Ethereum Research Daily

June 24, 2026

• towards native post-quantum private ETH
• EIP-8272 proposed for Hegotá
• EIP-7906 POST_TX frame mode and TXDIFF
• EIP-7864 moves to a partitioned binary tree
• issuance offsets and penalties under low issuance

Pierre published Towards Native Post-Quantum Private ETH on ethresear.ch, laying out the cryptographic work needed to enshrine post-quantum privacy in the L1 and arguing that protecting against harvest-now-decrypt-later alone is not enough. soispoke submitted an EIP-8081 change proposing EIP-8272 recent roots for Hegotá. forshtat added a POST_TX frame mode and a TXDIFF opcode to EIP-7906, both merged. Vitalik adjusted EIP-7864 to the partitioned binary tree (PBT) design. aelowsson analyzed issuance offsets and increased penalties under low, zero or negative issuance.

June 23, 2026

• EF's new structure with five domain clusters
• EF budget cut by about 40%
• PSE winding down
• Ethlabs founded
• EIP-8222 Lean Staking merged

The EF published its new structure: five domain clusters (protocol, access, user, community and institutional layers) plus operations and management clusters, with 54 fewer people, about 20%. Vitalik said the EF is cutting its budget by about 40% this year as it becomes a long-term, endowment-based organization. Former EF protocol researchers founded Ethlabs, a non-profit R&D lab. EIP-8222 Lean Staking was merged; it had been presented at ACDE #238 as staking deposits and withdrawals through a privacy pool. ethbeat added STRK20 to its privacy dashboard and noted that a single admin account can see all shielded transfers. Aztec reached Stage 2 on L2BEAT.

June 22, 2026

• CROPS Hegotá wishlist
• frame transactions with keyed nonces and recent roots for privacy
• execution layer post-quantum migration overview
• EIP-8038 SSTORE clear refund bug
• a native zkEVM scales bandwidth

soispoke listed a CROPS wishlist for Hegotá: censorship resistance via FOCIL (EIP-7805, SFI) and privacy via frame transactions (EIP-8141, CFI), keyed nonces (EIP-8250) and recent roots (EIP-8272). misilva73 fixed a bug in EIP-8038 where `x → 0 → x` could yield a net refund, and it was merged. mikeneuder argued that a native zkEVM scales bandwidth, not just execution. Lighthouse v8.2.0 fixed several security vulnerabilities and users should upgrade soon. Vitalik ran an experiment to test whether AI text analysis can identify a document he wrote anonymously.

June 21, 2026

• Validator Redirected Revenue
• a validator-driven public goods funding mechanism
• EF turmoil
• privacy and post-quantum as requirements

A quiet Sunday. clesaege published Validator Redirected Revenue on ethresear.ch, proposing two protocol-level changes that let validators configure a share of their staking rewards to be redirected to public goods, to address free-riding on Ethereum's shared improvements; the thread drew a lot of discussion. Eli Ben-Sasson shared his view on the EF turmoil.

June 20, 2026

• calldata floor to 96 per byte
• EIP-8279 explicit BAL data metering with net-zero refund
• post-quantum keystore for stateful hash-based keys
• Starknet v0.14.3 vote on EVM privacy and quantum security
• should Ethereum ossify

misilva73 submitted a new EIP raising the calldata floor from 64 to 96 gas per byte, because a block full of transfers has an irreducible byte density, and also submitted an EIP-8279 refactor that meters BAL bytes with an explicit counter and adds a net-zero refund. ch4r10t33r submitted an EIP defining a keystore format for stateful hash-based keys such as XMSS. Starknet opened a vote on two v0.14.3 optimizations for EVM privacy and quantum security.

June 19, 2026

• scaling in Hegotá anchored on the ETH transfer
• FOCIL as an L2 forced transaction mechanism
• EIP-8007 repricing summaries
• the 101 bytes per authorization in EIP-8037
• core dev funding debate

misilva73 analyzed on ethresear.ch how Hegotá can keep raising the gas limit after Glamsterdam: the 21,000-gas ETH transfer bounds both execution and bandwidth. donnoh explored repurposing FOCIL as an L2 forced transaction mechanism. EIP-8007 updated the repricing summaries for 2780, 7904, 8037 and 8038 and was merged. The community debated how core dev teams are funded: fede_intern argued many core teams survive on EF funding, while potuz recommended trent_vanepps' document on the topic.

June 18, 2026

• ACDE #239
• EIP-8282 CFI
• EIP-7904 no repricing
• EIP-8130 default EOA revocation as a state flag
• inline self-actor config

In the evening ACDE #239 listed EIP-8282 as considered for inclusion in Glamsterdam, targeted devnet-6 for mid next week, and confirmed EIP-7904 becomes Informational because clients exceed the 100 Mgas/s target and need no compute repricing. chunter-cb merged two EIP-8130 storage model changes: revoking the default EOA becomes a state flag, and the account's own secp256k1 config is inlined into the account state slot so it resolves in one SLOAD. morph-dev submitted an EIP-8141 spec cleanup. pcaversaccio proposed Etherveil, an Ethereum privacy browser built on Tor Browser, on ethresear.ch. Hsiao-Wei Wang stepped down as EF co-executive director.