Archive

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Ledger CryptoBilis Reseller Compromise

Ledger advises recent CryptoBilis customers to secure assets as reports of tampered devices and multi-million dollar losses emerge.

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Gnosis Chain Integrates Fast Confirm Rule

Fast confirmations reduce Ethereum-to-Gnosis deposit processing from roughly 13 minutes to about 12 seconds.

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Justin Drake Urges Bunker Mode

Drake warns mathematical advances could expose ECDSA private keys within months, urging major holders to migrate to hash-based addresses.

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Glamsterdam Activates On Sepolia Testnet

Sepolia marks the second of three public testnets to activate Glamsterdam ahead of a mainnet activation in December.

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EEZ Executes First Mainnet Transaction

The Ethereum Economic Zone executes its first atomic cross-chain transaction on mainnet.

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Blast Shuts Down Its L2

Blast, an Ethereum Layer 2 scaling featuring native yield, is shutting down its chain due to unsustainable revenue.

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Ethereum Foundation And Open Anonymity Launch zkAPI

The Ethereum Foundation and Open Anonymity Project launch a ZK-based payment system for metered API access.

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Base Activates Cobalt Upgrade

The network’s third standalone upgrade introduces validity transactions and new B20 controls.

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Aztec Network Relaunches ZK Money

ZK.Money is now an open-source, self-custodial privacy wallet built on the Aztec privacy-preserving rollup.

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CCIP 2.0 Goes Live With Fast Confirmation Rule Support

The upgrade slashes cross-chain settlement times to under 24 seconds, scaling efficiency for interop and intents.

cross-chain

Jumper Spins Out Of LI.FI

Jumper is spinning out of LI.FI to operate as an independent company.

ethereum

Ethereum: The Cryptographic World Computer

Post-Hegotá, Ethereum will shift from re-execution to cryptographic proof verification.

interop

Chainlink CCIP 2.0 Integrates Fast Confirmation Rule

Chainlink CCIP 2.0 integrates Ethereum's Fast Confirmation Rule, enabling sub-24-second confirmations and configurable settlement parameters.

glamsterdam

Glamsterdam On Track For December

The glamsterdam upgrade is on track for a mainnet activation by December 2026, following successful testnet forks.

interop

Chainlink Launches CCIP 2.0 Standard

The new interoperability standard introduces user-operated verification layers, built-in compliance controls, and configurable finality speeds.

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Exploits Hit Bitget, Payy, And NFT Contracts

A $387 million exchange breach, a rollup bridge exploit, and a white hat operation rescues over 23,000 NFTs.

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Arbitrum Launches Priority Gas Auctions

Arbitrum activates priority‑gas auctions, letting users attach a priority fee to individual transactions.

Former Hack VC Partner Found Dead

Hsin-Ju Chuang was found dead one day after she posted about intimidation from her former workplace.

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Nethermind 2.0 Introduces Flat State

Nethermind 2.0.0 reduces full Ethereum archive node requirements from 30 TB down to approximately 2.1 TB.

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Trueo Prediction Market Expands To Ethereum

Trueo expands prediction markets to Ethereum, ZisK ships v1.3.0-alpha with BLAKE3, cp0x receives an EF grant, and a Balancer fork is proposed.

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Lido Begins Validator Consolidation

Lido migrated its first validator to 0x02 withdrawal credentials, beginning the consolidation of its 8.4m staked ETH.

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SEC Grants Innovation Exemption For Tokenized Stocks

The SEC grants conditional five-year relief allowing tokenized stock trading in permissioned AMMs and liquidity pools.

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Multi-Party Blocks Go Live On Ethereum

The Blockspace Forum launched multi-party block construction on mainnet, enabling extra transactions to be appended.

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Senate Fails To Pass CLARITY Act

A Senate procedural vote halts the CLARITY Act. TheDAO Fund launches ETHSecurity Initiatives.

regulation

Senate Fails To Pass CLARITY Act

A procedural floor vote falls short of 60 votes, leaving market structure rules and developer safe harbors uncodified.

security

TheDAO Fund Opens ETHSecurity Initiatives

TheDAO Security Fund launches ETHSecurity Initiatives, its second grants round with RFP-based funding.

rwa

Aave Proposes Custodied Collateral Lending

Aave DAO weighs an isolated V4 hub enabling institutions to borrow stablecoins against Anchorage-custodied collateral via Chainlink CustodySync.

brief

Ethereum And Base Split On Account Abstaction

Ethereum and Base agree to adopt separate account abstraction standards.

security

0x Warns Of Aggregator Quote Spoofing Via Univ4 Hooks

0x warns that most Uniswap v4 hooks are malicious due to aggregator quote spoofing.

rwa

Robinhood Stock Tokens To Add In-Kind Redemptions

Robinhood outlines roadmap additions for 1:1 share redemptions and proxy voting via Say as Stock Tokens TVL tops $170M.

defi

BAL Holders Approve Balancer Wind-Down

BIP-928 passes as BAL holders reject the fork proposal; pools move to withdrawals-only on October 30, with treasury claims planned for May 2027.

account-abstraction

Ethereum And Base Account Abstraction Diverges

Ethereum and Base will implement separate account standards. Base will proceed in shipping EIP-8130.

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Tenev On Stock Token Issuer Consent

Robinhood CEO argues third-party stock tokenization should not give corporate issuers veto power over secondary markets.

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Frame Transactions Hegotá Headliner

Core devs confirm Frame Transactions for Hegotá, Coinbase partners with Moov, and Payy unveils stablecoin chargebacks.

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MetaMask Becomes Independent

Consensys reorganized into two independent companies with MetaMask becoming an independent consumer business.

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Trezor Supports Clear Signing

Built on ERC-7730, clear signing decodes raw smart contract calldata into human-readable information.

zksync

Deutsche Bundesbank Deploys ZKsync Prividium

Germany's central bank tests a Prividium, a self-hosted, ZK-secured permissioned chain.

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Ethrex Public Testnet Supports Privacy EIPs

The public testnet runs core EIPs from Ethereum's privacy roadmap on top of Glamsterdam.

post-quantum

Post Quantum Ethereum By 2029

The EF Protocol Cluster outlines shared priorities to reach post-quantum readiness by 2029.

hegota

EF Protocol Cluster Hegotá Tier List

The EF Protocol Cluster ranked 62 Hegotá EIPs, designating FOCIL and Frame Transactions as headliners.

account-abstraction

Frames As Final Transaction Type

Frames is outlined as the final transaction type Ethereum needs for validation abstraction.

privacy

Ethrex Launches Privacy Roadmap Testnet

Ethrex rolled out a public testnet running frame transactions, keyed nonces, and FOCIL.

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AMC CEO Clashes With Robinhood Over Stock Tokens

AMC CEO Adam Aron enters into a dispute with Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev over AMC-linked Robinhood Stock Tokens.

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Ethena Approves Protocol Fee Switch

Governance unanimously approves programmatic ENA buybacks funded by protocol revenue as USDe supply scales toward $100 billion.

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Bitwise Launches RWA Vault On Morpho

Bitwise launched the PAPY vault on Morpho, accepting Agora AUSD deposits to lend against tokenized RWAs.

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Lido Validator Operations Standard

A community-driven framework establishing operational benchmarks for Ethereum node operators.

ethereum

Ethereum Opcodes: The Instructions Behind Smart Contracts

Opcodes are the low-level instructions the EVM executes to read data, change state, and calculate gas for smart-contract transactions.

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Robinhood Chain Generates $1m In REV

Robinhood Chain generated over $1 million in daily chain revenue driven by stock meme activity.

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Post Quantum Ethereum North Star

The EF Protocol Team published its second monthly all-Protocol sync, noting PQ Ethereum will be pursued in parallel with fork work.

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Account Abstraction Scheduled For Hegotá

Developers committed to ship native account abstraction in the Hegotá upgrade while leaving the specific implementation open to change.

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Revolut Launches EURR Stablecoin

Revolut launched EURR, a euro-pegged stablecoin issued by Bridge on Ethereum and Polygon.

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Glamsterdam Gas Repricings Breaking Changes

Glamsterdam gas repricings could break or degrade a small set of smart contracts that use hard coded gas assumptions.

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Coinbase Tokenized Stocks On Base

Tokenized equity stock shares are now live on Base for non-U.S. users.

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Base Prepares Native Account Abstraction Standard

Base will roll out a new native account abstraction standard as part of its Cobalt network upgrade in September.

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Glamsterdam Activates On Platåberget Testnet

Ethereum's next upgrade, Glamsterdam, activated on the Platåberget testnet. Bug fixes are expected before the fork hits Sepolia and Hoodi.

eth

ETH Surges To $2,300 Following White House Crypto Remarks

The price of ETH is up nearly 20% in the last 24hrs following a White House briefing featuring leaders from Coinbase, Robinhood, and Chainlink.

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SEC Proposes Regulation Crypto Assets

The regulation crypto proposal creates two exemptions from Securities Act registration requirements and introduces a conditional safe harbor.

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Hegotá Priorities Ranked From 66 EIPs

Ethlabs and the EF Protocol Architecture team share their priority rankings from a pool of 66 EIPs proposed for Hegotá.

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zSwap DEX Hosted On Ethereum

zSwap is a new DEX hosted on Ethereum smart contracts, where all application logic runs in Solidity.

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EtherFi Upgrades To Aave V4

Ether.fi migrates its credit market to a dedicated Aave V4 lending market on OP Mainnet and adds support for tokenized stocks and metals trading.

ethereum

Fidelity Files For FETH Staking Approval

Fidelity filed with the SEC to add staking to its Fidelity Ethereum Fund (FETH), which already holds approximately $898 million worth of ETH.

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EthStaker Becomes EthCoordinate

EthStaker becomes EthCoordinate, an independent org focused on coordination between Ethereum stakeholders and core development.

news

Understanding The Issuance Burn

The Tapered Issuance Burn narrows the range where staking turns unprofitable, but solo stakers may still hit negative yield first.

news

Quick Slots Proposed For Hegotá And EtherFi Reduces Restaking Exposure

Quick Slots will reduce slot times from 12 seconds to 10 seconds, enables a faster Ethereum with quicker transaction finality and confirmations.

news

Validators Can Vote On EIP-8363

Validators can signal approval or disapproval for EIP-8363 on the EVA Hub. And Uniswap launches Pools Trade.

news

August 4th: Ethereum Tapered Issuance Burn Debate

The great old issuance debate sparks up again. This time, with a proposed EIP from Ethereum researchers.

news

ETH Daily News: Monday, August 3, 2026

BlackRock launches two tokenized money market funds, Ethereum protocol sync updates, and POAP winds down.

milestone

Mark your presence by collecting a Patron Edition Artifact!

We published the 1,000th episode of ETH Daily on Ethereum's 11th Birthday! Celebrate by collecting a $1 Patron Edition Artifact!

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#1000 - 11 Years Of Ethereum And 1000 Episodes Of ETH Daily

Today marks 1000 episodes of ETH Daily and 11 years of Ethereum.

glamsterdam

Plataberget First Public Testnet For Glamsterdam

The first short-lived public testnet designed specifically for the Glamsterdam upgrade on Ethereum.

aave

Aave To Shut Down Six Chain Deployments

Aave plans to wind down its lending markets on Sonic, Scroll, zkSync, Metis, Soneium, and Aptos.

ethereum

Ethereum Celebrates 11th Birthday

In celebration of Ethereum's 11th Birthday, Ethelabs launched a collective convas on Networked Art.

ethereum

SEAL 911 Co-Founder Joins Ethereum Foundation Board

PC brings a deep security and cypherpunk perspective to the Ethereum Foundation Board for an initial one-year term.

news

#999 - Morgan Stanley ETH ETF And Freedom Factory PQ Wallet

Morgan Stanley launched the MSSE Ethereum ETF and Freedom Factory introduces a post quantum wallet.

privacy-pools

Privacy Pools Adds Payroll Functionality

Privacy Pools added payroll functionality on testnet. The feature allows teams to pay salaries from shielded accounts.

eth

Morgan Stanley Launches Ethereum Trust ETF

Morgan Stanley Investment Management launched the Morgan Stanley Ethereum Trust (MSSE) ETF.

freedom-factory

Freedom Factory Introduces Post-Quantum Wallet

A hardware wallet aiming to close the attack window before quantum computers can break current wallet signatures.

base

Base Launches Onchain Sybil Resistance

A smart contract-native identity layer that enforces one-person-one-claim without apps collecting personal data.

news

#998 - Lido Core Upgrade And PropAMM Primer

The Lido Core upgrade will consolidate around 265,000 validators and Ethereum researchers release a primer on PropAMMs.

wallet

SRC CO Launches Timelocked Multisig Wallet

A self-custody wallet protocol built around a timelocked multisig vault.

pamm

Proprietary AMMs Implications For Ethereum

A primer on Proprietary AMMs (PropAMMs) and their potential role in bringing more trading activity back onchain on Ethereum.

lido

Lido Core Upgrade Consolidates Staking Infrastructure

A major upgrade to Lido Core staking infrastructure bringing Ethereum validator count consolidation.

news

#997 - Fake World Assets And Fidelity Endorses CLARITY Act

Fake World Assets crosses 3,000 ETH in volume. Fluid proposes an institutional instance. And Fidelity endorses CLARITY Act.

nft

Fake World Assets NFT Activity Surge

A new randomized NFT acquisition protocol by TokenWorks has crossed 3,000 ETH in cumulative volume.

fluid

Fluid Proposes Institutional DeFi Markets

A permissioned instance of the Fluid protocol designed for institutional capital, coined AGI3 Markets.

world

World Foundation Raises $52.5 Million

World Foundation raised $52.5 million by selling WLD to Pantera Capital and other investors.

fidelity

Fidelity Urges Senate To Pass The CLARITY Act

Fidelity Public Policy called on the Senate to pass the CLARITY Act.

news

#996 - SEC Comments On DeFi Vaults And AFX $24m Bridge Hack

SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce warns that crypto vaults could be subject to securities law and Uniswap ships new V4 hooks.

sec

SEC Comments On DeFi Vaults and Onchain Lending

SEC warns crypto vaults and onchain lending strategies may be subject to federal securities law.

hack

AFX Trade Hacked for $24M in Bridge Validator Key Compromise

AFX Trade was drained of approximately $24.15 million USDC on Arbitrum after attackers compromised its USDC custody bridge.

uniswap

Uniswap Ships DualPool and Permissioned Pools

Uniswap Labs shipped two new v4 hooks addressing capital efficiency and AMM liquidity for regulated asset issuers.

news

#995 - Updated CLARITY Act And Coinbase Wins SEC Settlement

An updated CLARITY Act draft includes new ethics provision and Coinbase wins a FOIA settlement against the SEC

clarity

Senate GOP Unveils Updated CLARITY Act

Senate Republicans released updated text of the Digital Asset Market Clarity (CLARITY) Act with a new ethics provision.

aztec

Aztez Fee Juice Gas Mechanism

Fee Juice functions like ETH does on Ethereum and is obtained by bridging the $AZTEC token from Ethereum to the Aztec L2.

atzec

Human.tech Launches Shield Privacy Bridge

A bridge for moving USDC between Ethereum mainnet and Aztec Network where balances and transactions can stay confidential.

coinbase

Coinbase Wins FOIA Settlement Against SEC

Coinbase won a FOIA settlement with the SEC as the agency deleted internal communications during the Gary Gensler era.

news

#994 - Morpho Fixed Rate Lending Markets

Morpho's fixed rate lending protocol goes live on Base and Aztec v5 upgrade cuts proving times for faster private transfers.

agora

Agora Launches Holders Vote Coordination Tool

A token-weighted Reddit-style discussion platform designed for web3 coordination.

aztec

Aztec Activates Alpha V5 Upgrade

The upgrade cuts private-transaction proving times by more than 2x and reduces average block production time from 14 to 6 seconds.

base

Morpho Launches Midnight Fixed Rate Markets On Base

A protocol for fixed rate and fixed term credit markets is now live on Base.

news

#993 - Kohaku Wallet CLI Release And Base Cobalt Upgrade

Kassandra releases a Kohaku CLI for Ethereum mainnet and Base announced plans to ship the Cobalt upgrade in September.

base

Base Announces Cobalt Upgrade

A network upgrade that will bring native account abstraction with support for EIP-8130.

ethereum

Kohaku Wallet CLI Ethereum Mainnet Release

A terminal wallet for moving funds between public Ethereum accounts and private balances on privacy protocols.

robinhood

Lighter Supports Robinhood Token Stocks As Collateral

Lighter now supports Robinhood's Token Stocks as collateral for perpetual futures trading on Robinhood Chain.

news

#992 - Robinhood Earn Hits $100m In Deposits

Robinhood's Morpho-powered yield product hits $100m in deposits and Ambire Wallet extends Gas Tank support to Safe.

robinhood

Robinhood Earn Hits $100m In Deposits

Robinhood's Morpho-powered yield product crossed $100 million in deposits.

ambire

Ambire Extends Gas Tank To Safe Accounts

Ambire launched Gas Tank fee sponsorship support for Safe smart accounts.

stocks

Etherscan Guide To Tokenized Stocks

Most stock tokens do not provide ownership of the underlying share. It's important to know the difference.

news

#991 - RevokeCash Auto-Revoking, Ostium $23.7m Hack, Ethlabs R&D Hire

RevokeCash introduces automated revokes. Ostium loses $23.7m in Oracle key compromise. And Francesco D'Amato joins Ethlabs.

revoke

Revoke.cash Launches Auto-Revoking Feature

Auto-Revoking leverages MetaMask's implementation of the ERC-7715 permission standard to auto revoke approvals tied to exploits.

polygon

Polygon Labs Staff Lays Offs

The layoffs are ties to a pending acquisition of Coinme. Polygon is directing full focus to payments.

aztec

DV Labs Shuts Down Aztec Sequencer

The team cited operational costs that outweighed returns. It's Aztec sequencer will fully shut down on August 15, 2026.

ethereum

Francesco D'Amato Departs EF for Ethlabs

D'Amato will now contribute to protocol research from outside the Ethereum Foundation, with fast finality as a near-term priority.

ostium

Ostium Loses $23.7m in Oracle Key Compromise

An attacker drained the OLP vault for approximately $23.7 million. The perps DEX has been paused while recovery efforts continue.

#990 - Base Refocus On Assets

Base Chain will refocus on assets. SummerFi, the MakerDAO frontend, winds down. And DTCC tests tokenized securities.

Uniswap Releases Trading Tools

A new plugin featuring three new coding agent skills for building automated onchain trading strategies.

DTCC Pilots Tokenized Securities

The milestone sets the stage for the DTCC Tokenization Service, scheduled to launch on multiple chains in October 2026

Jesse Pollak Refocuses On Base Chain

Base will focus on enabling better money, including trading, stablecoins, payments, tokenization, and agents

SummerFi MakerDAO Front End Is Shutting Down

Summer.fi, the MakerDAO frontend formerly known as Oasis.app, is winding down after seven years.

#989 - Ethereum Finality Stakeholder Research

The research found that 20-30 second finality would unlock substantial benefits for most Ethereum use cases.

Shutter Launches Shutter Governance

An encrypted election system that combines homomorphic encryption, zero-knowledge proofs, and threshold cryptography.

LI.FI Token Screening

The feature screens tokens by blockchain and contract address and assigns one of three statuses: approved, denied, or unverified.

EF's Institutional Privacy Task Force Spins Out As EthSystems

EthSystems is a new for-profit company building confidential systems for institutional Ethereum.

Ethereum 30 Second Finality

Ethereum stakeholders note that just 10-30 second finality can unlock substantial benefits and is more achievable.

#988 - Robinhood Chain Tops DEX Volumes

Robinhood Chain reached $800 million in 24-hour DEX volume over the weekend and Sablier enters maintenance mode.

Aave Integrates Chainlink CCIP For Stable Vaults

Aave integrated Chainlink CCIP to handle the cross-chain logic for Stable Vaults.

