Ethereum Weekly News
Protocol Upgrades
Roadmap Proposed for Ethereum Privacy and Self-Sovereignty
A comprehensive roadmap outlines steps to transform Ethereum into a maximally private and self-sovereign financial system. The proposal argues that privacy should be the default state of the network rather than an opt-in feature.
Layer 2 and Scaling Solutions
A Taxonomy of Preconfirmation Guarantees and Their Slashing Conditions in Rollups
Detailed categorization of different types of preconfirmation guarantees in optimistic rollups, examining inclusion, ordering, and execution success guarantees along with associated slashing conditions.
MEV & Consensus
FairFlow: Building a Transparent L2 MEV Economy
Proposal for FairFlow, a modified version of TimeBoost that aims to create a transparent and efficient marketplace for MEV opportunities in Layer 2 networks while preventing gaming of sequencing policies.
Anti-Collusion Mechanism Proposed for Threshold Encrypted Mempools
A new mechanism is proposed to prevent collusion in threshold encrypted mempools by tying decryption to proposer commitments. The approach aims to make it technically infeasible for keypers to decrypt transactions before proposers commit to including them, while maintaining efficiency and not requiring global consensus.
Network Performance
Theoretical blob transaction hit rate based on the EL mempool
Analysis of theoretical blob transaction availability in Ethereum mempools, showing that 99% of public blob transactions are seen within 1s delay across regions. Study examines implications for distributed block-building.
PPPT: New Method to Reduce GossipSub Network Overhead
Push-Pull Phase Transition (PPPT) is proposed as a new mechanism to reduce bandwidth overhead in GossipSub by transitioning between push and pull modes based on message hop count. The approach shows significant improvements in reducing duplicate messages while maintaining low latency.
Innovation & Future Protocols
DSM: New Approach to Solving Double Spend Problem Without Global Consensus
The Decentralized State Machine (DSM) introduces a mathematically enforced trust layer that eliminates the need for consensus mechanisms and third-party validators. It enables quantum-resistant, deterministic state transitions with immediate finality and offline capability through bilateral state isolation.