The next Ethereum update already has a tentative release date

With Pectra, EIP-7702 will be implemented, which will optimize account abstraction. Validators would no longer be limited to staking 32 ethers (ETH) per node. The Pectra update, which will be the next hard fork of Ethereum, will be launched on the main network after completing its implementations on the Sepolia and Holesky testnets, scheduled for … Read more

They invent a way to reverse transactions in Ethereum

These transactions were created by Ethereum researcher Vlad Zamfir and Anuj Das Gupta. Smart transactions could be reversed with “time machines.” They invent a technological functionality, called “travel transactions”which relativizes the immutability of transactions in Ethereum accounting. This functionality would apply to so-called “smart transactions” (smart transactions) behaving like a time machine, which goes back … Read more

Smart contracts and more privacy would come to Bitcoin without forking the network

Bitcoin PIPE, a proposal by Mikhail Komarov, seeks to implement Covenants and Zero Proof of Knowledge (ZKP) in Bitcoin without requiring a soft fork in the network. These programmings would bring privacy benefits (SNARK tests) and usability in Bitcoin, through smart contracts or more complex and advanced transaction designs. The intention to add these advances … Read more