Sablier Labs Winds Down

Sablier Labs has entered maintenance mode for its token streaming platform.

Robinhood Chain Hits $800m 24-Hour DEX Volume

Robinhood Chain reached $800 million in 24-hour DEX volume over the weekend.

news

#987 - Ethereum Energy Use Report

An updated report on Ethereum's environmental footprint. ArbitrumDAO holds OAT Committee Elections. And Robinhood announces Agentic Crypto Accounts.

Cambridge Report On Ethereum Energy Use

Ethereum's energy consumption is more than 99.9% below its pre-Merge baseline

ArbitrumDAO OAT Committee Elections

ArbitrumDAO is holding an election for its Oversight and Transparency Committee (OAT).

Robinhood Agentic Accounts For Crypto Trading

Eligible US customers to connect third-party AI models to isolated Robinhood accounts for autonomous crypto trades.

news

#986 - Aave Introduces Stable Vaults And Devcon 8 Speaker Applications

Aave Labs introduces Stable Vaults for consumer applications. Devcon 8 opens speaker applications. And token honeypot scams surface on Robinhood Chain.

Disappearing-Token Honeypot Scam

Relay reported a wave of tokens deliberately designed to disappear from user's wallets post-purchase.

Devcon 8 Opens Speaker Applications

Speaker applications are open to anyone building, researching, or teaching in the Ethereum ecosystem.

Aave Introduces Stable Vaults

Customizable fixed-rate stablecoin yield vaults built for easy integration into consumer applications.

news

#985 - Privacy Pools V2 Trusted Setup, Aave stkGHO to sGHO Migration Tool

Privacy Pools opens the trusted setup ceremony for its V2 and Aave releases a stkGHO to sGHO migration tool.

Privacy Pools Opens V2 Trusted Setup

The exercise exists to prevent any single party from retaining the secret randomness used to build the proving keys.

Arbitrum Adds Support For x402 and MPP

Arbitrum now supports Coinbase's hosted x402 facilitator, letting developers build x402-powered services.

Zapper Winds Down After Seven Years

Zapper's website, mobile apps, and API services will shut down completely on August 3, 2026.

Aave stkGHO to sGHO Migration Tool

Aave released a one-click migration tool for converting Staked GHO into Savings GHO, the protocol's new yield vehicle for GHO.

#984 - Fast Confirm Rule On Lodestar And Ondo Perps Goes Live

Lodestar supports the Fast Confirm Rule, Ondo Perps goes live, and L2BEAT lists Robinhood Chain.

Lodestar Supports Fast Confirm Rule

A feature allowing transactions to be confirmed in a single slot (~13 seconds) by using validator attestations.

Ondo Perps Launches With Tokenized Stock Collateral

Ondo Perps offers up to 20x leverage on perpetual futures with support for tokenized stocks as collateral.

Robinhood Chain Listed On L2BEAT

The RWA-focused L2 now secures over $250 million in value. L2BEAT classified the network under "Other" chains.

ZeroDev Launches Embedded Wallet

An embedded wallet solution that combines smart accounts, paymasters, bundlers, session keys, and policy infrastructure.

digest

#983 - Vitalik Outlines Strawmap Updates, Native Ethereum UTXOs, Lean Consensus

Ethereum researchers update the Ethereum Strawmap and Toni Wahrstätter proposes native UTXOs on Ethereum.

ethereum

Vitalik Proposes State-Minimized Lean Consensus

A structural model to scale Ethereum consensus to millions of validators by shifting state custody to stakers via recursive STARKs.

Wahrstätter Proposes Native Ethereum UTXOs

Ethereum researcher Toni Wahrstätter outlines a hybrid UTXO design to drastically limit permanent state growth for one-shot payments.

ethereum

Vitalik Outlines Technical Strawmap Updates

The updated technical roadmap highlights three to four years of optimizations, encompassing quantum safety, a dual-state scaling architecture, and native privacy.

governance

#982 - Brantly Millegan Departs ENS, Gnosis GNO Redemption, Wallet Metadata Leaks

Brantly Millegan departs the ENS ecosystem, GnosisDAO launches a pro-rata redemption, and research highlights wallet metadata leaks.

privacy

Overview On Wallet Metadata Leaks

Crypto wallets can expose extensive offchain data leaks. Elliott Alexander argues that the wallet is the place to coordinate privacy.

Gnosis Launches GNO Treasury Redemption

Holders can voluntarily redeem GNO for their pro-rata share of the liquid treasury at approximately $115 per token.

governance

Brantly Millegan Departs ENS Ecosystem

The ethidorg developer team is winding down operations and declining a $1.2 million ENS DAO grant following ENS Labs proposals.

digest

#981 - Rialto Spot Exchange Launches, EthStaker Survey Results

Rialto launches onchain spot exchange on Robinhood Chain and EthStaker shares community staker trends.

defi

Rialto Emerges From Stealth with PropAMM Spot Exchange

The PropAMM venue launches on Robinhood Chain with 90+ stock tokens, bringing active trading logic and zero-latency execution to composable assets.

staking

EthStaker Releases 2026 Survey Results

The EthStaker released the results of its 2026 community staking survey, revealing concerns over privacy and tax clarity.

#980 - Robinhood Chain Live, ENS Delegation Incentives, Ethereum Institutional Launches

Robinhood launches Arbitrum-based L2, ENS DAO initiates delegation pilot, and former EF leads launch Ethereum Institutional non-profit.

ENS Launches Delegation Incentives Program

The 90-day pilot dedicates up to 90,000 ENS to reward active delegates and time-weighted delegators while routing micro-rewards into a 10 ENS lottery.

Robinhood Chain Live On Mainnet

The Arbitrum-built L2 enables 24/7 trading of tokenized stocks in over 120 countries, integrating Chainlink CCIP and Morpho-powered DeFi lending.

Ethereum Basics Guide By EF

The Global Policy Strategy team at the Ethereum Foundation released a non-technical guide to help public sector and institutional leaders understand Ethereum.

institutional-adoption

Ethereum Institutional Launches as Independent Non-Profit

Former Ethereum Foundation enterprise team leads launch a new go-to-market organization backed by Bitmine, Sharplink, and Joe Lubin.

digest

#979 - Open USD Consortium, BlackRoc Integrates USDe, ENS Security Council Blocked

Open Standard alliance launches Open USD stablecoin, BlackRock Aladdin integrates USDe risk modeling, and Nick Johnson's vote blocks ENS Security Council renewal.

governance

Vote Blocks ENS Security Council Renewal

Nick Johnson rejected the renewal of the previous ENS Security Council. ENS Labs proposed a successor council with a tighter, legally binding mandate.

stablecoins

Ethena Integrates USDe Into BlackRock Aladdin

Ethena brings its synthetic stablecoin to institutional asset managers alongside supporting a $100 million BUIDL liquidity facility.

stablecoins

Open Standard Introduces Open USD

A new consortium-backed stablecoin features zero-cost enterprise minting and yield-sharing.

digest

#978 - Loopring L2 Shuts Down, Bitmine Holds 5.7M ETH, Vitalik Unpacks Obfuscation

Loopring shuts down DEX/rollup, Bitmine reaches 5.7M ETH, Vitalik unpacks indistinguishability obfuscation, and Aave targets tokenized stock lending.

Loopring ZK Rollup And DEX Shut Down

Loopring shut down its DEX and underlying ZK Rollup on Ethereum. It will distribute assets back to its users on Ethereum L1.

institutional

Bitmine Amasses 5.7 Million ETH

The corporate treasury giant acquired 27,084 ETH last week, putting it 94% of the way to its target of holding 5% of all supply.

research

Vitalik Unpacks Obfuscation, Cryptography's Final Boss

Vitalik explores how combining indistinguishability obfuscation with blockchains simulates a universal trustless third party

defi

Aave Plans Tokenized Stock Lending

Aave CSBO Luigi D’Onorio DeMeo outlines a plan to capture a share of the massive $4.6T securities lending market on Aave V4.

news

#977 - Gwei Name Service, OP Stack Predeploys, Spark Stablecoin FX Layer

Gwei Name Service announced, OP Stack predeploy contracts, and Spark launches FX Layer on Uniswap v4.

defi

Spark Launches Stablecoin FX Layer On Uniswap V4

Spark launches a $150 million Uniswap v4 migration to build a programmable foreign exchange layer for stablecoins.

infrastructure

OP Stack Predeploy Upgrades

The L2ContractManager enables OP Stack chains to automatically upgrade predeploy contracts at the hardfork block.

ens

Gwei.Domains Launches Ownerless Name Service

An ownerless, unruggable Ethereum Name Service (ENS) alternative built as a fork of the wei.domains protocol.

base

#976 - Base Halt, LI.FI Token Service, Sophon Shuts Down

Base recovers from a block production halt, the Beryl upgrade is rescheduled to Friday, Sophon migrates to Base, and LI.FI upgrades pricing.

base

Base Delays B20 Token Activation

Deploying B20 native tokens is rescheduled for Friday at 6 PM UTC to ensure the Activation Registry is fully operational.

interoperability

LI.FI Upgrades Core Pricing Engine

LI.FI's core pricing and discovery engine now uses CoinGecko's API as the primary data source for token prices.

scaling

Sophon Sunsets L2, Migrates To Base

Sophon is sunsetting its Layer 2 network built on ZKsync's Elastic Network, citing a lack of blockchain transaction growth.

Base Mainnet Experiences Block Production Halt

Base Mainnet suffered stalled block production after a consensus error caused an invalid block to be sequenced.

news

#975 - Uniswap Launches Auctions UI And Lubin Outlines Bridge-Less Composability

Joe Lubin outlines bridge-less composability, Uniswap Web App features a UI for launching auctions, and Taiko pledges full user compensation.

Lubin Outlines Bridge-Less Composability

Lubin says the structure enables tokens to move "automagically" without standard bridges, using native rollup bridges instead.

defi

Uniswap Web App Supports Auctions

Teams can now configure and launch token auctions in the Uniswap Web App.

Taiko Pledges Full User Compensation

Taiko pledged to fully recollateralize its bridge before it reopens, ensuring all users are made whole with balances backed 1:1.

news

#974 - EF Staff Cuts, Former Researchers Launch Ethlabs, ENS Treasury Debated

The Ethereum Foundation lays off 20% of staff, former EF researchers launch Ethlabs, ENS treasury custody proposal, and Aztec hits Stage 2.

Aztec Achieves Stage 2 Rollup Decentralization

Revoking contract ownership removes governance admin keys but locks in proof system vulnerabilities.

EF Outlines Core Execution Roadmap

Interim Executive Director Bastian Aue outlines systemic protocol hardening, ETH alignment, and MEV containment.

Former EF Researchers Launch Ethlabs

Former EF researchers cofound Ethlabs, an independent nonprofit R&D organization funded by Bitmine, Sharplink, and Joe Lubin.

ethereum-foundation

Ethereum Foundation Reorganizes, Cuts Staff

The Ethereum Foundation cut about 20 percent of its staff and reorganized into five core clusters following a 40% budget decrease.

governance

ENS Proposal Gives Treasury Control To ENS Foundation

A new proposal seeks to give DAO treasury custody to an ENS Foundation board. Nick Johnson self-delegated ~50% of the active ENS voting power.

news

#973 - Taiko Bridge Hack, Native zkEVM, Validator Reward Proposal

Taiko warns every bridge on its network is compromised after a verification exploit, Mike Neuder makes the case for a native zkEVM, and a proposal would let validators redirect staking rewards to ecosystem funding.

Proposal Redirects Validator Rewards To Ecosystem Funding

Kleros founder Clément Lesaege proposes letting validators redirect up to 10% of their staking rewards to ecosystem funding, drawing early opposition.

ethereum

Scaling Ethereum With A Native zkEVM

Mike Neuder argues the upgrade's real unlock is letting validators sample blocks inside blobs, scaling bandwidth alongside execution.

security

Taiko Bridges Compromised In Verification Exploit

Taiko warns the security assumptions of all bridges on the network can no longer be relied upon after an exploit drained its Ethereum ERC20 vault.

security

Jared From Subway MEV Bot Drained In Honeypot

Blockaid flagged a honeypot that tricked the jaredsmev MEV bot into token approvals later used to drain its funds, per a forensic breakdown by banteg.

news

#972 - Ethereum Core Dev Funding Debate, Privacy Boost Preconfirmation, ZisK v1.0.0-alpha

Trent van Epps warns of a looming Ethereum core dev funding crisis, Privacy Boost adds preconfirmation for private transfers, and ZisK ships v1.0.0-alpha.

ethereum-foundation

Ethereum Funding Crisis Debate

A former EF contributor warned core devs face a funding crisis within 3 to 9 months. Debates ignited over who should fund Ethereum's developers.

Privacy Boost Adds Preconfirmation For Private Transfers

Privacy Boost added preconfirmation support, letting private transfers be treated as usable within a second.

zk

ZisK Ships v1.0.0-alpha, Enters Stabilization

The zkVM's codebase is now feature frozen as development shifts to security audits, formal verification, and hardening.

news

#971 - Hsiao-Wei Wang Steps Down, Base Beryl Upgrade, Aztec Exploit

Hsiao-Wei Wang steps down as Ethereum Foundation co-executive director, Base deploys its Beryl upgrade to testnet, and Aztec Labs investigates a second exploit on a deprecated rollup.

ethereum-foundation

Ethereum Foundation Leadership: The Complete Tracker

A running index of ETH Daily's coverage on the Ethereum Foundation's leadership turnover, restructuring, and narrowing mandate.

security

Aztec Hit By Second Deprecated Rollup Exploit

Aztec Labs is investigating a second roughly $2M exploit on a deprecated rollup, days after a separate $2.19M Aztec Connect drain.

layer-2

Base Beryl Upgrade Goes Live On Testnet

Beryl introduces the B20 native token standard, shortens the withdrawal delay from Base to Ethereum, and ships Reth V2.

interoperability

Ethereum Interop & Intents: The Complete Tracker

A running index of ETH Daily's coverage on cross-chain intents and interoperability, from the ERC-7683 and ERC-8211 standards to routing engines, aggregators, and intent solvers.

ethereum-foundation

Hsiao-Wei Wang Steps Down As EF Co-Executive Director

Wang departs after a sabbatical, becoming the latest in a wave of Ethereum Foundation exits over the past six months.

news

#970 - TheDAO Hack 10 Years Later, Polygon Hits 5,000 TPS, Steakhouse Confidential USDC Vault

Today marks 10 years since TheDAO hack, Polygon raises block gas limit to 160M, Steakhouse launches Confidential USDC vault on Morpho.

polygon

Polygon Chain Hits 5,000 TPS After Gas Limit Upgrade

Polygon raised its block gas limit to 160M at 1.5-second blocks as part of its most recent upgrade, enabling up to 5,000 TPS.

Steakhouse Launches Confidential USDC Yield Vault

A DeFi yield product built for confidential USDC (cUSDC) powered by the Zama Protocol.

stablecoins

Plasma One Neobank Launches With Aave

The card allows users to pay directly from a stablecoin balance while earning yield on Aave.

rwa

Ondo Expands Tokenized Stock Catalog

The new additions span AI, robotics, quantum computing, and defense tech, alongside BlackRock active ETFs.

news

#969 - Coinbase Tokenized Stocks, Base Privacy, Safe Workspace

Coinbase introduces tokenized stocks, Base launches private enterprise transactions, and Safe ships Workspace for treasury teams.

base

Base Launches Private Enterprise Transactions

A native and compliant infrastructure that lets enterprises trade, pay, and settle on Base with transaction confidentiality.

Coinbase Introduces Tokenized Stocks

The tokenized stocks will be backed 1:1 by the underlying asset and represent true equity ownership, including dividend payouts.

safe

Safe Launches Workspace For Treasury Teams

A teams-first dashboard that surfaces an organization's Safes, pending transactions and team members in a single view.

privacy

Ethereum Privacy: The Complete Tracker

A running index of ETH Daily's Ethereum privacy coverage, from the Kohaku wallet roadmap and Privacy Pools to the EIPs bringing private transfers to L1.

rwa

Tokenized Real-World Assets on Ethereum: The Complete Tracker

A running index of ETH Daily's coverage of tokenized securities, funds, treasuries, and Bitcoin on Ethereum, the institutional RWA cluster.

news

#968 - Ethereum Hits 1M Developers, Standard Chartered Covers Uniswap, Arbitrum 2026 Roadmap

Ethereum crosses one million lifetime developers, Standard Chartered initiates Uniswap coverage with a $100 target, and Arbitrum maps its finance-native 2026 priorities.

Ethereum Surpasses One Million Developers

Ethereum has crossed one million developers according to data from Electric Capital.

Standard Chartered Initiates Uniswap Coverage

Standard Chartered initiated coverage of Uniswap (UNI), forecasting UNI will rise 40x to $100 by year-end 2030.

Arbitrum Outlines 2026 Finance-Native Priorities

The roadmap also introduces Arbitrum Universal Intents, a Yield-Bearing Bridge, and Priority Gas Auctions.

stablecoins

Stablecoin Rails: The Complete Tracker

A running map of stablecoin issuance, payment rails, lending yield, and synthetic dollars across ETH Daily's coverage.

ai-agents

AI Agents on Ethereum: The Complete Tracker

An evergreen index of ETH Daily's coverage of onchain AI agents: payments, identity, and the standards making agentic commerce work on Ethereum.

news

#967 - Uniswap Tokenized Securities, Euler Private Lending, ERC-8126 Agent Verification

Uniswap surfaces tokenized stocks from Ondo, xStocks, and Backed across its products, and Euler integrates Unlink to bring privacy to institutional lending.

ai-agents

ERC-8126 Adds Agent Verification Layer

A new standard builds on ERC-8004 to let AI agents prove trustworthiness through independent providers and Zero-Knowledge Proofs.

defi

Euler Leverages Unlink For Private Institutional Lending

Euler is integrating Unlink to bring transaction privacy to institutional lending.

trackers

ETH Daily Trackers: Every Hub In One Place

A directory of ETH Daily's evergreen tracker hubs, each a running index of our coverage on a single major story.

defi

Uniswap Lists Tokenized Securities

Tokenized stocks from Ondo, xStocks, and Backed go live across Uniswap's Web App, Wallet, and API.

stablecoins

Mastercard Launches Agent Pay for Machines

Mastercard introduced Agent Pay for Machines (AP4M) to permission, orchestrate, and settle high-frequency machine payments at machine speed across cards, accounts, and stablecoins.

news

Fidelity Tokenized Fund On Ethereum

Fidelity Investments quietly launched the Fidelity Digital Interest Token (FDIT), its tokenized fund on Ethereum with over $200m in AUM.

news

Morpho V2 Fixed-Rate Lending

An upgrade introducing an intents-based design enabling scalable fixed-rate, fixed-term loans.

treasury

Corporate ETH Treasuries: The Complete Tracker

A running index of ETH Daily's coverage of public companies and institutions building Ethereum treasuries, led by BitMine's accumulation timeline.

news

#966 - Coinbase Agent Trading, Fidelity FIDD, Socket Relaunch

Coinbase opens direct trading access to AI agents, the Fidelity Digital Dollar goes live on Uniswap and Curve, and Socket relaunches its cross-chain infrastructure with a free routing engine.

ai-agents

Coinbase Launches Trading Agent Access

defi

Coinbase Adds High-Yield USDC Vault

Coinbase's Latest High-Yield USDC Vault Powered By Morpho

interoperability

Socket Relaunches Infrastructure, Opens Routing Engine

Socket Protocol relaunched a rebuilt version of its core infrastructure, now free for all developers.

stablecoins

FIDD Goes Live On Curve, Uniswap

Curve Finance and Uniswap become the liquidity layer for the Fidelity Digital Dollar, bringing the institution-issued stablecoin into DeFi.

news

#965 - Mastercard Agent Pay, Curve Llamalend v2, Devcon 8 Hubs

Mastercard launches Agent Pay for Machines, Curve ships Llamalend v2 on Optimism, the EF opens Devcon 8 Community Hub applications, and Unruggable turns ENS names into onchain AI agents.

defi

rsETH Recovery: The Complete Tracker

The full timeline of the $290M KelpDAO LayerZero bridge exploit and the rsETH recovery effort — from the hack to full restoration.

ens

Unruggable Launches ENS Agent Identity Tool

Unruggable's ENS8004.xyz turns any ENS name into a verifiable, discoverable onchain AI agent.

ethereum

Devcon 8 Community Hub Applications Open

The Ethereum Foundation opened applications for Devcon 8 Community Hubs in Mumbai, centered on CROPS principles, with the RFP running June 10 to August 12.

glamsterdam

Glamsterdam Hardfork Tracker

A running tracker of Glamsterdam's scope, EIPs, devnet status, and the gas-limit and finality changes it unlocks.

defi

Aave V4: The Complete Tracker

A running index of ETH Daily's Aave V4 coverage — from the mainnet launch and sGHO to institutional RWA markets and risk frameworks.

defi

Curve Launches Llamalend v2

Curve introduced Llamalend v2, extending its lending framework beyond crvUSD into isolated markets with LP-token collateral, launching first on Optimism.

news

#964 - Industry Rallies Behind CLARITY Act, Circle Launches cirBTC, LlamaRisk Aave Risk Framework

Over 60 crypto founders urge the Senate to preserve CLARITY Act developer protections, Circle debuts cirBTC, and LlamaRisk proposes an Aave risk framework.

aave

LlamaRisk Proposes Aave Risk Framework

LlamaRisk proposed a four-layer framework governing asset, bridging, monitoring, and chain risk across Aave V3, V4, and Horizon.

clarity-act

Industry Unites Behind CLARITY Act Developer Protections

Over 60 crypto founders signed a joint letter urging the Senate to preserve the CLARITY Act's Section 604 developer protections.

octant

Octant Introduces ZK Vote Coprocessor

A trustless vote-tallying system that runs quadratic funding rounds onchain without a privileged admin.

circle

Circle Launches cirBTC On Ethereum

cirBTC is a wrapped Bitcoin backed 1:1 by native BTC held at a regulated Circle entity, with reserves verifiable on-chain via Chainlink Proof of Reserve.

news

#963 - Ethereum's Consensus Philosophy, Bitmine's Biggest ETH Buy Of 2026, Coinbase Runs Hyperliquid's USDC

An EF researcher breaks down Ethereum's consensus design philosophy, Bitmine makes its largest weekly ETH purchase of 2026, and Coinbase deploys Hyperliquid's $6B USDC treasury.

