Ethereum Research Daily

January 7, 2026

• BPO2 live with blob target and max raised to 14 and 21
• blob prices spike after the increase
• EIP-8120 MLOAD8 and CALLDATALOAD8 opcodes
• EIP-8051 defines the ML-DSA norm bound
• EIP-5069 adds associate editors

BPO2 went live, raising the blob target and max from 10 and 15 to 14 and 21; terencechain saw blob prices spike rather than drop, likely as some chain ramped usage after the increase. Helkomine submitted EIP-8120, opcodes that read a single byte from memory or calldata to save gas. yyhrnk defined the beta norm bound for the EIP-8051 ML-DSA verification precompile.

January 6, 2026

• EIP-8037 update merged
• EIP-7773 updates Glamsterdam EIP statuses
• an agent authorization ERC submitted
• soispoke on FOCIL readiness for Hegotá
• MegaETH added to L2BEAT with a risk assessment

misilva73's EIP-8037 state creation gas update merged, and ralexstokes updated Glamsterdam EIP statuses in EIP-7773. soispoke published FOCIL readiness for Hegotá. donnoh_eth said MegaETH was added to L2BEAT, with node code not yet public so no one can challenge.

January 5, 2026

• ACDE #227 lists the EIP-7997 deterministic factory predeploy as CFI
• declines EIP-8058
• 7668 and 7745
• leaves the contract size limit and EIP-8037 for later
• EIP-6404 moves to the EIP-7932 registry

The off cycle ACDE #227: EIP-7997, the deterministic factory predeploy, is CFI; the contract size limit (EIP-7907 versus EIP-7954), EIP-7903 and EIP-8037 wait for the next ACDE; EIP-8058, EIP-7668 and EIP-7745 are declined. EIP-6404 moved to the EIP-7932 signature algorithm registry, merged. poojaranjan proposed an ACD-G governance call.

January 4, 2026

• Vitalik on ZKEVMs at alpha and PeerDAS live
• an agent authorization interface EIP submitted
• EIP-7979 control flow examples and exploit code
• EIP-7792 and EIP-7793 moved to Stagnant
• EIP-7723 clarifies status and stages

VitalikButerin said ZKEVMs are at alpha (production performance, safety work remaining) and PeerDAS is on mainnet, turning Ethereum into a different kind of system. 0xvimer submitted an agent authorization interface EIP. EIP-7793 conditional transactions moved to Stagnant for inactivity.

January 3, 2026

• EIP-7773 updated with ACDE #226 status decisions
• an EIP-8037 update submitted
• the EIP and ERC websites migrate from Jekyll to Zola
• category pages switch to filterable tables

joshdavislight recorded ACDE #226 status decisions in EIP-7773, merged. misilva73 submitted an EIP-8037 update. SamWilsn announced the EIP and ERC websites will move from Jekyll to Zola. Activity was light over the New Year holiday.

January 2, 2026

• Paradex moved out of L2BEAT's rollup category over "privacy perps"
• Lighter prover code published
• ERC-7828 moves to Draft
• a Domain Architecture for Diamonds ERC merged
• the EIP-7928 Breakout #10 agenda

donnoh_eth said that after Paradex introduced "privacy perps", users rely on a 3 member privacy council to decrypt blobs when needed, security equal to a 3/3 DAC, so it left the rollup category. Lighter published its prover code. clowestab submitted moving ERC-7828 to Draft.

January 1, 2026

• Vitalik reviews Ethereum's 2025
• terencechain's 2026 resolutions of ePBS and doubled gas and blob limits
• EIP-5450 aligns the JUMPF validation formula with EIP-6206
• EIP-6690 adds security considerations
• privacy as the biggest moat

New Year's Day was quiet. VitalikButerin reviewed 2025: higher gas limits and blob counts, better node software and zkEVMs passing performance milestones. terencechain listed 2026 goals: ship ePBS, double the gas and blob limits and shorten slot time.