MegaETH Live On Mainnet
Alongside the public mainnet launch, MegaETH introduced Rabbithole, an all-in-one frontend for interacting with the MegaETH ecosystem.
MegaETH live on public mainnet.
Base App removes Talk feed.
Slice introduces ERC-8128.
ZKsync ZK staking pilot.
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MegaETH launched its real-time, performance-focused blockchain built on Ethereum to public mainnet. Alongside the launch, MegaETH introduced Rabbithole, an all-in-one frontend for discovering and interacting with the MegaETH ecosystem. Rabbithole enables natural-language app discovery and asset management. MegaETH also integrated support for ERC-8004, enabling onchain registries for agentic service discovery and reputation. Powered by MegaEVM, its high-performance, EVM-compatible virtual machine, MegaETH delivers higher gas limits, real-time execution, sub-cent transaction fees, and native $USDM payments.
The Base App, the non-custodial wallet formerly known as Coinbase Wallet, announced it is removing its Farcaster-powered "Talk" feed as it refocuses the app on trading. Coinbase is also sunsetting its Base Creator Rewards program. The Base App will now feature a trading-first feed focused exclusively on tradable assets. Base contributor Jesse Pollak stated that the app was never intended to be a full-fledged Farcaster client, and that removing social content allows the team to fully commit to building the best onchain trading experience. Farcaster users are urged to return to the Farcaster client.
Slice, an Ethereum commerce infrastructure provider, introduced ERC-8128, a standard for signing HTTP requests with Ethereum accounts instead of traditional credentials like API keys or session tokens. It aims to enable stateless, secure web authentication without relying on shared secrets. With ERC-8128, each request is cryptographically signed by the sender's Ethereum account, binding identity and intent directly to the request content. The approach strengthens security and protects against credential leaks and replay attacks. Services can leverage ERC-8128 to verify identity, confirm eligibility, and accept payments.
ZKsync launched its staking pilot program that rewards ZK token holders who stake their tokens and delegate to an active governance delegate. Built on Tally's delegate-to-stake infrastructure, the program aims to boost delegated ZK and active voting power. Season 1 runs for three months, with rewards targeting ~3% APR and adjustable up to a 10% maximum based on participation levels. A broader rollout will follow in Season 2.
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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.
Vitalik's solution for hyper-scaling state.
EF PhD fellowship program.
ENS Explorer alpha release
Blockscout Tor-native explorer.
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The price of ETH is down over 12% in the last 24 hours, reaching a low of $1,740. The crypto market cap is currently $2.3 trillion, following a major market sell-off.
Vitalik Buterin proposed a barbell approach to hyper-scaling Ethereum state. The solution keeps existing state fully backwards-compatible but increasingly expensive, while introducing new, opt-in tiered state types that are cheaper and more restrictive, designed for scale. Buterin highlights state growth as a major bottleneck. He notes that even if full nodes don't need full state, builders do, making multi-terabyte state a permission and centralization risk. Alternatives like statelessness come with severe bandwidth and infrastructure costs, while state expiry is hard to make backwards-compatible. The proposed path would allow most high-volume states to move to scalable tiers, while preserving Ethereum's developer-friendly model for core contracts and accounts.
The Ethereum Foundation launched the 2026 PhD Fellowship Program, a new initiative supporting Ethereum-related academic research led by current PhD students across Economics, Political Science, Business, Public Policy, Computer Science, and Urban Planning. The program will award 7 to 8 fellowships, each providing up to $24,000 USD in stipends over a one year period. Priority research themes include decentralized economic models, Ethereum-enabled SME operations, and programmable institutional design. Eligible projects must produce formal academic research and be published as open-access work under a permissive license. Applications are now open to current PhD students through April 1, 2026.
ENS introduced the ENS Explorer Alpha, a transparency tool designed to provide deep visibility into the ENS protocol, now live on testnet. The ENS Explorer serves as the primary source of truth for ENS, offering native ENSv2 support, role and permission management, registries, resolvers, subnames, and full historical event data. Designed to operate independently of ENS Labs infrastructure, the explorer can read data directly from Ethereum and IPFS. The ENS Explorer is still in active development with ongoing feature and UI updates based on user feedback. Power users and developers can access the explorer at explorer.ens.dev.
Blockscout, a blockchain explorer provider, launched a Tor-native Ethereum block explorer, allowing users to browse and verify transaction data using the privacy-preserving Tor browser. The Tor-native .onion service offers a clean, minimal interface and removes tracking-heavy features, enabling block exploration without revealing location or creating a behavioral trail.
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Fidelity Digital Dollar Live On Ethereum
Fidelity Digital Assets launched its Fidelity Digital Dollar on Ethereum, a U.S. dollar–pegged stablecoin.
FIDD is live on Ethereum.
Payy Network private L2.
ENS App Alpha release.
Giveth recovers 57 ETH.
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Fidelity Digital Assets launched its Fidelity Digital Dollar on Ethereum, a U.S. dollar–pegged stablecoin, redeemable 1:1 for USD through Fidelity platforms. FIDD already has a market cap of $60 million. The stablecoin targets both retail and institutional investors.
Payy, a stablecoin-focused protocol, introduced Payy Network, a privacy-first, EVM-compatible L2 built for stablecoin payments. Payy Network enables private ERC-20 transfers by default, with no changes required to existing wallets or smart contracts. It leverages chain-native privacy pools that hold ERC-20 tokens, allowing transfers to occur privately within the pool. Privacy Vaults manage the transaction data offchain. Payy Network also supports stealth transactions, where one-time addresses ensure the sender and receiver remain unlinked. Payy Network uses a native ZK precompile, enabling low-cost, high-performance privacy apps. Payy Network is currently live in mainnet beta.
ENS launched the ENS App Alpha release on the Sepolia testnet, a redesign of its web app for registering and managing ENS domain names. The alpha focuses on simplifying the registration experience while remaining self-custodial. It is built on ENSv2, a major upgrade that brings a new registry, new smart contracts, new applications, and the Namechain L2. The new app replaces the previous multi-transaction registration process with a streamlined one-step flow. Users can sign up for Telegram and email notifications for name expiration reminders, sign in using Web2 login methods, and pay with stablecoins. Swaps and cross-chain interactions are abstracted. Existing users used the dashboard to manage names, explore new ENS use cases, and share feedback with ENS.
Cap, an Ethereum stablecoin protocol, announced its Stabledrop for early users, allocating $12 million in cUSD to approximately 19,000 participants of its Frontier program, which helped bootstrap its insured yield product. Cap is currently running its Homestead campaign, which continues to issue points, while details around the Stabledrop claim process will be announced separately. Cap allows users to mint its cUSD stablecoin using USDC and USDT as collateral.
Giveth, a platform for funding public goods, has successfully recovered 57.8 ETH, worth $123,000, that had been sitting in an insecure TheDAO smart contract for the past 10 years. The recovery was carried out by Sam, Jordi Baylina, and Griff Green. The unclaimed ETH will be donated to the TheDAO Security Fund, a new collective dedicated to supporting Ethereum security initiatives.
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ERC-8004 live on Gnosis Chain
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