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ChainFeeds

2026-09-11 01:58:25

ChainFeeds roundup tracks DeFi registration bill, compute-market pricing and Ethereum’s August EIP progress

ChainFeeds’ Sept. 11 research briefing combined a policy news roundup with five long-form pieces spanning meme launchpads, AI compute markets, post-quantum zk proofs, tokenized equities on Solana, and Ethereum core development. The newsletter highlighted a revised CLARITY Act proposed by Republican lawmakers that would require non-decentralized DeFi protocols to register with the CFTC, Polymarket’s first CFO hire tied to a planned $1 billion fundraising effort, updated tokenomics from FLOP, a reported $100 million investment plan by Nasdaq Ventures into Kraken parent Payward at a $21 billion valuation, and Bitrace’s note that Fulilai Guarantee has started removing money-laundering merchants, possibly due to OFAC sanctions. The research selections then moved across several themes. One focused on Robinhood Chain’s meme launchpad race, where Pons and LONG are pushing fee-sharing and tokenized-stock trading. Another, by Pantera Capital partner Jay Yu, argued that GPU compute could evolve into a commodity market with benchmark pricing similar to power markets. The briefing also covered a16z’s release of Lattice Jolt, a post-quantum zkVM built on lattice cryptography, Pump.fun’s rollout of custom quote assets including tokenized U.S. equities, and Four Pillars’ review of Ethereum’s August EIP pipeline, testnet work, and changing assumptions around Layer 2 networks.

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Ethereum

2026-09-10 00:07:57

Ethlabs updates Ethereum Hegotá EIP priorities with focus on censorship resistance and speed

Ethlabs said it has reviewed more than 60 Ethereum Improvement Proposals, or EIPs, proposed for Ethereum’s Hegotá upgrade and has updated its priority recommendations across four areas: censorship resistance, transaction confirmation speed, native account abstraction, and performance optimization. The group said it supports FOCIL as a way to strengthen Ethereum’s censorship resistance and neutrality. It also recommended using Quick Slots in the Hegotá upgrade to shorten slot times for the first time and prepare the network for further reductions later on. On account abstraction, Ethlabs backed Frame Transactions to bring native support for passkey wallets, sponsored transactions, token-based gas payments, batch transactions, as well as stronger privacy and post-quantum security support. Ethlabs also said client and protocol design should keep performance as a standing priority, with optimization gains directed toward increasing Layer 1 capacity, shortening slot times, and reducing node operating requirements.

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Ethereum

2026-09-08 09:47:51

Ethereum Foundation sets December 2029 deadline for a quantum-resistant base layer

The Ethereum Foundation’s Protocol cluster said Monday it wants Ethereum’s base layer to become quantum-resistant across the execution, consensus and data layers by December 2029. The team said it will treat that internal deadline as non-negotiable until at least January 2027, when it plans to revisit quantum-computing progress with input from outside experts. The date aligns with separate 2029 migration targets previously set by Google, Cloudflare and Microsoft. In the same post, the cluster said Ethereum should prepare for a hypothetical “Q-day” as early as 2030, the point at which a quantum computer could break the cryptography protecting wallets. It described that assumption as intentionally aggressive and noted that many credible forecasts place such a breakthrough later, or say it may never happen. The post also tied Ethereum’s post-quantum timeline to protocol governance, saying the Hegotá fork may determine whether later upgrades arrive on schedule. The group reviewed 62 EIPs proposed for Hegotá, collecting 397 grades from nine client teams and domain experts across roughly 60 researchers and engineers. Only two were marked “must-ship”: FOCIL on the consensus layer and Frame Transactions on the execution layer. Around 28 proposals were left out, including EIP-8363.

