• Gnosis executes hard fork.

• Devcon 8 venue announced.

• Growthepie adds Polygon PoS.

• Cap hits $400m TVL.

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Gnosis Chain executed a hard fork to recover approximately $9 million in assets stolen from Balancer v2 on Gnosis Chain during the Balancer exploit in early November. The funds have been successfully transferred into a DAO-controlled wallet. Gnosis Chain is working on returning the recovered assets to affected users. Gnosis node operators must update their clients and follow the fork to avoid penalties. The exploit impacted Balancer V2 Composable Stable Pools and Balancer V2 forks across multiple chains, resulting in over $110 million in stolen assets.

The Ethereum Foundation announced that Devcon 8 will be held at the JIO World Convention Centre in Mumbai, India, from November 3 to 6, 2026. As the world’s largest gathering of Ethereum developers, the event will feature a mix of deep technical sessions, newcomer programming, community hubs, and cultural installations. To maintain a focus on the main event, organizers are urging ecosystem teams to schedule side events before or after Devcon 8. The conference concludes just before Diwali, a major festival of lights celebrated throughout the country.

Growthepie integrated support for Polygon PoS into its Ethereum ecosystem analytics tracker. Polygon now has a dedicated chain page on Growthepie where users can track real-time TPS, network activity, and economic data. With over $3.3 billion in bridged TVL, including $2.2 billion in stablecoins, Polygon ranks as the ninth-largest chain by total value bridged. Detailed application-level metrics for builders will also be added to the dashboard.

• Vitalik on contract size limit

• Cap hits $400m TVL

• EURC hits 300m mcap

• Rainbow adds prediction markets

• ETH Strategy dashboard

• Aave debate context

• Potuz: How I got into Ethereum

• Value of digital trust dividend

• Internet’s blueprint of Ethereum

• Espresso ESP registration

• Uniswap FND $700k salary

• ETHZilla sells 24k ETH

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• Hegotá upgrade timeline.

• Fileverse Social ZKovery.

• L2Beat outlines EIL.

• First based-appchain on Celo.

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The Ethereum Foundation outlined the tentative timeline for Hegotá, the second Ethereum upgrade in 2026, following Glamsterdam. The proposal period for Headliner EIPs, which provide flagship features that define the upgrade's scope, will open January 8, 2026. There is typically only one headliner EIP per layer. Core developers will discuss Headliner EIP candidates starting with the February 5th ACD call, aiming for a final selection by February 26th. Then, a 30-day window will follow for non-headliner EIPs. FOCIL (EIP-7805), a censorship-resistance feature deferred from Glamsterdam, is already considered for inclusion in Hegotá.

Fileverse, an onchain file-sharing platform, introduced Social ZKovery, a new account recovery mechanism. Social ZKovery is privacy-enhancing and serverless, leveraging Zero-Knowledge (ZK) proofs and smart contracts, to allow users to regain access to their Fileverse account. To set it up, users add two trusted individuals to their recovery set; in the event of lost access, both individuals must act to initiate the recovery. The feature is now live across dDocs and dSheets products.

L2Beat outlined the Ethereum Interop Layer (EIL), a proposal designed to unify Ethereum’s L2 ecosystem into a single, cohesive user experience. By making the user the primary executor of transactions, the EIL design prioritizes security and eliminates the need for trusted intermediaries like the solvers and relayers. The EIL provides greater censorship resistance, improved liveness, and overall safety. It also introduces cross-chain Liquidity Providers (XLPs), which replace traditional relayers by supplying liquidity directly to destination smart contracts. L2BEAT is developing its new interoperability risk framework, noting that the EIL may be one of the first designs likely to achieve a perfect safety rating.

Spire Labs, cLabs, and Self Protocol introduced The Human Appchain on Celo, a synchronous composability appchain that allows applications to verify human identity natively. Synchronous composability enables apps to instantly view and interact with shared data during a single transaction, removing the need for multiple steps. A demo is now live, allowing users to mint a commemorative Human NFT verifying their identity. The Human App aims to serve as an identity layer, unlocking bot-resistant experiences for airdrops, DeFi, and stablecoins. The app leverages Spire’s Pylon platform and Self Protocol’s Proof of Humanity protocol.

• Status opens pre-deposits

• ZERϴ Network chain halt

• SWIFT onchain infra progress

• BitMine adds 99k ETH

• One-click DeFi vaults

• Neox goes live on Optimism

• Security tactics to implement

• Coinbase to acquire Clearing Co

• 2025 TGE bloodbath

• Introducing gov/acc

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• UNIfication onchain vote goes live.

• EF prioritizes L1 zkEVM security.

• Coalition defending stablecoin rewards.

• Shutter proposes EIP-8105.

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Uniswap's UNIfication proposal, which introduces the protocol fee switch and a UNI burn mechanism, is now live for an onchain vote on Agora. The voting window closes in six days on December 25th. If the proposal passes, it will execute the proposal following a two-day timelock. Once triggered, the execution will activate eight key actions, including an immediate 100 million UNI token burn, the activation of protocol fees for Uniswap v2 and v3, and the approval of a 40 million UNI growth budget for the next two years. The proposal also moves Foundation staff to Uniswap Labs and eliminates the current Uniswap interface fee.

The EF zkEVM team published a blog post outlining a shift in L1 zkEVM development, transitioning focus to long-term cryptographic security. Having already achieved real-time proving, the foundation now aims to establish a "mainnet-grade" security. By securing the L1 zkEVM layer, Ethereum can safely increase the gas limit and support native zk-rollups while maintaining censorship resistance. By the Glamsterdam upgrade, slated for May 2026, the target is 100-bit provable security and a 600 KiB proof size limit. The Foundation is pushing to achieve 128-bit provable security with proofs compressed to 300 KiB by the Hegotá upgrade.

The Blockchain Association and a coalition of 125+ industry leaders, including Gemini, Coinbase, PayPal, and Uniswap, sent a letter to Congress to defend the GENIUS Act against new lobbying efforts by the banking industry. The coalition argues that the Act’s current structure, which allows third-party platforms to offer rewards, was a deliberate bipartisan compromise, not a "loophole." The letter asserts that the rewards are essential for competition, allowing consumers to capture yields that banks currently keep as profit. It also cites independent research to debunk bank claims that stablecoin rewards threaten community bank deposits, warning that reopening the law now would stifle innovation and create uncertainty.

Shutter Network introduced EIP-8105, a proposal for a native Universal Enshrined Encrypted Mempool aimed to protect users against malicious MEV at the protocol level. The implementation introduces a new transaction type that keeps transaction details hidden from block builders and bots until ordering is finalized. It also features a neutral onchain registry for Key Providers and a fast sub-slot mechanism to ensure decryption doesn't delay block production. Proposed for activation in the Hegotá upgrade, EIP-8105 brings an in-protocol solution that protects Ethereum users by default.

• Prysm v7.1.1 release

• ZisK v0.15.0 release

• Solidity v0.8.33 release

• Vitalik comments on walled gardens

• MEV supply chain retrospective

• Synthetix live on Ethereum L1

• Aragon Token Ownership Index

• Farcaster adds USDC lending

• Valuing Ethereum as a public good

• Ethproofs Day March 2026

• Lido turns 5

• Coinbase impersonator arrested

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