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Featured

• Highlights from the All Core Developers Execution (ACDE) Call #229: Ethereum developers used ACDE #229 to shift focus toward Devnet-2 readiness, execution optimizations & repricing as Glamsterdam moves from scoping into testing.
• All you need to know about Ethereum Glamsterdam Upgrade: Curated resources by EtherWorld for Glamsterdam Upgrade
• Hegotá Should Complete the Holy Trinity of Censorship Resistance: To maximize Ethereum’s neutrality, we propose that the Hegotá upgrade includes both FOCIL and encrypted mempools. This would complete the Holy Trinity of Censorship Resistance, achieving system-level defense against transaction censorship.
• The Silent Upgrade: BPO: The era of silent upgrades is here and that’s exactly how Ethereum scales.
• 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.

Stories by EtherWorld

• El Salvador Buys $50M in Gold as BTC Holdings Near $625M
• US Senate Moves Forward with Crypto Market Structure Bill
• Russia Sets Retail Limits as New Crypto Rules Take Shape
• SEC Reaffirms Securities Laws Apply to Tokenisation
• ERC-8004 Signals Ethereum’s Move Toward Agentic AI Markets
• Polygon Leads Base in x402 Transactions
• US Senate Agricultural Committee Reschedules Crypto Market Structure Markup for January 29
• Polygon Sets January Record With $256 Million in Stablecoin Transfers

Client Updates

• Execution Layer:
  • Nethermind 1.36.0
  • Geth 1.16.8
  • Erigon 3.3.7 - New Release
  • Besu 25.12.0
  • Reth 1.10.2
  • EthereumJS 10.1.1 - New Release
• Consensus Layer:
  • Teku 25.12.0
  • Nimbus 26.1.0
  • Prysm 7.1.2
  • Lodestar 1.39.0
  • Lighthouse 8.0.1

Ethereum Governance & Related Standards

Latest Ethereum Standards (Monthly):

EIPs – Status Updates

Draft → Stagnant

• EIP-7886: Delayed execution
• EIP-5920: PAY opcode
• EIP-7954: Increase Maximum Contract Size
• EIP-7958: EVM64 Little endian opcodes
• EIP-7793: Conditional Transactions

Review → Stagnant

• EIP-5920: PAY opcode

Idea → Draft

• EIP-8115: Batch priority fees at end of block
• EIP-8116: Replace cumulative receipt fields
• EIP-8123: RPC Method for Transaction Gas Limit Cap
• EIP-8099: MEVless Protocol
• EIP-8125: Temporary Contract Storage
• EIP-8120: MLOAD8 & CALLDATALOAD8 Opcodes
• EIP-8141: Frame Transaction

Stagnant → Draft

• EIP-7708: ETH transfers emit a log
• EIP-7843: SLOTNUM opcode
• EIP-7923: Linear Page-Based Memory Costing
• EIP-7954: Increase Maximum Contract Size

Last Call → Final

• EIP-7934: RLP Execution Block Size Limit
• EIP-7823: Set upper bounds for MODEXP
• EIP-7825: Transaction Gas Limit Cap
• EIP-7883: ModExp Gas Cost Increase
• EIP-7939: CLZ opcode
• EIP-7951: secp256r1 precompile
• EIP-7935: Default gas limit to 60M
• EIP-7910: eth_config JSON-RPC Method
• EIP-7892: Blob Parameter Only Hardforks

ERCs – Status Updates

Draft → Review

• ERC-7866: Decentralised User Profiles
• ERC-7674: Temporary Approval Extension (ERC-20)
• ERC-7893: DeFi Protocol Solvency Proof Mechanism
• ERC-8034: Referable NFT Royalties

Review → Draft

• ERC-8004: Trustless Agents
• ERC-7828: Readable Interoperable ENS Addresses

Stagnant → Draft

• ERC-5516: Soulbound Multi-owner Tokens

Last Call → Final

• ERC-7634: Limited Transfer Count NFT
• ERC-7994: Purpose-Bound ERC-20

Last Call → Last Call

• ERC-7943: uRWA — Universal Real World Asset Interface
  • Deadline: 2026-01-30

Insights from EIPsInsight.com

Podcasts

• ERC-7936: Everything You Need to Know in 5 Minutes | with Monica Jin & Raphina Liu
• Why 2025 Crypto Taxes Will Be Trickier Than Normal: What You Need to Know
• Zcash Founder on Privacy, AI, and How ZEC is 'Encrypted Bitcoin'

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

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

Previous Weekly NewsLetters

• EtherWorld Weekly — Edition 348
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