• UNIfication onchain vote goes live.

• EF prioritizes L1 zkEVM security.

• Coalition defending stablecoin rewards.

• Shutter proposes EIP-8105.

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Uniswap's UNIfication proposal, which introduces the protocol fee switch and a UNI burn mechanism, is now live for an onchain vote on Agora. The voting window closes in six days on December 25th. If the proposal passes, it will execute the proposal following a two-day timelock. Once triggered, the execution will activate eight key actions, including an immediate 100 million UNI token burn, the activation of protocol fees for Uniswap v2 and v3, and the approval of a 40 million UNI growth budget for the next two years. The proposal also moves Foundation staff to Uniswap Labs and eliminates the current Uniswap interface fee.

The EF zkEVM team published a blog post outlining a shift in L1 zkEVM development, transitioning focus to long-term cryptographic security. Having already achieved real-time proving, the foundation now aims to establish a "mainnet-grade" security. By securing the L1 zkEVM layer, Ethereum can safely increase the gas limit and support native zk-rollups while maintaining censorship resistance. By the Glamsterdam upgrade, slated for May 2026, the target is 100-bit provable security and a 600 KiB proof size limit. The Foundation is pushing to achieve 128-bit provable security with proofs compressed to 300 KiB by the Hegotá upgrade.

The Blockchain Association and a coalition of 125+ industry leaders, including Gemini, Coinbase, PayPal, and Uniswap, sent a letter to Congress to defend the GENIUS Act against new lobbying efforts by the banking industry. The coalition argues that the Act’s current structure, which allows third-party platforms to offer rewards, was a deliberate bipartisan compromise, not a "loophole." The letter asserts that the rewards are essential for competition, allowing consumers to capture yields that banks currently keep as profit. It also cites independent research to debunk bank claims that stablecoin rewards threaten community bank deposits, warning that reopening the law now would stifle innovation and create uncertainty.

Shutter Network introduced EIP-8105, a proposal for a native Universal Enshrined Encrypted Mempool aimed to protect users against malicious MEV at the protocol level. The implementation introduces a new transaction type that keeps transaction details hidden from block builders and bots until ordering is finalized. It also features a neutral onchain registry for Key Providers and a fast sub-slot mechanism to ensure decryption doesn't delay block production. Proposed for activation in the Hegotá upgrade, EIP-8105 brings an in-protocol solution that protects Ethereum users by default.

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