Ethereum's draft EIP-7906 lets transactions reject bad trade results, but only a floor set by someone other than the trade's builder protects users. What the proposal is worth to a trader depends on whether wallets and account providers write their own limits from prices the app does not control.
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- Evidence58
- Adoption5
- Hype gap−5
- Incentives
- Insufficient
- Confidence52
Ethereum Foundation says EIP-7906, a check that could have reverted the $1.5 billion Bybit theft, will not ship before 2027. Its own post concedes the check cannot stop the stolen-key and social-engineering attacks behind most of 2026's losses.
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- Evidence45
- Adoption2
- Hype gap+10
- Incentives55
- Confidence50
Ethereum's draft EIP-7906 would let a transaction check its own results with three new opcodes and revert if they break rules the user set in advance. Aimed at the 2027 Hegotá upgrade, it puts enforcement in the protocol and leaves rule-writing to users and the tools built on top.
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- Evidence40
- Adoption5
- Hype gap+10
- Incentives35
- Confidence45
Talks to reconcile Base's EIP-8130 with Ethereum's EIP-8141 broke down last week. Both chains will now ship their own native smart accounts. Derek Chiang, who co-authored Ethereum's proposal, says wallets carry the burden.
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- Evidence58
- Adoption24
- Hype gap+12
- Incentives62
- Confidence66
buildOne report1 publisher The Flashblocks cadence and the canonical block time are different numbers, and Base's cheaper-AA figure is measured on one operation on a network built to be thrown away. ERC-8403 moves account recovery into public state.
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- Evidence45
- Adoption34
- Hype gap+33
- Incentives72
- Confidence52
A contributor's draft would make the validator deposit contract variable length and add a mode to end BLS signatures permanently. It is unfinished, unnumbered, and aimed at a 2029 target that may move.
Reality
- Evidence54
- Adoption10
- Hype gap+18
- Incentives55
- Confidence52