Ethereum Research Daily

May 13, 2026

• EIP-7851 becomes a minimal EIP-7702 based key deactivation
• EIP-8141 atomic batching with any frames
• EIP-8141 transaction expiry frame
• EIP-8130 gas and verifier validation
• EIP-8037 state gas recalibrated

colinlyguo simplified EIP-7851 into a minimal EIP-7702 based change, removing the 7-day grace period and using a reserved DEACTIVATE_ADDRESS to deactivate the ECDSA authority of delegated accounts, and it was merged. EIP-8141 gained atomic batching with any frames, merged, and nerolation submitted a transaction expiry frame. EIP-8130 updated gas and verifier validation. EIP-8037 recalibrated its parameters to a 150M gas limit and 120 GiB per year of state growth.

May 12, 2026

• EIP-8250 keyed nonces merged
• EIP-8141 frames cleanup
• EIP-8130 verifier set and owner call policies
• clear signing goes live
• strkBTC launch

soispoke's keyed nonces (EIP-8250) were merged, letting one EIP-8141 sender run multiple nonce sequences in parallel and unlocking concurrent transactions for trustless privacy protocols. lightclient cleaned up the EIP-8141 spec, and it was merged. EIP-8130 added a canonical verifier set, and owner call policies were submitted. The EF announced that clear signing is live, aiming to end blind signing. strkBTC went live on Starknet mainnet.

May 11, 2026

• EIP-2780 splits 21000 by resource
• EIP-8261 gas limit scheduled by hard forks
• EIP-8141 extended feature set
• smart wallet upgrades at a new high
• strkBTC privacy launch preview

misilva73 submitted an EIP-2780 rewrite that rebuilds the 21,000 base cost from primitives priced by resource. barnabasbusa submitted EIP-8261, which lets the block gas limit change only at hard forks and removes validator configuration and EIP-1559 elasticity. pedrouid submitted an extended feature set for EIP-8141 that aims to turn frame transactions into a complete native AA upgrade. The EF blog published the Protocol team's May update.