Week in Ethereum News

November 14, 2025

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Highlight of the Week

  • 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.

Eth R&D Protocol Call(s)

  • 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.

Glamsterdam (Amsterdam–G-Star) Upgrade

  • 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.

Layer 1

Research

  • 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.

Layer 2:

  • 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.

Stuff for Developers:

  • 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.

Centralization watch: threatening the value of your ETH

  • 🚨 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.

Client Releases

  • 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/Standards

Onchain Stats

  • 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)

Regulation/Business/Tokens

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