• Polygon to launch payments platform.

• Jumper launches a portfolio manager.

• Staked ETH supply hits a new ATH.

• Lighter releases a mobile app.

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Polygon Labs announced plans to launch a regulated stablecoin payments platform in the U.S. following its upcoming acquisitions of Coinme, a fiat-to-crypto on- and off-ramp provider licensed in 48 states, and Sequence, an enterprise wallet and cross-chain infrastructure provider. The acquisitions form the Open Money Stack, a vertically integrated payments platform that combines regulated fiat access, wallet infrastructure, enterprise APIs, cross-chain payment orchestration, and stablecoin settlement on Polygon. The move turns Polygon Labs into a revenue-generating payments company.

Jumper, a bridge aggregation protocol, launched Jumper Earn and Jumper Portfolio, two new products designed to help users move, deploy, and manage capital across DeFi through a single user interface. Jumper Portfolio provides a unified view of assets and DeFi positions across multiple chains. Users can sort their assets by token or protocol. Jumper Earn identifies personalized yield opportunities based on a wallet's holdings, activity, and positions, drawing from 15 major DeFi protocols and more than 79 markets. Users can also use the Quick Deposit feature, powered by LI.FI's Composer, to deploy assets into liquidity pools or vaults directly from the Jumper interface.

The amount of ETH staked on Ethereum's Beacon Chain has reached a new record, now representing over 29% of the total ETH supply. According to data from Beaconcha.in, more than 35.9 million ETH is currently staked across 900,000 validators. An additional 2.3 million ETH is queued in the validator entry queue. Staked ETH plays a critical role in securing the Ethereum network by providing economic incentives for validators to propose, verify, and attest to valid blocks. Lido Finance remains the largest staking provider, holding a market share of 24% of all staked ETH on the Beacon Chain.

Lighter, an application-specific ZK rollup on Ethereum focused on trading, launched its mobile app on both iOS and Android. Users can now trade perpetuals, spot assets, RWAs, and pre-markets directly from their phones. Lighter is hosting a mobile-only trading competition starting January 15, featuring a 100,000 $LIT prize pool. Users must download the app in advance and complete most of their trading on mobile to be eligible. Lighter is the leading chain in the Ethereum ecosystem by throughput, processing around 3,000 TPS over the past day. The trading platform has surpassed $1 billion in TVL and more than $1.3 trillion in all-time perpetuals trading volume.

• Geth v1.16.8 released

• Nethermind v1.36.0 release

• Ethereum hits 2.3m daily txs

• Optimism hits 920m all-time txs

• Obol to prioritize PoL

• Zerion introduces Zerion Feed

• Roman Storm 101 support letters

• Sen Lummis supports Clarity Act

• Four EIPs slated for Glamsterdam

• EF New Media team introduced

• ETHGas introduces $GWEI

• Coingecko exploring acquisition

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• ZKsync releases 2026 roadmap.

• Taiko introduces TaikoProofs.

• Ethereum must pass the walkaway test.

• Bitmine stakes 1.25 million ETH.

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ZKsync released its 2026 roadmap, shifting focus from building core infrastructure and tools to supporting large-scale, real-world adoption. In 2025, ZKsync delivered the Atlas high-performance upgrade, privacy execution with Prividium, the Airbender zkVM, and the institution-focused ADI Chain. In 2026, ZKsync aims to seamlessly integrate Prividiums with existing enterprise workflows. The network will also focus on orchestrating public and private ZK Stack chains with native cross-chain composability and shared liquidity, without relying on external bridges. Lastly, Airbender will undergo deeper audits and formal verification to support broader adoption beyond the ZKsync ecosystem.

Taiko, an EVM-equivalent ZK-Rollup, introduced TaikoProofs, a new transparency dashboard to show real-time ZK proof performance for its based rollup. The dashboard tracks ZK Coverage, which shows which batches have ZK proofs, proof times, and any operational gaps, and Proof Latency, measured by how quickly proofs are generated, verified, and batches are finalized. It tracks which prover and execution stack is used for each batch, including configurations based on Succinct's SP1 zkVM, Intel SGX, and RISC Zero's zkVM.