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case-study

ETHConf Sponsorship Case Study

How a daily Ethereum briefing delivered ~69,500 cross-channel touchpoints and 88 direct ticket click-throughs for ETHConf NYC.

news

#962 - EF Pays Grants In ETH, Aragon Onchain Profiles, Wonderland Cross-Chain Module

The Ethereum Foundation's ESP will pay new grants in ETH, Aragon launches ENS-powered onchain profiles, and Wonderland ships a cross-chain module.

interop

Wonderland Launches Cross-Chain Module

aragon

Aragon Launches Onchain Profiles Powered by ENS

The Aragon app now reads and manages ENS profile records directly from Ethereum mainnet, making governance participants readable across forums.

ethereum-foundation

Ethereum Foundation Ecosystem Support Program ETH Grants

The Ethereum Foundation's Ecosystem Support Program will pay all newly approved grants in ETH by default starting June 10, replacing fiat.

news

#961 - Uniswap Ships In-App Wallet, Polygon Open Money Stack, Security Subsidy Cohort 1

Uniswap ships in-app wallet creation, Polygon debuts Open Money Stack in technical preview, and the Ethereum Subsidy Program selects 30 projects.

uniswap

Uniswap Rolls Out In-App Wallet

Users can now create a wallet in seconds using a passkey, FaceID, or TouchID with no seed phrase required, powered by Privy.

security

Ethereum Security Subsidy Program Cohort 1

The program selected 30 projects from its first cohort, covering up to 30% of audit costs from a $1 million funding pool.

polygon

Polygon Launches Open Money Stack in Technical Preview

Polygon launches Open Money Stack in technical preview, a hosted API that converts cash deposits and bank wires into USDC or USDT on Polygon.

defi

KPK Launches Fixed-Rate ETH Lending Vault

ETH Yield Term sets its borrow rate once per month, anchored to the Treehouse Ethereum Staking Rate.

stablecoin

Mastercard Supports Stablecoin Settlement

Mastercard will support stablecoin settlement across its global payments network, including USDC, PYUSD, USDG, USDP, RLUSD, and SoFiUSD.

news

#959 - Checkout Adds Stablecoins, Bitwise Takes Over USCC, Gnosis Pay Root Cause

Checkout.com accepts stablecoins, Bitwise becomes manager of USCC, Justin Drake raises Q-Day odds, and Gnosis Pay hack root cause.

["checkout"

Checkout Supports USDC And USDT

Checkout.com launched stablecoin payment acceptance across its network of 1,000+ enterprise customers, powered by Coinbase Payments.

aave

Bitwise USCC Live On Aave Horizon

Bitwise becomes the investment manager of USCC, a tokenized crypto carry fund, with over $121m deposited on Aave Horizon.

justin-drake

Justin Drake Raises Q-Day Odds

Drake raised his odds of a cryptographically relevant quantum computer to 10% by 2030 and 50% by 2032.

gnosis-pay

Gnosis Pay Hack Root Cause

The vulnerability was tied to Zodiac, an operating layer for Safe wallets. Any project using impacted Zodiac modules should check their exposure.

digest

#958 - Vitalik Pitches Options Synthetics, Gnosis Pay Bug, Fluid Incident

Vitalik proposes options as the base primitive for synthetics, Gnosis Pay suffers a delay module bug, and Fluid rewards compromise.

vitalik-buterin

Vitalik Proposes Options-Based Synthetics

The proposed design could replace debt and liquidations in DeFi with options as the base primitive.

gnosis-pay

Gnosis Pay Delay Module Hack

Gnosis Pay disclosed a bug in its delay module, and temporarily disabled the Gnosis Chain bridge as a precautionary measure.

bitmine

BitMine Files Preferred Stock Offering At 9.5% Yield

BitMine Immersion filed a preliminary prospectus for 3M shares of Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock at a 9.5% yield, targeting $300M to stake via MAVAN.

fluid

Fluid Rewards Infrastructure Compromise

news

#957 - EthPandaOps Simulates Fast Confirmation Rule

EthPandaOps replays a year of mainnet through the Fast Confirmation Rule, Banteg ships vyupgrade, and Lean Ethereum reaches Devnet5 interop.

lean-ethereum

Lean Ethereum Reaches Devnet5 Interop

Lean Ethereum has reached Devnet5 interop using leanVM to enable entire blocks to carry just one aggregated signature proof.

vyper

Automated Vyper Contract Migration Tool

The tool is designed to automatically rewrites Vyper smart contracts to modern syntax.

wonderland

Wonderland And SEAL Introduce DARC

Wonderland and SEAL unveil DARC: A New Standard for Digital Asset Risk and Compliance.

ethpandaops

EthPandaOps Simulates Fast Confirmation Rule

The Fast Confirmation Rule is a feature that allows consensus clients to confirm transactions in a single slot.

digest

#956 - Base Azul Goes Live On Mainnet

Base activates Azul on mainnet, Morpho publishes the Midnight whitepaper, Privy launches universal addresses, and Aave Labs secures FCA approval.

aave

Aave Labs Secures FCA Approval In UK

Aave Labs receives FCA Approval, plans to build a zero-fee fiat on-ramp in the UK.

privy

Privy Launches Universal Deposit Addresses

A single user address that accepts deposits from any supported chain and automatically bridges and swaps the funds into the desired token and chain.

morpho

Morpho Publishes Midnight Whitepaper

Midnight is a non-custodial fixed-rate lending protocol built around isolated, immutable, permissionlessly created markets with fixed maturities.

base

Base Azul Goes Live On Mainnet

Base ships Azul, its first standalone upgrade, introducing multiproofs, a new execution and consensus client, and 5,000 TPS scaling.

news

#955 - SoFiUSD Stablecoin Hits $100m Market Cap On Ethereum

SoFi rolls out its stablecoin. Cash App supports stablecoin transfers. And Aztec Labs acquires ZKPassport.

cash-app

Cash App Supports USDC Transfers

Cash App launches support for USDC stablecoin transfers on Ethereum, Polygon, and Arbitrum, with no wallet setup required for its nearly 60 million users.

aztec

Aztec Labs Acquires ZKPassport

Aztec Labs acquires Obsidion, the team behind ZKPassport, a ZK-powered private identity tool.

sofi

SoFi Rolls Out SoFiUSD Stablecoin

SoFi becomes the first nationally chartered retail bank to issue a stablecoin on Ethereum, with SoFiUSD already surpassing $100 million in market cap.

news

#954 - LI.FI Intents Built On Open Intents Framework

LI.FI ships its intent execution engine on the Open Intents Framework. EIP-8272 is introduced. Biconomy releases its Smart Batching SDK, and Base launches Base MCP.

news

Biconomy Releases Smart Batching SDK

Biconomy released a TypeScript toolkit built on ERC-8211 that bundles swaps, bridges, and vault deposits into a single signed batch with execution-time value resolution.

ethereum

EIP-8272 Recent Roots For Frame Transactions

Thomas Thiery, Toni Wahrstätter, and Vitalik Buterin propose recent state roots in frame transactions, unlocking FOCIL inclusion for private transactions without breaking mempool safety.

lifi

LI.FI Intents Built On Open Intents Framework

LIFI Intents is a full-stack intent execution engine that runs directly on the Open Intents Framework's reference contracts.

news

#953 - Vitalik On What's Next For The Ethereum Foundation

Vitalik outlines the EF's next chapter, the Kohaku initiative is shipping privacy, KelpDAO rsETH is fully restored, and the SFI definition is tightened.

ethereum

Scheduled For Inclusion Definition Update

The "Scheduled for Inclusion" (SFI) status in Ethereum's upgrade process has been tightened to bring more clarity for developers.

kelpdao

KelpDAO rsETH Is Now Fully Restored

The final tranche of rsETH has been deployed into the LayerZero lockbox. rsETH is now fully restored and operating.

ethereum-foundation

What The EF's Kohaku Initiative Is Building

Kassandra, a researcher at the Ethereum Foundation, outlined what the team is shipping for Kohaku, an open-source initiative for secure and private wallets on Ethereum.

ethereum-foundation

Vitalik On What's Next For The Ethereum Foundation

Vitalik Buterin shares his view on what's next for the Ethereum Foundation, citing an expanding board, fewer ETH sales, and three CROPS-aligned goals.

news

#952 - EIP-8182 Private Transfers Proposed For Hegota

Tom Lehman proposes EIP-8182 for Hegota, Zerion sunsets ZERϴ Network, and EthPandaOps ships a Validator Report tool.

ethereum

Private Transfers EIP-8182 Proposed For Hegota

Tom Lehman proposed a protocol-managed shielded pool as a system contract to bring native private ETH and ERC-20 transfers to Ethereum.

intents

ERC-8211 And ERC-7683 For Cross-Chain Execution

ERC-8211 wraps multi-step workflows as a single signed batch; an embedded ERC-7683 order can outsource only the bridge leg to a solver.

zero

Zerion Is Shutting Down ZERϴ Network

Bridging into ZERϴ is disabled. Users on the network must withdraw before outbound bridging closes on July 31, 2026.

ethereum

EthPandaOps Validator Report Tool

A new page on The Lab that lets users pinpoint validator performance issues down to the slot level.

news

#948 - Linea Stack Becomes Lineth Under Linux Foundation

ConsenSys hands Lineth to the Linux Foundation as Lineth. Chainlink SVR is live on Aave V4. Vitalik deposits 50 ETH into Privacy Pools.

news

L2BEAT Verifies Lighter's Escape Hatch, Aave Pro Adds Wallet Monitoring

L2BEAT verifies Lighter's escape hatch, Aave Pro adds wallet monitoring, and Blocknative joins Deloitte and sunsets its APIs.

2026

#949 - Aave Restores V3 WETH Markets, Carl Beek Departs The EF

Aave restores WETH markets, sGHO upgrades to ERC-4626, ETHGlobal opens a Continuity Track, and Carl Beek departs the Ethereum Foundation.

news

#947 - CLARITY Act Clears Senate Banking

Senate Banking advances the CLARITY Act 15-9, Lido plans a 98% validator consolidation, and KelpDAO resumes rsETH withdrawals.

news

#951 - LayerZero Publishes KelpDAO Post-Mortem, Devcon 8 Tickets Open

LayerZero full post-mortem on rsETH bridge exploit, Devcon 8 Early Bird tickets go on sale, and Toni Wahrstätter explains BALs.

lighter

L2BEAT Independently Verifies Lighter Escape Hatch

L2BEAT confirmed that Lighter's emergency withdrawal mechanism works, after independently regenerating and verifying all ZK circuits used by the rollup.

blocknative

Blocknative Team Joins Deloitte, Sunsets APIs

Blocknative joins Deloitte to focus on enterprise blockchain and agentic workflows, and will shut down its APIs and Gas Network on June 19, 2026.

aave

Aave Pro Adds Wallet Monitoring

Aave Pro now supports a read-only view of Aave V4 positions, balances, and activity for any Ethereum address.

kelpdao

LayerZero Publishes Full Post-Mortem On $292M KelpDAO Exploit

LayerZero Labs traces the $292M April 18 attack on KelpDAO's rsETH bridge to TraderTraitor, a developer machine compromise, and poisoned internal RPC nodes.

eip7928

Block-Level Access Lists Explained

Toni Wahrstätter published an explainer on EIP-7928, the execution-layer headliner in Glamsterdam.

devcon

Devcon 8 Early Bird Tickets Now On Sale

General admission tickets are priced at $349 and are purchasable with ETH via Pretix, with Wave 1 opening in June at $699.

linea

Linea Stack Becomes Lineth Under Linux Foundation

ConsenSys hands the Linea Stack to the Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust under a new name, Lineth, with Apache-2.0/MIT licensing.

fileverse

Fileverse dDocs Supports Markdown

Fileverse adds raw markdown support, a /plaintext command, mermaid.js diagrams, and find-and-replace to dDocs.

coinbase

Coinbase Becomes USDC Treasury Deployer For Hyperliquid

Coinbase takes over as the official treasury deployer of USDC on Hyperliquid, with Circle handling cross-chain transfers via CCTP and USDC replacing USDH as the quote asset.

lido

Lido Plans Validator Consolidation from 240,000 to 3,750

Lido completed its first validator consolidation on the Hoodi testnet, targeting a 98% reduction from 240,000 to 3,750 validators.

ethereum-foundation

Carl Beek Departs Ethereum Foundation

Beek becomes the latest in a string of high-profile EF exits, alongside Ethereum researcher Julian Ma, who also announced his departure today.

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aave

Aave Fully Restores WETH Markets

Aave restores LTV parameters across all V3 WETH deployments affected by the rsETH exploit, while KelpDAO consolidates bridging support and trims 20 chains.

aave

Aave Upgrades sGHO To ERC-4626

The upgrade introduces GhoRouter for single-transaction USDC-to-sGHO conversions. Legacy stkGHO holders must migrate mannually.

ethglobal

ETHGlobal Introduces Continuity Track

ETHGlobal opens two new participation paths alongside the classic from-scratch hackathon track, debuting at ETHGlobal New York.

aave

Chainlink SVR Goes Live On Aave V4

Aave V4 integrates Chainlink Smart Value Recapture on its Ethereum Core market to reclaim liquidation-related MEV.

vitalik

Vitalik Dives 50 ETH Into Privacy Pools

Vitalik Buterin deposited 50.25 ETH (~$113K) into Privacy Pools, the ZK-based privacy protocol launched in April 2025.

kelpdao

KelpDAO Resumes rsETH Withdrawals Following Recovery Operation

KelpDAO and Aave unpause rsETH withdrawals, bridging, and claims as rsETH is fully backed thanks to funds raised from DeFi United.

clarity-act

Senate Banking Committee Passes CLARITY Act 15-9

The bill advanced to the Senate floor after a 15-9 committee vote with two Democratic yes votes.

news

#946 Ronin Completes Migration To Ethereum L2

Ronin completes its OP Stack L2 migration, Ben Edgington kicks off an Upgrading Finality series, and L2BEAT adds Gnosis Chain.

l2beat

L2BEAT Adds Gnosis Chain To L2 Tracker

L2BEAT lists Gnosis Chain, an EVM-compatible Ethereum sidechain with over $300 million in assets secured through its canonical bridge.

ethereum

Ethereum Targets 10-Second Finality

Ben Edgington kicks off a new blog series laying out a practical path from ~1,000-second finality to under 10 seconds.

ronin

Ronin Completes Migration To Ethereum L2

Ronin migrates from a sidechain to an OP Stack L2 led by Conduit, with EigenDA for data availability and a new Proof of Distribution rewards model.

news

#945 - Ethereum Foundation Launches Clear Signing Standard

The Ethereum Foundation ships Clear Signing, Aztec takes the Protocol Guild pledge, Kelp's rsETH recovery enters its final stage, and Brevis releases Pico Prism 2.0.

aztec

Aztec Foundation Takes Protocol Guild Pledge

The Aztec Foundation committed 1% of the AZTEC token supply to Protocol Guild's immutable four-year vesting contract, joining EtherFi, Taiko, EigenLayer, Puffer Finance, and Aligned.

kelpdao

KelpDAO rsETH Recovery Enters Final Stage

Kelp and Aave burn the seized rsETH on Arbitrum as the 117,132 rsETH deficit is refilled and withdrawals prepare to reopen.

brevis

Brevis Releases Pico Prism 2.0

A rebuild of its real-time Ethereum block prover, achieving 6.1 seconds per proof with 99.9% of blocks finalizing within the 12-second slot.

ethereum-foundation

Ethereum Foundation Launches Clear Signing Standard

The standard ships ERC-7730 descriptors, a neutral mirrorable registry, ERC-8176 auditor attestations on EAS, and ERC-8213 cryptographic fingerprints, with Ledger, Trezor, MetaMask, and WalletConnect onboard.

news

#944 - New Leadership At EF Protocol Cluster

The EF Protocol cluster gets new leads as Tim Beiko and Barnabe Monnot step back; CLARITY Act draft drops; Aave amends AIP after a court order.

aave

Aave Amends Arbitrum AIP After Court Order

The amended Constitutional AIP routes the 30,765 frozen ETH to a wallet controlled by Aave LLC, replacing the original 3-of-4 Gnosis Safe per the May 8 court order.

clarity-act

Senate Banking Releases CLARITY Act Draft Ahead of Thursday Markup

The nine-title bill separates SEC and CFTC jurisdiction, introduces Regulation Crypto for ancillary assets, and bans deposit-like interest on stablecoins.

glamsterdam

EF Protocol Gets New Leadership As Tim Beiko and Monnot Depart

Will Corcoran, Kev Wedderburn, and Fredrik take over the EF Protocol cluster as Beiko, Monnot, and Stokes step back; priorities are Glamsterdam, Hegotá, and the protocol strawmap.

news

#943 - Judge Clears ArbitrumDAO To Transfer Frozen ETH To Aave LLC

A judge clears the ArbitrumDAO recovery transfer, Mantle DAO approves a 30k ETH loan to Aave, and Devcon 8 Early Bird tickets land on May 20th.

governance

Judge Clears ArbitrumDAO To Transfer Frozen ETH To Aave LLC

The judge signed an order clearing ArbitrumDAO to vote on transferring 30,765 frozen ETH to Aave LLC for the rsETH recovery effort.

devcon

Devcon 8 Early Bird Tickets

Early Bird tickets for Devcon 8 in Mumbai go on sale May 20, 2026 at $349 GA via an ETH-native Pretix payment integration.

