• Aave liquidates attacker's rsETH.

• Centrifuge launches deSPXA on Base.

• Validators consolidate 10m ETH.

• ArbitrumDAO rsETH recovery vote.

Aave executed a governance-authorized liquidation of rsETH collateral held by the April 18 KelpDAO attacker across Ethereum mainnet and Arbitrum V3, seizing approximately 89,567 rsETH. A temporary oracle adjustment forced the positions into a liquidatable state, collateral was swept to a recovery guardian multisig, and all configuration changes were fully reverted. No other users were affected. The recovered rsETH is being redeemed for ETH to clear the deficit across affected Aave markets, with full restoration of rsETH backing in its final stages. Read more →

Centrifuge launched deSPXA on Base, a tokenized version of the Anemoy S&P 500 fund managed by Janus Henderson and benchmarked by S&P Dow Jones Indices, bringing 24/7 on-chain exposure to the S&P 500 for eligible non-U.S. users. It is the first product under Centrifuge's deRWA framework, designed to make tokenized real-world assets composable with DeFi protocols. Coinbase named Centrifuge a preferred tokenization infrastructure partner. Read more →

Ethereum validators have consolidated over 10 million ETH, more than a quarter of all staked ETH, using 0x02 withdrawal credentials. Just 1.4% of validators, roughly 12,500 out of 897,000, now control this stake. The consolidation is enabled by MaxEB (EIP-7251), introduced in Pectra, which raised the maximum effective validator balance from 32 ETH to 2,048 ETH. Having fewer validator indices directly improves Ethereum's finality times. Read more →

• ArbitrumDAO rsETH recovery vote

• L2Beat interop pages

• Glamsterdam devnet 3

• Ethereum mainnet tx uptrend

• PQ tx signature breakout #7

• Aave analytics dashboard v2

• Katana $100k trading competition

• IRIS introduces origination layer

• ETHis partners with Use Case Lab

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• EIP-8250 Keyed Nonces.

• ACTA extension for ERC-8004.

• Kelp migrates rsETH to CCIP.

• a16z Crypto $2.2b fund.

Thiery, Wahrstätter, Lightclient, and Vitalik proposed replacing the single sender nonce in frame transactions with a keyed nonce system, where each key operates as an independent replay-protection domain. The change eliminates a throughput bottleneck for privacy protocols, routing multiple users through one shared address. Vitalik has framed it as a first step toward a broader state scaling strategy for Ethereum. EIP-8250 is targeted for the Hegota upgrade. Read more →

The Ethereum Foundation PSE team introduced ACTA, a privacy extension to ERC-8004 that uses zero-knowledge proofs to let AI agents prove claims about reputation, jurisdiction, model provenance, without revealing underlying data on-chain. It addresses five gaps in ERC-8004, including its permanent public interaction graph and lack of anonymous reputation feedback. Read more →

KelpDAO is migrating rsETH to Chainlink CCIP following the April 18 exploit. Kelp says that LayerZero's own infrastructure was the cause, not just a Kelp misconfiguration. Kelp added that it detected the breach itself before LayerZero. LayerZero CEO Bryan Pellegrino disputed the claim, citing onchain records showing Kelp manually switched to the vulnerable 1-1 DVN configuration. Read more →

• Ethrex v11.0.0 release

• Ethresearch: Native proof verification

• Gerstein Harrow replies to Aave

• Aave increases v4 caps

• Alchemix increases v3 caps

• a16z Crypto $2.2b fund

• Abritrum security council members

• Lido stVaults products overview

• Tydro pauses markets

• Coinbase cuts 14% of staff

• Ekubo suffers $1.4m exploit

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• Law firm files notice to ArbDAO.

• Aave files motion to vacate restraint.

• Core devs target 200M gas limit floor.

• Upbit launches GIWA Chain on OP Stack.

Gerstein Harrow LLP filed a restraining notice in SDNY against Arbitrum DAO, blocking the transfer of 30,766 ETH frozen from the KelpDAO exploit. The firm argues the funds are DPRK-linked property and can be seized to satisfy a decade-old default judgment for its clients. ZachXBT called the move "pure evil," noting Gerstein Harrow is the same firm behind the notorious PoolTogether lawsuit. Read more.

Aave LLC filed an emergency motion to vacate the SDNY notice, arguing that a thief does not gain legal title to stolen property, the ETH belongs to KelpDAO victims and downstream DeFi users. Aave is requesting Gerstein Harrow's clients to post a $300M bond if the notice stands. The DAO transfer to a recovery multisig could remain blocked pending the court's decision. Read more.

Ethereum core devs agreed to target a 200M gas limit floor after Glamsterdam, unlocked by ePBS, Block-Level Access Lists, and EIP-8037 state repricing. The decision came out of Soldøgn Interop, a week-long gathering of over 100 core contributors in Svalbard. Final figures will be confirmed on upcoming AllCoreDevs calls. Read more.

South Korea's largest crypto exchange Upbit announced GIWA Chain, its own Ethereum L2 built on the OP Stack via Optimism's self-managed OP Enterprise tier. Upbit will run its own sequencer and retain full control while the Optimism Foundation provides backup infrastructure. The testnet is live, with a mainnet launch to follow. Read more.

Researcher Toni Wahrstätter outlined how Frame Transactions (EIP-8141) could let privacy pools pay withdrawal fees directly from the withdrawn funds, removing the centralized relayer dependency that protocols like Tornado Cash rely on today. With targeted changes, privacy transactions could match the censorship resistance of ordinary Ethereum transactions. Read more.

• Bitmine stakes $4.3m ETH

• ETHis Munich on July 2nd

• Fe bug bounty program

• OpenZeppelin Risk Assessment

• Base to use Succinct SP1

• ENS celebrates 9 years

• LEND token migration

• Bryan Pellegrino comments on exploit

• Relay brings cross-chain to Peer

• L2Beat April Ecosystem Update

• SAFE staking rewards

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