Vitalik Buterin argues that Ethereum must pass the "walkaway test," meaning the network should remain usable and secure without relying on any single vendor or ongoing development for maintenance. The goal is to build Ethereum into a system that can safely run for decades with minimal dependence on future protocol changes. To reach the point of ossification, Vitalik says Ethereum must achieve full quantum resistance, a scalable architecture, a sustainable state model, a general-purpose account system, a gas schedule resistant to DoS attacks, a decentralized PoS economic model, and a censorship-resistant block-building process.

Bitmine Immersion Technologies (BMNR) has staked 1.25 million ETH, valued at $3.9 billion, accounting for 30% of its total ETH treasury holdings. The company staked 596,864 ETH just in the past week. Overall, Bitmine owns 4.16 million ETH, equivalent to 3.45% of the total ETH supply. In addition, Bitmine holds $23 million in Eightco Holdings (ORBS), which maintains a WLD token treasury. Chairman Tom Lee is encouraging BMNR shareholders to vote YES on a proposal to increase authorized shares, which would allow the company to continue its aggressive ETH accumulation strategy.

• Geth v1.16.8 security release

• Proving Day ZKID recordings

• Human verification on Linea

• Michael steps down from Euler

• Powell comments on DOJ threat

• X announces smart tickers

• $454m weekly DAT outflows

• Tempo launches mainnet explorer

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• ethPandaOps 2026 roadmap.

• ArbOS Dia upgrade goes live.

• Truebit suffers $26m exploit.

• Ondo expands onchain equities.

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ethPandaOps, the Ethereum DevOps team that tests protocol upgrades, released its 2026 roadmap focused on scaling, data visibility, upgrade pipelines, zkVM testing integration, and network hardening. In 2026, ethPandaOps will help Ethereum securely ship the Glamsterdam and Hegota protocol upgrades. Other priorities include maintaining critical tooling, improving benchmarking frameworks, working on Partial Cell Proofs, and expanding its open-source Xatu data pipeline to support broader execution, state, and L2 insights. The team will also enhance its Protocol Visualization Platform with execution layer views, state analysis, and data availability monitoring.

Arbitrum activated the ArbOS Dia upgrade, a major update to its tech stack that introduces support for Fusaka EIPs and enhances the overall user experience. The upgrade improves gas fee stability, making pricing smoother and more predictable during periods of high demand, with fewer spikes and delays. The upgrade also supports passkeys, biometrics, device-secured keys, and enterprise-grade authentication methods powered by the new EIP-7951, which brings native secp256r1 (P-256) signature verification. ArbOS Dia also supports a wider range of native gas tokens with improved cross-chain compatibility for Custom Arbitrum chains.

Truebit Protocol, an Ethereum-based verification layer, suffered a smart contract exploit that resulted in the loss of 8,535 ETH, worth approximately $26 million. The attacker exploited an integer overflow vulnerability in the Truebit Protocol Purchase contract, which was deployed in 2021. The attacker was able to mint an excessive number of TRU tokens at nearly zero cost, which were then redeemed for the ETH held in the contract. Following the incident, the price of TRU plummeted by more than 99%. Truebit advised users to avoid interacting with the affected contract until further notice and stated that it is actively working to trace the stolen funds.

Ondo Finance expanded its Ondo Global Markets platform on Ethereum with 98 new tokenized stocks and ETFs across AI, tech, metals, finance, EV, oil, and large caps. The platform provides access to U.S. equities and ETFs backed by assets held with U.S.-registered custodians, enabling 24/7 transfers, full transferability, 24/5 minting and redemption, and liquidity sourced from traditional financial markets.

• Ethereal news weekly #6

• ACDC #172 minutes

• Polygon tx activity surges

• Cork Phoenix goes live

• Sky hits $10b supply

• BitMine appoints CFO

• Roman Storm letter of support

• OpenZeppelin x Linux Foundation

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