Ethereum Research Daily

August 5, 2026

• EIP-8363 issuance debate
• ERC-8366 zero-knowledge spending policies
• EIP-8141 no approval in atomic batches
• EIP-8369 VOPS and FOCIL
• WEBCAT grant

The issuance debate around EIP-8363 widened, and Pooja, trent_vanepps and nero_eth explained Hegotá's process: the August 6 deadline is for proposals, not inclusion, and selection ends on November 8. On accounts, ERC-8366 proposes zero-knowledge spending policies, so ERC-4337 accounts, EIP-7702-delegated EOAs and other fund holders can release funds against a proof that meets a preregistered policy, and an EIP-8141 PR statically disallows approval scope in atomic batches. The EF's Trillion Dollar Security initiative funded WEBCAT front-end verification.

August 4, 2026

• EIP-8363 tapered issuance burn
• frame transactions and FOCIL
• EIP-8141 block inclusion and payer solvency
• EIP-8038 storage access pricing
• native rollups

pintail submitted EIP-8363 Tapered Issuance Burn, which changes the ETH issuance curve by partly burning validator rewards, and its Magicians thread became the day's hot topic. On accounts, two EIP-8141 PRs filled gaps in the spec: one makes FOCIL check a frame transaction's validation prefix instead of its nonce and balance, and the other spells out the gas reservation and payer solvency a block builder must check. EIP-8038's `ACCOUNT_WRITE` was set to 9,000 and merged.

August 3, 2026

• EIP-8250 keyed nonce address pinned
• EIP-8272 recent root
• ACDT #90
• Glamsterdam repricing anchor
• EIP-8361 transaction validity proofs

Two account and privacy EIPs wrote their system contract addresses into the spec: EIP-8250's `NONCE_MANAGER` is pinned to `0x...8250` and EIP-8272's `RECENT_ROOT_ADDRESS` to `0x...8272`, so devnets can interoperate by reading the spec. Marchhill submitted EIP-8361 transaction validity proofs, which use proofs to raise the public mempool's ceiling on validation work for frame transactions. In the evening ACDT #90 discussed Glamsterdam repricing, with the anchor lowered from 100 to 75 Mgas/s.

August 2, 2026

• Umia testnet and futarchy
• Starknet private swaps
• onchain arbitrage research
• EIPs CI fixes

A quiet Sunday. Barnabé tried Umia Finance's newly launched testnet and said it shows the potential of fully onchain venture funding with futarchy primitives such as conditional tokens. Starknet launched private swaps via avnu. brucexu_eth explained why he started onchain arbitrage research in a bear market. The EIPs repo saw only CI-related submissions.

August 1, 2026

• EIP-8141 frames split execution gas and state gas
• SLOTNUM banned in validation prefixes
• frame receipts carry no transaction-level status
• NONCE_MANAGER and RECENT_ROOT_ADDRESS pinned
• Glamsterdam's 10 EIPs explained

Four more EIP-8141 changes were submitted: lightclient split a frame's `gas_limit` into `execution_gas_limit` and `state_gas_limit`; AnkushinDaniil banned SLOTNUM in validation prefixes and noted that frame receipts carry no transaction-level status, after Nethermind and ethrex reported `0x1` and `0x0` respectively for the JSON-RPC `status` of the same transaction. The system addresses of EIP-8250 and EIP-8272 were pinned to addresses ending in 8250 and 8272. trent_vanepps explained the 10 EIPs in Glamsterdam.

July 31, 2026

• EIP-7819 delegation designator trailing data holds ML-DSA public keys
• EIP-8355 ML-DSA verification precompiles
• EIP-8357 EVM verification key registry
• EIP-8358 net gas metering for account changes
• EIP-8347 PBT offline migration merged

shemnon submitted two post-quantum-related EIPs: EIP-7819 allows trailing data after the delegation designator, with a worked example storing ML-DSA public keys there and accepting them with EIP-8141 code, and the new EIP-8355 provides verification precompiles for FIPS 204 ML-DSA at three security levels. donnoh submitted EIP-8357, an EVM verification key registry, and rakita submitted EIP-8358, net gas metering for account changes. EIP-8347 offline state migration to the PBT merged as a Draft. Ethereal news #33 was published.

July 30, 2026

• ACDE #242
• Platåberget short-lived public testnet
• polar bear chosen as Glamsterdam mascot
• EIP-7819 SETDELEGATE
• EIP-7906 state diff assertions

Per Ethereal news #33, ACDE #242 covered Platåberget, a short-lived permissionless public testnet targeting early August with benchmark-based repricing numbers and discv5 only; new Hegotá proposals include Etan Kissling's EIP-8115, 8116 and 7807, Derek Chiang's EIP-7819 SETDELEGATE, forshtat's EIP-7906, and EIP-7668, 8200 and 7666; the polar bear was chosen as mascot. The EIPs repo saw many merges: EIP-7732 (ePBS), 8045, 8061 and 2780 moved to Review, and 8115, 8116, 7807 and 7906 entered the Hegotá candidate list. Marchhill submitted 355-byte reference bytecode for EIP-8141's canonical paymaster.