Glamsterdam on Hoodi testnet postponed, Privacy Pools v2 live, EIP8453: Decoupled consensus
Ecosystem
- Glamsterdam on Hoodi testnet postponed to further investigate gas repricing interactions with mainnet contracts
- Update Hoodi nodes to releases that don’t schedule Glamsterdam
- ENRScout (crawler): Hoodi postponement dashboard
- Josh Rudolf (Ethlabs): ETH is programmable store of value (Ethlabs week 17 update)
- Yukon CurveSmash: autoresearch challenge to find attacks on elliptic curves (secp256k1, P-256 & BLS12-381)
- EthCC (Cannes, April 12-15): speaker applications open
- ETH metrics:
- Gas (gwei): 0.1 average, 0 - 5.2 (13.6 for zero net issuance)
- ETH supply: 122.2M, 21k net issuance
- ETHUSD: $2,330 - $2,519 (all time high $4,946, August 24, 2025)
- ETHBTC: 0.03 (0.165 for the Flippening)
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Enterprise
- JPMorgan JPM Coin (JPMD deposit token) expands to mainnet for institutional clients
- EthSystems: Glamsterdam & Hegotá upgrades, impact for bank treasuries, financial market infrastructure, custodians, transfer agents, stablecoin issuers & staking providers
Applications
- Privacy Pools v2 live on mainnet, Arbitrum, Base, OP Mainnet & Robinhood Chain, adds private transfers, swaps, payment requests & earn yield
- Uniswap Aggregator hooks live on mainnet, Base & Robinhood Chain, wrap external liquidity sources as v4 pools
- Aero (DEX): Aerodrome (Base) & Velodrome (OP Mainnet) merged, expansion includes mainnet, Arbitrum, Robinhood Chain & Ink
- Etherscan lookalike address warning to flag address poisoning scams, beta
Developers
- Argot Collective Solidity 0.8.38 (language): fixes low severity Yul optimizer knowledge base stale bookkeeping bug (affects 0.8.19 - 0.8.37), faster compilation with Yul optimizer enabled & compiler warning for using swapn, dupn or exchange as identifiers in Yul or inline assembly ahead of Amsterdam EVM version
- Nomic Foundation Hardhat v3.21.0 (dev framework): expands experimental Glamsterdam upgrade support (adds EIP7954 increase maximum contract size); [Note: uses Amsterdam EVM version on (postponed) Hoodi testnet forks]
- Nikita Kolmogorov plain (dev framework): fast compile, test & deploy loop; recompiles & reruns only edited tests, large test files compiled in parallel; supports Foundry projects
- OpenZeppelin x Chainlink: adds crosschain interoperability protocol (CCIP) & automated compliance engine (ACE) to OpenZeppelin Contracts Wizard, MCP server & skills
- EthSystems: private money market fund, shielded pool holds token, each position is encrypted note visible to transfer agent, proof of concept
- Wei Han Ng chibi (partial stateful node): local RPC, syncs & proves state used, updates via block level access lists, supports Sepolia testnet
- Application layer standards (ERCs):
All core devs (main protocol calls)
All core devs - execution (ACDE) #248
- Glamsterdam upgrade:
- ChainSecurity: potential security issues presentation, gas repricing changes assumptions, 13 DeFi projects identified
- Impact to be analyzed & decide if spec changes required
- Glamsterdam on Hoodi testnet postponed & mainnet likely delayed until 2027
- Hegotá upgrade (targeting 2027):
- Nixo (EthCoordinate): execution layer Considered for Inclusion EIP priority list
- Discussed Considered for Inclusion (CFI) doesn’t guarantee shipping
- bogota-devnet-2: planned for next week, adds EIP8253 bump nonce of zero nonce storage accounts, EIP4758 deactivate SELFDESTRUCT, EIP8298 SETCODEFROM & EIP8151 account code restricted ecRecover
- hegota-devnet-0 (combined execution & consensus layer devnet): planned for after Devcon
- Next ACDE in 4 weeks due to Devcon
All core devs - testing (ACDT) #101 + consensus layer breakout
Layer 1
- Glamsterdam upgrade:
- Ephemery testnet activated Glamsterdam
- Terence (Prysm): Glamsterdam scaling results on Sepolia testnet
- Hegotá (Heze + Bogotá) upgrade (targeting 2027):
- heze-devnet-2 live, adds EIP8015 remove deposit & eth1data fields and EIP8365 disallow new 0x00 validators
- heze-devnet-3 live, adds EIP8198 quick slots (9 seconds)
- Frame transaction breakout #7
- I* upgrade:
- Carlos Perez (EF): partitioned binary tree migration tested on devnet with 2TB disk & 16GB RAM
- Francesco (Ethlabs): fast confirmation rule (FCR) formally verified in Lean, model used to find & fix Glamsterdam fork choice spec bug
- Derek Chiang (Ethlabs): visualization of EIP8288 (in transaction pool signature & proof aggregation)
- Ethereum improvement proposals (EIPs):
Research
- Csaba Király (EF): SEACAST (segmented encoded availability sampled broadcast), faster & lighter than gossipsub & ECBroadcast
- Pierre (EF): Tornado Cash ported to Flock (post quantum binary field SNARK) with 30ms proving time & recovery protocol that lets existing pools survive discrete log break
Staking
- Client diversity: Consensus layer: Lighthouse ~50% (data may not be accurate)
- Validators: 820k active (target 128k), 24k accumulating (0x02 withdrawal credentials)
- Client releases:
- Consensus layer:
- ChainSafe Lodestar v1.50.1 (critical): postpones Glamsterdam on Hoodi, mitigates eMudhra certificate authority compromise
- Consensys Teku 26.10.2 (Hoodi operators): postpones Glamsterdam
- Offchain Prysm v7.3.1 (Hoodi operators): postpones Glamsterdam
- Sigma Prime Lighthouse v8.3.2 (Hoodi operators): postpones Glamsterdam; Lighthouse v8.3.1 (high): mitigates eMudhra certificate authority compromise; Lighthouse v8.3.0 (recommended): adds fast confirmation rule (FCR) & partial data columns by default
- Status Nimbus v26.10.2 (Hoodi operators): postpones Glamsterdam & mitigates eMudhra certificate authority compromise
- Execution layer:
- Besu 26.10.1 (Hoodi operators): postpones Glamsterdam
- EF Geth v1.17.10 (Hoodi operators): postpones Glamsterdam
- Lambda ethrex v30.0.1 (Hoodi operators): postpones Glamsterdam
- Nethermind 2.2.1 (Hoodi operators): postpones Glamsterdam
- Paradigm Reth v2.8.1 (Hoodi operators): postpones Glamsterdam
- Consensus layer:
Regulation
- US Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC): GENIUS Act final rule, drops proposed presumption against stablecoin rewards via third parties
- Türkiye Minister of Justice: Richard Heart (Hex founder) detained in Istanbul
General
- Security disclosures: eMudhra intermediate certificate authority weak keys (test if trusting), PHP remote code execution vulnerabilities patched, Node.js security releases, GitLab critical patch & Railway environment variables potentially accessed
- Anthropic:
- LLMs can produce formal proofs at large scale at assembly code level
- NIST P-curve seeds origin found, output of random number generator seeded with Unix timestamp, increases confidence curves don’t have deliberate backdoors
- Austin Griffith: Wedgie (hardware wallet), Safe signer, consists of Pico, screen hat, secure chip & 3D printed case; build your own or buy
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