以太坊研究日报
A daily record of what changed in Ethereum protocol work, research and the ecosystem.
Page 26 of 27 · May 14, 2026 to May 20, 2026
Vitalik listed short-term work shifting Ethereum toward native privacy: AA plus FOCIL to make privacy protocol transactions first class with strong inclusion guarantees, keyed nonces, and access layer work such as Kohaku and private reads. soispoke summed up Hegotá as hardness: censorship resistance with FOCIL, and native trustless privacy with frame transactions and keyed nonces. ethresear.ch proposed a post-quantum VRF for RANDAO once BLS is retired at L*.
nerolation submitted EIP-8266, adding expiring nonces to frame transactions. A clarification of the EIP-7928 edge case around 7702 with insufficient gas was submitted. rakita updated the SSTORE write cost condition in EIP-8038, and it was merged. L2BEAT for the first time regenerated all ZK circuits used by Lighter from source. ethresear.ch published an EVM verifier for WHIR over a 31-bit field.
Vitalik responded to the claim that AI bug finding will make secure code impossible, arguing that AI-assisted formal verification is a major reason for optimism. The ERC-8265 prepared transaction envelope and a transaction event manifest EIP draft both target the gap between what users sign and what finally executes. On ACDT #80, EIP-7954's contract size limit was updated to 64KiB. _julianma announced he is leaving the EF.
Sunday. pedrouid submitted an EIP-8141 extension with guarantors, flexible nonces and signer binding; guarantors let a transaction enter the public mempool even when the sender's VERIFY frame is unsafe to simulate. EIP-7708 took EIP-8246 as a dependency to remove the ETH burn log edge case, and it was merged.
A quiet Saturday. ERC-8262, a zero-knowledge compliance oracle, was submitted: users prove at transaction time that they meet a jurisdiction's compliance rules without revealing identity. tcoratger broke down Justin Drake's presentation on the quantum threat, arguing the probability of a cryptographically relevant quantum computer before 2032 has risen sharply.
nerolation's EIP-8141 EXPIRY_VERIFIER frame was merged, so a transaction can set an expiry through a VERIFY frame targeting the expiry verifier. RogerPodacter updated EIP-8182, private ETH and ERC-20 transfers, and it was merged. EIP-7851 wording was tweaked based on forum discussion. Ethereal news #23 was published.
benjaminion published Upgrading Finality, Edition 1 on the new EF Protocol consensus website, aiming to cut time to finality from about 1000 seconds to about 10. colinlyguo moved EIP-7851 away from the 7702 authorization marker path so that the delegated wallet code decides, and it was merged. nerolation's execution layer reorg state retention window EIP was merged. ethresear.ch discussed private payments to email addresses, phone numbers and social handles. ACDC #178 was held in the evening.