EtherWorld Weekly — Edition 344

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• Featured
• World News
• Stories By EtherWorld
• Technical Explainers
• Client News and Updates
• Ethereum Governance & Related Standards
• Podcasts
• Upcoming Events
• Jobs

Featured

• Highlights from the All Core Developers Execution (ACDE) Call #226
  • Ethereum core developers finalize the Hegotá fork direction, advancing key repricing EIPs, deferring state growth decisions, & setting January 5 as the decisive deadline for Glamsterdam scope finalization.
• Ethereum Foundation announces Devcon 8 in Mumbai, India
  • Ethereum Foundation announces Devcon 8 in Mumbai for Q4 2026, marking India’s growing leadership in global Ethereum development & adoption.
  • Curated resources by EtherWorld for Fusaka Upgrade
• All you need to know about Ethereum Glamsterdam Upgrade
  • Curated resources by EtherWorld for Glamsterdam Upgrade
• EIP Proposal Builder and Validation Issues with Legacy EIPs
  • Since the rules enforced by EIPW evolve over time, the builder uses the most recent rule set to catch formatting, structural, and semantic issues.

World News

• El Salvador to Sell Chivo Wallet
• Philippines Blocks Coinbase & Gemini
• Hong Kong Expands Crypto Licensing Rules
• Binance Lists Kyrgyz Som Stablecoin
• Bybit to Exit Japan Market Starting 2026
• OKX Trading Jumps After US EU Launch
• BC Card Enables Stablecoin Payments for Foreigners
• Russia Signals Retail Crypto Access Shift
• B3 to Launch Tokenization & Stablecoin
• Coinbase Appoints George Osborne as Advisory Chair

Blogs By EtherWorld

• Zerodha Cofounder Nikhil Kamath Says He Holds Zero Bitcoin & Plans to Explore BTC in 2026
• Trust Wallet Browser Extension Security Incident
• Polymarket Resolves Security Issue Linked to Third Party Authentication Provider
• Does India Need Stablecoins When UPI Already Works
• Devcon 8 Comes to Mumbai: Ethereum Heading to India in 2026
• India’s Multi-State Crypto Crackdown: ED Probes Fake Platforms
• Polygon & Stablecoins: The Shift Toward 24/7 Global Settlement

ELI5

• EIP-5656: MCOPY - An efficient EVM instruction
• ERC-7683: The Key to Seamless Crosschain Interactions
• An overview of Account Abstraction in Ethereum blockchain
• EIP-4844 Explored: The Future of Shard Blob Transactions in Ethereum
• Ethereum's Infinite Endgame: Balancing Issuance, Staking, and Decentralization
• Understanding EIP-7639: Cease Serving History Before PoS
• BPO Forks Explained: How Fusaka Gradually Scales Blob Capacity

Client News and Versions

Client News

• Prysm v7.1.1 Now Live
  • Fixes potential deadlock, improves batch verification and metrics; syncing issue acknowledged with another release planned.
• Prysm Publishes Dec 4 Mainnet Postmortem
  • Detailed analysis of the December 4 mainnet issue is now available on Prysm’s documentation site.

Client versions

• Execution Layer:
  • Nethermind 1.35.8 [New Release]
  • Geth 1.16.7
  • Erigon 3.3.2 [New Release]
  • Besu 25.12.0
  • Reth 1.9.3
  • EthereumJS 10.1.0
• Consensus Layer:
  • Teku 25.12.0
  • Nimbus 25.12.0 [New Release]
  • Prysm 7.1.1
  • Lodestar 1.38.0
  • Lighthouse 8.0.1

Ethereum Governance & Related Standards

Latest Ethereum Standards(Monthly):

EIPs

• Draft: EIP-8096, EIP-7906, EIP-8081, EIP-8094, EIP-8051
• Final:
  • EIP-7917: Deterministic proposer lookahead

ERCs

• Last Call:
  • ERC-7634: Limited Transfer Count NFT
    • Last Call Deadline: 2025-12-16
  • ERC-7994: Purpose-Bound ERC-20 with Conditional Unlock
    • Last Call Deadline: 2025-12-30
• • Final:
    • ERC-8042, ERC-7908, ERC-7627, ERC-7913, ERC-8001

Insights from EIPsInsights.com

Podcasts

• ERC-7936: Versioned Proxy Contract Interface with Martin, Monica & Raphina | PEEPanEIP#158:
  • Pooja Randan discusses ERC 7936, a proposal aimed at improving versioning in Ethereum smart contracts. Co-authors Martin Monperrus, Raphina Liu, and Monica Jin explain the challenges of current proxy contracts and how their proposal addresses issues of security, flexibility, and enterprise adoption.
• How Even TradFi Wants to Pass the Crypto Market Structure Bill: DEX in the City
  • The crew unpacks the meaning of crypto’s convergence with TradFi and how some giants are reshaping the crypto market structure bill.
• Crypto Prices Are Down...Builders Aren’t!
  • Ryan and David break down Coinbase’s push to become a financial super app, JPMorgan’s first tokenized money market fund on Ethereum, and why regulators are quietly opening the door for onchain settlement through DTCC pilots.

Videos by EtherWorld

Upcoming Events

• Feb 1–28: ETH Riyadh
• Feb 17-21: ETHDenver
• Mar 30-Apr 2: EthCC
• Apr 29-30: TOKEN2049 Dubai

Jobs

Avarch Internship Program: A professional internship program by Avarch offering students real project experience, open-source contributions, expert mentorship & industry-ready portfolio development.

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