EIP-8141 Frame Transactions to Headline Next Ethereum Upgrade as Scaling Milestones Announced

EIP-8141, the frame transaction object, is the scheduled headliner for the Bogota upgrade next year 125. Instead of defining a static enshrined lifecycle up front in the protocol, the frame transaction allows users to define that lifecycle using basic building blocks, and can replicate the flow of earlier proposals like 7701 12. The frame object consists of six values: mode, flags, targets, limits, value, and data 12.

On the scaling front, Glamsterdam, shipping early next year, will increase the gas limit to 200 million, enabling up to 68 million transactions per day, though realistic numbers are lower after accounting for EIP-1559 and transaction complexity 7. The blob count has been raised to 21, unlocked by PeerDAS and data availability sampling 7.

Polygon Labs demonstrated a specialized L2 architecture that achieved 42 million payments per second, scaling linearly with additional servers, with costs as low as $0.15 per billion transactions 11. The architecture deletes unnecessary features and uses a facilitator-hub model with settlement batched 11. Mudit Gupta noted that "the hardest part is generating the load. Imagine generating 45 million transactions every second to send to the server" 11.

The social layer of Ethereum is also decentralizing, with multiple independent organizations spinning up, including EF Labs, Ethereum Institutional, and E-Systems 10. Caspar Schwarz-Schilling described this as "client diversity, but at the social layer" 10.

On the policy front, Jaideep Reddy outlined India's crypto journey from a 2013 RBI caution to the Supreme Court in 2020 setting aside the RBI's banking ban, noting that "the activity of crypto itself is not banned and by cutting off banking you're cutting off the lifeline of the business" 4.

Security talks covered the evolution of address poisoning attacks, where attackers create similar addresses and send dust transactions, and Safe Wallet's layered protections including risk detection and address comparison 14. A separate talk detailed a read-only bug in Move VM that could allow stealing $5M by exploiting a copy of objects, found via decompiling smart contracts 15.

Other notable updates: ENSv2 launched after two years, staying on layer one and introducing a name wrapper and new front-end 3; the Coordination Network proof-of-concept for decentralized privacy-preserving payments on Ethereum was presented 2; and the new state trie proposal (PBT) and migration plan without stopping the chain was introduced 13.

• FOCIL inclusion lists in Lighthouse aim to reduce censorship from 16% to zero 6.
• Kokio introduced a privacy-first eSIM store with no personal data collection 1.
• A panel on open coordination at scale argued Ethereum is the closest to complete decentralization among smart contract chains 8.
• Prop AMMs were analyzed for both efficiency gains and spoofing risks 9.