Ethereum Research Daily

July 8, 2026

• EIP-8141 spec cleanup
• signature bytes kept out of the signing hash
• expiry verifier frame must come first
• EIP-8130 transaction types renumbered
• pcaversaccio's privacy goal

An EIP-8141 spec cleanup was merged: `sig.signer` may be empty and defaults to `tx.sender`, raw signature bytes are left out of every `sig_hash` so signatures can be aggregated later, and the mempool rules require the expiry verifier frame to be the first frame. chunter-cb submitted an EIP-8130 renumbering of transaction types and an `eth_call`/`eth_estimateGas` extension. pcaversaccio said his personal goal is to make Ethereum the leading privacy chain. L1-zkEVM breakout #06 and PQ Interop #47 were held in the evening.

July 7, 2026

• Glamsterdam EIPs moved to Review in bulk
• EIP-2780 state-dependent charges moved to runtime
• EIP-8037 conditional account creation charge at access
• EIP-8141 fixes
• EIP-8298 proposed for Hegotá

poojaranjan submitted PRs moving a batch of Glamsterdam EIPs to Review, including ePBS (7732), BAL (7928), 8037, 8038 and 7778; 7954, 7976 and 7997 were merged the same day. EIP-2780 moves every state-dependent charge to runtime, leaving intrinsic gas as the bare minimum to include a transaction, and EIP-8037 now charges CREATE/CREATE2 account creation conditionally at the destination access. Both were merged. EIP-8141 fixes were merged too: frame-related opcodes halt outside a frame transaction, and data is charged by actual bytes rather than the RLP encoding.

July 6, 2026

• The Extremely Lean Chain
• validator privacy
• Native UTXOs
• EIP-8250 and EIP-8272 proposed for Hegotá
• EIP-8141 arbitrary signature data

Vitalik published The Extremely Lean Chain on ethresear.ch, pushing consensus state responsibility to stakers, who manage and occasionally ZK-prove their own state, while adding strong validator privacy. nero_eth published Native UTXOs on Ethereum, borrowing Bitcoin's one-shot payment objects so that receiving a payment need not add state forever. soispoke announced that keyed nonces (EIP-8250) and recent roots (EIP-8272) are officially proposed for Hegotá. An EIP-8141 change allowing arbitrary signature data was merged. ACDT #86 was held in the evening.

July 5, 2026

• strawmap update
• quick slots pushed to J*
• decoupled consensus slotted for I*
• frame transactions
• post-quantum

Vitalik published the updated Ethereum strawmap from a researcher meeting in Berlin two weeks earlier, following discussions with client teams in Svalbard in April. Barnabé compared it with the February version: quick slots move from Hegotá to J*, further slot reductions from K* to L*, and decoupled consensus is slotted for I*. nero_eth summed up its focus as UX (shorter slots, frame transactions, faster finality, privacy), scaling and post-quantum. dankrad said 3 to 4 years is too slow and about a year is realistic with LLMs.

July 4, 2026

• ERC-8324 Priority Update Registry
• PropAMMs
• EIP-7928 SSTORE access cost
• ERC-8004 agent binding

A quiet Saturday. Flashbots' quintus submitted ERC-8324, the Priority Update Registry (PUR), a shared contract for PropAMMs on Ethereum; an instance has run on mainnet since May 2026 and handles almost all PropAMM volume. An EIP-7928 (BAL) clarification of SSTORE stipend and cold state tracking was merged.

July 3, 2026

• Starknet STRK20 protocol level privacy pool goes live
• ERC-8322 Notary-Backed Confidential Token PR
• EIP-8037 conditional charge for contract creation
• EIP-8282 builder execution requests merged
• EIP-8289 multi-block access list warming merged

StarkWare announced that STRK20 is fully live on mainnet, a privacy pool integrated at the protocol level that brings native privacy to all assets. awrichardson submitted the ERC-8322 Notary-Backed Confidential Token PR. chfast submitted an EIP-8037 change so that CREATE/CREATE2 charge account creation conditionally, only at the actual destination access. EIP-8282 builder execution requests and EIP-8289 multi-block access list warming were merged. Ethereal news #30 was published.

July 2, 2026

• ACDE #240 Hegotá non-headliner proposals
• EIP-8250 keyed nonces and EIP-8272 recent roots
• EIP-8130 actor policies
• EIP-7928 reverts 7702 tracking
• EIP-7997 factory nonce

On ACDE #240 Thomas Thiery proposed keyed nonces (EIP-8250) and recent roots (EIP-8272) for Hegotá, Toni Wahrstätter proposed delayed state root and block access list sidecars, and Ben Adams proposed SETCODEFROM (EIP-8298); the non-headliner deadline is August 6. EIP-8130 clarified its actor policy model, and EIP-7928 went back to checking 7702 delegations after warming. SPREAD proposed efficient anonymous dissemination for GossipSub. gakonst used Tempo's experience to discuss the upside of extending the EVM and adding transaction types.