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Joseph Chalom, CEO of the Ethereum treasury company SharpLink, posted in opposition to Ethereum Improvement Proposal EIP-8363. According to his disclosure, the current network issues new ETH to validators as staking rewards at a variable yield rate of about 2.75%. If the proposal is passed, it will be implemented in phases over approximately a year and a half, gradually destroying part of the issuance rewards as the staking amount increases. When about 50% of ETH is staked, the staking yield will drop to 0%, and validators will only be able to rely on transaction fees, which currently account for only 15% of staking rewards, to sustain themselves.Chalom presented four points of opposition:Staking yield is the factual benchmark for all on-chain interest rates. The approximately $35 billion TVL of liquid staking tokens is the core collateral for on-chain lending. A yield of zero will raise on-chain capital costs, making actual yields approach or even become negative. Collateral will migrate to assets that still generate yields, and independent stakers and small to medium operators will be the first to be squeezed out.The native yield characteristic is precisely the key reason institutions choose ETH over Bitcoin. Erasing this difference is equivalent to voluntarily giving up its competitive advantage just as ETH is outperforming Bitcoin.Issuance is not a cost to external parties but a transfer of value to security maintainers and builders within the network. Destroying it is a destruction of value rather than a redistribution of this portion of value.The current timing is the worst; Ethereum is in a rising phase of institutional adoption, and destruction incentives will suppress this wave of adoption momentum.He stated that SharpLink agrees with the proposal authors' goal of making ETH scarce and stabilizing the staking rate at a reasonable level, but believes this should be achieved through the existing base fee destruction mechanism rather than altering the economic foundation of the protocol.

Aave founder Stani Kulechov recently stated that SharpLink Gaming opposes Ethereum Improvement Proposal EIP-8363, claiming that SharpLink is one of the largest supporters and financial contributors to the Ethereum ecosystem. Stani mentioned that SharpLink executive Joseph Chalom raised some reasonable points regarding the feasibility and implementation timeline of the proposal.He also called on the community to "protect ETH staking," emphasizing that the interests and long-term impacts of staking ecosystem participants need to be fully considered when advancing improvements to the Ethereum protocol. EIP-8363 has recently sparked discussions in the Ethereum community, with related controversies mainly focusing on its potential impacts on the ETH staking mechanism, validator economic model, and ecological security. Community members are assessing the necessity of the proposal, its implementation pace, and the possible consequences it may bring.

World Chain will launch a complete block access list on the mainnet on August 17, enabling this feature through a runtime flag without coordinating a hard fork across the network. The network claims it will be the first production-level L2 network to stream EIP-7928 access list data within each flashblock.This feature transmits access list data every 200 milliseconds, allowing validators to verify transactions in parallel during the block construction process. World Chain states that the upgrade aims to achieve a maximum throughput of 1 gigagas per second without increasing the hardware requirements for validators. EIP-7928 is an Ethereum upgrade proposal that introduces block-level access lists to record accounts and storage slots accessed during block execution. Internal testing by World Chain shows that when throughput rises to 1 gigagas per second on standard cloud infrastructure, validation latency remains stable.

Regarding the EIP proposal submitted by the Ethereum community, Aave founder and CEO Stani Kulechov expressed opposition, stating that the proposal cannot achieve its intended goals and will instead harm Ethereum. He pointed out that the proposal would cap ETH staking rewards at 0% when the staking rate exceeds 50%, making staking rewards unpredictable and potentially unprofitable for many participants. This poses a negative factor for institutional buyers considering establishing ETH positions, as they may turn to other networks with more predictable cash flows, resulting in significant adoption costs.Stani Kulechov further stated that reducing rewards to 0 would make ETH lending strategies fundamentally unfeasible, effectively stifling ETH's lending and yield scenarios. At that point, the only reason to borrow ETH would be to short it; meanwhile, holders of ETH beta and yield may turn to other interest-bearing assets like stablecoins. He mentioned that from a personal perspective, this proposal would undermine the viability of ETH as an asset and limit its potential, hoping that the proposal would not advance. Otherwise, a large number of participants would shift their interest to other networks, emphasizing that Ethereum should not be penalized for its growth.

The Ethereum community has submitted a new improvement proposal EIP "Tapered Issuance Burn," aimed at adjusting the ETH issuance mechanism to reduce the centralization and dilution risks brought about by excessively high staking ratios. The proposal points out that the ETH staking ratio exceeded one-third of the total supply in April 2026 and continues to grow.Under the current issuance curve, even if all ETH participates in staking, the staking yield will not be lower than approximately 1.5%, leading to a lack of a "closure mechanism" for staking incentives. This EIP proposes to destroy a portion of the theoretical rewards for validators in each epoch, with the destruction ratio increasing as the staking scale grows: when the staking rate reaches about 50%, the net staking yield will gradually drop to zero. The proposal believes that this mechanism can limit the continuous expansion of ETH supply, reduce the dilution pressure on holders, prevent excessive concentration of staking in custodial institutions and staking service providers, and maintain ETH's attributes as a neutral asset and a store of value.According to the design, under the tapered issuance mechanism, the ETH issuance will peak when the staking rate is around 20%, with an annual issuance rate of about 0.5%, and will drop to zero when the staking rate reaches 50%. Combined with the EIP-1559 and Blob fee destruction mechanisms, ETH supply may more frequently enter a deflationary state in the future. The authors of the proposal state that this plan is not aimed at individual stakers but rather corrects the long-term dilution issues brought about by the current issuance curve, allowing staking yields to ultimately be determined by market risk premiums rather than fixed algorithmic incentives.