interop

Interop SDK Cross-Chain Package

Wonderland released a cross-chain package for the Interop SDK with a unified API for bridge quotes, transfers, and tracking via EIP-7683.

aave

Mantle DAO Approves Aave Loan

Mantle DAO authorized its treasury to lend up to 30,000 ETH to Aave DAO to help cover bad debt from the April 18 KelpDAO LayerZero exploit.

news

#942 - ArbitrumDAO Approves rsETH Recovery Effort

AWS AgentCore Payments, Obol Stack v0.9.0, Protocol Guild's Agora upgrade, and ArbitrumDAO's rsETH recovery vote.

arbitrum

ArbitrumDAO Approves rsETH Recovery Effort

ArbitrumDAO voted 90.96% in favor of routing 30,765.67 ETH frozen from the KelpDAO exploiter to the DeFi United recovery multisig.

ethereum

Protocol Guild Upgrades DAO, Drops Multisig Dependency

Protocol Guild migrated to Agora Governor contracts, moving its split contract from a multisig to DAO control.

obol

Obol Stack v0.9.0 Release

Obol Stack v0.9.0 adds $OBOL as a payment asset for x402 agent transactions and introduces Hermes as the default runtime.

aws

AWS Launches AgentCore Payments With x402

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore now supports stablecoin micropayments via x402 with Coinbase and Stripe Privy wallets.

news

#941 - Aave Liquidates Attackers' rsETH Positions

Aave Executes rsETH Liquidations, Centrifuge Launches S&P 500 Token On Base, and Validator Consolidation Hits 10m ETH.

validators

Ethereum Validators Consolidate 10 Million ETH Via MaxEB

Just 1.4% of Ethereum validators now account for approximately 25% of all staked ETH.

coinbase

Centrifuge deSPXA Goes Live On Base

A tokenized real-world asset that tracks the S&P 500 index.

aave

Aave Liquidates Attackers' rsETH Positions

Approximately 89,567 rsETH was seized from the April 18th KelpDAO attacker across Ethereum mainnet and Arbitrum V3 markets via a controlled oracle adjustment

news

#940 - EIP-8250, ACTA, and the LayerZero blame game

Researchers propose keyed nonces, ACTA extension for ERC-8004, and KelpDAO migrates rsETH to CCIP.

kelp

KelpDAO Migrates rsETH To Chainlink CCIP

KelpDAO migrates rsETH to Chainlink CCIP and pushes exploit blame to LayerZero infrastructure.

erc-8004

Anonymous Credentials for Trustless Agents

An extension to the ERC-8004 standard that allows agents to prove claims about personhood, reputation, and more.

ethereum

EIP-8250 Keyed Nonces For Frame Transactions

The EIP proposes per-key nonce sequences to unblock privacy protocols and seed Ethereum's state scaling roadmap.

news

#939 - Aave Fights Restraint On Kelp Funds, Glamsterdam Targets 200M Gas

A U.S. law firm seeks to seize 30,766 ETH frozen from the KelpDAO exploit; Aave files an emergency motion to vacate. Core devs target a 200M gas limit floor after Glamsterdam.

news

#938 - Ethereum Hits 25M Blocks, Bitmine Buys Another 10k ETH

Ethereum hits 25 million blocks, the EF completes a second 10k ETH OTC sale to Bitmine, Optimism expands Actions SDK, and Peer launches a Disputes Portal.

op

Upbit GIWA Chain On OP Stack

Upbit announces its own L2 built on the OP Stack, coined GIWA Chain.

aave

Aave Fights Back For DeFi Users

Aave LLC filed an emergency motion to vacate Gerstein Harrow's restraining notice and is requesting a $300M bond if the notice stands, defending DeFi United's recovery for KelpDAO victims.

kelpdao

Law Firm Aims To Claim KelpDAO Victims' Funds

Gerstein Harrow LLP filed a restraining notice against Arbitrum DAO seeking to seize 30,766 ETH frozen from the KelpDAO exploit, citing a DPRK-linked default judgment.

eip-8141

EIP-8141 Removes Relayer Dependency

Frame Transactions (EIP-8141) could let privacy pools pay withdrawal fees from the withdrawn funds, removing relayer dependency.

glamsterdam

Glamsterdam Targets 200M Gas Limit Floor

Core devs agreed to a 200M gas limit floor after Glamsterdam, unlocked by ePBS, Block-Level Access Lists, and EIP-8037 state repricing.

["peer"

Peer Launches Automated Dispute Protocol

Peer's Disputes Portal uses DKIM email verification to protect LPs from fiat chargeback fraud, starting with Venmo.

ethereum

Ethereum Produces 25 Million Blocks

Block 25,000,000 contained 377 transactions, was produced by Titan Builder, and burned 0.04 ETH in gas fees.

optimism

Optimism Expands Actions SDK

The updated framework adds embedded wallets, lending via Aave and Morpho, swaps via Uniswap and Velodrome, and multi-chain DeFi across the OP Stack.

bitmine

Bitmine Buys Another 10,000 ETH From Ethereum Foundation

The Ethereum Foundation completed a second 10,000 ETH OTC sale to Bitmine in a week, executed at $2,292.15 per ETH.

news

BitMine’s ETH Holdings Top $2 Billion

BitMine Immersion Technologies, Inc. now holds 566,776 ETH, making it the largest corporate holder of ether.

news

Bit Digital Pivots To Ethereum

The company has accumulated a treasury of 100,603 ETH, pivoting its corporate treasury from Bitcoin to Ethereum.

news

Bitmine Reveals $500m ETH Treasury

Bitmine joins the Strategic ETH Reserve as the fourth-largest ETH holder following its purchase of 163,142 ETH.

news

BitMine Unveils 1.5m ETH Treasury

BitMine, the world’s largest corporate holder of Ethereum, now holds 1.52 million ETH, worth over $6.1 billion.

bitmine

Bitmine Crosses 5 Million ETH Milestone

Bitmine now holds 5,078,386 ETH worth approximately $12 billion, with 73% staked through MAVAN.

news

#937 - Status Network Merges Into Linea, EPF Cohort 7, EAG Introduced

Status Network plans to merge into Linea, the EF opens applications for EPF cohort 7, and USDm incentives activate on the Aave V3 MegaETH market.

news

Ethereum Applications Guild (EAG) Introduced

A non-profit dedicated to advancing innovation, adoption, and real-world impact of Ethereum-native applications.

news

MegaETH Incentives Live On Aave

Aave V3 MegaETH market launches incentives for USDm, with USDe deposits already exceeding $100 million.

news

Status Network Merges Into Linea

Status to consolidate its technical work, liquidity, and community into Linea instead of launching as a standalone L2.

news

Ethereum Protocol Fellowship Cohort 7

The Ethereum Foundation opened applications for the seventh cohort of the EPF, with a deadline of May 13, 2026.

defi-united

DeFi United Explained: The rsETH Recovery Plan

A backgrounder on the coordinated industry effort to restore the backing of KelpDAO's rsETH following the April 18 LayerZero bridge exploit, now fully executed.

news

#936 - Visa Stablecoin Settlement, EF ESP Q1 2026, Solidity v0.8.35

Visa expands stablecoin settlement to Base and Polygon. The EF allocates $9.8M across 57 projects. And Solidity v0.8.35 ships ERC-7201.

news

Solidity Compiler v0.8.35 Release

The 0.8.35 release introduces Solidity's first compile-time builtin for ERC-7201 namespaced storage layouts and previews 0.9.0 deprecations.

news

ESP Allocation Update Q1 2026

The Ethereum Foundation's Ecosystem Support Program distributed $9.8M to 57 projects spanning ZK, security, privacy, and developer tooling.

news

Visa Extends Stablecoin Pilot To Base And Polygon

Visa expands its stablecoin settlement pilot to Base, Polygon, and three other chains, bringing total supported networks to nine.

news

#935 - Protocol Institute Introduced, LayerZero 5k ETH For DeFi United, Recovery Plan

The Summer of Protocols relaunches as the Protocol Institute and Aave publishes the DeFi United technical implementation plan.

aave

Aave Publishes DeFi United Technical Implementation

Aave published its technical implementation plan for DeFi United, a coordinated effort to recover the backing of KelpDAO's rsETH LST.

layerzero

LayerZero Contributes 5,000 ETH To DeFi United

LayerZero is contributing 5,000 ETH to DeFi United's recovery effort.

protocol institute

Protocol Institute Introduced

The Summer of Protocols (SoP), a research and development program originally seeded by the EF, relaunched as The Protocol Institute.

news

#934 - DeFi United Secures Funds, Consensys Commits 30k ETH, Bitmine 5M ETH

DeFi United secures funds to restore rsETH backing. Consensys and Joseph Lubin commit 30,000 ETH. And Bitmine crosses 5 million ETH.

aave

Consensys And Joseph Lubin Commit 30,000 ETH To DeFi United

Consensys and Joseph Lubin pledge up to 30,000 ETH, and SharpLink joins as a strategic advisor, to DeFi United.

aave

DeFi United Secures Sufficient Funds To Restore rsETH Backing

Stani Kulechov confirms DeFi United has the funds to fully restore rsETH backing, pending governance votes.

news

#933 - Aave 25k ETH For DeFi United, EF aWETH-wstETH Swap, Polymarket Chain Migration

The Aave DAO proposes a 25,000 ETH contribution to DeFi United. The EF swaps 21,269 aWETH for wstETH. And Polymarket plans a chain migration.

polymarket

Polymarket Plans Chain Migration

Polymarket's engineering roadmap includes a chain migration aimed at providing more block space, lower gas costs, and faster block times.

ethereum-foundation

Ethereum Foundation Swaps aWETH For wstETH

The 21,269 aWETH-to-wstETH swap reduces Lido EarnETH's WETH debt on Aave by ~20,000 WETH after the KelpDAO exploit drove utilization to peak levels.

aave

Aave DAO Offers To Contribute 25,000 ETH To DeFi United

The Aave DAO offers a 25,000 ETH contribution to the DeFi United Relief Vehicle for KelpDAO's rsETH following a 75,081 ETH residual shortfall.

news

#932 - DeFi United For rsETH, Mantle Aave Loan, Ethereum Security QF Round

Ecosystem projects rally to cover rsETH's shortfall. Mantle offers Aave DAO a 30,000 ETH loan facility. And a $1M Ethereum Security QF round goes live.

mantle

Mantle Extends Loan Facility To Aave DAO

Mantle offers a loan facility to the Aave DAO of up to 30,000 ETH at variable APY for 36 months, aimed at mitigating impact from rsETH.

security

Ethereum Security QF Round Goes Live

A $1M quadratic funding round backs ~100 Ethereum and L2 security projects on Giveth, with a 500 ETH match from TheDAO Security Fund.

defi

DeFi United Relief Vehicle For rsETH

Aave service providers pledge 13,500+ ETH toward covering rsETH's 118,000 ETH shortfall from the KelpDAO exploit.

defi-united

Lido Offers 2,500 stETH To rsETH Relief Vehicle

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#931 - Circle Proposal For Aave, Road To Devcon 8, Fluid aWETH Redemptions On L2

Circle proposes a USDC rate hike on Aave. The EF announces the Road To Devcon 8 Academic Program. And Fluid extends aWETH redemptions to L2.

shutter

Shutter Introduces Perpetual Endowment Network (PEN)

A proposed governance funding model featuring a permanent principal base used to generate yield for a continuous DAO runway.

fluid

Fluid Extends aWETH Redemption Protocol To L2

Aave users on Arbitrum and Base can now swap their frozen aWETH collateral for wstETH or weETH.

news

Road To Devcon 8 Academic Program

The Ethereum Foundation launches a new grants program to fund regional meetups, workshops, and hackathons in the lead-up to Devcon 8 in Mumbai.

news

Circle Pushes USDC Rate Hike On Aave

Circle Chief Economist Gordon Liao proposes raising the USDC interest rate slope on Aave v3 Ethereum Core from 10% to 40% to attract liquidity after the KelpDAO exploit.

news

#930 - Arbitrum KelpDAO Recovery, Base Azul Upgrade, Coinbase Quantum Paper

Arbitrum's Security Council freezes $71M tied to the KelpDAO exploit. Base's Azul upgrade introduces multiproofs. Optimism launches Privacy Boost.

news

Coinbase Publishes Quantum Readiness Paper

The Coinbase Quantum Advisory Council, with researchers from the Ethereum Foundation, Eigen Labs, and Stanford, warns crypto security could be compromised within the next decade.

news

Base Introduces Multiproofs With Azul Upgrade

Base's first standalone upgrade since leaving the Superchain introduces multiproofs combining TEE and ZK, plus a new client stack built on OP Kona.

news

Optimism Launches Privacy Boost

A plug-and-play SDK for adding confidentiality to any OP Stack chain, combining zero-knowledge proofs with trusted execution environments.

news

Arbitrum Freezes 30,766 ETH From KelpDAO Exploiter

The Arbitrum Security Council executed an emergency upgrade to freeze $71M in ETH tied to the KelpDAO exploit, briefly modifying an inbox contract to impersonate the exploiter.

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#929 - KelpDAO And LayerZero Exploit, Aave Freeze, Fluid aWETH Redemptions

KelpDAO's $290M LayerZero bridge exploit impacts Aave markets. Fluid enables aWETH redemptions. LayerZero attributes the attack to RPC poisoning.

news

Fluid Launches aWETH Redemption Protocol

Fluid is letting Aave lenders swap aWETH collateral for wstETH or weETH at a cost of approximately 2% amid frozen Aave markets.

news

LayerZero RPC-Poisoning Attack

LayerZero attributed the KelpDAO exploit to an RPC-poisoning attack by the TraderTraitor subgroup of North Korea's Lazarus Group.

news

ETH Limo Nameserver Hijack Via EasyDNS

An attacker impersonated a team member and tricked EasyDNS into executing a fraudulent account recovery, briefly hijacking eth.limo's nameservers.

news

Aave Freezes ETH And LST Markets

Aave disabled rsETH, WETH, and borrowing on all LST and LRT collateral types after the KelpDAO exploit, sending markets to 100% utilization.

news

KelpDAO Loses $290M In LayerZero Bridge Exploit

An attacker released 116,500 rsETH from KelpDAO's bridge contract on Ethereum mainnet without a corresponding burn on L2.

news

#928 - World ID 4.0, EIP-7716, And Mitsui Metals On OP Mainnet

World ID 4.0 extends to AI agents, Obol proposes EIP-7716 for Hégota, and Mitsui launches commodity-backed tokens on OP Mainnet.

news

Obol Proposes EIP-7716 For Hégota Hardfork

The proposal temporarily raises penalties for validator liveness failures during large-scale outages to discourage centralized setups.

news

World ID 4.0 Extends To AI Agents

World ID 4.0 expands proof-of-human credentials across consumer apps, enterprises, and AI agents.

news

Mitsui Launches Commodity-Backed Tokens On OP Mainnet

Mitsui & Co. Digital Commodities is launching tokenized Gold, Silver, and Platinum on OP Mainnet starting April 20, 2026.

news

Ethereum Foundation Publishes ETH Rangers Program Results

The ETH Rangers program helped recover more than $5.8 million, uncover over 785 vulnerabilities, and identify around 100 DPRK operatives.

news

Optimism Pilots Stake-Based Transaction Ordering

The mechanism allows users to stake OP tokens in a smart contract to give a chosen address priority in transaction ordering.

news

Josh Stark Departs Ethereum Foundation

Stark's departure comes one day after Ethereum developer Trent Van Epps also revealed he left the Ethereum Foundation.

news

#927 - OP Stake-Based TX Ordering

The mechanism allows users to stake OP tokens in a smart contract to give a chosen address priority in transaction ordering

news

#926 - EtherFi Migrates To OP Mainnet

EtherFi migrated over 70,000 active cards, 300,000 accounts, and $220 million in TVL to OP Mainnet.

news

#925 - $1m Ethereum Audit Subsidy

A program providing $1 million in audit subsidies for Ethereum builders.

news

#924 - SEC Guidance On DeFi Front Ends

The SEC says certain DeFi front-end interfaces do not need to register as broker-dealers.

news

#923 - Scroll Overcharges Users By $50k

Scroll manually increased its fee scalars, leading to significant overcharging its users for transaction fees.

news

#922 - Polygon Onchain FX Markets

FX pools using fxUSD as a base asset for fast, low-cost currency swaps.

news

#921 - Reth 2.0 Mainnet Release

Reth 2.0, delivers 1.7 Ggas/s throughput on large blocks and a major storage reduction to around 240 GB for mainnet nodes.

news

#920 - Block-in-Blobs (BiB) EIP-8142

A proposal to move Ethereum transaction data into blobs so validators don’t need to download every transaction.

news

#919 - Polymarket USD Stablecoin

Polymarket will replace bridged USDC.e with a new native collateral token, Polymarket USD.

news

#918 - LI.FI One-Click wstETH Staking

Users can swap any asset on any supported chain into wstETH in a single transaction.

news

#917 - Safenet Beta Launch

A transaction security network designed to protect Safe account activity by enforcing security checks.

news

#916 - Franklin Crypto Division Introduced

A new division dedicated to institutional-grade digital asset investment management.

news

#915 - Aztec Launches Alpha Network

A fully functional upgrade that brings native privacy to data, identity, and computation to mainnet alpha.

news

#914 - Aave V4 Goes Live On Ethereum

Aave V4 is now live for over 20 assets across three initial liquidity hubs. The launch includes a new interface called Aave Pro.

news

#913 - ZK Nethermind Executes Ethereum Blocks

The Nethermind team successfully executed Ethereum mainnet blocks on Zisk, a RISC-V–based zkVM, using ZK-Nethermind.

news

#912 - Sudoswap Proposes SUDO Ragequit

The ragequit would allow SUDO holders to swap their tokens for ETH accumulated from sudoAMM fees.

news

#911 - $1m Ethereum Security QF Round

The round will feature a 500 ETH matching pool to support projects improving Ethereum and L2 security.

news

#910 - Ethereum Post Quantum Resource Hub

A dedicated resource hub for tracking Ethereum’s post-quantum security efforts.

news

#909 - Katana Launches A Perps DEX

Katana acquired IDEX and is leveraging its infrastructure to launch Katana Perps,

news

#908 - Path To Private Swaps On Ethereum L1

The path to private L1 swaps leverages four proposed upgrades: EIP-8141 , 2D nonces, encrypted frame transactions, and FOCIL.

news

#907 - Codex FX Fiat To Stablecoin Settlement

A stablecoin-powered FX platform enabling fiat-to-stablecoin, stablecoin-to-fiat, and stablecoin-to-stablecoin conversions.

news

#906 - EF Deploys 1k ETH Into Morpho V2

The Ethereum Foundation deployed another 3,400 ETH from its DeFi wallet onto the Morpho lending protocol.

news

#905 - SEC Clarifies Crypto Asset Securities

The SEC says it recognizes that most crypto assets are not securities.

news

#904 - Fast Confirmation Rule On Ethereum

A feature that enables Ethereum consensus clients to confirm transactions in a single slot, resulting in 98% faster confirmations.

news

#903 - Ethereum Foundation Mandate

A manifesto to guide the foundation across two core goals: protecting self-sovereign computation and enabling coordination at scale.

news

#902 - Trader Loses $50m In AAVE Swap

A trader using the swap interface on the Aave front-end suffered a $50 million loss after accepting a swap with 99% slippage.

news

#901 - ENS Launches On.eth Chain Registry

A canonical onchain registry that provides chains with a resolvable identity, enabling human-readable cross-chain names.

news

#900 - Native Rollup Proof Of Concept

The PoC demonstrates a full native rollup (EIP-8079) on Ethereum using the Ethrex execution client.

news

ERC-8183 Agentic Commerce Standard

Co-developed by Virtuals and the EF dAI team, the standard enables autonomous agents to trustlessly buy and sell services from one another.

