Page 5 of 19 · October 8, 2026 to October 14, 2026

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  • EIP-8397 frame authenticator signatures
  • EIP-8357 verification key registry
  • EIP-8141 signature length commitment
  • zkAPI private inference
  • L2s struggling to land blobs

Several account-related EIPs were merged as drafts: EIP-8397 adds bounded custom authenticator signatures to EIP-8141, and EIP-8357 sets up an EVM verification key registry. lightclient made EIP-8141 commit to elided signature lengths. The EF showcased zkAPI powering private inference. After interviewing L2s, Derek Chiang found they struggle to land blobs even without congestion.

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  • Starknet Shadow Accounts
  • crypto agility assessment
  • ERC-7562 merged
  • Frame Transaction Breakout #7
  • Cambridge cryptography workshop

Starknet launched Shadow Accounts, which let apps give users a public-to-private switch. StarkWare assessed Ethereum's crypto agility against 8 criteria and says it passes only 3. The ERC-7562 PR banning SETCODEFROM was merged, and EIP-8141 clarified transient storage and deploy targets in its trace rules. Justin Drake, the EF, LambdaClass and others met with more than a hundred cryptographers in Cambridge.

  • ERC-7562 bans SETCODEFROM
  • EIP-8141 fee rules
  • stealth address interop
  • L2BEAT Blobs page
  • Gnosis FCR

CPerezz proposed banning SETCODEFROM in ERC-7562 (the 4337 validation rules), and EIP-8141 added EIP-1559 fee validity rules and a definition of effective_gas_price. Kassandra broke "privacy by default" into steps: first get every wallet to interoperate on basic stealth addresses, and before that, a post-quantum private scheme. L2BEAT launched a Blobs page and retired DABEAT because Ethereum has plenty of unused blob capacity.

  • frames-devnet-1
  • configurable accounts and key rotation
  • EIP-8288 mempool and FOCIL
  • Aztec Alpha V6
  • ACDE #248 agenda

ethrex previewed frames-devnet-1, which adds EIP-8250, EIP-8272 and EIP-7906 on top of EIP-8141. Georgios Konstantopoulos said Tempo is not worried about post-quantum safety because configurable accounts can rotate keys in place and disable non-PQ keys. EIP-8288 gained mempool wrappers and proof-carrying inclusion lists. Aztec's Alpha V6 code is ready and enters governance.

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  • EIP-7906 assertion rollback semantics
  • EIP-8250 single-use nonce flags
  • ERC-8441 post-quantum stealth addresses
  • Gnosis FCR
  • private stablecoin

Frame transaction and transaction assertion specs firmed up: EIP-8141 defines a validation prefix and an execution body, EIP-7906 says a failed assertion reverts the execution body, and EIP-8250 proposes turning keyed nonces into single-use spent flags. On privacy, ERC-8441 proposes a hybrid post-quantum stealth address scheme that wallets can adopt with no protocol change. Gnosis Chain became the first L2 to adopt FCR, with deposits 20 to 30 times faster.

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  • EIP-8288 post-quantum proofs
  • EIP-8130 narrowed to the Keystore
  • frame transaction modes
  • ACDE #247
  • Starknet weighs becoming an L1

Vitalik responded to bunker mode: he does not recommend scrambling to move funds today, but the risks to cryptography from AI-accelerated math should be taken seriously. soispoke explained how EIP-8288 lets privacy apps generate post-quantum proofs on user devices while nodes verify them outside the EVM. Account abstraction specs were reshaped: EIP-8130 is narrowed to the Keystore with its transaction type moved to a new EIP, and several frame-related PRs to EIP-8141, EIP-7906 and EIP-8250 were merged. ACDE #247 met in the evening.