Whitepaper Reading Club: Hegota Upgrade & Encrypted Mempools
Hegota Upgrade & Encrypted Mempools
Ethereum’s Hegotá upgrade is taking shape, but several bigger changes to Ethereum’s architecture are still being debated. We’ll explore emerging proposals including decoupled consensus, Delayed State Root (EIP-7862), and Optional Execution Proofs (EIP-8025): what problems they aim to solve, how they could reshape Ethereum’s consensus and execution pipeline, and the trade-offs that remain before they can become part of the protocol.
Paper / source:
Delayed State Root (EIP-7862) https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-7862
Optional Execution: https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-8025
Format
Short introduction and context setting to start.
A short walkthrough of the paper and its key ideas.
Questions and discussion grounded in the original source.
Moderator-led discussion with no promotions.
Session Guide:
Senior Software Engineer at Monad Labs, where he works on the Monad consensus client. Previously a blockchain developer at Arrow Markets and founder of Onboard.ID, his work spans blockchain consensus, DeFi, and privacy-preserving digital identity. He holds an MEng in Electronics and Computer Science from the University of Edinburgh.
About Monad
Monad is an institutional-grade blockchain built to power an open, global economy, enabling efficient money movement, tokenization, capital markets, and other financial applications. Built by a team from Jump Crypto.
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