Ethereum Research Daily

February 25, 2026

• Blob streaming to scale the DA layer
• EIP-8024 branchless normalization merged
• BPO3 hardfork meta EIP merged
• Give Your Agent a Wallet
• Minimal Agent Registry ERC merged

QED, fradamt and Julian proposed blob streaming, enshrining continuous, sampled blob pre propagation as a first class protocol mechanism. frangio's EIP-8024 branchless normalization and EXCHANGE extension merged. The BPO3 hardfork meta EIP merged. The EF streamed episode 1 of The Agentic Tech Stack on giving agents a wallet.

February 24, 2026

• The EF stakes about 70
• 000 ETH of treasury using open source Dirk and Vouch
• VitalikButerin on DeFi as central to Ethereum's value
• a Give Your Agent a Wallet stream
• FOCIL Breakout #29

Under last year's treasury policy, the EF began staking about 70,000 ETH with rewards back to the treasury, using the open source distributed signer Dirk and Vouch. VitalikButerin called DeFi a central part of Ethereum's value. Spec work was quiet; FOCIL Breakout #29 met.

February 23, 2026

• ACDT #71 sets bal-devnet-3 and epbs-devnet-0 for March 4
• VOSA virtual one time sub accounts as a privacy primitive
• Anonymous PGC for account based chains
• optimal aggregation functions for EIP-8037
• VitalikButerin on security as minimizing the gap between intent and behavior

ACDT #71 set both bal-devnet-3 and epbs-devnet-0 for March 4, with EIP-8037 hardcoded at 100M gas for testing. On privacy, a Magicians post proposed the VOSA one time sub account pattern and ethresear.ch published Anonymous PGC, accepted at EUROCRYPT 2026. misilva73 derived optimal aggregation functions for EIP-8037. The EF blog set out its commitment to DeFi.

February 22, 2026

• Privacy should be the default
• Ethereum's roadmap shifts to an endgame mindset
• ACDC #176 agenda
• AI-Native NFT ERC-8170
• a delayed metadata update extension for ERC-8004

A quiet Sunday. nero_eth stressed that privacy should be Ethereum's default rather than a luxury. tcoratger summarized drakefjustin's view that the roadmap is shifting from incremental upgrades to an endgame mindset. Agent ERCs kept coming, including an AI-Native NFT and a delayed metadata update extension for ERC-8004.

February 21, 2026

• EIP-8081 moves FOCIL to SFI
• EIP-8141 APPROVE caller fixes
• a Payer Service ERC for EIP-8130
• Modular Dispatch Proxies ERC-8167
• operational primitives for AA

ralexstokes moved FOCIL to SFI in the Hegotá meta EIP, submitted and merged. derekchiang submitted EIP-8141 fixes removing the incorrect statement that APPROVE requires CALLER to equal frame.target. chunter-cb submitted the Payer Service Capability ERC, a JSON-RPC interface for wallets to negotiate gas sponsorship and token gas payment for EIP-8130 transactions.

February 20, 2026

• EIP-7805 FOCIL Engine API changes merged
• BAL items must be unique
• EIP-7981 aligned with EIP-7976
• ralexstokes on L1 research in 2026
• prompt injection tests on Perplexity Comet

After FOCIL was picked as the Hegotá headliner, jihoonsong's EIP-7805 Engine API changes merged. nerolation clarified that BAL items must be unique, submitted and merged, and submitted EIP-7981 alignment with EIP-7976. VitalikButerin recommended ralexstokes's post on L1 research in 2026.

February 19, 2026

• ACDC #175 picks FOCIL as the Hegotá consensus layer headliner
• the FOCIL and EIP-8141 native AA synergy
• Solidity 0.8.34 fixes a high severity IR bug
• Native Key Delegation thread EIP-8164
• Shared Sequencer Interface for Agent L2s ERC-8166

ACDC #175 picked EIP-7805 FOCIL as the Hegotá consensus layer headliner. VitalikButerin highlighted the synergy with EIP-8141: 8141 makes smart accounts and privacy protocols first class citizens, and FOCIL then gives them censorship resistance. Solidity 0.8.34 fixed a high severity IR pipeline bug affecting 0.8.28 to 0.8.33.