Ethereum L1 protocol research is taking leaps forward in 2026. A good post from @ralexstokes: * Scale * Improve UX * Harden

## Harden FOCIL is already a significant hardening of Ethereum. But beyond that, the most important work this year is not in the glamorous (heh) EIPs, it's in the gritty stuff: * Network security testing * Post-quantum readiness (eg. we are also exploring EIPs to make it much more gas-efficient to verify quantum-resistant signature schemes inside the EVM) * Improving our ability to analyze the network's geographic decentralization * All the various work Kohaku is doing on the security side (trustless RPCs, social recovery, local simulation, various other features in progress for this year) Ethereum will emerge from the year a far stronger, more powerful and more self-sovereign protocol than what it was entering this year.