Ethereum Research Daily

August 26, 2026

• EIP-8397 Frame authenticator signatures
• EIP Coordinator role
• contract storage layout descriptor format
• EF repricing reminder
• fast Ethereum

leekt (taek) submitted a companion EIP to EIP-8141 adding a bounded `AUTHENTICATOR` signature scheme: arbitrary cryptography is executed by protocol in a state-independent, gas-fixed context, while account authorization stays in the ordinary `VERIFY` frame. jochem-brouwer proposed adding an EIP Coordinator role to EIP-5069. forshtat resubmitted the contract storage layout descriptor format as an EIP instead of an ERC. The EF again reminded L1 contract maintainers to check repricing impact. Barnabé wrote about fast Ethereum. P2P networking #7 was held in the evening.

August 25, 2026

• EIP-8396 Keystore expired actor pruning
• ePBS distilled
• Frame Tx Breakout #2
• EIP-8037 system call storage bound
• ERC-8395 signed HTTP requests

chunter-cb submitted a companion EIP to EIP-8130 for consensus-driven pruning of expired actors, bounding Keystore state growth from short-lived actors such as session keys and subscriptions. Mike Neuder published "ePBS, distilled", outlining ePBS in its final form and its effect on MEV markets. The justification for EIP-8037's system call storage write bound was corrected and merged. AA (Frame Tx) breakout #2 was held in the evening.

August 24, 2026

• Glamsterdam gas repricing impact
• affected contracts lookup
• post-quantum deposit contract EIP-8394
• ACDT #93
• EIP-8141 block execution gas merged

The EF published the Glamsterdam repricing impact note: EIP-8037 and EIP-8038 change the cost of creating and accessing state; replaying historical mainnet transactions shows a small set of contracts rely on gas assumptions that shift, most issues are fixed by a gas-limit increase, and maintainers can look up their address on the repricing-impact page and test on Platåberget. The EIP-8141 change accounting block execution gas before refunds was merged, and EIP-8390 merged as a Draft. kevaundray submitted a post-quantum-ready deposit contract EIP. ACDT #93 was held in the evening.

August 23, 2026

• EIP-8390 discussion thread
• ERC-8391 execution delegation framework
• post-quantum account costs
• looking back at the block size wars

A quiet Sunday. dapplion posted the Magicians thread for EIP-8390, removing the sync committee, with `SYNC_REWARD_WEIGHT` removed and not redistributed. On accounts there was one new ERC, an execution delegation framework, ERC-8391. hasufl looked back at Bitcoin's block size wars and argued that activity moved to other chains mainly because of programmability, not block size.

August 22, 2026

• the 8141 versus 8130 debate
• looking back at the AA wars
• EIP-8141 block execution gas before refunds
• removing the sync committee
• calldata floor fix merged

Saturday's discussion centered on native AA. Responding to Base's plan to ship 8130, lightclient said half of 8130 is application-layer detail that does not belong in the protocol, while 8141 supports permissionless innovation without forcing wallets and users into specific patterns. Hudson Jameson asked what came of the AA wars, since smart wallets using AA do not seem to have taken off. In the spec, EIP-8141 gets a PR accounting block execution gas before refunds (submitted), and the calldata floor fix was merged. dapplion submitted an EIP removing the sync committee, cutting issuance by about 3%.

August 21, 2026

• Base to ship EIP-8130
• EIP-8387 stateless accounts
• EIP-8389 Keystore signatures for ordinary transactions
• quick slots set to 10 seconds
• keyed nonce and recent root opcodes moved

jessepollak announced that Base will roll out EIP-8130 native accounts and wants to work with Ethereum and other EVM teams to do the same; the same day chunter-cb submitted three EIPs built on 8130: stateless accounts, a transaction events view, and Keystore authentication for EIP-2930/1559 transactions, which would let those transactions use post-quantum and aggregatable signatures. Barnabé submitted a PR retargeting EIP-8198 to 10-second slots. PRs for EIP-8250 and EIP-8272 moved numbers that clashed with 8141. StarkWare said a Falcon-512 account transacted on Starknet mainnet for $0.06.

August 20, 2026

• ACDC #185
• Platåberget activates Glamsterdam
• Sepolia September 28 and Hoodi October 26 proposal
• EIP-8130 four-tier authenticator classification
• EIP-8141 bound on validation prefix re-execution

The Platåberget testnet activated Glamsterdam, but a builder deposit caching issue at the upgrade transition caused non-finality; in the evening ACDC #185 proposed upgrading Sepolia on September 28 and Hoodi on October 26. On accounts, chunter-cb split EIP-8130 authenticators into four tiers, CANONICAL, PURE, BOUNDED and ARBITRARY, which govern mempool propagation without changing consensus validity, and AnkushinDaniil proposed a bound on producer-side re-execution of non-approving validation prefixes. The EF Formal Verification team launched the better.codes autoresearch challenge.