Ethlabs timeline: tracking the Glamsterdam discussion
Records the cancelled Hoodi fork, audit progress, and the distinction between pure repricing and changes to gas accounting.
Glamsterdam and EIP-8037/8038
EF Blog: Glamsterdam on Hoodi is postponed
The Hoodi fork planned for October 26 was cancelled on October 22.
EF Blog: the invariants EIP-8037/8038 will break
A list of 8 invariants published under Marius van der Wijden's name; the November 9 update says 4 reports involving deployed contracts have been received.
glamsterdam-gas-invariants self-check repository
For contract developers to check the invariants EIP-8037/8038 may break.
Ethlabs: willing to consider spec changes if the impact is too wide
Separates pure repricing from changes to gas accounting; Glamsterdam aims to raise the block gas limit from 60M to 200M.
EIP-8488: Versioned Opcodes for Gas Repricing
Proposes that new contracts use V2 opcodes without GAS/GASLIMIT, while old contracts keep the old schedule.
Magicians discussion of EIP-8488
Sam Wilson and others point out compatibility problems with CREATE/DELEGATECALL and with factory and proxy contracts.
Dankrad: never breaking existing contracts is not workable
One of the core developer positions on Glamsterdam's compatibility constraints.
Marius van der Wijden: the team is investigating with auditors
A reply to criticism of the 8037/8038 compatibility issue.
Kassandra: suggests making most opcodes cheaper
Argues for handling repricing by lowering prices rather than raising them.
ACDC #191: only a short 8037/8038 update on November 12
Per the EF timeline, the two EIPs are not on the formal agenda.
ACDT #103: audit results presented on November 16
Open Q&A with the auditors and the EF; app developers are encouraged to join.
nero_eth: a reminder to join ACDT on November 16
Related to the ACDT #103 presentation of audit results.
ACDE #249: next steps discussed on November 19
Discussion of the audit results and what follows, with no decision committed in advance.
ETH as a store of value
Vitalik's main post: ETH should be a store of value first
Puts SoV ahead of the fee-burning narrative while keeping the EIP-1559 burn.
Vitalik: the fee-burn valuation floor was never solid
Notes that most of the fees burned in 2021 to 2023 came from crypto-internal use cases.
Vitalik: optimizing for fee burning conflicts with decentralization
Argues that optimizing burn to support today's market cap would require large R&D spending and heavily interventionist governance.
Vitalik: grounding SoV in post-quantum security, privacy and censorship resistance
Mentions concrete work such as formal verification, ossification, Kohaku, FOCIL and lightweight nodes.
Francesco: the technical and monetary narratives are not either-or
Sees Vitalik's framing as close to a consensus the community had largely already reached.
Barnabé: fast slots and SoV do not conflict
A follow-up to Vitalik's store-of-value argument.
Barnabé: once the post-quantum transition is done, no asset has better properties
Ties the SoV argument to the post-quantum roadmap.
Julian Ma: ETH is the sanctuary asset in the AI age
A follow-up to this week's SoV narrative.
binji previews a long and controversial reply
The Ethlabs researcher plans to respond to Vitalik's SoV argument.
The post-quantum roadmap
EIP-8483: Post-Quantum Material Registration
Lets a validator's withdrawal address register 32 bytes of post-quantum material, preparing for a future PQ migration fork.
jtraglia asks to discuss including EIP-8483 in Hegotá at ACDC #191
The comment was posted at 03:54 on 2026-11-11.
EIP-8479: Post-Quantum PeerDAS and Variable-Size Blobs
A proposal for a post-quantum data layer and variable-size blobs.
Ethereal news #46: this week's EIP roundup
Includes EIP-8479 and other post-quantum proposals.
Vitalik: the current PQ roadmap brings efficiency gains of its own
Mentions fewer validators on the hot path, erasure-coded P2P, and faster finality with PQ signature aggregation.
ethresear.ch: measuring PQ signature aggregation in leanVM
Hash-based folding did not beat leanVM's full-verifier recursion.
PQ Transaction Signatures Breakout #18
Agenda in ethereum/pm #2298; the call is on November 11 at 21:00.
Other updates
Devcon 8 (Mumbai) wraps up; the next one is in Lisbon
ETHBEAT launches the CROPS guide
The first ratings include Tornado Cash, Uniswap V2/V3 and Safe.
ETHBEAT: privacy protocol pages will show the frontends that were reviewed
A companion note published the same day as the CROPS guide.
ETHBEAT rename announcement (formerly L2BEAT)
Published on November 4 and reposted by Vitalik on November 7.
EF: formal verification finds spec discrepancies in EIP-8282
Done by Veritylab.
EIP-8141 revision: raise MAX_VERIFY_GAS
Proposes raising MAX_VERIFY_GAS to 300,000.
EIP-8141 revision: blob fee and GASPRICE
Explains that the blob fee can lower GASPRICE.
Frame Transaction Breakout #8, set for November 17
Continues the EIP-8141 discussion.
EIP-8491: LUCID Key Publisher Priority Lists
A new proposal related to the encrypted mempool.
Encrypt The Mempool #12, with EIP-8184 on the agenda
The call is on November 11 at 22:00.
EIP-8487: separate execution credits and billing credits
EIP-8484: SLOTDURATION opcode
EIP-1: adds EIP Coordinator details
ERC-8325 Asset Anchor Registry moves to Final
ERC-8326 moves to Final
ERC-8327 moves to Final
ERC-8330 submitted for Last Call
ERC-7962 submitted for Last Call
ERC-8107 submitted for Last Call
ERC-8048 adds an ens endpoint type
ERC-8049 adds an ens endpoint type
Naming the I-star consensus layer upgrade after Heze
Signal only; core developers decide.
Phylax launches, recommended by Barnabé and Julian Ma
A tool for application security and insurability.
Aztec Tierra launches the private message board RollingChat
Based on an idea from Vitalik.
Community
Eli Ben-Sasson: the Glamsterdam delay makes an independent L1 more urgent
Uses the delay to show how hard upgrading a blockchain is, and talks about Starknet.
lightclient: I warned about this kind of issue on ACD before
A reply during the Glamsterdam compatibility controversy.
Vitalik: look at what I paid for with a privacy protocol
A reply to people discussing his own onchain ETH payments.
Vitalik: slowing the growth of compute is a good thing overall
On AI and data centers.
Eli Ben-Sasson: AI will not slow down, so adopt safer cryptography early
A reply to Vitalik's view on compute growth.
Magicians: ERC-8489 Agent Information Flow Paradigm
One of the more active new threads this week.
Magicians: Protected Accounts for Fungible Tokens
One of the more active new threads this week.