According to Specter monitoring, a long-inactive PancakeSwap liquidity provider (LP) lost approximately $2.96 million due to signing a malicious EIP-7702 authorization.It is reported that the attacker removed about $1.48 million in BSC-USD and $1.48 million in BUSD liquidity provided by the victim and exchanged BUSD for ETH. Currently, the attacker has deposited approximately $1.46 million in funds to Tornado Cash, while the remaining approximately $1.48 million in USDT is still held in the attacker's address.

Ethereum Improvement Proposal EIP-8222 aims to separate staking deposits from withdrawals through a STARK-based cryptographic mechanism and to re-anonymize validators to reduce the traceability of validator activities. Currently, about one-third of ETH is staked.Thibault Dubuis, Head of Staking and Decentralized Finance Products at Sygnum Bank, stated that the current deposit addresses, validators, and withdrawal credentials create visible links, making institutional holdings, entry times, and staking strategies nearly public. This proposal is still in the discussion phase and has not yet scheduled a deployment time. Its design may involve arrangements such as fixed deposit denominations and asset withdrawal waiting periods, and institutional users may need to bear higher execution costs, process delays, and compliance work.

According to Jinshi reports, SK Hynix's American Depositary Receipts indicate an opening price of $180, with an issue price of $149.

According to FinanceFeeds, Ethereum developers are evaluating the EIP-8182 proposal, which aims to introduce native privacy transfers for ETH and ERC-20 tokens through the Hegotá hard fork. The proposal was created by Facet co-founder Tom Lehman on March 3, 2026, and belongs to the Draft Standards Track Core EIP, which has not yet been finalized or scheduled for inclusion in the upgrade.Hegotá is the next upgrade following Glamsterdam, expected to focus on infrastructure and protocol layer improvements. The core of EIP-8182 is to create a standardized shielded pool system contract at the protocol layer, where users can deposit ETH or ERC-20 tokens and use zero-knowledge proofs to spend the tokens. The system adopts a UTXO model instead of Ethereum's account balance model, using a separate proof architecture that does not rely on an administrator-controlled upgrade mechanism or pause functionality.The proposal aims to address issues faced by application layer privacy tools, such as small anonymity sets and governance risks. If included in Hegotá, it would be one of the most significant privacy upgrades for Ethereum. Core developers still need to assess its cryptographic assumptions, state growth, denial-of-service risks, and whether it will be included remains undetermined.

According to market news, attackers exploited a flawed EIP-7702 account to steal 1,988.5 QNT (approximately 54.93 ETH) from the QNT reserve pool. The root cause is that the reserve pool administrator EOA delegated the code to the BatchExecutor contract via EIP-7702, and this contract set the permissionless BatchCall contract as the authorized caller.Since the BatchCall.batch() function did not have any permission checks set, any external caller could invoke it, ultimately leading to the depletion of the reserve pool assets.

Ethereum developer Tom Lehman has released a draft proposal for EIP-8182, which aims to make private transactions a native feature of Ethereum by introducing shared privacy pools, a fixed address system contract, and zero-knowledge proof verification precompiles at the Ethereum protocol layer.The proposal states that the solution will be implemented through a hard fork upgrade, without an administrator key, governance tokens, or on-chain upgrade mechanisms, with the goal of addressing the issues of decentralization and inconsistent trust models in privacy applications. As designed, users can make private transactions to any Ethereum address or ENS name using existing wallets, and it supports atomic "de-sensitization - interaction - re-privatization" processes.

According to The Block, Ethereum researchers are exploring the "Block-in-Blobs" proposal (EIP-8142), which plans to encode block execution load data into Blobs. Validators can verify data existence through Data Availability Sampling (DAS) without needing to download the complete dataset, reducing bandwidth pressure and improving scalability.In the zkEVM scenario, this proposal can also fill the gap where zero-knowledge proofs cannot guarantee data availability and aims to unify execution Gas and Blob data usage into a single "data Gas" system.In addition, Biconomy, in collaboration with the Ethereum Foundation, proposed ERC-8211, which supports executing multiple operations in sequence under a single signature to reduce failed transactions and optimize the DeFi interaction experience.

According to CoinDesk, fund services giant Apex Group announced that it will tokenize Omnes Mining Note (OMN) on the Base platform, a Layer 2 network under Coinbase. OMN is an institutional-grade structured note backed by Bitcoin mining power, aimed at professional non-U.S. investors, providing economic exposure directly linked to new Bitcoin production without the operational burdens of mining infrastructure, hardware, energy, and compliance.Each OMN corresponds to a fixed 1 PH/s of mining power, with a term of 36 months, and ownership is recorded on-chain through the ERC-3643 standard, which may potentially be used as collateral for permissioned lending in the future.

