Morning Edition · Monday, July 6, 2026
Ethereum Researchers Revisit an Old Idea to Fight State Bloat: Native UTXOs
A new Ethereum Research proposal would add Bitcoin-style unspent-transaction-output accounting to Ethereum, aiming to stop permanent state growth and improve privacy and stateless verification.
Alongside the headline "Lean Ethereum" plan, Ethereum researchers are debating a more specific structural change: adding native unspent-transaction-outputs (UTXOs) to a network built entirely on account balances. The proposal on Ethereum Re…
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Ethereum Maps Its Next L2 Scaling Round
Over the coming months Ethereum researchers advance a post-Glamsterdam scaling roadmap that raises layer-2 throughput while preserving censorship resistance, tying execution and bandwidth costs to base-layer ether transfers.
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