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01 02 Looks at how AUCIL's auction adds a Sybil surface FOCIL tried to dodge, and what a less-gameable design might need.03 Paper on Ethereum governance's hidden authority graph, with a deterministic reconstruction scheme, because visibility is hard.04 Real-time Starknet staking dashboard for validators, APR, epochs, and attestations, because spreadsheets were too fast.05 Paper on SolSmith, a semantics-aware fuzzing tool that found 25 Solidity miscompiles, because compilers still enjoy surprises.06 CCN writeup on Vitalik's lean Ethereum proposal, shrinking Beacon Chain state and adding ZK validator privacy, because why not.07 Reproducible Validation of Voucher-Based L2 Interoperability: Diagnosing an ERC-4337 Compatibility Issue in an EIL SDK Implementation arxiv.orgPaper on reproducing an EIL SDK ERC-4337 compatibility bug across L2s, with a bounded mitigation, because standards were too easy.08 Ethereum gets a native UTXO proposal: frame txs, spent bits, log discovery, and sponsored spends without gutting accounts.09 The surprising bit is that Ethereum still has a living roadmap; here's the latest strawmap from Berlin.10 A 32-byte beacon block field for CL/EL client reporting, finally moving diversity stats from off-chain dashboards into consensus.11 Ethlabs Launch, the EF Restructures, Starknet Brings Private USDC, Crypto Neobanks Go Mainstream medium.comWeekly Ethereum infra digest covers Ethlabs, EF restructuring, Starknet private USDC, and crypto neobanks.12 Ethereum Foundation’s institutional primer, selling credibly neutral settlement as the thing most chains still can’t fake.13 21 months of mainnet data: slot-0 reorgs look driven by slow locally built blocks, not some mystical ePBS law.14 Data-heavy mainnet trace analysis of Ethereum state access, plus a sober look at EIP-8295/8188 tiering and its 30-day active window.15 Can you bolt compliance onto Ethereum nodes and relays without touching the protocol? UBS and Nethermind say they did on Sepolia.16 Essay arguing Ethereum has a fourth layer, memory, where mempools and ordering politics keep eating the protocol.17 UBS and Nethermind show node-level Ethereum compliance filters and relay routing on Sepolia, because the protocol won't police itself.18 Properties of issuance offsets and increased penalties under low/zero/negative issuance policies ethresear.chEthereum consensus math for zero/negative issuance, comparing issuance offsets to duty penalties and the usual incentive footguns.19 Proving execution is the easy part, validators still have to download the block unless the data also moves into blobs.20 Zama/Morpho want a USDC vault with FHE, so deposit logic stays private while settlement stays onchain, unlike usual transparent DeFi.21 Research post on GhostShard, using stealth addresses, EIP-7702, and disposable ownership fragments to make Ethereum less linkable.22 Validators get to funnel part of their rewards to an ecosystem splitter if enough of them vote for it, naturally.23 Paper estimates gas-demand elasticity on Ethereum and Arbitrum using clustered wallets and lagged-fee IVs, since fees needed econometrics.24 bioETH-Beacon: A Confidential On-Chain Genomic Beacon with Encrypted Counts, Filters, and Bounded Noise over a Fully Homomorphic EVM arxiv.orgCan a Beacon keep counts and filters secret on-chain, or does the FHE gas bill just move the leak elsewhere?25 Twin-Domain Convergence Identity: Is the .com/.eth pair an emerging institutional namespace standard — and how does this relate to Ethereum's core mission? ethresear.chEthResearch post on whether .com/.eth dual identities are becoming an institutional standard, with the usual mission angst.26 Post-quantum accounts with Kohaku, gasless AI agent payments, tokenized treasury on Ethereum medium.comGasless AI agents, post-quantum accounts, and tokenized treasury, a weekly Ethereum digest on ERC-4337 and EIP-7702.27 Quantum canaries are just stealthy on-chain booby traps, and this post shows Bitcoin Taproot and Ethereum variants.28 Can SPHINCS+ be made cheap enough on the EVM? This post answers with gas charts, Lean 4 proofs, and a few ugly tradeoffs.29 Ethereum Post-Quantum Account Protection Costs Just $0.07 Per Wallet, No Hard Fork Required binance.comBinance Square post on ETH account-level post-quantum protection, claiming $0.07 per wallet and no hard fork, naturally.30 News coverage of Kohaku’s opt-in post-quantum ERC-4337 accounts for Ethereum, because forks are apparently still too mainstream.