Ethereum researchers are racing to close a zkEVM security gap before December
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August 21, 2026
Ethereum’s better.codes contest now measures a cryptographic proof gap that researchers can attack from both sides. At 15:44:47 UTC on Aug. 21, the live leaderboard showed a 63.99-bit lower certificate and a 116.13-bit upper certificate for koalaIRS12.…
Ethereum’s next upgrade turns a 2-second block bottleneck into a roughly 9-second window
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August 20, 2026
Ethereum node operators now have an active public network for rehearsing Glamsterdam’s coordinated execution- and consensus-client upgrade. Platåberget has an open, permissionless validator set, turning the upgrade into a practical test of whether client…