diff --git a/arbos/arbosState/initialize.go b/arbos/arbosState/initialize.go
index 8fc69e1db..6ee872f44 100644
--- a/arbos/arbosState/initialize.go
+++ b/arbos/arbosState/initialize.go
@@ -61,7 +61,10 @@ func MakeGenesisBlock(parentHash common.Hash, blockNumber uint64, timestamp uint
 
 func InitializeArbosInDatabase(db ethdb.Database, cacheConfig *core.BlockChainConfig, initData statetransfer.InitDataReader, chainConfig *params.ChainConfig, genesisArbOSInit *params.ArbOSInit, initMessage *arbostypes.ParsedInitMessage, timestamp uint64, accountsPerSync uint) (root common.Hash, err error) {
 	triedbConfig := cacheConfig.TriedbConfig()
-	triedbConfig.Preimages = false
+	// Honor the configured preimage setting instead of force-disabling it: the path
+	// scheme genesis state dump reverse-resolves account addresses via preimages to
+	// derive the correct storage-trie owner (enable with --execution.caching.enable-preimages).
+	triedbConfig.Preimages = cacheConfig.Preimages
 	stateDatabase := state.NewDatabase(triedb.NewDatabase(db, triedbConfig), nil)
 	defer func() {
 		err = errors.Join(err, stateDatabase.TrieDB().Close())
diff --git a/go-ethereum b/go-ethereum
index 2cfeb6fd5..9f26e8766 160000
--- a/go-ethereum
+++ b/go-ethereum
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Subproject commit 2cfeb6fd538048ff2529710efa8e17e564c6c546
+Subproject commit 9f26e876697a7b6c4347aa88557c103b205fcce3
diff --git a/go.mod b/go.mod
index f81ee55cd..2ae91d3c3 100644
--- a/go.mod
+++ b/go.mod
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ require (
 	cloud.google.com/go/auth/oauth2adapt v0.2.2 // indirect
 	cloud.google.com/go/compute/metadata v0.9.0 // indirect
 	cloud.google.com/go/iam v1.1.8 // indirect
-	github.com/Chaintable/pipeline v0.0.61-nitro-v3.5.6-3 // indirect
+	github.com/Chaintable/pipeline v0.0.62-0.20260820143309-98cd1e7b8c54 // indirect
 	github.com/ProjectZKM/Ziren/crates/go-runtime/zkvm_runtime v0.0.0-20251001021608-1fe7b43fc4d6 // indirect
 	github.com/cockroachdb/fifo v0.0.0-20240606204812-0bbfbd93a7ce // indirect
 	github.com/coreos/go-semver v0.3.1 // indirect
diff --git a/go.sum b/go.sum
index 06abec092..dad1bdc0e 100644
--- a/go.sum
+++ b/go.sum
@@ -116,6 +116,8 @@ github.com/cevatbarisyilmaz/ara v0.0.4 h1:SGH10hXpBJhhTlObuZzTuFn1rrdmjQImITXnZV
 github.com/cevatbarisyilmaz/ara v0.0.4/go.mod h1:BfFOxnUd6Mj6xmcvRxHN3Sr21Z1T3U2MYkYOmoQe4Ts=
 github.com/Chaintable/pipeline v0.0.61-nitro-v3.5.6-3 h1:HPCXU2N/9FEFJI3Z3eG7l7/und1ckRyNTHDFA3oiDs4=
 github.com/Chaintable/pipeline v0.0.61-nitro-v3.5.6-3/go.mod h1:l0GT8LwhbRwaxrLze5FjDv3lHgxxqdf9opAVjJtXNh4=
+github.com/Chaintable/pipeline v0.0.62-0.20260820143309-98cd1e7b8c54 h1:PF8mRS/0gmyYUmJKUatokNPPbOdREm0IkO6okWAjM7I=
+github.com/Chaintable/pipeline v0.0.62-0.20260820143309-98cd1e7b8c54/go.mod h1:l0GT8LwhbRwaxrLze5FjDv3lHgxxqdf9opAVjJtXNh4=
 github.com/chzyer/logex v1.1.10/go.mod h1:+Ywpsq7O8HXn0nuIou7OrIPyXbp3wmkHB+jjWRnGsAI=
 github.com/chzyer/logex v1.2.0/go.mod h1:9+9sk7u7pGNWYMkh0hdiL++6OeibzJccyQU4p4MedaY=
 github.com/chzyer/readline v0.0.0-20180603132655-2972be24d48e/go.mod h1:nSuG5e5PlCu98SY8svDHJxuZscDgtXS6KTTbou5AhLI=