Recent developments in Ethereum focus on technological upgrades and ecological expansion:

Native Rollup progress: Justin proposed a Native Rollup solution to hand over the proof system to L1 validators, initially utilizing re-execution, with plans to introduce zero-knowledge proof optimizations in the future, aimed at enhancing interoperability and user experience.

Focil protocol optimization: Includer Select incentivizes transaction inclusion through an auction mechanism, ZK Focil utilizes zero-knowledge proofs to achieve validator anonymization, with multiple clients (Prysm, Teku, etc.) having completed compatibility testing.

Devnet 6 upgrade: Introduces a distributed block publishing specification and full node custody list, using an “all or nothing” response strategy to reduce network overhead, and advancing the code implementation for migrating MPT to Verkle trees.

EIP proposal advancement: EIP-7928 (block-level access lists) and EIP-7927 (historical expired metadata) have entered the discussion phase, the Pectra protocol meeting has postponed modifications to the receipt field of EIP-7702.

Developer ecosystem: The Alloy tool has added multiple new features, Hardhat supports the Prague upgrade, and Gitcoin Grants Phase 5 continues to promote the protocol scholarship program.