We’re excited to announce a 5th kernel upgrade proposal for Etherlink - Ebisu. As always, we’re counting on Tezos bakers to participate in the planned governance votes for this kernel upgrade.
Voting on proposals gives bakers the opportunity to shape the future of Tezos and Etherlink!
Important Dates
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Proposal period vote: slow governance period 33, from L1 level #10,430,689, starting Friday Oct 3, 2025, 21:51 UTC.
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Promotion period vote: slow governance period 34, from L1 level #10,481,089, starting Wednesday Oct 8, 2025, 13:51 UTC.
Note that the dates provided above might be slightly affected by network delays.
Key proposed changes in Etherlink 5.0 (Ebisu)
1. Support for EVM Prague (
Includes breaking changes)
Etherlink 5 introduces support for EVM Prague features. This upgrade implements EIP-7702 (EOA account code), EIP-2537 (BLS12-381 precompile) and EIP-7623 (Increased calldata cost) with breaking changes.
2. Tezos FA Bridge: Breaking Change
Events emitted by Tezos FA tokens have changed to better align them with EVM event formatting and improve compatibility with indexers and tooling. Read
more. This update introduces breaking changes.
3. Switch from SputnikVM to REVM
Etherlink now uses REVM for EVM execution allowing Etherlink to adopt new EVM upgrades faster. Read more.
4. Sequencer Key Migration
Sequencer operators can now rotate signing keys without governance approval. You can find more details in the announcement post.
How to vote
Participating in Etherlink’s governance is simple. Bakers can submit their vote with the Octez CLI, Better Call Dev or by interacting with the governance contracts using the NEW
Etherlink Governance UI — it only takes a few clicks!
As a baker, you can also cast your votes using a voting key. This video guide shows you how to set it up and cast your first vote.
Using Octez client
To upvote Ebisu in the Proposal period vote, you can use the following Octez client command:
octez-client transfer 0 from <baking address (or voting key, if set up)> to KT1VZVNCNnhUp7s15d9RsdycP7C1iwYhAQ8r --entrypoint "upvote_proposal" --arg "0x00fea18ffecd0563f942b8b4c67911302754d7e505b5b5672ff03cb927b79ba830" --burn-cap 0.2
If the proposal is selected for the Promotion period, you’d then use the following command to vote “yea”:
octez-client transfer 0 from <baking_address> to KT1VZVNCNnhUp7s15d9RsdycP7C1iwYhAQ8r \
--entrypoint "vote" --arg '"yea"'
Using the Etherlink Governance UI
Proposal Period
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Go to governance.etherlink.com. Connect your wallet to the application and look for the kernel governance contract
KT1VZVNCNnhUp7s15d9RsdycP7C1iwYhAQ8r. Alternatively, you can follow this
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Connect your wallet, and click on the Slow tab.
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Select the current active Slow governance contract containing the Ebisu proposal.
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Click Upvote to upvote the proposal.
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Sign the request with your wallet/voting key.
The proposal period runs about 50,400 layer 1 blocks or about 4.5 days. Proposals must gather support from at least 1% of the total voting power to move to the next phase.
Promotion Period
Should Etherlink 5 (Ebisu) gather enough support to advance to the next stage, you would need to cast your final vote once the promotion period starts.
To vote in the promotion period:
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Repeat steps 1-3 from the proposal period steps above.
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Click vote, then select “yea”, “no” or “pass” according to your preference.
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Submit your vote.
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Sign the request with your wallet/voting key.
The promotion period also runs about 50,400 layer 1 blocks or about 4.5 days. To pass, the proposal must meet Quorum (5% of all voting power must vote Yea, Nay, or Pass) and Super majority (75% of Yea or Nay votes must be Yea).
Now that you have all the tools you need to participate in Governance on Etherlink, go ahead and cast a vote for Ebisu!
(EDIT: correction applied to a command-line instruction)
