Lodestar releases:
Ethereum Magicians:
Native Ethereum Delegation protocol-level market proposed to limit validator concentration
An idea-stage proposal seeks to build diminishing incentives into Ethereum's validator economics to prevent excessive delegation to single operators and preserve network decentralization.
ethresear.ch:
Atomic ZK-Proof-Gated Settlement for x402 Agent Payments measured in reference design
A researcher demonstrates how zero-knowledge proofs can bind agent payments to correct execution, closing a gap where providers could accept payment without delivering promised results.
Ethereum Magicians:
EIP-8363 proposes burning validator rewards to cap staking ratio at 50 percent of ETH supply
A new Ethereum proposal would automatically burn growing portions of staking rewards as more ETH is staked, reaching zero yield at 50 percent staking ratio and lowering network issuance while raising concerns about validator consolidation.
Ethereum Magicians:
ERC-XXXX: Token Launch Abuse Detection and Refund proposed
A new standard aims to detect rug pulls and deployer abuse in token launches, holding proceeds in escrow to enable refunds and restitution.
Flashbots Forum:
FRP-52: Trusted SILOs: Side-channel Isolated Logic Oases
Flashbots Forum:
Pre-FRP: Accountability and Liveness in Batched-Threshold Encrypted Mempools
Nethermind releases:
Nethermind v1.39.3 mandatory patch ships reliability and hardening fixes
A required update for all node operators addresses block processing, networking, and request decoding issues without consensus changes.
ethresear.ch:
Ashlar arithmetization-oriented hash proposed for cryptanalysis
A researcher proposes a new hash function design using squaring-based operations instead of power maps, seeking community feedback on cryptographic soundness for potential protocol applications.
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Ethereum Magicians:
EIP: Persist Warm Access Sets Across Reverts
Ethereum Magicians:
EIP-8374: Persist Warm Access Sets Across Reverts
ethresear.ch:
Demand model with elasticities for Glamsterdam fee market posted
An Ethereum Foundation intern's research models how the multi-dimensional fee market for state, data, and execution will behave under varying demand conditions.
ethresear.ch:
PQ-DAS from LeanVM design and benchmark posted
Researchers propose a post-quantum data availability sampling scheme using lattice cryptography to secure Ethereum's blob validation against future quantum threats.
ethresear.ch:
Wash-building attack model distinguished from Sybil in contribution protocols
Separating two conflated attacks on funding graphs reveals that wash-building is provably harder to solve than most recognize, reshaping how retro funding and quadratic funding should defend themselves.
Ethereum Magicians:
EIP-0000 Normalized State Gas Limit proposed to balance state and execution gas
A new proposal adjusts the state-gas limit after EIP-8037 activates to ensure demand for state and execution capacity stays balanced across the network.
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