Add Francesco Risitano

[jsign]

Name: Francesco Risitano

Team: EF Research Engineering (zkEVM project)

Started: Jan 2026

Eligibility / Contributions:

EIPs Championed or Co-Authored

• EIP-8025: Optional Execution Proofs - co-championed and co-authored. Drove the consensus side of EIP-8025 by defining the consensus specs and implementing EIP-8025 in the Lighthouse client, with corresponding Beacon API, Execution API, proof networking, and devnet work.
• EIP-8142: Block-in-Blobs (BiB) & EIP-8331: Partial Execution Payload Commitments -
  co-author, doing research related to architectural changes for improvement of the protocol.

Slides and Writeups

• EIP-8025: overview deck.
• EIP-8025: ACDC proposal-for-inclusion deck.
• EIP-8025: optional proofs February update deck.
• EIP-8025: optional proofs March update deck.
• EIP-8025: optional proofs April update deck.
• EIP-8025: optional proofs May update deck.
• EIP-8025: optional proofs June update deck.
• EIP-8025: Lighthouse architecture writeup.
• EIP-8025: network announcement proof gossip writeup.
• EIP-8025: validator proof resigning writeup.
• EIP-8025: weak-subjectivity checkpoint execution proof sync writeup.
• FV: EL-IR presentation.
• FV: evm-sail overview deck.
• PQ-DA: leanVM Fold-in-Circuit DAS deck.
• PQ-DA: LeanAIR direct AIR construction writeup.
• PQ-DA: pipelined blob proof dissemination writeup.

PR / Code Evidence

EIP-8025 / Optional Execution Proofs

• ethereum/EIPs#11604
• ethereum/consensus-specs#5014
• ethereum/consensus-specs#5055
• ethereum/consensus-specs#5161
• ethereum/consensus-specs#5332
• ethereum/beacon-APIs#569
• ethereum/execution-apis#735
• ethereum/execution-apis#799
• All authored PRs in eth-act/lighthouse

zkEVM Devnet and Infrastructure

• kurtosis-tech/kurtosis#3018
• ethpandaops/ethereum-package#1353
• ethpandaops/ethereum-package#1363
• eth-act/lighthouse#23

Formal Execution Specification and zkVM Guest Work

• frisitano/evm-sail

Post-Quantum DA

• leanEthereum/leanVM#224
• LeanDA implementation
• LeanAIR implementation

Block-in-Blobs, EIP-8142, EIP-8331, and Execution-Stack Work

• ethereum/consensus-specs#4847
• ethereum/execution-apis#736
• ethereum/EIPs#11936
• ethereum/EIPs#11763
• ethereum/EIPs#11530
• ethereum/EIPs#11295
• ethereum/EIPs#11212

[nalepae]

I worked with Francesco on EIP-8025 - Optional proofs. He had meaningful contributions to the specifications and he led the LH implementation of this EIP.

[jihoonsong]

I worked with Francesco with Optional Proofs and Block-in-Blobs. He showed great passion and fast learning curve. I can vouch for @frisitano.