EIP-8304: Trustless log and transaction index in Geth
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Speaker: Vansh Sahay
Type: CLS - EPF Talk
Expertise: Some familiarity with the topic
Event: Devcon
Date: Nov 2026
Every log query today runs on trust, dashboards, indexers and commercial RPCs assume the serving node is honest, nothing in a response is provable. Light clients cannot verify completeness, selective omission goes unnoticed. EIP-8304 builds an index into the protocol, a system contract called each block commits transactions and logs as sorted, variable-length entries into chained SSZ-merkleized tables, staggered merges keep per-block work and storage incremental.
The index unlocks trustless log queries with inclusion, exclusion and completeness proofs for light clients