news

OpenSea Launches Agent CLI

The AI agent skill allows agents to interact directly with the OpenSea NFT marketplace.

news

Polygon Launches Agent CLI Toolkit

The toolkit enables AI agents to operate onchain with built-in wallets, payments, identity, and transaction capabilities.

news

Aztec Network Alpha Upgrade

The proposed upgrade would move Aztec to Stage 2 decentralization.

news

Vitalik Calls For Ethereum Sanctuary Tech

Vitalik called for building sanctuary technologies on Ethereum, open tools designed to resist surveillance and centralized control.

news

Uniswap Class-Action Dismissed

The judge ruled that platform developers cannot be held responsible for fraud committed by third parties.

news

Vitalik Outlines Scaling Roadmap

Ethereum’s scaling roadmap targets gas pricing, expanding blob data, and ZK-EVM for execution.

news

Vitalik Outlines Post-Quantum Roadmap

Vitalik Buterin outlined Ethereum’s quantum resistance roadmap, identifying four components currently vulnerable to quantum attacks.

news

Strawmap Ethereum Technical Roadmap

Strawmap is a technical roadmap offering a long-term, holistic view of Ethereum upgrades across five north stars.

news

Ethereum Foundation Begins Staking ETH

The Ethereum Foundation has begun staking 70,000 ETH from its treasury, starting with a deposit of 2,016 ETH.

news

Ethereum Foundation DeFi Team

The dedicated effort will support Defipunk values and more experimental DeFi innovations.

news

Vitalik's Cypherpunk Roadmap For Ethereum

Vitalik Buterin outlined a five-year cypherpunk-principled roadmap to make upgrades across the state tree, Lean consensus, ZK-EVM verification, and VM.

news

FOCIL Scheduled For Hegotá

Fork-Choice Enforced Inclusion Lists (FOCIL, EIP-7805) is scheduled as the consensus-layer (CL) headliner for the Hegotá upgrade.

news

Ethereum Protocol Priorities 2026

Ethereum priorities for 2026 focus on three strategic tracks: Scale, Improve UX, and Harden the L1.

news

Ethereum Protocol Studies 2026

The 2026 program introduces new tracks in cryptography and lean consensus/zkEVM and kicks off on February 23rd.

news

Ethereum Hits $15b RWA Market

The market cap of tokenized Real-World Assets (RWAs) on Ethereum mainnet surpassed $15 billion, representing a nearly 200% YOY increase.

news

Tomasz Stańczak Steps Down From EF

Bastian Aue will assume the role of Interim co-Executive Director of the Ethereum Foundation. Stańczak will continue building on Ethereum.

news

Aave Will Win Framework

A strategic overhaul aiming to scale Aave and align the ecosystem around an AAVE-centric model.

news

Sign In With Agent Introduced

An open standard for trustless identity and authentication for AI agents, built on ERC-8004 and ERC-8128.

news

Robinhood Chain Live On Testnet

Developers can now build and test apps ahead of a planned Robinhood Chain mainnet launch later this year.

news

MegaETH Live On Mainnet

Alongside the public mainnet launch, MegaETH introduced Rabbithole, an all-in-one frontend for interacting with the MegaETH ecosystem.

news

ENSv2 To Deploy On Ethereum L1

ENSv2 will now launch exclusively on Ethereum L1. ENS will discontinue development of its Namechain L2.

news

Vitalik On Hyper-Scaling Ethereum State

Vitalik proposed a barbell approach to hyper-scaling Ethereum state, allowing high-volume states to move to new scalable tiers.

news

Fidelity Digital Dollar Live On Ethereum

Fidelity Digital Assets launched its Fidelity Digital Dollar on Ethereum, a U.S. dollar–pegged stablecoin.

news

Vitalik Reframes Role Of L2s

Vitalik Buterin says the original vision of L2s as “Ethereum-branded shards” no longer makes sense.

news

Wonderland Introduces Interoperable Addresses

Interoperable addresses will allow users to send assets to an ENS domain paired with a target chain identifier.

news

Vitalik Commits $45m For Privacy Tech

Vitalik Buterin donated 16,384 ETH to support open-source, secure, and verifiable software and hardware focused on privacy.

news

TheDAO Funds Ethereum Security

TheDAO Security Fund activates over 75,000 ETH in edge case funds to support Ethereum security initiatives.

news

Fidelity Announces FIDD Stablecoin

Fidelity Digital Dollar (FIDD) will be a U.S. dollar–pegged stablecoin on Ethereum.

news

Polaris Introduces Stablecoin OS

A stablecoin operating system aiming to address the stablecoin trilemma of decentralization, scalability, and yield.

news

L1-zkEVM Implementation Roadmap

The E zkEVM team released a 2026 implementation roadmap to bring zkEVM proofs into Ethereum L1.

news

Ethereum Post Quantum Team

The Ethereum Foundation has made post-quantum security a top strategic priority and formed a new post-quantum team..

news

Aztec Network TGE Proposal

If approved, AZTEC transferability would go live for 100% of token sale allocations on February 11, 2026.

news

Neynar Acquires Farcaster

Neynar will take over maintenance of the Farcaster protocol, operate Farcaster clients, and run Clanker.

news

Vitalik Proposes Native DVT Staking

The proposal seeks to enshrine DVT at the protocol-level, which would allow users to simply run standard nodes.

news

NYSE Explores 24/7 Onchain Equities

The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) is developing a platform to allow 24/7 trading of tokenized U.S. equities and ETFs.

news

Optimism Introduces Actions

An open-source TypeScript SDK that allows app developers to integrate DeFi functionality.

news

zkEVM On Ethereum L1

A technical document for getting zkEVM proofs supported on Ethereum L1.

news

MegaETH Stateless Validator

MegaETH open-sourced its Stateless Validator, a lightweight client that verifies blocks using witness data without storing the full history.

news

Polygon Stablecoin Payments Platform

Polygon will launch an integrated payments platform that combines regulated fiat access, wallet infrastructure, cross-chain orchestration, and settlement.

news

ZKsync Releases 2026 Roadmap

ZKsync is shifting focus from building core infrastructure to supporting real-world adoption.

news

ethPandaOps 2026 Roadmap

ethPandaOps will focus on enhancing scaling, data visibility, upgrade pipelines, zkVM testing integration, and network hardening.

news

Optimism Proposes OP Buyback

The proposal would direct 50% of incoming Superchain revenue toward OP token buybacks, aiming to align the token's value with ecosystem growth.

news

BPO2 Goes Live On Ethereum

The second Blob-Parameter-Only (BPO) fork is live, increasing the blob target to 14 and the maximum blob limit to 21.

news

MSCI Retains DATs In Index

The stock index provider announced that it will retain Digital Asset Treasury (DAT) companies in its Global Standard Indexes.

news

Ethereum Validator Exit Queue Clears

The Ethereum validator exit queue has cleared, with exit wait times dropping to near-zero.

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Aave Labs To Share Revenue

Stani Kulechov says Aave Labs is committed to sharing revenue generated from outside the protocol with AAVE token holders.

news

Lighter Launches LIT Token

The Lighter Infrastructure Token (LIT) serves as the native utility and incentive token for the perpetuals trading platform.

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Bitmine Unveils MAVAN Staking Infrastructure

A dedicated U.S.-based Ethereum staking solution scheduled to launch in Q1 2026.

news

Trust Wallet Browser Extension Exploit

The exploit is suspected to be caused by a compromise introduced in a recent Trust Wallet browser extension update.

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Gnosis Fork Recovers Balancer Funds

The hard fork recovered stolen assets from the Balancer v2 exploit in early November.

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Hegotá Ethereum Upgrade Timeline

The proposal period for Hegotá Headliner EIPs will start January 8, 2026. Core devs will then discuss the headliners starting with the February 5th ACD call.

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UNIfication Onchain Vote Goes Live

Voting ends Dec 25. If approved, the UNI burn and fee switch will activate following a two-day time lock.

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Hegotá Ethereum Upgrade Name

Ethereum developers officially named the H* Ethereum upgrade following Glamsterdam as Hegotá.

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Base App Opens For Everyone

The Base App is now open for all users across 140+ countries.

news

EigenDA Hits 1GB/s Throughput

EigenDA achieved cloud-scale throughput of 1 GB/s, representing a 10,000x scaling of Ethereum blobs.

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JPMorgan Tokenized Fund On Ethereum

JPMorgan launched its first tokenized money-market fund on Ethereum, coined MONY, seeded with $100 million in capital.

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SEC Allows DTCC To Tokenize Securities

Depository Trust Company (DTC) is allowed to launch a new tokenization service for real-world assets.

news

FOCIL Declined For Glamsterdam

Fork-Choice Enforced Inclusion Lists (FOCIL) was declined inclusion Glamsterdam, but will be considered in Heka.

news

Superstate Direct Issuance Programs

Superstate introduces a capital formation platform for public companies to raise funds by offering tokenized shares on Ethereum.

news

BPO1 Goes Live On Ethereum

The first Blob-Parameter-Only (BPO) fork increased the blob target from 6 to 10 and the maximum blob limit from 9 to 15.

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BlackRock Files For Staked ETH ETF

BlackRock filed a new Form S-1 with the SEC to gain approval for its iShares Staked Ethereum Trust ETF.

news

Reducing Optimistic Rollup Withdrawal Times

The next step for reducing the withdrawal window for optimistic rollups is to agree on a reasonable defender advantage to require.

news

Prysm Experiences Client Issue

Prysm experienced a configuration mismatch issue that impacted validator participation rates following the Fusaka upgrade.

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Fusaka Activates On Ethereum Mainnet

Fusaka has successfully activated and finalized on Ethereum mainnet, bringing scaling improvements through Peer Data Availability Sampling (DAS).

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Fusaka Upgrade Watch Party

Ethstaker and Nethermind will host live watch parties for the Fusaka upgrade, scheduled to activate December 3 at 21:49:11 UTC.

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Yearn Suffers yETH Pool Exploit

Yearn Finance suffered an exploit on its yETH stableswap pool. About $9 million was drained, with $2.4 million recovered.

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Ethereum Hits 60m Block Gas Limit

Ethereum's block gas limit hit 60 million gas, marking a two-fold increase just in the past year.

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CFTC Approves Polymarket For Intermediation

The approval enables intermediated trading, where users can access Polymarket through licensed brokers.

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Spire Introduces Full Send RPC

A free RPC endpoint featuring fast inclusion and MEV protection on Ethereum mainnet transactions.

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Airbender Proves L1 Blocks Using 5090 GPUs

The ZKsync Airbender prover can now prove Ethereum L1 blocks using just two NVIDIA 5090 GPUs.

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EIP-8079 For Native Rollups

A proposal to enable native rollups by exposing Ethereum’s state transition function (STF) to the execution layer through a new EXECUTE precompile.

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Aave V4 Goes Live On Testnet

The release includes the v4 codebase and the Aave Pro developer preview.

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Ethereum Interop Layer Introduced

A proposal to make Ethereum’s L2 ecosystem feel like a single unified chain.

news

Aave Introduces Aave App

A high-yield mobile savings app offering up to 6% APY and balance protection for up to $1 million on eligible accounts.

news

Nillion Brings Blind Compute Ethereum

The private compute-focused chain will deploy a L2 on Ethereum as part of its Nillion 2.0 upgrade.

news

Uniswap Continuous Clearing Auctions

A protocol for running customizable onchain token auctions on Uniswap v4 with automatic liquidity bootstrapping.

news

J.P. Morgan Deposit Token On Base

J.P. Morgan rolled out its USD bank deposit token on Base, now live for institutional clients.

news

Lido Automated LDO Buyback Proposal

The LDO buyback mechanism would activate only under favorable market conditions.

news

Uniswap UNIfication Fee Switch Proposal

The proposal seeks to activate the Uniswap protocol fee switch, eliminate the front-end fee, and unify Foundation and Labs teams to accelerate growth.

news

JP Morgan Buys $102m BMNR Shares

J.P. Morgan acquired 1,974,144 shares of BitMine Immersion Technologies Inc. (BMNR), the world’s largest Ethereum treasury company.

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Lido Launches strETH Vault

stRATEGY is a new curated DeFi vault built on Mellow Protocol, offering single-click access to an stETH strategy involving Aave, Ethena, and Uniswap.

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Ethereum Protocol Advocacy Alliance

EPAA is a new organization for coordinating policy efforts among teams building onchain infrastructure.

news

Fusaka Client Releases For Mainnet

Lighthouse, Geth, Teku, Erigon, and Lodestar have released Fusaka-ready versions of their clients.

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Balancer V2 Suffers $110m Exploit

A smart contract vulnerability on Balancer v2 resulted in an exploit on its composable stable pools across multiple chains.

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Tuyo Universal Smart Account

Tuyo is a smart wallet featuring onramps, offramps, and yield vaults, positioned as a universal bank account.

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Ethereum Institutional Resource Hub

The EF Enterprise Acceleration team released a new site tracking Ethereum institutional adoption, highlighting real-world use cases.

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Fusaka Activates On Hoodi Testnet

The Fusaka upgrade successfully activated on the Hoodi testnet, setting the stage for Fusaka on Ethereum mainnet in December.

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JPYC Yen-Backed Stablecoin On Ethereum

JPYC Inc. launched JPYC, Japan’s first regulated stablecoin pegged to the yen, now live on Ethereum and Polygon.

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Ledger Multisig $10 Fee Per TX

Built on the open-source Safe protocol, Ledger Multisig charges a fee for users to sign transactions using Ledger hardware devices with Clear Signing.

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Japan’s Quantum Solutions ETH DAT

Tokyo-based Quantum Solutions becomes the largest Ethereum Digital Asset Treasury firm outside the United States.

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Ethereum Validators Association Announced

An organization aimed at improving Ethereum validator representation in protocol development.

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Code Is Law Film Release

The documentary explores The DAO hack, among others, through the lens of the “code is law” philosophy.

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Holešky Begins Sunset Process

App and tooling developers should migrate to Sepolia and staking infrastructure providers should migrate to Hoodi.

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Huobi Founder Leads $1B ETH Trust

Li Lin, founder of the Huobi crypto exchange, plans to launch a $1 billion Ethereum trust company aiming to establish an ETH treasury.

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MegaETH Real-Time Data Streams

Chainlink Data Streams are integrated directly into MegaETH’s execution environment, enabling smart contracts to access live market data with sub-second latency.

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Brevis Unveils Pico Prism zkVM

A zkVM designed for real-time Ethereum proving, capable of proving 99.6% of Ethereum L1 blocks in under 12 seconds.

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Fusaka Goes Live On Sepolia

The Fusaka upgrade has successfully activated on the Sepolia testnet. Hoodi is next to undergo the upgrade on October 28th.

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Tornado Cash Proof of Association Tool

The tool allows Tornado Cash users to cryptographically prove their withdrawals aren’t linked to illicit addresses.

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The Worst Day In Crypto History

The cryptocurrency market suffered $19 billion in liquidations on Friday, October 10, 2025, marking the largest liquidation event in crypto history.

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Kohaku Ethereum Wallet Privacy Roadmap

An open-source initiative designed to make crypto wallets both secure and private.

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Coinbase Launches DEX Trading

Coinbase launched DEX trading directly within its centralized exchange for all users.

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ZKsync Introduces Atlas Upgrade

An upgrade to the ZK Stack featuring an ultra-high-performance sequencer that delivers 15,000 TPS and 1-second ZK finality via Airbender.

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FG Nexus Tokenizing On Ethereum

FG Nexus partnered with Securitize to allow shareholders to natively tokenize both common and preferred stock on Ethereum.

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Fusaka Activates On Holešky

The Holešky testnet will be deprecated about two weeks after Fusaka activates on Ethereum mainnet later this year.

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EigenLayer Introduces EigenAI

EigenAI provides an OpenAI-compatible API that ensures untampered prompts, responses, and models

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Morpho V2 Goes Live On Ethereum

The latest iteration of the lending protocol introduces advanced risk management controls and the ability to allocate across any current or future Morpho vaults.

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SWIFT Pilots Stablecoin On Linea

SWIFT is reportedly testing a stablecoin and onchain payment messaging system on Linea, chosen for its cryptographic ZK proofs.

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Fusaka 60m Default Gas Limit

Client teams plan to set the default mainnet gas limit in Fusaka client releases to 60 million gas per block, raising it from the current 45 million.

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TOOL Scaling Layer Launches On Testnet

The Trustless Orderflow Operations Layer (TOOL) is a scaling layer for Ethereum L1 that enables 1-second finality without protocol or validator changes.

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CFTC Launches Tokenized Collateral Initiative

A new initiative to enable the use of tokenized collateral, including stablecoins, in derivatives markets

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Rainbow Announces $RNBW Token

Rainbow, an Ethereum wallet, introduced its native token $RNBW, expected to launch in Q4 2025. It also proposed to acquire the Clanker token deployment bot.

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Fairblock Confidential DeFi On Arbitrum

Fairates is a fixed-rate lending platform powered by Arbitrum Stylus, enabling private trading orders and auctions.

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Fusaka Upgrade Targeted December 3rd

Ethereum core developers agreed on a Fusaka upgrade testnet schedule, targeting a mainnet activation on December 3, 2025.

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Coinbase Joins Open Intents Framework

Open Intents Framework is a modular stack designed to standardize intents and enhance the cross-chain user experience on Ethereum.

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Google Agent Payments Protocol (AP2)

AP2 is an open-source payment-agnostic standard that enables AI agents to securely transact across platforms on behalf of users, merchants, and providers.

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Ethereum Foundation Decentralized AI Team

The Ethereum Foundation Decentralized AI (dAI) Team aims to make Ethereum the settlement and coordination layer for AI agents.

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Tether Introduces USA₮ Stablecoin

A new stablecoin designed to be U.S.-regulated and compliant with the GENIUS Act.

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Ethereum Fusaka Upgrade Timeline On Testnets

Ethereum's next upgrade, Fusaka, is tentatively scheduled to activate across Holesky, Sepolia, and Hoodi testnets starting in late September.

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SSV Validators Experience Slashing Event

A number of Ethereum validators running on the SSV Network experienced a slashing event caused by operator-side errors.

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Protocol Guild Reduces Dev Pay Gap

A Protocol Guild report found that its contributors earn 50–60% less than market offers. Protocol Guild funding helped reduce the core developer compensation gap.

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Banking Committee Market Structure Bill

The draft bill makes clear that staking, airdrops, and DePIN tokens are not treated as securities.

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Validator Entry Queue Overtakes Exit Queue

The Ethereum validator entry queue has now surpassed the exit queue with over 900k ETH queued to enter the beacon chain.

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Linea Releases Airdrop Checker

Eligible Linea XP and Linea XP-L points holders will be able to claim their share of 9.3 billion LINEA tokens on September 10th.

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Reth Client Bug Stalls Ethereum Nodes

A bug found in the state root computation of the Reth Ethereum execution layer client caused Ethereum nodes running the client to stall.

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Ethereum UX Roadmap Focuses On Interop

The UX roadmap aims to create a unified user experience across Ethereum’s L2 ecosystem, with a strong focus on interoperability through an intent-based architecture.

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U.S. Commerce Department Posts GDP Data Onchain

The U.S. Department of Commerce published Q2 2025 GDP data on nine blockchains, leveraging Pyth and Chainlink oracles.

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Aave Launches Horizon RWA Market

A new lending market allowing qualified institutions to borrow stablecoins against tokenized real-world assets (RWAs).

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Arbitrum Brings ZK With Succinct

Succinct and Offchain Lab's venture arm will co-develop a ZK-powered version of the Arbitrum tech stack, bringing Zero-Knowledge Proofs to all Arbitrum chains. 

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Kaiko Ranks Ethereum #1 Blockchain

Ethereum ranks #1 across governance, integrations, liquidity, operational efficiency, and security.

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Ethereum Blob Scaling Updates

The EF's L2 and blob scaling team published an update on the latest blob scaling efforts.

