Ethereum Research Daily

April 8, 2026

• Native Key Delegation for EOAs EIP merged
• EIP-2780 adds a transfer log cost and drops PAY
• ERC-8211 smart batching
• an extensible execution transaction for account capabilities
• checked arithmetic opcodes

prestwich's Native Key Delegation for EOAs EIP merged, extending EIP-7702 delegation to non ECDSA keys such as ed25519. benaadams added a 1,756 gas transfer log cost to EIP-2780 and removed the rejected PAY opcode, submitted and merged. The ethereum account highlighted ERC-8211, letting users and agents express multi step composable actions as an off chain script.

April 7, 2026

• Sandboxed Smart Wallet ERC merged
• Blocks Are Dead Long Live Blobs
• EIP-8142 block in blobs
• EU digital identity picks Noir
• WhatsApp Private Processing TEE audit

PowerStream3604's Sandboxed Smart Wallet ERC (ERC-8199) merged. ethresear.ch published Blocks Are Dead. Long Live Blobs, and nero_eth explained that with EIP-8142 putting execution payloads in blobs, validators only need to sample. The EU digital identity wallet picked Noir for its ZK identity app. trailofbits disclosed 8 high severity issues found auditing WhatsApp's Private Processing TEEs.

April 6, 2026

• EIP-8175 becomes a pure fee and auth container with fee_auth sponsorship
• EIP-8141 APPROVE scope and default code fixes
• a transaction wait time site goes live
• the VEIL zero knowledge compiler
• calls to support SEAL after Drift

rakita restructured EIP-8175, moving to, value and data into CALL and CREATE capabilities so the envelope only carries fee and auth, adding fee_auth programmable sponsorship and three new opcodes, submitted and merged. chiranjeev13 submitted EIP-8141 spec fixes, including a VERIFY frame count check and allowing any EOA as paymaster. nero_eth launched a site showing average transaction wait times.

April 5, 2026

• EIP-8130 contract updates merged
• wallet privacy is what matters
• Kohaku's long road to full stack privacy
• synchronous composability
• L1-zkEVM breakout #03 agenda

A quiet Sunday. chunter-cb's EIP-8130 contract updates merged. binji_x stressed that onchain privacy is meaningless if the wallet itself can be compromised, and kassandraETH replied that Kohaku wants to fix this but full stack onchain privacy with good UX and a common standard is still very hard.

April 4, 2026

• EIP-8182 private transfers update merged
• EIP-7864 redundant code removed
• ACDE #234 agenda
• Google and Oratomic papers reshape the Q day timeline
• Ledger quantum safety phishing emails

A quiet Saturday. RogerPodacter kept updating EIP-8182 enshrined private transfers, submitted and merged. The ACDE #234 agenda was posted. tcoratger summarized nic_carter's analysis of the Google and Oratomic quantum papers, suggesting Q day may be closer than thought.

April 3, 2026

• EIP-8141 adds a signatures list to the outer transaction for PQ signature aggregation
• VERIFY frames can use precompiles
• EIP-8130 contract updates
• Smart Batching ERC-8211
• block scoped transient storage EIP-8212

lightclient proposed a signatures field on EIP-8141's outer transaction for forward compatibility with aggregation of large post-quantum signatures. derekchiang proposed letting contract accounts' VERIFY frames use precompiles for verification. L2BEAT noted that most proving systems in its ZK Catalog lack the zero knowledge property.

April 2, 2026

• Same slot decryption for LUCID
• EIP-8130 nonce and EOA delegation update merged
• Hash-Committed Account EIP
• Coercion-Resistant Vault ERC-8238
• post-quantum blobs

An ethresear.ch post proposed same slot decryption for LUCID: optional execution in slot N with fallback to N+1, saving about 12 seconds. chunter-cb updated EIP-8130 nonce and EOA delegation rules, submitted and merged. zacksfF submitted the Hash-Committed Account EIP. Nethermind published distributed verification for post-quantum blobs. After the Drift hack, hasufl and others called for circuit breakers and timelocks across DeFi.