status/2114826175545794942 2026-10-27

ERC-7730: fix the submitOrder example, which used formats the spec does not define

Merged.

https://github.com/ethereum/ERCs/pull/2069 2026-10-27

FOCIL Breakout #46

FOCIL Breakout #45 met today at 20:00, and FOCIL Breakout #46 is set for November 17.

https://ethereum-magicians.org/t/focil-breakout-46-november-17-2026/30100 2026-10-27

Community

Vitalik: for anyone getting into biology, please take airborne disease resistance more seriously

09:30, with 3,370 likes.

https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/2114907587057713455 2026-10-27

dankrad: far more worried about concrete security breaks found by AI than theoretical results like breaking the exponential time hypothesis

17:24.

https://x.com/dankrad/status/2115026803244859587 2026-10-27