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MetaMask Introduces mUSD Stablecoin

mUSD is MetaMask's native USD-pegged stablecoin, expected to launch later this year. It will be issued by Bridge, a Stripe company, and built with M0.

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Aragon Private Onchain Voting

A solution for private onchain voting, enabled by an integration with the Minimum Anti-Collusion Infrastructure (MACI) plugin.

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State of Wyoming Launches A Stablecoin

Frontier Stable Token (FRNT), the first state-issued stablecoin, is now live on Ethereum mainnet and six additional networks.

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Ronin Transitions To Ethereum L2

Ronin Network, the gaming-focused L1 blockchain behind Axie Infinity, announced it will transition to become the gamification engine of Ethereum as a Layer 2.

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BALs EIP-7928 Scheduled For Glamsterdam

Block-level Access Lists (BALs) EIP-7928 will be included in the Glamsterdam upgrade, making it the second headliner proposal for the fork.

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Hardhat 3 Production Ready Release

Hardhat 3 brings a full overhaul, including performance-critical components rewritten in Rust, a modernized TypeScript CLI, and a new plugin system.

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EIP-7999 Unified Multidimensional Fee Market

A proposal for a unified multidimensional fee market on Ethereum, which would allow each transaction to specify one aggregate max gas fee.

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Taiko Activates Preconfirmations On Mainnet

Transactions are now confirmed 20–30x faster on the Taiko Alethia mainnet, enabling 2-3 second block times.

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Coinbase Integrates DEX Trading

Over 100 million users can now trade tokens on Base via DEX using a self-custody directly within the Coinbase mobile app.

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ePBS EIP-7732 Scheduled For Glamsterdam

Enshrined Proposer-Builder Separation (ePBS) marks the first headliner EIP scheduled for inclusion in the Glamsterdam upgrade.

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Tornado Cash Trial Ends With Mixed Verdict

The jury did not reach a verdict on the charges of conspiracy to commit money laundering and conspiracy to violate sanctions.

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SEC States Liquid Staking Not Securities

The SEC clarified that liquid staking activities do not constitute securities under the Securities Act of 1933 and the Exchange Act of 1934.

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Linea Native ETH Yield Via Lido V3

Linea plans to enable native ETH yield in October 2025, leveraging Lido V3 stVaults.

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OP Kona Rollup Node Release

A Rust-based rollup node implementation for the OP Stack, serving an an alternative to Go-based OP Node.

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Justin Drake’s Lean Ethereum Vision

Justin Drake shares his personal 10‑year vision for Ethereum, featuring lean consensus, lean data, and lean execution.

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Ethereum Celebrates 10 Years

On July 30, 2015, the Ethereum genesis block was mined during the Frontier launch, marking the introduction of the world’s first smart contract blockchain.

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Linea Unveils LINEA Tokenomics

Linea will burn 20% of net ETH fees, offer native yield on bridged ETH, and allocate 75% of the LINEA supply to an Ecosystem Fund.

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Succinct Announces $PROVE Airdrop

$PROVE is the native token of the Succinct Prover Network and will serve as payment for generating proofs, economic security through staking and slashing, and governance.

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SharpLink Appoints Joseph Chalom As Co-CEO

Joseph Chalom, who helped BlackRock launch the ETHA ETF and BUIDL tokenized fund, will now work alongside Joseph Lubin.

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Google Cloud Integrates Self ZK Passport

Self Protocol's proof-of-humanity zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs) will be integrated into Google Cloud products to combat bots and ensure fair access for real humans.

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EigenLayer Redistribution Live On Mainnet

EigenLayer Redistribution unlocks new use cases, including lending, insurance, and performance-based payouts.

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Ethereum Hits 45m Block Gas Limit

The Ethereum block gas limit hit 45 million gas early Monday morning after over 50% of validators signaled for the increase.

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Sherlock Announces Fusaka Audit Contest

Fusaka, Ethereum's next upgrade, includes about 12 EIPs, with PeerDAS as the headline feature.

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US House Passes CLARITY And GENIUS Acts

The GENIUS Act now heads to President Trump for his signature, while the CLARITY Act moves to the U.S. Senate for a vote.

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Coinbase Introduces The Base App, Base Pay, And Base Account

A non-custodial smart wallet integrated with the Farcaster social graph, featuring a social feed, payments, secure chat, and over a thousand apps.

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Boundless Launches To Mainnet Beta

A zero-knowledge verifiable compute layer that enables computations to be performed off-chain and verified on any other chain or contract.

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SharpLink Expands ETH Reserve

The company acquired 10,000 ETH in an over the counter transaction directly with the Ethereum Foundation.

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U.S. Treasury Removes Crypto Broker Rule

The rule required DeFi protocols that facilitate digital asset sales to collect and report information to the IRS about their users.

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Solidity Celebrates 10 Years

The most widely used programming language for developing smart contracts on the EVM was introduced in 2015.

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Ethereum Clients Support History Pruning

The feature reduces disk space requirements for node operators by approximately 300 to 500 gigabytes.

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Forkcast Ethereum Upgrade Tracker

An experimental tool designed to help users better understand Ethereum upgrades and compare headliner proposals.

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Introducing Ethereum Community Foundation

The organization focuses on funding immutable, credibly neutral, token-free projects that contribute to burning ETH.

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Robinhood Token Stocks On Arbitrum

Over 200 U.S. stocks and ETFs tokenized on Arbitrum One are now available for European Robinhood users.

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Nethermind Release Sets 45M Gas Default

The new client release sets a default gas limit of 45 million gas and drops pre-merge history data.

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World Chain Launches Priority Blockspace

The feature ensures that real humans, verified through World ID’s Proof of Personhood credentials, receive priority transaction inclusion on World Chain.

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Bit Digital Shifts To Ethereum

The company is positioning itself as a pure-play Ethereum-native platform focused on staking and treasury management.

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ZKsync Launches Airbender zkVM

A general-purpose ZK prover that enables real-time settlement. cross-chain coordination, and can run local proof generation on consumer hardware.

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Agglayer v0.3 Live On Mainnet

An upgrade that enhances pessimistic proofs with a new execution proof mode, enabling chain-agnostic interoperability.

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Shorter Slots Proposed For Glamsterdam

Barnabé Monnot proposed making shorter slot times a headliner feature of the Glamsterdam upgrade, which he says enhances Ethereum’s role as a confirmation engine.

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Ethereum Dev Tools Guild Introduced

An initiative to fund and coordinate essential developer tooling projects across the Ethereum ecosystem.

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ZisK zkVM Spins Out Of Polygon

An independent open-source zkVM project. ZisK is a high-performance zkVM stack for low-latency proof generation

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Fileverse Launches dSheets

A spreadsheet system for peer-to-peer data creation, collaboration, and onchain interactions.

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Flashbots On MEV Spam Limiting Scalability

Flashbots argues that despite scaling improvements, MEV-related spam continues to consume a large share of added capacity.

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Shopify Supports USDC Payments

Merchants on Shopify can now accept USDC on Base in their online stores.

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Stripe Acquires Privy Wallet Provider

Privy announced that it is being acquired by global payments processor Stripe, aiming to merge crypto and traditional finance into a unified experience for users.

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SEC Proposes DeFi Innovation Exemption

SEC Chairman Paul S. Atkins proposed exploring a conditional “innovation exemption” to accelerate the development of compliant DeFi products.

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Sigma Prime Introduces Anchor DVT Client

A Rust-based distributed validator technology (DVT) client for the SSV Network.

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Ethereum Foundation Treasury Policy

The EF aims to gradually reduce annual operating expenses from 15% to 5% over the next five years.

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Morpho Deploys On Unichain

Users can now lend, borrow, and earn yield through curated Morpho vaults on Unichain.

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Ethereum Protocol Team Restructure

The team restructuring focuses on three strategic priorities: scaling Layer 1, scaling blobs and Layer 2, and enhancing user experience.

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Prysm Celebrates Eight Years

Prysmatic Labs was formed in 2018 to support the Ethereum 2.0 vision. Prysm later went live as a consensus layer client on December 1, 2020.

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SEC Statement On Protocol Staking

The SEC concluded that solo staking, self-custodial staking with a third party, and custodial staking are not securities transactions.

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Euler Introduces EulerSwap

An AMM-based DEX that integrates Euler’s lending vaults with Uniswap v4’s hook architecture.

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FOCIL Proposed For Glamsterdam

The standard improves censorship resistance by allowing multiple validators to enforce the inclusion of any valid transaction.

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Bungee V2 Open Liquidity Marketplace

An upgrade that transforms the protocol from a bridge aggregator into an open liquidity marketplace powering cross-chain intents.

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Safe Integrates DeFi Lending

Users can earn yield on their stablecoins, WBTC, wstETH, and ETH via a new Kiln widget on Safe Wallet.

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Succinct Introduces SP1 Hypercube

A zkVM capable of proving over 93% of Ethereum mainnet blocks in under 12 seconds.

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Vitalik Proposes Partially Stateless Nodes

A new node type that can verify the chain while storing only a subset of the state.

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Fabric Introduces Signal-Boost

A mechanism that allows Ethereum rollups to access L1 data in real time, enabling a path to synchronous composability.

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Block-Level Access Lists EIP-7928

A proposal to improve Ethereum L1 scalability using Block-level Access Lists (BALs) to enable parallel validation.

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Robinhood To Acquire WonderFi

WonderFi's crypto trading platform and Wonder Chain L2 will operate under Robinhood Crypto.

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Coinbase Joins S&P 500

Coinbase is set to join the S&P 500 on May 19th, becoming the first cryptocurrency company to be included in the index.

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Superchain Activates Isthmus Hardfork

Isthmus marked the first Superchain-wide upgrade, which rolled out Pectra EIPs simultaneously across Base, OP Mainnet, Ink, Soneium, and Unichain.

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Ethereum Upgrade Headliner Proposals

A structured process for selecting headliner proposals with the most critical features in upcoming Ethereum upgrades.

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Pectra Goes Live On Mainnet

The upgrade brings 11 EIPs with major improvements to account abstraction, validator UX, and blob scaling.

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Coinbase x402 Payment Protocol

An open-source payment protocol that enables stablecoin transactions over HTTP using the HTTP 402 "Payment Required" status code.

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Vitalik On Simplifying Ethereum L1

Simplifying the Ethereum protocol makes it easier to understand, reduces infrastructure costs, lowers the risk of critical bugs, and fosters broader participation.

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Aztec Launches On Testnet

Developers can now deploy fully private applications on the testnet, and users can participate as sequencers or provers.

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Worldcoin Expands To United States

U.S. users can access the World App and claim WLD tokens upon completing verification by visiting an Orb innovation hub.

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Base Reaches Stage 1 Decentralization

Base contract upgrades now require 75% approval from its Security Council.

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EIP-9698: Exponential Gas Limit Increase

A proposal to exponentially increase Ethereum’s gas limit by 100x over the next four years.

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Debate Over Removing EOF

Ethereum developers are expected to make a final decision on EOF during Monday’s interop call.

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Federal Reserve Rescinds Bank Guidance

The withdrawal includes its 2022 supervisory letter, which required state member banks to notify the Federal Reserve before engaging in crypto-related activities.

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EIP-7935 Gas Limit Increase By Fusaka

The proposal seeks to test raising the Ethereum mainnet gas limit to 150 million by the Fusaka hard fork.

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RISC Zero Introduces Boundless Protocol

A ZK protocol designed to scale zero-knowledge proof (ZKP) compute across chains.

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Vitalik Proposes RISC-V For Ethereum

Adopting RISC-V could improve prover efficiency by up to 100x, significantly reducing ZK proving costs and simplifying the execution layer.

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EIP-7892 BPO Forks In Fusaka

EIP-7892 Blob-Parameter-Only (BPO) Forks is scheduled for inclusion in Fusaka.

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EigenLayer Activates Slashing

Slashing allows Actively Validated Services (AVSs) to enforce accountability by penalizing operators who violate service-level conditions.

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Soneium Introduces Fast Finality Layer

The new layer will reduce finality delays from ~13 minutes to under 10 seconds.

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Everclear Launches On Mainnet

Everclear enables chain abstraction, where a network of solvers competes to execute user intents on the target chain, removing the need for users to bridge.

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Celestia Launches mamo-1 Testnet

A high-throughput testnet producing 128MB blocks every 6 seconds with 21.33MB/s data throughput

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Vitalik On Ethereum Privacy Roadmap

A privacy roadmap that focuses on making private transactions the default user experience while requiring only minimal changes to Ethereum L1.

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Virgil Griffith Released From Prison

The Ethereum researcher served 56 months after giving a presentation at the 2019 Pyongyang Blockchain Conference.

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Spire Labs Unveils Based L3

A based L3 is a chain that leverages the L2’s sequencer instead of running its own centralized sequencer

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Lens Chain Live On Mainnet

Lens Chain is a SocialFi network built on ZKsync's ZK Stack. It supports Aave’s GHO stablecoin for gas fees and uses Avail for data availability.

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Ethereum ACD Restructuring Proposal

A high confidence date has been set for Pectra hardfork to go live on Ethereum mainnet on Wednesday, May 7, 2025, at 10:05 UTC.

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Privacy Pools Live On Ethereum

Users can now deposit between 0.1 and 1 ETH to the onchain privacy protocol. Deposits must pass a wallet screening before becoming eligible for private withdrawal.

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Ethereum L2 Rollup Security Roadmap

Vitalik proposes continued blob space increases, pragmatic fast finality via a 2-of-3 hybrid proof system, and a standardized aggregation layer.

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Pectra Tentatively Scheduled April 30th

Ethereum's next hard fork, Pectra, is set to activate on mainnet at slot 11,599,872.

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Hoodi Activates Pectra Fork

The Hoodi testnet successfully activated the Pectra upgrade earlier today at epoch 2048.

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Celo L2 Goes Live

Celo successfully migrated from an EVM-compatible Layer 1 to an OP Stack Layer 2.

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Fusaka Scope Freeze Timeline

Fusaka Meta EIP-7607 currently features PeerDAS EIP-7594 and EOF Meta EIP-7692 scheduled for inclusion.

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OFAC Removes Tornado Cash Sanctions

Tornado Cash smart contract addresses have been deleted from OFAC's Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) list.

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Coinbase Ethereum Validator Report

Coinbase stakes 3.84 million ETH across 120,000 validators, representing 11.42% of the total staked ETH supply.

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Obol Launches Incentives Program

Allocating 12.5 million OBOL tokens to reward users who stake ETH on Obol Distributed Validators.

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Besu Postmortem On Deposit Addresses

Besu recommends that Ethereum clients standardize configurations, avoid relying on defaults, and fail early when values are missing to prevent the issue in the future.

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Ress Stateless Ethereum Node

Stateless Reth is a fully validating Ethereum Execution Layer that reduces node storage requirements to just 14GB.

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Introducing Ethereum Hoodi Testnet

A new long-lived Ethereum testnet featuring a similar configuration and validator count as Ethereum mainnet.

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Aave Supports EURC On Base

Users can now lend and borrow Circle's Euro-pegged stablecoin on the Aave V3 Base market.

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Circle Launches CCTP V2

An upgrade to CCTP that reduces transfer times from minutes to seconds and introduces Hooks, enabling automated post-transfer actions.

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Holesky Testnet Restores Finality

The Holesky testnet finalized at Epoch 119090, following nearly two weeks of non-finalization due to a Pectra fork config bug.

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MegaETH Goes Live On Testnet

The testnet features EIP-7702 support, 10ms mini-blocks, 1s EVM blocks, and elastic block production.

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Sepolia Pectra Upgrade Incident

Sepolia faced an issue due to its custom deposit contract, which prevented execution layer (EL) clients from properly including transactions in blocks.

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Aavenomics Implementation Proposal

The proposal aims to enhance AAVE tokenomics, optimize protocol revenue distribution, and close the LEND migration.

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Zora Announces $ZORA Token On Base

The ZORA token will to launch on Base in Q2 2025 with 10% of its 1 billion token supply allocated to a retroactive airdrop.

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EF Introduces An Advisory Group

An advisory group consisting of eleven external individuals who will offer informal feedback to the Ethereum Foundation.

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Base Implements Flashblocks On Testnet

The enhancement cuts block times on Base to 200 milliseconds, a 10x improvement from the current 2 second block times.

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ByBit Hack Originated From Safe Server

The ByBit hack originated from a compromised Safe.Global front end, likely due to a leaked AWS S3 or CloudFront account key.

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Pectra Fork Config Bug On Holešky Testnet

A configuration bug in three EL clients led to a chain split, in which the majority EL clients justified an invalid chain.

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ByBit Suffers $1.4 Billion ETH Hack

The Lazarus Group drained over 400,000 ETH and 90,000 stETH from ByBit's cold wallet.

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Stateless Ethereum Book Release

A comprehensive guide that explains protocol upgrades on the path to a Stateless Ethereum.

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EF Open Intents Framework

A modular framework designed to standardize intents and enhance the cross-chain user experience on Ethereum.

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LI.FI Introduces LI.FI 2.0

An upgrade that integrates an intents protocol and supports interop token standards.

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Geth v1.15.2 Urgent Release

Node operators using Geth v1.15.1 are urgently advised to upgrade to v1.15.2 to prevent potential financial losses due to an issue that disrupts block creation.

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Pectra Client Releases For Testnet

Client teams have released updated versions with support for Pectra. Node operators on testnet must update their clients before the activation.

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OpenSea Unveils Upcoming $SEA Token

OS2 is now live in open beta, allowing users to claim XP rewards for NFT listings, placing collection offers, and maintaining loyalty to OpenSea.

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Arbitrum BoLD Goes Live On Mainnet

Bounded Liquidity Delay (BoLD) allows anyone to run a validator node, enabling permissionless transaction validation.

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Unichain Goes Live On Mainnet

Users can now bridge assets, launch tokens, swap, and provide liquidity on Unichain.

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Aave Deploys GHO On Base

The GHO stablecoin is now available natively on Base as part of Aave’s cross-chain strategy.

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Frax Launches frxUSD Stablecoin

A stablecoin backed by tokenized U.S. Treasuries from asset managers BlackRock and Superstate.

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Pectra Upgrade Scheduled For Testnets

Holešky and Sepolia are scheduled to undergo the upgrade on February 24th and March 5th, respectively.

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Arbitrum Universal Intent Engine

An interoperability framework designed to enable seamless cross-chain swaps and transfers across Arbitrum and Ethereum L2s.

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SEC Crypto Task Force Priorities

Priorities include clarifying the security status of crypto assets, defining the SEC’s jurisdiction, and exploring temporary relief for token issuers.

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Agglayer Activates Pessimistic Proofs

A new type of ZKP that is designed to safeguard the Agglayer from potential vulnerabilities on any individual chain while supporting different chain security models.

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Uniswap Launches Uni V4

Uni V4 is now live on ten networks, introducing hooks for customized liquidity pool functionality.

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Geth v1.14.13 Emergency Release

The release fixes a vulnerability introduced in v1.14.0, which can cause nodes to crash via a specially crafted message.

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Morpho Expands Multichain Deployments

The Morpho Stack is now deployed across Polygon POS, Arbitrum, Optimism, Scroll, Ink, World Chain, and Fraxtal.

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Consensys Raises Block Gas Limit

Consensys joins over 42% of validators signaling a block gas limit above 30 million gas.

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Venice AI Launches VVV On Base

Users can stake the native token to gain ongoing, private, and uncensored access to the Venice API.

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FABRIC Unifying Rollup Standards

FABRIC is a collaborative initiative aimed at developing a neutral and minimal set of standards for rollup infrastructure.

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Trump Issues Order On Digital Assets

The order establishes a Working Group on Digital Asset Markets tasked with evaluating a potential digital asset stockpile.

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Court Overturns Tornado Cash Sanctions

The court ruled that the U.S. Treasury exceeded its statutory authority and immutable smart contracts do not qualify as property under IEEPA.

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Obol Introduces $OBOL Airdrop

Obol is allocating 7.5% of the $OBOL token supply to a retroactive airdrop for the Obol Community.

