Ethereum Developers Target Privacy Changes in Next Major Upgrade
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Vitalik Buterin outlines Ethereum's long-term roadmap, predicting Lean Ethereum will be the third major iteration.
According to ChainCatcher, Vitalik Buterin recently reported that Ethereum researchers met in Berlin and updated the protocol's long-term roadmap (strawmap.org). Vitalik pointed out that "Lean Ethereum" is not a single upgrade, but a series of improvements to be implemented in phases over the next three to four years. Its importance is comparable to a "merge," encompassing the restructuring of almost every core module of the protocol. Key features include: Verification Mechanism: Introducing recursive STARKs to replace the existing direct re-execution method, becoming a core component of the protocol at the primary level; Quantum Security: Significantly elevated priority, all quantum-fragile components will be replaced, and the quantum-safe Blob design is underway; Consensus Layer: Decoupling the available chain from finality, achieving one to two rounds of finality, resulting in better security and lower latency; State Layer: Existing dynamic states remain unchanged, but new, more scalable states (such as UTXO storage, circular buffers, etc.) will be added. It is projected that by 2030, Ethereum will have 2 TB of dynamic states + 100 TB of new states, and the migration of applications such as ERC20 and NFTs can achieve a gas fee reduction of over 10 times; Privacy: Upgraded from an additional feature to a primary goal, permeating the design of Mempool, state trees, etc.; VM: In addition to the EVM, leanISA or RISC-V will be introduced, with the long-term goal being direct at the protocol layer.
Ethereum devs to narrow 66 proposals tied to Hegotá upgrade
The Hegotá upgrade aims to introduce more native privacy for Ethereum applications.
Vitalik: Ethereum is preparing for its largest upgrade since The Merge
According to Odaily Odaily, Vitalik Buterin stated that Ethereum is preparing for its largest upgrade since The Merge. (Solid Intel)
Hinkal's privacy protocol has suspended affected smart contracts due to abnormal USDC transactions on the Ethereum blockchain.
Odaily Odaily reports that decentralized privacy protocol Hinkal Protocol has announced it has noticed unusual activity involving USDC on the Ethereum network within its system. Currently, this only affects the Ethereum blockchain; other chains are unaffected. As a precaution, affected smart contracts have been suspended, and a comprehensive investigation and analysis of related on-chain transactions and activities is underway. The investigation is ongoing, and updates will be released as information becomes available. Previously, it was reported that Hinkal suffered a loss of $800,000 due to a suspicious USDC transaction.
Following its IPO, investors have been gauging SpaceX's valuation in the dark. Next week, investment bank research reports and target prices will be released, providing guidance for the stock price trend.
Mars Finance reported on July 2nd that since its record-breaking IPO last month, SpaceX investors have largely been operating in the dark, with few financial forecasts available to help determine the stock's true value. This will change next week when the blackout period for bank analysts involved in underwriting the $86 billion IPO ends. The deal was led by Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, Citigroup, and JPMorgan Chase, with 18 other banks participating. Starting next Tuesday, investors are expected to receive a new batch of research reports, target prices, and growth forecasts, which should help determine the stock's likely trajectory in the short term and over the next few years. (Wide Angle Observation)
BNB Chain Releases 2026 Second Half Technology Roadmap: BSC Throughput Target to Double
Odaily Odaily reports that BNB Chain has released its technology roadmap for the second half of 2026, announcing that it will continue to optimize speed, throughput, and protocol stability, and plans to double the throughput of the BSC mainnet again, while developing a new generation of Layer 1 architecture for the next decade. BNB Chain stated that in the first half of 2026, BSC completed several performance upgrades, including reducing the block interval from 750 milliseconds to 450 milliseconds, decreasing the memory finality time from 1125 milliseconds to 650 milliseconds, and increasing the baseline throughput from approximately 2800 TPS to approximately 5200 TPS. At the middleware level, BNB Chain also advanced the construction of AI agents and payment infrastructure, including launching BNB Agent Studio and BNB Agent SDK to support the deployment of self-governed on-chain AI agents; it also continued to improve the Middleware Payment Protocol (MPP) SDK and explored institutional-grade privacy frameworks. For the second half of 2026, BNB Chain has proposed three core objectives: Double the throughput: Through BEP-675, BAL integration and EVM execution optimization, the BSC mainnet performance is further improved, with the long-term goal of achieving a 10x performance increase for the entire BNB Chain; Reduce the impact of network congestion: Improve stability during peak periods through resource isolation, dedicated transaction channels, and a transaction inclusion mechanism based on the FOCIL concept; Lowering the barrier to entry: Optimizing gas fee structures for different industries to reduce the cost for enterprises to enter Web2 and Web3 application scenarios.