ethdevnews weekly #3

“writing code, without ill-intent, is not a crime”, ETHConf New York June 2026, EF Protocol AMA

All core devs (main protocol calls)

All core devs - consensus (ACDC) #163

• Fusaka upgrade:
  • Fusaka-devnet-3: non finality testing
  • Fusaka-devnet-5: launch early September once client teams have merged to trunk branches
• Glamsterdam upgrade:
  • Targeting June 2026
  • Headliners: EIP7732 ePBS (consensus layer) & EIP7928 Block-level Access Lists (execution layer)
  • Non-headliner EIPs can be proposed for inclusion, deadline is Fusaka mainnet releases (~October)

All core devs - testing (ACDT) #49

• Gas limit: some concerns about increasing from 45M to 60M pre-Fusaka

Layer 1

• EF Protocol AMA August 29 on Reddit, submit questions in advance
• Consensus-specs v1.6.0-alpha.5: rebase EIP7732 ePBS & EIP7805 FOCIL on Fulu
• Ameen Soleimani: EIP7805 FOCIL regulatory risk for validators & core devs
• Post Quantum interop #6: devnet-0 interop targeting late September
• EIPs (Ethereum improvement proposals):
  • Meta EIP8007: Glamsterdam gas repricings
  • Feedback wanted on EIP improvement process

Staking

• Preston Van Loon: validator exit/entry queue explainer
• Client diversity:
  • Consensus layer: Lighthouse 42.7%
  • Execution layer: Geth ~41%, Nethermind ~38% (estimated from self reports)
• Staking marketshare: Lido 24.4%
• Kraken validators all running on distributed validator technology (DVT)
• Client releases:
  • Consensus layer:
    • Grandine 1.1.4: optimizations & fixes

Layer 2

• Spire Pylon: launch based appchains with synchronous reads
• HPP (Arbitrum Orbit L2) live, focused on AI agents
• L2Beat ZK Catalog: adds evaluation of ZK proving systems trusted setups
• Gelato proposes Ethereum settlement score (ESS): metric of L2 utilization of L1 security

Research

• WHIR: recursive hash-based proximity testing for constrained Reed–Solomon codes; offers small proofs, fast verification & low memory usage
• Validator key management using DDH-based exponent VRFs

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Ecosystem

• ETHGlobal:
  • New York hackathon finalists
  • ETHConf: community conference in New York, June 2026
• Bob Summerwill: early days of Ethereum
• ETH metrics:
  • Gas (gwei): 0.4 average, 0.1 - 7.5 (16.3 for zero net issuance)
  • ETH supply change: 18k net issuance
  • ETHUSD: $4,081 - $4,646 (all time high $4,878, November 10, 2021)
  • ETH ETFs: 5% of ETH supply
  • ETHBTC: 0.038 (0.165 for the Flippening)

Developers

• Hardhat 3 encrypted secrets keystore guide
• OpenZeppelin community contracts (Solidity library): ERC7579 modular smart accounts
• Solady (Solidity library) safeMoveETH: move ETH using SELFDESTRUCT
• Sign in with Ethereum info website & documentation
• Echidna (fuzzer): symbolic execution in verification or exploration mode
• Optimism: deploy a local OP Stack testnet
• Toni Wahrstätter transaction tracer (Python): simulate transactions before broadcasting
• Otterscan v2.10.0 (local block explorer): local contract verification
• ERCs (application layer standards):
  • ERC8006: Universal policy engine
  • ERC8009: Proxy clear signing
  • ERC8010: Signature verification for pre-delegated accounts

Security

• Security Alliance (SEAL): domain hijacking advisory
• EF trillion dollar security project phase 2: plans for a wallet minimum security standard, improving blind signing & contract vulnerability database

Enterprise

• Singapore’s DBS Bank to tokenise structured notes

Applications

• Ethereum.org application explorer: curated list of apps
• Safe Fiducia: enforce transaction rules with option for a cosigner
• Circle Gateway: unified crosschain USDC balance
• Wyoming stable token commission: Frontier stable token (FRNT) deployed on mainnet, Arbitrum, Base & Optimism, using LayerZero, not purchasable until September

Regulation

• US acting assistant attorney general: “writing code, without ill-intent, is not a crime”
  • Free Roman Storm
• US Federal Reserve sunsetting novel activities supervision program, will monitor banks crypto activities through standard supervisory process

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General

• Bullish received $1.15B of IPO proceeds in stablecoins
• Veridise LLZK: intermediate representation (IR) for zero-knowledge languages
• Trail of Bits: exploit AI via image scaling

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