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Obol Introduces $OBOL Airdrop

7.5% of the $OBOL supply is allocated to an airdrop for the Obol Community, including Solo Stakers and Rocketpool Node Operators.

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Ethereum Foundation Activates DeFi Wallet

A Safe smart wallet with 50,000 ETH was set up to take a more active role in the Ethereum ecosystem.

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Rollup Teams Call For Blob Increase

The Pectra upgrade will double the blob capacity from 3 to 6 blobs per block but demand is likely to outpace that capacity within months.

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Coinbase Bitcoin-Backed USDC Loans

When users borrow, their Bitcoin is converted into cbBTC and deposited into the Morpho lending protocol on Base.

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28% Of Validators Signal Gas Limit Increase

Over 28% of validators now signal a block gas limit greater than 30 million.

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Soneium Goes Live On Mainnet

Users can now bridge to Soneium, mint NFTs, and swap on the network. Initial protocols on Soneium include Velodrome, Astar Network, Chainlink, and Circle.

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Euler V2 Goes Live On Base

Euler V2 features governed and ungoverned vaults, leveraged positions, carry trade strategies, and single-click execution workflows.

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USD0++ Devalues Amid Redemption Change

The drop follows Usual Protocol's announcement introducing a new redemption floor of 0.87 USD0 per USD0++

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CoW AMM Goes Live On Base

Anyone can deploy pools on Base using the CoW AMM pool creator.

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Phala Launches OP Succinct L2

Phala Network provides cryptographic computing and Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) services tailored for smart contract developers.

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Judge Halts SEC Lawsuit Against Coinbase

The decision allows Coinbase to appeal a critical legal ruling while temporarily pausing further proceedings in the SEC's lawsuit against Coinbase.

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ZKsync Ignite Goes Live

Season 1, running from January 6, 2025, to March 31, 2025, offers up to 100 million ZK tokens in incentives across 15 participating protocols.

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Ethena Releases 2025 Roadmap

The roadmap includes the iUSDe stablecoin, a savings and payments app integrated with Telegram, and Ethereal perps and Derive options protocols.

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Frax Approves BUIDL Collateral

Frax governance approved the integration of BlackRock’s BUIDL tokenized U.S. Treasury fund as collateral for its Frax USD stablecoin.

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IRS Finalizes DeFi Broker Requirement

The rule requires DeFi protocols that facilitate digital asset sales to collect and report information to the IRS about their users.

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Chainlink Introduces Smart Value Recapture

An oracle solution designed to help DeFi protocols reclaim non-toxic MEV generated by Chainlink Price Feeds.

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Unichain Releases Roadmap To Mainnet

The Unichain mainnet, launching in 2025, will feature live, permissionless fault proofs from day one.

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Unichain Releases Roadmap To Mainnet

The Unichain mainnet, launching in 2025, will feature live, permissionless fault proofs from day one.

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Coinbase Raises Gas Limit To 36m

10% of Ethereum validators now signal a gas limit greater than 30 million gas per block, according to data shared by Ethereum researcher Toni Wahrstätter.

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Kraken’s Ink L2 Goes Live On Mainnet

Users can now bridge to Ink and explore applications on the network

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ENS Labs Selects Linea For Namechain

A zkEVM-based Layer 2 solution designed to enhance cost efficiency, performance, and the developer experience for ENS.

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Lido Sunsets Polygon PoS Liquid Staking

stMATIC holders are urged to withdraw their assets through the Lido on Polygon UI before June 16, 2025.

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MegaETH Raises $10 Million

MegaETH is an EVM-compatible Layer 2 chain that aims to deliver 100,000 TPS throughput.

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Polygon PoS Bridge Yield Proposal

A strategy to generate yield using the $1.3 billion in stablecoin reserves held by the Polygon PoS Portal Bridge.

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Balancer V3 Goes Live On Mainnet

The new V3 AMM and fully boosted pool functionality is now live on Ethereum and Gnosis Chain.

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Fuel Introduces FUEL Token

$FUEL is expected to launch in the coming weeks and will be used to secure the network’s decentralized sequencer through staking.

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Researchers Advise Gradual Gas Limit Increase

Significant increases beyond 36 million gas could lead to unintended consequences or network instability, suggesting for a more gradual increase.

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EIP-7834: Separate Metadata Section For EOF

The proposal seeks to separate metadata from executable bytecode, enhancing source code verification.

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3Jane Introduces A Credit Market Protocol

A credit-based money market protocol built on Base that enables users to borrow based on their creditworthiness and future yield.

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Unichain Holocene Network Upgrade

The testnet upgrade introduces Holocene Block Derivation, MIPS Contracts, and EIP-1559 Configurability.

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Unichain Holocene Network Upgrade

The testnet upgrade introduces Holocene Block Derivation, MIPS Contracts, and EIP-1559 Configurability.

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Safe Unveils Safenet Processor Network

Safenet can operate on top of various networks, including Ethereum, alt-L1s, L2s, and even offchain networks such as Visa and centralized exchanges.

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Ethereum Beacon Chain Turns 4

Ethereum’s Beacon Chain launched on mainnet on December 1, 2020. To date, over 34 million ETH, or 28% of ether's supply, has been staked.

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6/9 Blob Capacity Increase Feasibility

The analysis indicates that Ethereum can support an increase in the blob capacity to a target of 6 and a max count of 9.

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Court Overturns Tornado Cash Sanctions

The court concluded that OFAC exceeded its authority under IEEPA when it sanctioned Tornado Cash smart contracts in August 2022.

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Ethereum Protocol Attackathon

A large-scale crowdsourced security audit contest featuring a $1.5 million prize pool.

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Optimism Season 7 Governance

Season 7 governance begins January 16, 2025, with a focus on interoperability as the core intent.

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SEC Chair Gary Gensler Resigns

Appointed in April 2021, Gensler gained a reputation for aggressively pursuing enforcement actions against crypto projects, including ConsenSys, Uniswap, Coinbase, and Kraken.

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Coinbase Wallet Supports USDC Rewards

Users can earn rewards by holding USDC in their Coinbase Wallet and activating the feature on the USDC asset page.

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Coinbase To Suspend WBTC Trading

WBTC trading on Coinbase will cease on December 19, 2024.

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EF Introduces Internship Program

Aspiring Ethereum developers and researchers can apply for the summer internship until December 9, 2024.

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Ethereum Foundation 2024 Report

The report details core values, spending allocations, treasury holdings and the non-profit's role in supporting the Ethereum ecosystem.

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Mekong Pectra Testnet Launch

The first short-lived Pectra testnet featuring support for all EIPs scoped for Pectra.

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L2Beat Introduces DABEAT

A platform for tracking transaction data across various Data Availability (DA) layers

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Voting Opens For ZKsync Ignite

The proposal aims to allocate 300 million ZK tokens as incentives over nine months on ZKsync Era.

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Ethereum Researchers Drop EigenLayer Advisorship

Ethereum researchers Justin Drake and Dankrad Feist announced their resignation from their advisory roles at EigenLayer.

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UBS Tokenized Fund On Ethereum

The UBS USD Money Market Investment Fund Token (uMINT) provides investors with access to a tokenized, institutional-grade fund on Ethereum.

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Devcon SEA Releases Schedule

Alongside the schedule, Devcon released Devcon Passport, a mobile-first Progressive Web App that allows users to customize their agenda and receive event notifications.

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Base Activates Fraud Proofs

The upgrade introduces permissionless output proposals and permissionless challenges, bringing Base closer to Stage 1 decentralization.

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Swell L2 Migrates To OP Stack

Swell is transitioning away from Polygon CDK and will instead build its Swell L2 restaked rollup on the OP Stack.

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Rocket Pool Activates Saturn 0

The upgrade removes the RPL stake requirement for new minipools, allowing solo stakers to deploy minipools with just 8 ETH.

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Safe Multichain Address Deployments

Users to reserve the same address across 15 networks in a single click. The contract wallet addresses for each chain can then be activated at anytime.

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Kraken Unveils Ink Layer 2

Expected to launch on mainnet in early 2025, Ink is a new Layer 2 built on the OP Stack designed to streamline access to DeFi and onboard users onchain.

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Uniswap Integrates Bridging

Users can access a new “Swap across networks” option within the swap interface, allowing them to seamlessly bridge native assets and stablecoins

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OP Retro Funding Round 5 Results

The round distributed 8 million OP tokens to 79 projects that have contributed to Ethereum infra and the OP Stack.

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Arbitrum Orbit Supports OFT Standard

The integration allows Arbitrum Orbit chains to use LayerZero OFTs as native gas tokens.

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World Chain Goes Live On Mainnet

Infrastructure providers Alchemy, Uniswap, Dune, and Safe rolled out support for the identity-focused L2 network.

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Conduit Introduces G2 Sequencer

A high-performance sequencer delivering 50-100 Megagas per second (Mgas/s) throughput.

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Superseed Joins The Superchain

A DeFi-focused protocol built on the OP Stack that will allow users to lock assets as collateral to mint and borrow the Superseed stablecoin.

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Vitalik On The Future Of Ethereum

Vitalik emphasized the need for single-slot finality and a lower minimum staking requirement for solo staking.

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Blob Increase Optimization Proposal

A proposal to increase the blob target to 5 and the maximum blob count to 8 on Ethereum, with a focus on ensuring that local block builders have adequate upload bandwidth.

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Uniswap Introduces Unichain

Unichain is a DeFi-focused L2 built on the OP Stack expected to launch on mainnet by the end of 2024.

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Uniswap Introduces Unichain

Unichain is a DeFi-focused L2 built on the OP Stack expected to launch on mainnet by the end of 2024.

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Optimism Launches Airdrop 5

The airdrop distributes 10 million OP tokens to more than 54,000 Superchain power users.

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Scroll Announces SCR Token

The initial SCR token airdrop for Scroll users and contributors will go live on October 22, 2024.

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Ethereum Slot Time Reduction Proposal

EIP-7782 is a proposal to reduce Ethereum's slot time from 12 seconds to 8 seconds.

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ethPandaOps Xatu Data Collection Initiative

A program for node operators to contribute valuable data about their validators for research.

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Visa Tokenized Asset Platform

Banks will be able to issue, mint, burn, and transfer fiat-backed tokens onchain, such as stablecoins, on the platform.

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Conduit Supports OP Succinct

OP Stack chains on Conduit can now convert into Type-1 zkEVMs with minimal effort.

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EtherFi And Renzo Introduce Restaked EIGEN

A liquid version of staked EIGEN that offers access to additional rewards.

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EIGEN Token Is Now Transferable

EIGEN is a Universal Intersubjective Work Token that provides social consensus as a service and plays a role in protocol governance.

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Judge Denies Tornado Cash Dismissal

Judge Failla denied a motion to dismiss the indictment against Roman Storm, an open-source software developer for Tornado Cash.

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Developers Determine Pectra Scope

The scope is to that of Devnet 3, which currently includes eight EIPs. EIP-7742 and EIP-7762 are still CFI'd for Pectra, with all other EIPs pushed to Fusaka.

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EIP-7762 Impact On Blob Fee Market

The proposed blobspace base fee increase would lead to more predictable blob pricing.

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Ethereum Follow Protocol Goes Live

Users can now mint follow lists, follow wallets, block wallets, and view their leaderboard rank on Ethereum Follow Protocol.

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EF Seeks Pectra Audit Proposals

The audit seeks to find any vulnerabilities in the bytecode for smart contracts associated with the upcoming Pectra hard fork.

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Vitalik Documentary Is Now Streaming

"Vitalik: An Ethereum Story" is now available for streaming in a limited onchiain release until October 20th.

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Eth.link ENS Gateway Reactivates

The eth.link gateway, which enables users to access their .eth ENS domains over HTTPS, is now live under the eth.limo service.

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Everclear Launches On Mainnet Beta

Everclear is an Arbitrum Orbit rollup that facilitates cross-chain liquidity settlement using a network of solvers, enabling chain abstraction for end users.

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WalletConnect Introduces WCT Token

WalletConnect allocated 18.5% of its WTC token supply to an initial airdrop for wallets, nodes, developers, and users of the WalletConnect Network.

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EIGEN Stakedrop 2 Claims Go Live

Eligible users can now claim their share of 86 million EIGEN tokens. While currently non-transferable, users can restake and delegate their EIGEN tokens.

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Danny Ryan Steps Away From L1 R&D

Over the past seven years, he has played a critical role in Ethereum’s development, notably the network's transition to proof-of-stake.

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Splitting Pectra Into Two Forks

A split would enable developers to ship the EIPs currently in Devnet3 as part of the first Pectra upgrade in early Q1 2025, with the remaining EIPs will postponed to the Fusaka hard fork.

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Succinct Labs Introduces OP Succinct

Any OP Stack chain can upgrade from an optimistic rollup to a ZK rollup with minimal development effort.

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PayPal Supports ENS Domains

Users to send crypto directly to a ".eth" ENS domain directly from PayPal and Venmo.

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Aave Launches Custom EtherFi Pool

Users can now borrow USDC, PayPal USD, and FRAX against weETH collateral on the custom Aave V3 market.

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Ethereum Follow Protocol Testnet Release

Users to sign in with their Ethereum wallet to follow wallets, block wallets, and check their leaderboard rank on testnet.

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Celestia Roadmap To 1GB Blocks

The roadmap to 1GB blocks will involve multiple technical upgrades, including a content-addressable mempool, node sharding, and an enhanced data availability sampling protocol.

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Polygon Upgrades MATIC To POL

The upgrade changes the primary staking and gas token from MATIC to POL at a 1:1 ratio. The token migration is automatic for MATIC holders on Polygon PoS.

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A brief history of Ethereum hard forks

From the early days of the Frontier thawing to the more recent Dencun upgrade.

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Arbitrum Stylus Is Live On Mainnet

Arbitrum is launching the Stylus Sprint program, offering 5 million ARB tokens in grants to accelerate development on Stylus.

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Vitalik On Computational Task Architectures

Vitalik highlights that modern computation relies on a "glue and coprocessor" architecture.

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Ondo Launches USDY On Arbitrum

USDY is backed by U.S. Treasuries and is now accessible across applications on the Arbitrum ecosystems.

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EIP-7742 Considered For Pectra

EIP-7742 aims to streamline the relationship between the consensus layer and the execution layer by removing redundancies.

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OpenSea Receives Wells Notice From SEC

The SEC alleges that NFT assets on the marketplace are securities. In response, OpenSea committed $5 million to a fund that covers legal fees for NFT artists who also receive a letter.

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MakerDAO Rebrands To Sky

The rebrand introduces an optional migration from DAI to a new stablecoin, USDS, and from MKR to a new governance token, SKY

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Ethereum Client Diversity Improves

Geth no longer holds over 2/3 market share as the supermajority client, improving client diversity on Ethereum.

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Sony Introduces Soneium L2

A general-purpose L2 built on the OP Stack aiming to onboard mainstream users and applications to web3.

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L2Beat Outlines Fraud Proof Trilemma

Optimistic rollups balance trade-offs between safety, decentralization, and promptness in their fraud proof system.

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Aave Deploys V3 On ZKsync Era

The Aave DAO plans to redistribute airdrops received from the ZKsync ecosystem to Aave users through liquidity mining incentives.

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Arbitrum Technical Roadmap

Offchain Labs will ship Arbitrum Stylus, fast withdrawals, and BoLD to mainnet by the end of this year.

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Basenames Dutch Auction

Base revealed that Base.eth subnames go live via a 36-hour Dutch auction starting on August 20th.

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Celebrating 2 Years of ETH Daily

Today, the ETH Daily trailer goes live onchain, reflecting my journey since 2022.

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OP Granite Network Upgrade

An update to address security vulnerabilities discovered in the network’s Fault Proof System.

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Arbitrum Approves ARB Staking

The initiative rewards ARB holders who stake and delegate to active voters.

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EigenLayer ERC-20 Token Restaking

An upcoming update will allow Actively Validated Services (AVSs) to economically secure their protocol using any ERC-20 token.

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Obol Introduces Contributions Program

Users who stake on Obol distributed validators (DVs) can access future governance rights within the Obol Collective.

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Aztec Network Goes Live On Devnet

Aztec is also hosting a developer sprint series with $100,000 in prizes for developing on Aztec Network

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Superchain ERC20 Token Standard

The standard will enable tokens to be portable and fungible across different OP Stack chains within the Superchain.

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Puffer Finance Adopts xERC20

The integration allows users to seamlessly bridge pufETH with minimal slippage and make restaking deposits from any chain.

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Franklin Templeton FOBXX On Arbitrum

The onchain mutal fund tokenizes access to investments in U.S. Treasury securities via the BENJ token.

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Zora Secondary Markets For NFTs

The protocol upgrade allows NFTs to be traded as ERC-20 tokens on Uniswap, creating a more efficient market for collectors.

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SP1 Production Ready zkVM

The general-purpose zkVM by Succinct Labs is now available for developers to use.

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Aave Generates $6 Million In Revenue

The revenue came from liquidation events amid the market turmoil over the weekend.

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Synthetix Launches USDx Stablecoin

Users can deposit ARB, USDC, USDe, or ETH as collateral to mint and borrow USDx at 0% interest.

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EURC Goes Live On Base

Financial institutions can now mint and burn EURC directly on Circle Mint.

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EIP-7748: State Conversion To Verkle Tree

A proposal to convert account states from the current Merkle Patricia Tree (MPT) data structure to the Verkle Tree (VKT) data structure.

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Linea Supports ENS Domains

The integration leverages CCIP Read, a standard that enables Linea to retrieve ENS domains.

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Compound Governance Attack

499,000 COMP tokens, worth $25 million, will be transferred from the Compound DAO Treasury into a multi-sig controlled by the Golden Boys.

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Concerns Over 32MB Data Blobs

Peter Szilágyi says the planned future size update would impact home stakers due to the high bandwidth requirements.

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Aave Proposes Revenue Redistribution

An upgrade to the current safety module that will use Aave v3 aTokens for staking and slashing.

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Dakota Introduces A Crypto Native Bank

The banking platform features competitive yields, treasury management, and insurance products for stablecoins.

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Spot ETH ETF Volume Hits $1.1 Billion

The total volume accounts for approximately 23% of Bitcoin’s first-day ETF volume of $4.6 billion.

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SEC Approves Trading For ETH ETFs

Trading for all 9 spot ETH ETFs will go live tomorrow. Bitwise also committed 10% of ETHW ETF profits to open-source projects.

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CBOE Confirms ETH ETF Listings

Five Spot ETH ETFs will begin trading on CBOE starting Tuesday, July 23rd.

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Polygon Plans POL Upgrade In September

POL will replace MATIC as the primary staking and gas token on Polygon, expanding to support new roles on the AggLayer.

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Virgil Griffith Granted Sentence Reduction

The seven-month sentence reduction should allow Griffith to be released this August.

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Polygon’s Plonky3 Is Production Ready

A zero-knowledge proving system designed as a modular toolkit for building zkVMs and zkEVMs.

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Ethereum ETFs Expected Tuesday

Bloomberg analyst Eric Balchunas expects that trading for Spot ETH ETFs will go live next Tuesday, July 23rd.

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MakerDAO $1 Billion RWA Competition

The competition is open to all RWA issuers, aiming to diversify MakerDAO reserves into U.S. treasuries.

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Compound Suffers DNS Hijack

Other protocols that use Squarespace as their domain registrar also experienced a DNS compromise.

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StarkWare Proposes STRK Staking

Users will be able to run a full node to stake directly or delegate their stake to a staker who runs a full node.

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World Chain Developer Preview

Developers can apply for access to start building and testing their applications on World Chain ahead of a mainnet launch.

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GOP Platform Policy Includes Crypto

The policy commits to championing innovation by supporting the the right to self-custody and the freedom to transact.

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EIP-7732: Enshrined PBS

The upgrade aims to eliminate the reliance on relayers and middleware software such as MEV Boost for validators.

