Block-Level Access Lists Explained
Toni Wahrstätter published an explainer on EIP-7928, the execution-layer headliner in Glamsterdam.
Ethereum researcher Toni Wahrstätter published an explainer on EIP-7928, the execution-layer headliner in the Glamsterdam upgrade. The proposal attaches a Block Access List to every Ethereum block, a structured record of every account and storage slot a block touches, along with a log of what changed after each transaction.
It allows clients to parallelize execution, prefetch state from disk before a block even starts running, compute post-state roots on the fly, and sync to the chain head without the slow peer-negotiation healing phase snap sync currently requires. Glamsterdam is expected to ship at a 200 million block gas limit before pushing higher.
ePBS, the Glamsterdam consensus layer headliner, scales it even further by giving validators up to 4x more time for execution. Wahrstätter frames the two proposals as a 10x scaling improvement from baseline, with no hardware upgrades required.
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EF Protocol Gets New Leadership As Tim Beiko and Monnot Depart
Will Corcoran, Kev Wedderburn, and Fredrik take over the EF Protocol cluster as Beiko, Monnot, and Stokes step back; priorities are Glamsterdam, Hegotá, and the protocol strawmap.
The Ethereum Foundation named new leadership for its Protocol cluster, the EF's research and development arm focused on scaling, UX, and L1 hardening. Will Corcoran, Kev Wedderburn, and Fredrik will co-lead the cluster, succeeding Tim Beiko, Barnabé Monnot, and Alex Stokes.
Beiko, who spent eight years at the EF, stepped down from the foundation this month. Monnot, a six-year EF veteran, also announced his departure.
Stokes is taking a sabbatical. The incoming co-leads bring distinct expertise to the role: Corcoran through cross-team coordination on zkVM proving and post-quantum consensus, Wedderburn as head of the ZKEVM team, and Fredrik through Protocol Security and the Trillion Dollar Security project. Their immediate priorities are shipping Glamsterdam, advancing Hegotá scoping, and executing the Ethereum protocol strawmap.
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Glamsterdam Targets 200M Gas Limit Floor
Core devs agreed to a 200M gas limit floor after Glamsterdam, unlocked by ePBS, Block-Level Access Lists, and EIP-8037 state repricing.
Ethereum core developers agreed to target a 200 million gas limit floor following the Glamsterdam network upgrade, a significant increase made possible by three interlocking improvements: ePBS, which restructures block construction to give execution more time per slot; Block-Level Access Lists, which give clients the throughput headroom to handle larger blocks; and EIP-8037, which raises the cost of writing new state so higher throughput doesn't cause state bloat.
The decision came out of Soldøgn Interop, a week-long gathering of over 100 core contributors held in Longyearbyen, Svalbard. Teams also stabilized multi-client ePBS implementations with external builders running end-to-end, and locked in final EIP-8037 repricing numbers. Final figures will be confirmed on upcoming AllCoreDevs calls. Progress was also made on features targeting Hegotá, Ethereum's next planned upgrade.
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