• BitMine now holds over 1.5m ETH.

• BTCS issues an Ethereum-based dividend.

• ERC-8004 trustless AI Agent standard.

• ETHZilla rebrands its ticker to ETHZ.

BitMine Immersion Technologies Inc., the world’s largest corporate holder of Ethereum, announced it now holds 1.52 million ETH valued at $6.1 billion. The figure represents a $1.7 billion increase in just one week, after adding roughly 500,000 ETH to its treasury. With the milestone, BitMine ranks as the second-largest crypto treasury overall, trailing only behind MicroStrategy The company’s strategy centers on growing ETH per share by generating yield through staking and other initiatives. Launched on June 30, BitMine’s Ethereum reserve strategy has the ambitious goal of securing 5% of the total ETH supply in circulation, which is $26 billion at current prices.

BTCS Inc., a blockchain infrastructure services provider and Ethereum treasury company, announced plans to issue an Ethereum-based dividend to shareholders, branded as the “Bividend.” BTCS marks the first publicly traded company to distribute dividends in cryptocurrency. All shareholders will receive a one-time payout of $0.05 per share in ETH. Shareholders who transfer their shares to book entry with the company’s transfer agent and hold them until January 26, 2026, will earn an extra $0.35 per share in ETH. The program aims to reward long-term investors and reduce short-selling. BTCS currently holds an ETH treasury of 70k ETH, valued at $300 million.

Ethereum protocol developer Davide Crapis introduced ERC-8004, a standard that extends the Agent-to-Agent (A2A) protocol by adding a trust layer that allows discovery and interaction with AI agents across organizational boundaries. The standard proposes three onohain registries, Identity, Reputation, and Validation, while leaving complex scoring, aggregation, and incentives to offchain infrastructure. A2A currently operates within trusted organizational boundaries. ERC-8004 aims to support an open, cross-organizational AI agent economy by providing a unified interface and tiered trust models suited to different levels of risk. The ERC is currently in a draft phase and open for community feedback.

ETHZilla, a life sciences company turned ETH treasury company, has rebranded its Nasdaq-listed stock ticker from ATNF to ETHZ. The company has as accumulated an ETH treasury of 94,675 ETH at an average price of $3,902.20, currently worth about $419 million. The company also holds $187 million in USD cash equivalents, available for future ETH purchases. ETHZilla Corporation currently ranks 10th among public ETH treasury companies.

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• Ronin to transition into L2.

• Sign-In with Ethereum is final.

• Base plans to integrate ENSIP-19.

• EF Reddit AMA on 29th August.

The 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. According to Axie Infinity co-founder Jiho, the move is driven by the Ethereum Foundation’s new leadership, growing institutional momentum, lower operational costs through alternative data availability solutions, and Ethereum’s decentralization. As part of the transition, Ronin will expand beyond gaming into a multi-purpose chain, offering up to 12x faster transactions than its current network. The upgrade will also introduce a revamped $RON staking model that rewards active builders. Ronin expects to complete its transition to an Ethereum-aligned L2 by Q2 2026.

Sign-In with Ethereum (SIWE) EIP-4361 now has a new website, updated documentation, and an official X account. Users can visit siwe.xyz to view wallets, apps, and protocols that have integrated the standard as well as extensive documentation. SIWE is a standard for authenticating with Ethereum accounts. It enables users to sign into an app by signing a message with their Ethereum wallet. It also works with ENS and EFP, and can be used by both crypto and non-crypto applications. Last week, EIP-4361 moved to final status after being in a review and last call phase since 2022.

Base announced plans to integrate ENSIP-19, a new ENS standard that enables setting and resolving primary names on L2s via new L2ReverseRegistrar contracts. The upgrade means any ENS-compatible app will be able to resolve Basenames. Once live, a Basename can serve as a primary name across Ethereum L1 and multiple L2s. Previously, Basenames primary names on L2s required costly L1 transactions and custom lookup flows, limiting portability and interoperability. Base will automatically migrate data for more than 750,000 users from legacy resolvers to ENSIP-19–compliant contracts. The migration process is designed to be initially backwards-compatible so existing integrations continue to work during the transition, with legacy data paths later deprecated to save gas. The rollout is targeted for early September 2025.

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• Fed ends bank scrutiny of crypto

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• BALs EIP-7928 set for Glamsterdam.

• Gemini launches a smart wallet.

• Unichain activates Flashblocks.

• Puffer launches UniFi V2 testnet.

Ethereum core developers agreed to include Block-level Access Lists (BALs) EIP-7928 in the Glamsterdam upgrade, making it the second headliner proposal for the fork. BALs define in advance which accounts and storage slots will be touched by a block’s transactions, enabling validators to parallelize disk reads. Last week, developers confirmed the inclusion of ePBS EIP-7732 in Glamsterdam. Fork-choice enforced Inclusion Lists (FOCIL) EIP-7805 remains under consideration and may be added as the third headliner proposal in the future. Developers also denied the inclusion of the six-second slot times EIP-7782 in Glamsterdam.

Cryptocurrency exchange Gemini launched Gemini Wallet, a self-custody smart wallet that works as both an embedded and portable wallet. Built on ERC-7579 modular accounts and powered by passkeys for a seedless experience, it features sponsored gas fees, free gemini.eth ENS subdomains, and seamless connection to Gemini exchange accounts. Users can also recover accounts by entering their ENS subname to resolve the wallet address, then authenticating via social login or a linked EOA. Gemini also introduced the Gemini Onchain Dashboard, a DeFi hub for tracking holdings, trading tokens, and accessing DeFi opportunities. Integrations include Morpho for Gauntlet vaults and Bungee for cross-chain swaps.

Unichain launched Flashblocks, enabling 200 millisecond transaction confirmations on its chain. Built by Uniswap Labs and Flashbots, Flashblocks run inside Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs), combining sub-second speed with provable, fee-based transaction ordering for fairness and transparency. Instead of waiting for full blocks, Unichain streams and confirms 200ms sub-blocks, reducing slippage, keeping prices fresh, and improving execution accuracy for swappers. Liquidity providers benefit from smaller stale-price windows, the ability to rebalance more often at under-a-cent gas costs, and potentially ~20% higher adjusted returns compared to Ethereum mainnet. Flashblocks are live on Unichain, supported in Uniswap’s Web App, Wallet, Matcha, Odos, OKX, and Zerion.

Puffer Finance launched UniFi V2 on testnet, the latest iteration of its Layer 2 based rollup stack. UniFi V2 currently features multi-TEE, real-time proving, sub-10 ms preconfirmations via the UniFi AVS Gateway Registry on EigenLayer, and governance-optional based rollups with customizable fee markets. Future updates will introduce zero-knowledge proving as a fallback, fully decentralized proposer-delegated sequencing, and a combined ZK + TEE proving model for trustless, real-time finality, allowing UniFi to evolve into a native rollup.

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