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  • Vitalik calls for trust "nutrition labels" on software and hardware
  • EIP-2780 precompile target and account warming charges
  • improving EIP-8250 keyed nonces
  • multi-party block construction
  • Sepolia replacement and sunsetting

Vitalik suggested that ideally all software and hardware would carry "nutrition labels" listing the math and the actors' honest behavior a system relies on. rakita submitted an EIP-2780 change that meters precompiles as transaction targets like any other account. A Magicians thread drew on EVVM's async nonce experience to propose improvements to EIP-8250. parithosh discussed replacing and sunsetting the Sepolia testnet.

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  • ERC-4337 move to Final submitted
  • a Hegotá set of four for native private transactions
  • EIP-8272 recent roots thread
  • Kohaku access layer security and privacy
  • L2BEAT privacy page launches

yoavw submitted the PR moving ERC-4337 to Final. soispoke argued that if Hegotá ships FOCIL (EIP-7805), frame transactions (EIP-8141), keyed nonces (EIP-8250) and recent roots (EIP-8272), Ethereum gets native, trustless, censorship resistant private transactions next year. Vitalik described Kohaku's goal of security and read and write privacy at the access layer. L2BEAT released its privacy page.

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  • EIP-8272 recent roots for frame transactions submitted
  • formalizing FOCIL in Lean 4
  • EIP-8243 batching attestations at source
  • security in CROPS
  • STRK20 fully launching in June

soispoke submitted EIP-8272, letting frame transactions reference recent roots during validation without reading mutable storage, giving protocol support for private transactions that must prove against a recent commitment tree. ethresear.ch formalized FOCIL's "1-out-of-N honesty" inclusion guarantee in Lean 4. vdWijden stressed that security is the most important part of CROPS.

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  • Vitalik on where the EF is going
  • Zcash vs Starknet privacy
  • privacy protocols lack an L2BEAT-style review
  • post-quantum migration paths

A quiet Sunday. Vitalik posted a long personal view on where the Ethereum Foundation is going, stressing that the board is not just him and that aerugoettinea is executing much of the transition. Eli Ben-Sasson compared the privacy trade-offs of Zcash and Starknet. donnoh_eth wished there were an L2BEAT for privacy; two days later L2BEAT launched its privacy page.

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  • EIP-8261 gas limit schedule merged
  • EIP-8266 expiring nonces merged
  • EIP-8268 storage roots merged
  • capping deposit requests per block
  • AetherWeave stake-backed peer discovery

A Saturday of merges in the EIPs repo: EIP-8261 gas limit schedule, EIP-8266 expiring nonces for frame transactions, EIP-8268 storage roots in block access lists, and a new EIP capping deposit requests per execution layer block at 8192. ethresear.ch proposed AetherWeave, which ties network identity to stake to resist eclipse and Sybil attacks.

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  • EIP-8141 adds a signatures list to the outer tx
  • ERC-8211 smart batching and ERC-7683
  • glamsterdam-devnet-4 launches
  • Nym mixnets
  • Ethereal news #24

lightclient added a signatures field to the EIP-8141 outer transaction, merged, to stay compatible with future signature aggregation, especially for large post-quantum signatures. barnabemonnot laid out how ERC-8211 smart batching and ERC-7683 programmable solvers divide the work. terencechain announced glamsterdam-devnet-4, which includes the updated EIP-8037 state creation gas parameters. Ethereal news #24 was published.

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  • ACDE #237 proposes EIP-8182 private transfers for Hegotá
  • EIP-8037 improves gas accounting for 7702 authorizations
  • EIP-8268 storage roots in block access lists
  • EIP-7954 64KiB contract limit merged
  • PSE client-side private payment design

On ACDE #237, EIP-8182 private ETH and ERC-20 transfers, EIP-8188 state tiering by write age and EIP-4758 deactivate SELFDESTRUCT were proposed as Hegotá non-headliners. rjl493456442 submitted an EIP-8037 change that charges 7702 authorization state gas by net state change. CPerezz submitted EIP-8268, attaching storage roots to block access lists. EIP-7954 raised the contract code limit to 64KiB, and it was merged.