#952 - EIP-8182 Private Transfers Proposed For Hegota
Tom Lehman proposes EIP-8182 for Hegota, Zerion sunsets ZERϴ Network, and EthPandaOps ships a Validator Report tool.
EIP-8182 proposed for Hegota.
Zerion winds down ZERϴ Network.
ERC-8211 x ERC-7683 for cross-chain.
EthPandaOps adds a Validator Report page.
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Tom Lehman, co-founder of Facet, proposed EIP-8182 for inclusion in the Hegota upgrade, which would bring native private ETH and ERC-20 transfers to Ethereum through a protocol-managed shielded pool deployed as a system contract. Lehman framed EIP-8182 as a fix for the anonymity-set chicken-and-egg problem with app-layer privacy solutions, giving every wallet and application a single shared pool to build on. Sends work to any existing Ethereum address with no privacy-specific format required.
Former Ethereum Foundation researcher Barnabé Monnot outlined how ERC-8211 smart batching and ERC-7683 complement each other across the cross-chain execution stack. ERC-8211, introduced by Biconomy, lets users encode complex multi-step workflows as a single signed batch. ERC-7683 handles the solver side, encoding a fronted liquidity request in a format any compliant solver can fill. Combined, an ERC-8211 batch can wrap a swap, bridge, and vault deposit into a single signed sequence with an embedded ERC-7683 order for the bridge leg.
Zerion is winding down ZERϴ Network, the gasless EVM-compatible rollup it launched in November 2024 on the ZKsync ZK Stack. The team will shift focus back to its core wallet and API products. Bridging into ZERϴ has already been disabled, and outbound bridging remains open until July 31, 2026, after which block production stops. Users with assets on ZERϴ are urged to bridge out their funds.
EthPandaOps, the Ethereum DevOps team that tests protocol upgrades, added a Validator Report page to The Lab, its performance tool for Ethereum validators. Operators paste in validator indices, set a date range, and navigate time and slot ranges to pinpoint missed proposals, head-vote drops, and attestation delays that are invisible at the aggregate level. Validator Report URLs are shareable and preserve state down to the slot. The Validator Report is live at lab.ethpandaops.io.
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Glamsterdam devnet-4 is live
Aave case study on MetaMask Card
L2Beat token frameworks
Banteg evm compiler bench
Latency cost of CR
Syndicate winds down
Status completes airdrop
Privacy Pools report
Circles Garage contest
Dankrad suggests $1b org
Public goods funding is capitalistic
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#948 - Linea Stack Becomes Lineth Under Linux Foundation
ConsenSys hands Lineth to the Linux Foundation as Lineth. Chainlink SVR is live on Aave V4. Vitalik deposits 50 ETH into Privacy Pools.
Linea Stack is now Lineth.
Chainlink SVR live on Aave V4.
Vitalik deposits 50 ETH into Privacy Pools.
Fileverse adds plain text command.
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ConsenSys open-sourced the Linea Stack under Apache-2.0/MIT licensing and handed control to the Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust under a new name, Lineth. Anyone can now use Lineth to deploy a production-grade ZK rollup. Linea Mainnet remains under Consensys control and is targeting Stage 1 decentralization this month, a RISC-V prover transition in Q3, and real-time proving by year-end.
Aave integrated Chainlink Smart Value Recapture (SVR) into V4 Spokes. SVR is a specialized oracle solution that enables DeFi protocols to reclaim non-toxic MEV generated through Chainlink Price Feeds, redirecting liquidation-related value that was previously extracted by block builders. SVR leverages Chainlink Price Feeds and Flashbots' MEV-Share to redirect value back to DeFi protocols. SVR on Aave V3 has already generated $11 million for the Aave DAO treasury since March 2025.
Vitalik Buterin deposited 50.25 ETH, worth roughly $113,000, into Privacy Pools, an onchain privacy protocol that uses zero-knowledge proofs to break the link between deposit and withdrawal addresses. Buterin co-authored the research paper underpinning Privacy Pools and was among the protocol's first users when it launched in April 2025. The mainnet ETH pool now holds over 800 ETH.
Fileverse added support for raw markdown in dDocs, its onchain word processor. A new /plaintext command enables raw markdown and clean copy-pasting. The update also adds find-and-replace across entire documents and a full dDocs count, as well as mermaid.js for inline diagram generation. Fileverse allows collaborators to join documents anonymously via a link with no login required.
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L2BEAT adds Top Protocol by vol
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L2BEAT Verifies Lighter's Escape Hatch, Aave Pro Adds Wallet Monitoring
L2BEAT verifies Lighter's escape hatch, Aave Pro adds wallet monitoring, and Blocknative joins Deloitte and sunsets its APIs.
Lighter's emergency exit mechanism.
Aave Pro wallet monitoring
Blocknative will sunset its APIs.
Tor Internet Freedom initiative.
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Blocknative is joining Deloitte to focus on enterprise blockchain and agentic workflows, ending nearly a decade of work on mempool visibility, MEV auctions, and gas estimation. Its API services and Gas Network will shut down on June 19, 2026, and teams running Blocknative in production are urged to begin migrating.
L2BEAT confirmed that Lighter's emergency withdrawal mechanism works after independently regenerating and verifying all of the rollup's ZK circuits. The verification covers Lighter's Desert mode, a failsafe that lets users prove their L2 account state and exit directly to Ethereum mainnet if the sequencer goes offline or misbehaves.
Aave Pro now supports read-only wallet monitoring on any Ethereum address. Users can paste any wallet to view its Aave V4 positions, balances, and activity without connecting, and assign custom names and avatars per address.
Pblvrt departs EF
Arb OpenHouse London
Tor Internet Freedom funding round
Consensys comment to FDIC
Recent EF exits
Euler rsETH recovery update
Ethereum Security QF raises $300k
Human Protocol with MP
Strato announces CCA sale
GitHub unauthorized access
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