Ethereum Foundation researcher ladislaus.eth disclosed that the Ethereum core developer meeting (AllCoreDevs) plans to make a decision this Thursday on whether to include EIP-8141 in the Hegota upgrade.The core of EIP-8141 is to decouple accounts from fixed signature schemes, providing a native path for migration to post-quantum secure signature schemes. ladislaus.eth pointed out that if the consensus layer (leanCL) already possesses post-quantum security, but user transactions on the execution layer still rely on ECDSA signatures that have quantum vulnerabilities, then the overall migration is not complete; both layers need to have post-quantum readiness.In addition, EIP-8141 will also support account abstraction as a native feature of the protocol and support programmable Gas payments (including payments with ERC-20 tokens and transaction sponsorship). Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin added that EIP-8141 will also provide better native support for privacy protocols and draw a comparison with the general programmability of the EVM—this proposal will introduce programmability into the verification phase, which previously only hardcoded ECDSA.

According to official news, the blockchain explorer Etherscan has officially launched the "Historical Proxy" tab feature, allowing users to view the complete upgrade history of proxy contracts, including past implementation contract addresses and upgrade transaction records. This feature supports the detection of upgrade events that comply with mainstream EIP standards.In addition, Etherscan has synchronized and optimized the verification process for proxy contracts, which now basically achieves automatic recognition. Users no longer need to manually click "Is this a proxy?" for confirmation in most cases, and only in edge cases is manual operation still required.

Vitalik posted on the X platform stating that Ethereum has been discussing account abstraction (AA) since early 2016. Now, EIP-8141 serves as a comprehensive proposal aimed at addressing all remaining issues related to AA. The core concept of this proposal is "frame transactions," where a transaction contains N calls that can read each other's call data and can authorize the sender and gas payer.This mechanism supports various use cases: ordinary account transactions (such as multi-signature, variable keys, quantum-resistant signature schemes) are completed through validating frames and executing frames; when paying gas fees with non-ETH tokens, it can be achieved through the main contract without any intermediaries.In terms of privacy protocols, ZK-SNARK verification or the addition of two-dimensional randomness can be implemented through payment contracts. Regarding security, on-chain transactions are only valid when the validating frame returns an ACCEPT with a gas payment flag, while the memory pool layer will initially adopt conservative rules, gradually expanding later.EIP-8141 is highly complementary to FOCIL, with FOCIL ensuring quick transaction inclusion and AA ensuring that complex operations can be executed as first-class transactions directly. The proposal is also discussing EOA compatibility, which is theoretically feasible. After more than a decade of research, these technologies are expected to be implemented within a year through the Hegota fork.

Vitalik Buterin posted on the X platform, stating that there is an important synergy between the FOCIL mechanism and the account abstraction proposal Ethereum's EIP-8141 (based on 7701). EIP-8141 elevates smart accounts (including multi-signature, quantum-resistant signatures, key changes, Gas sponsorship, etc.) to "first-class citizens," meaning that operations from these accounts can be directly packaged as on-chain transactions without additional encapsulation.At the same time, privacy protocols can achieve a multi-tenant account model through the paymaster or 2D nonce mechanism, thereby gaining the same level of native support. FOCIL provides a censorship-resistant fast transaction inclusion mechanism. With the combination of both, various transactions, including smart wallet transactions, Gas sponsorship transactions, and privacy protocol transactions, can be included in blocks by one of the 17 roles (proposers or inclusions) randomly selected for each time slot.Vitalik stated that this design can ensure that transactions are almost guaranteed to be completed on-chain within 1-2 time slots in adversarial environments. In the current version, each FOCIL volume is approximately 8kB, which is relatively small, but there is a path for future expansion that could support most transactions in a block entering through the FOCIL channel. This architecture is similar in characteristics to the multi-parallel proposer (MCP) design, but differs in that FOCIL does not control the "last look" related to MEV, which is still allocated through the ePBS auction mechanism.Vitalik emphasized that even if 100% of block time slots are monopolized by adversarial parties through the proposer-builder separation (PBS) mechanism, refusing to connect to the public mempool or discriminating against specific applications, FOCIL can still ensure that all transactions receive fast inclusion. Although this design does not eliminate the centralization risk of the proposer role, it significantly weakens its power. Under the EIP-8141 framework, transactions from smart wallets or privacy protocols can be directly received by FOCIL inclusions through the public mempool without additional intermediaries or encapsulation processes.Vitalik concluded that Ethereum is accelerating the advancement of core architecture upgrades.

The privacy computing project Zama Protocol announced that the public sale of ZAMA tokens will end on January 24 at 20:00 (UTC), and the token distribution date is February 2, with full unlocking upon distribution.

According to the official announcement, starting from January 13, 2026, at 08:00, all Binance Booster Earn receipt tokens, including tETH, miBNB, maUSDT, zkUSDT, bwUSDT, as well as the receipt tokens for the upcoming Booster Earn activities, will be counted towards the user's Binance Alpha balance points.