Devcon Mumbai: Ethlabs is online. Week 20.

November 8, 2026 · published as an article on X

Progress on roadmap planning from Mumbai; continued zooming in on ETH the asset; RPC support for FCR unblocking adoption; meet us at DAS London.

This week the Ethlabs team discussed how to accelerate Ethereum development towards a quantum- and AI-secure protocol while keeping a high level of ambition and urgency on moving towards a Faster Ethereum with ETH at the center.

The quantum transition is a goal the Ethereum community is rallying towards in the same way it was for the Merge. While it needs action from users, builders, and core devs, we believe it is a huge opportunity to make Ethereum the most secure place to build and ETH the most secure asset to hold.

#Devcon Mumbai

Most of the Ethlabs team was at Devcon Mumbai this week, the largest Ethereum event of the year. Barnabé, Ansgar, Caspar, Francesco, and Mislav contributed to roadmap planning during the L1 R&D days happening before the event. Later, Binji and I joined the team to speak with companies building on Ethereum at our booth (shout out to @divyushii for the decorations!).

The L1 R&D days happened the two days before Devcon. They cover the next Ethereum forks (Glamsterdam, Hegotá, I-star). Ethlabs led sessions on quick slots and core development in the age of AI, and other topics!

Most of our talks were on how we are making Ethereum faster. The rest was on why Ethlabs exists and what we want to see happen in Ethereum.

@binji_x started with a non-technical guide to Ethereum.

@fradamt gave an update on his faster finality work. Fast finality is one of the upgrades we hear as being most in-demand from crypto-native companies and institutions. This talk covers how we get there in a post-quantum secure way. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUbm_0IDd34

@barnabemonnot continued with a talk on Fast Ethereum. It covers how Fast Ethereum contributes to ETH and Ethereum becoming the hub of asset issuance and how and why Ethereum should continue shipping user-facing features while accelerating towards a post-quantum secure ETH and Ethereum. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfaghEoRxFs

@casparschwa talked about how Ethereum governance proceeds in the multi-node future that experienced a step-change with the launch of Ethlabs, Ethereum Institutional, and EthSystems and the EF reducing its scope around June. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPXY0oxjCRE

@binji_x talked about what startups he wants to see built on Ethereum based on what we are seeing in the market today and the macro forces at play. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0T92FQsUIOk

Finally, I gave a talk on the Fast Confirmation Rule which decreases bridging time from Ethereum to L2s and exchanges down to 12-24 seconds (scroll down for some important updates on this!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqNAn64_fDg

#Post-Quantum

The most important topic during the L1 R&D days (explained above) at Devcon was the post-quantum secure roadmap. As AI is creating mathematical breakthroughs consistently and frequently used to hack companies, the question in front of the Ethereum community is in what way Ethereum and ETH should become quantum- and AI-secure. Justin Drake (EF) presented the roadmap to be fully quantum-secure by 2028 in his talk:

We see this as a huge opportunity for ETH and Ethereum. ETH’s SoV status will be strengthened by it being secure against the threats that other assets are facing.

… and we aren’t the only ones who think this:

The PQ plans are still being updated and Ethlabs is engaging heavily with it. We will keep you up-to-date with this newsletter.

#FCR

The Fast Confirmation Rule decreases deposit time from Ethereum to L2s and exchanges down to 12-24 seconds (see talk above for more details!). Gnosis adopted it about a month ago and has already saved their users more than 12 days of waiting time!

The main bottleneck to more adoption has been RPC support. That is why it’s very exciting Quicknode announced they are now supporting FCR for all their customers. Other RPC providers support it already as well ahead of their announcement. Ask me or your RPC provider how to use FCR and drop your user wait time immensely.

#Gas Repricings

The Glamsterdam upgrade changes the gas prices for many operations on Ethereum in order to scale throughput. @fradamt has been leading a collaboration with Ethlabs and the EF to discover all contracts that are affected by it as we have been covering for the past few weeks, see for example @decentrek's weekly update two weeks ago.

@barnabemonnot and @fradamt are further discussing it with the community on X, see:

#On to week 21

Next week @adietrichs and myself will be in London for DAS week.

We are cohosting an event with @kpk_io, @blockworks, @nexusmutual on the 11th, covering how $ETH powers DeFi and why capital allocators should hold the asset.

@adietrichs is presenting at the Ethereum Institutional Forum on the 12th, covering the Ethereum roadmap with the technical leads of institutions.

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