New Week in Ethereum 2025-11-14

Week in Ethereum News

The Ethereum core devs concluded their November 13 All-Core-Devs call by certifying the successful deployment of BPO2 on the Hoodi testnet, approving EIP-8068 (neutral effective balance design) for the Glamsterdam fork, and committing to a mid-December consensus devnet for interop testing.

All Core Devs - Consensus (ACDC) #169, November 13, 2025:
- Fusaka updates: Successful deployment of BPO2 on Hoodie with no significant issues; high blob fees confirmed to be functioning as intended.
- Glamsterdam discussions: Focused on ePBS implementation progress and non-headliner EIP selection.
- FOCIL (Fork-Choice Inclusion Lists) discussions: Mixed opinions on whether to prioritize fork cadence or feature implementation, with concerns about delays impacting the scaling roadmap.
- EIP decisions: Moving forward with EIP-8068 (Neutral effective balance design), deferring decision on EIP-8062, and further evaluating EIP-8061 and EIP-8071.

Non-headliner EIP scoping discussions are ongoing, with client teams publishing their preferences.
The ACDC #169 call included extensive discussions about FOCIL (EIP-7805) and its potential inclusion in the Glamsterdam fork.
Concerns were raised about balancing technical and social considerations for FOCIL implementation, with some suggesting it should be given higher priority.

Community feedback on non-headlining features in Glamsterdam was solicited, with suggestions to heavily use Declined for Inclusion for EIPs that don't significantly move the roadmap forward.
Delivering an impactful 2026 discussion emphasized that FOCIL shouldn't get pre-committed as a headliner for Heka-Bogotá, to avoid another Verkle situation.

Modeling the Worst-Case Parallel Execution under EIP-7928: Researchers analyze how EIP-7928’s proposed parallel execution model behaves under adversarial worst-case contention. Their findings highlight potential latency and resource-usage spikes that client teams must account for when implementing multicore execution.
Synchronous Composability vs. Intents:
Compares two competing approaches for cross-rollup interoperability: synchronous atomic calls vs. intent-based asynchronous flows. It outlines design trade-offs relating to UX, safety, and rollup independence, with researchers highlighting open problems around fallback and recovery logic.

Starknet launches Privy-powered embedded wallets on mainnet, enabling email/social login and smart-contract wallets for dapps. This lowers onboarding friction significantly and gives developers a native, AA-compatible wallet stack out of the box.
RISE unveils MarketCore + RISEx, shifting toward shared onchain markets infra and launching a native perps DEX. The move repositions RISE as a dedicated execution layer for orderbook-based financial applications.

Hardhat v3.0.13: Bug-fix release focusing on more accurate gas statistics and improvements to the Rust-based Ethereum Development Runtime (EDR), tightening the feedback loop when profiling contract execution.
Nightly: Introduces a new “browser wallet” feature plus docs and anvil refactors that lean more heavily on Alloy’s block/header types. This is an early step toward smoother browser-based integrations with Foundry, so front-end teams can eventually hook more directly into Foundry tooling.
Positions in Uniswap v3: Detailed walkthrough of how Uniswap v3 tracks liquidity as non-fungible “positions” keyed by owner + tick range, with concrete Solidity examples around the positions mapping and mint function. This is a good reference if you’re building LP tooling, analytics, or custom position managers and want to reason precisely about how ticks, fees, and liquidity are stored.

🚨 Lido at 23.54%, still too close to the 33.3% threshold.
Client diversity (via clientdiversity.org):
- Execution layer: Geth ~41% & Nethermind ~38%
- Consensus layer: Lighthouse ~43% & Prysm ~31%
- Any client bug over 33.3% could mean loss of finality.
Better geographic diversity is optimal, particularly outside of North America & Europe.

Consensus layer:
- Prysm v7.0.0: Initial mainnet release for the Ethereum Fusaka fork on December 3rd, 2025, with default gas limit raised to 60M, by-epoch blob storage format as default, and several deprecated flags removed.
Execution layer:
- Nethermind v1.35.2: Mandatory upgrade for all node operators that includes Ethereum Mainnet Fusaka hard fork configuration (Osaka, BPO1, and BPO2 upgrades).

EIPs (Core, Networking, Interface):
- EIP-7773 (EIPs included in the Glamsterdam Ethereum network upgrade): PFI Sparse Blobpool in Glamsterdam and add EIP-8013 to the list of EIPs
- EIP-8062 (Improve stake consolidation and fairness): Added an alternative specification and figures for capital efficiency
ERCs (Application Layer):
- EIP-7834(new separate metadata section to the EOF): Use max_stack_increase in types_section grammar
- EIP-7495(SSZ type for forward-compatible containers): Move to Review

Fees (via ultrasound.money):
- Gas: 0.1 to 5.0 gwei, 0.3 gwei average; zero net issuance at 16.3 gwei
- 18.25 ETH net issuance this week
ETHUSD: $3,106 – $3,633, currently $3,180, all time high $4,946
ETHBTC: currently 0.033 (Flippening at ~0.165)

U.S. Treasury Department & Internal Revenue Service Issue Guidance for Staking Crypto ETPs: Under Revenue Procedure 2025-31, the agencies authorized crypto exchange-traded products (ETPs) to stake assets like Ethereum and distribute the resulting staking rewards to investors while maintaining tax-compliance.

Nov 17–22: Devconnect Buenos Aires in Buenos Aires, Argentina – A week-long Ethereum gathering with deep dives, workshops, and the Ethereum World’s Fair.
December 3, 2025: Fusaka mainnet fork - Ethereum's next major upgrade bringing PeerDAS and other improvements
December 9, 2025: BPO1 fork - First Blob Parameter Only fork increasing blob target/max to 10/15
Dec 11–13: Solana Breakpoint 2025 in Abu Dhabi, UAE – While Solana-focused, it includes multi-chain ecosystem discussions relevant to Ethereum builders.
January 7, 2026: BPO2 fork - Second Blob Parameter Only fork increasing blob target/max to 14/21