May 5, 2026

Law Firm Aims To Claim KelpDAO Victims' Funds

Gerstein Harrow LLP filed a restraining notice against Arbitrum DAO seeking to seize 30,766 ETH frozen from the KelpDAO exploit, citing a DPRK-linked default judgment.

Gerstein Harrow LLP, a U.S.-based law firm, filed a restraining notice against Arbitrum DAO in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, aiming to claim the funds from victims of the KelpDAO exploit. The order blocks the transfer of the 30,766 ETH frozen in Arbitrum's governance wallet.

The firm argues that because the Kelp exploit has been attributed to North Korea's Lazarus Group, the recovered funds constitute DPRK-linked property and therefore can be seized to satisfy a decade-old default judgment for its clients.

Crypto crime investigator ZachXBT called the move "pure evil," describing the firm as predatory. Gerstein Harrow is the same firm behind the notorious PoolTogether lawsuit, in which an Elizabeth Warren staffer sued the savings protocol after depositing just $10. PoolTogether ultimately won the lawsuit in 2023.

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May 5, 2026

EIP-8141 Removes Relayer Dependency

Frame Transactions (EIP-8141) could let privacy pools pay withdrawal fees from the withdrawn funds, removing relayer dependency.

Ethereum researcher Toni Wahrstätter outlined the three gates preventing true censorship resistance for privacy protocols. Today, privacy protocols like Tornado Cash rely on relayers, third-party intermediaries who sponsor transaction fees on behalf of users making private withdrawals. Relayers are centralized, occasionally offline, and represent a censorship risk.

Frame Transactions EIP-8141 could eliminate the need for relayers entirely by allowing withdrawal fees to be paid directly from the withdrawn funds themselves. Wahrstätter argues that targeted changes, treating privacy pools as trusted canonical contracts, raising gas limits for their specific verification logic, and allowing lightweight nodes to selectively track pool data, enable privacy transactions to achieve the same censorship resistance guarantees as ordinary Ethereum transactions.

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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