MSCI Retains DATs In Index
The stock index provider announced that it will retain Digital Asset Treasury (DAT) companies in its Global Standard Indexes.
MSCI retains DATs in its index.
FOCIL readiness for Hegotá.
Horizon market hits $600m TVL
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Stock index provider MSCI announced that it will retain Digital Asset Treasury (DAT) companies in its Global Standard Indexes during the February 2026 review, reversing previous considerations to exclude firms with digital holdings exceeding 50% of their total assets. The decision ensures that current firms remain in the index, while also maintaining eligibility for non-constituents like BitMine to be included under existing criteria in the future. Following the move, the S&P subsequently approved MicroStrategy’s application for inclusion in the S&P 500 index.
Ethereum researcher Soispoke.eth published a forum post outlining Fork-Choice Enforced Inclusion Lists (FOCIL) EIP-7805’s readiness for inclusion in Hegotá, which is the upgrade after Glamsterdam. FOCIL improves censorship resistance by allowing multiple validators to enforce the inclusion of any transaction valid under protocol rules, ensuring that no single block builder can exclude them. FOCIL benefits users by ensuring the timely inclusion of transactions. FOCIL was declined in Glamsterdam. According to Soispoke.eth, both specifications and prototypes are ready to be integrated once available. The specifications have been peer-reviewed, with 8 out of 11 Ethereum clients having already implemented prototypes.
Horizon, a lending market for tokenized real-world assets (RWAs) on Ethereum, has surpassed $600 million in Total Value Locked (TVL) with $200 million in active borrows. Developed by Aave Labs and built on Aave v3.3, the platform enables qualified institutions to access stablecoin loans gainst RWA collateral. Horizon supports U.S. Treasuries, CLOs, and Money Market Funds, including Superstate’s USTB/USCC and Centrifuge’s JRTSY/JAAA.
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Ethereum Validator Exit Queue Clears
The Ethereum validator exit queue has cleared, with exit wait times dropping to near-zero.
Validator exit queue clears.
Grayscale issues ETHE dividend.
Vitalik says trilemma is solved.
Ledger commerce data leak.
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The Ethereum validator exit queue has cleared, with exit wait times dropping to near-zero. Data from validatorqueue.com indicates that the exit queue is now virtually empty, allowing validators to leave the beacon chain in less than a minute. The drop represents a reversal since July 2025, when a surge in withdrawals consistently outpaced new deposits. Over 1 million ETH are currently waiting to enter the beacon chain, resulting in an estimated entry wait time of 20 days. The queue comes from a protocol-level cap on the number of deposits and withdrawals that can be processed per slot. Over 35 million ETH, representing 29% of the total supply, is staked on Ethereum.
Grayscale Investments announced a dividend distribution for shareholders of its Grayscale Ethereum Staking ETF (ETHE), making it the first spot crypto exchange-traded product in the U.S. to issue staking rewards directly to holders. This payout comes from the sale of staking rewards accumulated by the fund between October 6 and December 31, 2025. A dividend of $0.083178 per share will be distributed on January 6, 2026, based on holdings as of January 5, 2026. The Grayscale Ethereum Staking ETF has grown to hold over 1 million ETH since its initial launch in July 2024.
Ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin says the blockchain trilemma is now solved through the combination of PeerDAS and ZK-EVMs. While Ethereum has long been secure and decentralized, it lacked the scalability to reach high bandwidth. Buterin notes that the trilemma is solved with PeerDAS live on mainnet and ZK-EVMs reaching production-ready performance this year. He says the milestone comes after a decade of research. Buterin laid out a four-year timeline to realize Ethereum as a high-bandwidth distributed network, which includes gas limit increases and the debut of ZK-EVM nodes in 2026 and ZK-EVMs becoming the primary method for block validation by the year 2030.
Ledger disclosed a security incident at its third-party payment processor and merchant-of-record, Global-e. Email notifications informed some customers that a data breach on Global-e's systems exposed names, contact information, and possibly order details. Ledger warned of increased phishing attempts from the leaked data and urged users to remain vigilant, ignore unsolicited messages, and never share their 24-word recovery phrase. In 2020, Ledger suffered a large-scale data breach affecting nearly 300,000 users, fueling years of phishing, scams, extortion, and physical threats.
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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.
Aave Labs to share revenue with DAO.
Shade Network introduces private L2.
Vitalik on Ethereum’s mission.
Nethermind on architecting Ethereum.
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Aave founder Stani Kulechov published a strategic outlook for the protocol, proposing a long-term vision for scaling Aave into a global financial infrastructure focused on supporting real-world assets (RWAs), institutional lending, and consumer financial products. Kulechov calls for an aggressive roadmap following the Aave V4 launch, positioning the GHO stablecoin as a central point for new yield sources and serving as a universal savings account. Notably, Kulechov said Aave Labs is committed to sharing revenue generated from external products with AAVE token holders. A formal proposal is expected soon to detail the specific structure.
Shade Network introduced its private Layer-2 network, featuring a private execution layer aiming to support the full stack for agents, protocols, users, and institutions. Shade Network features an encrypted mempool to prevent front-running and single-use stealth addresses to help break wallet linkability. The network’s private execution layer enables smart contracts to function as "black boxes" where strategies and balances remain encrypted. Lastly, the network features ZK-Verified Settlement powered by ZK proofs to confirm transaction validity and state accuracy without revealing any underlying data.
Welcoming the new year, Ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin reaffirmed Ethereum’s core mission to build a "world computer" that serves as the infrastructure for a free and open internet. He emphasized the urgent need to develop decentralized applications that are robust, permissionless, and immutable, properties that allow them to remain operational even if their original providers disappear. He argues that for Ethereum to succeed, it must be both usable at scale and actually decentralized across both the blockchain and application layers. By comparing modern software to the independent nature of past physical goods like books and cars, he framed Ethereum as a rebellion against the current trend of permanent dependence on centralized overlords.
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