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Obol Introduces The Obol Collective

EtherFi and Lido have committed $1.5 billion of stake to be managed by DVs.

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ZKsync Introduces Elastic Chains

A network of interoperable chains built on the ZK Stack, providing access to secure bridging, low fees, and unified liquidity.

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Obol Network Releases Charon v1.0

The first long-term support version of its distributed validator middleware client for Ethereum.

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Obol Network Releases Charon v1.0

The first long-term support (LTS) version of its distributed validator (DV) middleware client for Ethereum.

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SEC Sues Consensys Over MetaMask

The lawsuit alleges securities violations relating to MetaMask Swap and MetaMask Staking services.

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ZERO Network Testnet Goes Live

An EVM-compatible rollup built on ZKsync’s ZK Stack that leverages a custom paymaster to sponsor user transactions.

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Hyperlane Introduces Restaked Interop

The Hyperlane AVS introduces a restaked interoperability framework that uses restaked ETH to secure cross-rollup interactions.

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Harpie Introduces L2 Support

Harpie expanded support for it wallet security tools to Base, Arbitrum, and Polygon.

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Vyper Debuts New Module System

The release introduces a new module system that enhances code reuse across smart contracts.

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ARB Delegate Staking Proposal

The proposal seeks to allocate 50% of future surplus sequencer fees to reward ARB token holders who stake and become active delegates.

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Ethereum Blob Market Spikes

Several Layer 2s overpaid in fees for blob transactions compared to calldata costs.

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SEC Closes Ethereum 2.0 Investigation

The SEC will no longer pursue enforcement actions into Ethereum's classification as a security.

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Synthetix V3 Goes Live On Arbitrum

Users can initially deposit ARB, ETH, and USDC to earn Arbitrum LTIP rewards distributed by Synthetix.

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RISC Zero Launches zkVM 1.0

A production-ready general-purpose zkVM that can generate proofs for any program written in Rust.

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Polygon Introduces Governance Hub

The hub will facilitate protocol governance, system smart contract governance, and the management of Polygon Improvement Proposals (PIPs).

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Curve Founder’s $140M CRV Liquidation

Egorov's $140 million in CRV tokens were liquidated across five lending protocols, according to Arkham data.

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Polygon Proposes zkPoS Phase 1

A proposal upgrade to connect Polygon PoS with the AggLayer using a new ZK verifier powered by Succint Labs' Plonky3 proving system.

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ZKsync Introduces ZK Token

695,232 addresses are eligible for a share of 3.67 billion ZK tokens, representing 17.5% of the 21 billion total ZK token supply.

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OP Stack Reaches Stage 1 Decentralization

A milestone activated by the launch of Fault Proofs on OP Mainnet

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Arbitrum Approves 225m ARB Proposal

The Gaming Catalyst Program allocates about $225 million to fund gaming development on Arbitrum.

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EOF Included In Pectra Upgrade

Pectra is slated to be one of Ethereum's largest upgrades, featuring 19 planned EIPs, 11 of which are from EOF.

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Coinbase Launches Smart Wallet

A self-custodial wallet that can be created using just a passkey, eliminating the need for recovery phrases.

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CoW Swap Launches On Arbitrum

Users can now execute MEV-protected swaps on Arbitrum One. The launch features support for market, limit and TWAP orders.

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Linea Halts Amid Velocore Exploit

Linea paused its sequencer and censored transactions from a Velocore attacker to prevent further withdrawals and help safeguard stolen funds.

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PeerDAS Added To Pectra Upgrade

PeerDAS would activated in its own epoch, separate from Pectra. The strategy aims to avoid delaying Pectra, allowing PeerDAS to be activated later if needed.

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zkSync Criticized For ZK Trademark

Founders from Polyhedra, StarkWare, and Polygon, have co-signed a memo urging Matter Labs to withdrawal its ZK trademark applications.

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Vitalik On Ethereum L2 Subcultures

Buterin emphasizes that L2s significantly contribute to cultural pluralism, which he views as highly beneficial.

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ENS Labs Proposes ENSv2

A proposal to revamp ENS core architecture and extend the protocol to a L2 network.

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Taiko Goes Live On Mainnet

The genesis block was proposed by Vitalik Buterin, featuring a special quote in the block’s metadata.

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Pectra Targeted For Q1 2025

The upgrade is expected to feature EOF, PeerDAS, and EIP-7702, among other proposals.

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SEC Approves Spot Ethereum ETFs

The approval includes ETFs managed by Grayscale, Bitwise, BlackRock, VanEck, ARK Invest and 21Shares, Invesco, Fidelity, and Franklin Templeton.

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U.S. House Passes FIT21 Bill

The bill provides the CFTC with regulatory authority over digital asset trading and establishes a consumer protection framework.

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Obol Launches 1forDS Fund

A new funding model designed to support projects focused on decentralizing the Ethereum consensus layer.

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Uniswap Responds To SEC Wells Notice

The letter calls for the SEC to consider Uniswap's arguments and not pursue actions that could hinder innovation.

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Spot ETH ETF Likely To Be Approved

ETH surges by 18% to a monthly high of $3,650 amid increased approval odds for a Spot ETH ETF.

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Vitalik Addresses Centralization Concerns

Geth developer Peter Szilagyi expressed concerns about centralizing solutions such as pooled staking and increasing node hardware requirements.

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Taiko Introduces Raiko Multi-Prover

A new multi-prover supporting SP1, Risc0, and SGX processors.

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SDNY Arrests MEV-Boost Exploiters

Two brothers exploited a vulnerability in MEV-Boost software to counter-MEV $25 million from MEV bots.

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Lens Introduces Lens Network

An EVM-compatible Validium chain built on zkSync’s ZK Stack.

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Degen Chain Suffers Block Reorg

A config change caused Degen Chain to stop processing batch postings for an extended period, leading to the reorg.

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EVM Object Format Meta EIP-7692

A set of EIPs designed to add an opt-in container for EVM code.

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Vitalik On Multidimensional Gas Pricing

The model prices each resource, such as computation, storage, and data bandwidth, separately.

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Optimism’s Superchain Supports L3s

OP Stack L3s will have support for custom gas tokens and Plasma Mode.

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Vitalik Buterin Proposes EIP-7702

A new standard that allows EOAs to operate as smart contract wallets temporarily during a transaction.

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MetaMask Introduces Smart Transactions

A new opt-in feature designed to protect against MEV and enhance transaction success rates.

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Friend Tech Launches $FRIEND

The Base-native social app quietly released its V2 update alongside its FRIEND token airdrop.

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$MODE To Launch May 7th

The initial MODE governance token airdrop will go live on May 7th at 11:00 AM UTC.

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Aave Introduces Aave 2030 Roadmap

A three-year roadmap for advancing the Aave protocol.

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Etherscan Introduces Address Cards

The cards provide quick access to information, including claimable airdrops and open token approvals.

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EigenLayer Introduces $EIGEN Stakedrop

EIGEN will be a Universal Intersubjective Work Token that enables social consensus as a service.

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OP Fraud Proof Vulnerabilities Disclosed

Offchain Labs disclosed two security vulnerabilities in Optimism’s fraud-proof system on the OP Sepolia testnet.

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Stripe To Support USDC Payments

Stripe will initially support USDC payments on Ethereum, Solana, and Polygon PoS.

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Renzo Protocol's ezETH Faces Depeg

The depeg was triggered by a sell-off and the lack of support for withdrawals from the protocol.

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ENS Integrates .box Domains

.box is a top-level domain designed to link ENS domains with their corresponding ICANN domains.

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Celo Selects OP Stack For CEL2

A testnet deployment of CEL2 on the OP Stack will go live this summer.

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DodoEx Introduces DODO L3 Chain

DODO Chain is built on Arbitrum Orbit, uses EigenDA for data availability, and is powered by AltLayer's restaked rollup framework.

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Arbitrum Proposal To Adopt RIP-7212

RIP-7212 lowers the costs associated with passkey-based wallets.

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AVAIL Airdrop Claim Goes Live

Eligibility categories include developers, incentivized testnet contributors, Polygon PoS stakers, and rollup users.

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Worldcoin Introduces World Chain

A new L2 network built on the OP Stack that prioritizes World ID users.

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Lido Deploys Simple DVT Module

The module allows both solo and community stakers to become Lido Node Operators via Obol DVT clusters

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Arbitrum BOLD Goes Live On Testnet

A dispute resolution protocol featuring interactive fraud proofs.

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EigenLayer Is Removing LST Caps

LST deposits will open on Tuesday, April 16th at 9:00 AM PST.

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EIP-3074 Added To Pectra

The standard enables new capabilities for EOAs, such as batch transactions.

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Uniswap Receives Wells Notice From SEC

Hayden Adams expressed readiness to fight the SEC's enforcement.

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EigenLayer Mainnet Goes Live

Restakers can now delegate their restaked assets to any of the protocol's registered operators.

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MakerDAO Approves Project Ethena

The funds will be sourced from MakerDAO's DAI credit facility and will be used to accept USDe as collateral for DAI.

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Farcaster Introduces Actions

A new feature for developers to build add-on extensions directly within Farcaster

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Synthetix V3 Goes Live On Base

Users can deposit USDC as collateral to the Spartan Council Pool to earn trading fees.

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SAFE Token Transferability Governance Vote

If passed, SAFE tokens will be transferable starting Tuesday, April 23, 2024

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Aave Proposal To Remove DAI As Collateral

The proposal is in response to MakerDAO's rapid expansion of its DAI credit facility to a potential 1 billion DAI.

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Vitalik Outlines Next Steps For The Purge

The Purge aims to minimize the storage requirements for validators by eliminating historical blockchain data.

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EigenDA Launches On Holesky Testnet

Restakers, operators, rollup sequencers, and full nodes can now interact with EigenLayer on Holesky.

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Degen Chain L3 On Arbirtum Orbit

The chain settles on Base and uses $DEGEN as its native gas token.

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Celestia Launches Blobstream On Base

Blobstream is a one-way data attestation bridge that streams Celestia's DA layer to other chains.

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Optimism Announces 2024 RetroPGF Rounds

Optimism introduced four category-specific retro funding rounds for 2024.

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Optimism Superchain Developer Console

The console includes access to testnet funds, funded paymasters, Safe smart wallet integrations, and quick start guides.

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EIP-7251 Max EB Added To Electra Upgrade

Max EB allows validators to hold an effective balance between 32 ETH and 2,048 ETH.

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RIP-7212 Goes Live On Polygon PoS

Polygon is the first network to implement the rollup standard.

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BlackRock Tokenized Asset Fund

The fund already has an initial deposit of $100 million in USDC on Ethereum.

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EtherFi ETHFI Airdrop Goes Live

Users can now claim the ETHFI governance token airdrop. EtherFi also launched alongside its Liquid yield-vault product.

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OP Stack Fault Proofs On OP Sepolia

The permissionless fault proof system allows malicious transactions to be challenged over a dispute window.

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EigenLayer Road To Mainnet

EigenLayer will temporarily pause its web app and mainnet smart contracts to integrate operators onto mainnet

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Ethereum Dencun Hardfork Goes Live

The upgrade brings blob transactions that enable cheaper data costs for rollups.

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Thirdweb Superchain App Accelerator

A developer fund with $3 million in grants for builders on the Superchain.

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News Roundup - March 11, 2024

Gnosis Chain activates the Dencun upgrade. Stack launches an L3 chain on Base.

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News Roundup - March 8, 2024

The DAI Savings Rate is increasing to 15%. Gnosis announces its Gnosis 3.0 roadmap

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News Roundup - March 7, 2024

Conduit supports Arbitrum Orbit L3 chains on Base. Wallet providers join forces to further EIP-6963 adoption.

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News Roundup - March 6, 2024

OP Labs releases an initial dispute game mechanism.

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News Roundup - March 5, 2024

Snapshot introduces Boost rewards. Fraxtal’s native bridge goes live on mainnet.

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SEC Delays Ethereum ETF Decision

The SEC postponed its decision on BlackRock's application for a Spot Ethereum ETF.

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Goerli Testnet Deprecation April 17th

Developers currently using the Goerli testnet are advised to transition their applications to Sepolia or Holesky testnets.

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Robinhood Wallet To Support Arbitrum

Robinhood's non-custodial wallet will feature swaps on the Arbitrum One network.

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Coinbase Cloud Supports Nethermind

The activation of Nethermind clients by Coinbase is scheduled to be rolled out this week.

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Ethereum Mainnet Is Dencun-Ready

Ethereum node operators and stakers are required to update their clients.

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Obol 2.0 DV Protocol Roadmap

The roadmap includes initiatives for shifting towards Publicly Verifiable Secret Sharing.

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Avail Unveils The Avail Trinity

A framework designed to enhance scalability, unification, and security for the rollup ecosystem.

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Uniswap UNI Delegate Rewards Proposal

The mechanism would collect protocol fees and distribute them to actively participating UNI token holders and stakers.

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Span Batches Activate On OP Stack

The activation is part of the Optimism Delta upgrade.

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Conduit Supports OP Stack L3s

Developers can now launch L3 chains that settle transactions on OP Stack chains.

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Fluent Integrates EigenLayer AVSs

The first integration will feature EigenDA.

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Ethena Labs USDe Mainnet Launch

USDe is an overcollateralized stablecoin that offers yield and is backed by stETH.

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Karpatkey DAO Spin-Off From Gnosis

GIP-92 aims to establish Karpatkey as a spin-off DAO from Gnosis, alongside its own governance token KPK.

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PayPal’s PYUSD Goes Live On Aave V3

PYUSD is now live on the Aave V3 Ethereum Mainnet market with an initial supply cap of 10 million PYUSD.

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CoW Protocol MEV-Capturing AMM

The AMM protects liquidity providers against losses from exploitations by arbitrageurs

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Polygon Discloses Critical Vulnerability

The bug went unnoticed for five years.

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Franklin Templeton Ethereum ETF

The asset manager submitted an application with the SEC for a Spot ETH ETF

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Relay Unveils Instant Bridging Solution

Relay has already been integrated by Zora

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Dencun On Mainnet Set For March 13th

Client teams will release new client versions in the next two weeks.

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Dencun Successfully Activates On Holešky

The upgrade was seamless, aside from a minor drop in node participation.

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ERC-404 Experimental Token Standard

The standard blends features of ERC-20 and ERC-721.

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GoDaddy DNSSEC Interface For ENS

The integration simplifies the process for GoDaddy users to link their DNS to ENS.

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EigenDA Supports Arbitrum Orbit Chains

Developers can now choose to post transaction data from their Orbit chain to EigenDA.

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Verkle Pushed To Osaka Hardfork

Osaka hardfork is the next upgrade after Prague.

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Collect ETH Daily NFTs

Mint our podcast episodes as NFTs!

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Lessons From ERC2771 Multicall Vulnerability

The vulnerability, initially disclosed by Thirdweb, affected over a thousand contracts.

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Obol Network Integrates With EigenLayer

The integration enables native restaking for Obol distributed validators.

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Starknet Confirms STRK Airdrop Portal

Starknet Foundation confirmed that the STRK token will be distributed to select users and contributors for their past activity.

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Obol Network Launches To Mainnet Beta

Anyone looking to operate DV nodes can now use Obol’s launchpad and run its DV client, Charon.

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Raft’s $R Stablecoin Suffers $3 Million Exploit

An attacker was able to mint 6.7 million uncollateralized R using a series of flash loans.

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Obol Network Mainnet Open Beta

Beginning December 1, 2023, anyone can run distributed validators (DVs) on the mainnet.

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Proposal For Celo To Launch On Polygon CDK

Sandeep Nailwal also offered implementation partners to support Celo core developers in deploying a CDK-based chain.

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Uniswap Wallet Integrates MEV Blocker

Swap protection shields users from front-running and sandwich attacks.

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Potential Scenarios For The Merge

Core developers updated The Merge TTD notes to reflect two scenarios for Ethereum’s PoS upgrade timeline.

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Base Mainnet Opens For All Users

Base, an OP Stack chain by Coinbase, is now open for all users.

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Celo Proposes Transition To L2 On The OP Stack

The new L2 would be built on the OP Stack and would uses EigenDA for data availability.

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Celo Proposes Transition To L2 OP Chain

The new L2 would be built on the OP Stack and would uses EigenDA for data availability.

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Arbitrum Launches Arbitrum Nova

A new L2 chain built on Arbitrum AnyTrust technology optimized for gaming and social applications.

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Circle Freezes USDC Amid Tornado Cash Sanctions

The sanction prohibits U.S. persons and entities from interacting with the protocol or any of the associated addresses.

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Uniswap Proposes Uniswap Foundation

The proposal seeks a $74 million budget and 2.5 million UNI tokens from the Uniswap DAO treasury.

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Arbitrum To Launch Nitro On August 31st

Nitro will introduce advanced Calldata compression that will reduce the amount of data sent to L1.

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Socket Launches Synthetix Bridge

The bridge allows users to zap into a synth asset from any non-synth asset in a single transaction.

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Magic Eden Expands To Ethereum

The largest Solana NFT marketplace now supports Ethereum NFTs as part of an effort to become a multi-chain platform.

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$150 Million Drained From Nomad Exploit

The exploit was tied to a flaw within the Replica smart contract code.

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Optimism Bedrock ZK-Rollup Compatible

Bedrock is agnostic to the type of Rollup proof used. It will be capable of using both an Optimistic and ZKP system.

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PoolTogether Goes Live On OP Mainnet

USDC depositors on OP Mainnet will receive a share of OP incentives in addition to the daily prize raffles.

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Synapse Protocol Announces Optimistic Rollup

Synapse is building the smart contract execution layer as part of its V2 upgrade that includes a generic cross-chain messaging system.

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ENS Domain Name Wrappers

A wrapper is a smart contract that wraps existing ENS second-level domains into ERC-1155 tokens.

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Ethereum Shadow Fork 10 Goes Live

A shadow fork is when the state of an existing network is mirrored onto a merged testnet

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Mirror Releases Wallet Based Subscriptions

Users can now subscribe to any publication by adding an email and signing a message with their Ethereum wallet

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ETH.LIMO Supports ENS Subdomains

It allows ENS subdomain holders to access their .eth domain over HTTPS.

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Curve To Launch Over-Collateralized Stablecoin

Michael Egorov acknowledged plans to launch an over-collateralized USD-pegged stablecoin.

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ENS.Vision Launches ENS Marketplace

The marketplace also aggregates domain listings from OpenSea, x2y2, and LooksRare.

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The Merge, Surge, Verge, Purge, Splurge

Vitalik Buterin presents the Ethereum roadmap and plans beyond The Merge.

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Superfluid Releases V2 Dashboard

The application allows users to automatically stream tokens to other wallets without having to execute repeating transactions.

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Scroll, Polygon, And zkSync Release zkEVMs

Three ZK Rollup initiatives are in competition to become the first ZK-EVM deployed on mainnet.

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Goerli Testnet Merge Set For August 10th

Goerli is expected to hit the difficulty bomb on August 10th

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Coinbase Adds Support For ENS Domains

Coinbase users can claim an alice.cb.id domain as their web3 username.

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Vitalik Releases Book On Proof Of Stake

The book is set to release on Tuesday, September 13th, the same week as The Merge.

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0x API Slippage Protection

The feature enables MEV-aware smart order routing for DEX trades.

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Ethereum Merge Scheduled For September

The Merge is a two-phase process, with the first phase, referred to as Bellatrix, occurring when the Beacon Chain reaches a certain epoch height

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Safe Raises $100 Million Funding Round

GnosisSafe has spun out from GnosisDAO and is now rebranded as Safe.

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Starkware Confirms Starknet Token Launch

The Starknet token will have a total supply of 10 billion with an ERC-20 version coming to Ethereum.

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Argent Integrates Layerswap On Argent X

Users can now use Layerswap to bridge funds from centralized exchanges.

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Arbitrum Nova Data Availability Chain

A new chain optimized for ultra-low-cost transactions by use of a data availability committee.