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Ethereum

2026-09-07 14:59:22

Ethereum Foundation outlines 62 EIP rankings for Hegotá, sets end-2029 quantum-resistance goal for L1

The Ethereum Foundation said on Sept. 7 that its Protocol Cluster has published two new posts offering a structured review of Hegotá, the network’s next upgrade. One of the posts, titled “Hegotá EIP Opinion Post and Tier List,” evaluates and ranks 62 proposed Ethereum Improvement Proposals, marking the first time the team has issued a unified EIP rating list for a single upgrade. According to the foundation, around 60 researchers, engineers, and domain experts from nine teams within the Protocol Cluster took part in the review process. They submitted 397 rating opinions and held live discussions on disputed proposals. A companion post maps out the Ethereum protocol layer’s current and future priorities. Among the goals listed, one stands out: pushing Ethereum L1 to achieve quantum resistance by December 2029. The foundation said those upgrade plans, long-term commitments, and shared cluster-wide priorities serve as the backdrop for deciding the final scope of Hegotá and the EIP rankings. Protocol Cluster is also scheduled to host an AMA on Reddit’s r/ethereum community at 14:00 UTC on Sept. 16 to discuss the Hegotá EIP ratings and broader protocol priorities.

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Ethereum

2026-09-06 03:40:08

Ethereum Execution Client ethrex Launches Public Testnet for Privacy EIPs

Ethereum execution client ethrex has announced the launch of a public testnet on Glamsterdam to test EIPs tied to the Ethereum privacy roadmap. The testnet supports five EIPs: EIP-8141 (frame transactions), EIP-8250 (key randomness), EIP-8272 (recent root), EIP-7805 (FOCIL), and EIP-8369 (VOPS profile). Each implementation meets the latest specification requirements. The frame transaction implementation aligns with the latest execution spec test release. The testnet is permissionless, allowing anyone to sync, establish peer connections, transact, and fund accounts via a faucet.

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Ethereum

2026-08-26 15:04:58

Ethereum developers propose new staking deposit contract to prepare for post-quantum validators

Ethereum developers have submitted a draft proposal to rebuild the deposit contract that all validators use when entering staking, marking the first concrete step toward preparing the network’s more than $100 billion staking layer for post-quantum cryptography. The proposal focuses on a hard limit in the current contract, which fixes BLS12-381 public keys at 48 bytes and signature metadata at 96 bytes, leaving no room for larger post-quantum schemes. The replacement would accept keys and credential metadata of up to 8,192 bytes each and require every deposit to declare the credential scheme it uses, with scheme 0 reserved for BLS. The draft does not yet define a post-quantum validator key format, leaving that to a future EIP. It would also introduce three operating modes for the contract and make BLS retirement irreversible once triggered. The proposal remains under review, with the contract address, deployment code, and activation timestamps still undecided, and it would require a coordinated fork across Ethereum’s execution and consensus layers to take effect.

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Ethereum

2026-08-26 15:36:40

Ethereum developers propose staking deposit contract overhaul for a post-quantum transition

Ethereum developers have floated a new Ethereum Improvement Proposal, or EIP, that would rework the network’s current validator deposit contract as part of longer-term preparation for post-quantum cryptography. The draft would replace the contract’s fixed BLS key structure with support for variable-length keys and credential data, capped at 8,192 bytes per item, and require each deposit to declare the credential scheme it uses. So far, the proposal defines only scheme 0, which corresponds to the current BLS signature system, while future EIPs could add standards for post-quantum validator keys. The proposed contract also introduces three operating states: disabled, BLS enabled, and BLS permanently retired. Once the system enters the retirement state through a system call, new validator deposits using the existing BLS scheme would be permanently blocked and could not be turned back on. The draft is still awaiting review from EIP editors, and the contract address, deployment code, and activation timing have not been set. One of the proposal’s authors, Thomas Coratger, said post-quantum cryptography is not a simple software upgrade. Research cited in the report says more than 65% of ETH is held in addresses whose public keys are already exposed on-chain.

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Ethereum

2026-08-25 05:11:49

Ethereum community floats EIP for a post-quantum deposit contract

The Ethereum community has published an EIP proposal for a deposit contract designed to support post-quantum cryptography. The proposal would introduce a new contract that supports variable-length public keys and credential metadata, while also defining explicit scheme identifiers. Under the draft, scheme 0 would remain reserved for the current BLS deposit flow. The proposed contract would no longer rely on the legacy deposit contract’s Merkle tree structure. Instead, it would pass deposit data to the consensus layer through execution requests derived from EIP-7685 logs. The contract also includes an irreversible mode controlled by protocol system calls: deposits would be disabled at first, BLS deposits would be enabled at a specified timestamp, and then BLS deposits would be permanently disabled at a later timestamp with no option to turn them back on. During the migration period, execution clients would need to combine deposit requests from both the new and old contracts.

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