• Ethereum upgrade named Hegotá.

• EigenLayer proposes Incentive Council.

• Sponsor an Ethereum core dev.

• SoFi launches SoFiUSD on Ethereum.

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During ACDE call #226, Ethereum developers officially named the H* Ethereum upgrade following Glamsterdam as Hegotá. The name combines the Execution Layer's Bogotoa upgrade, named after a Devcon host city, and the Consensus Layer’s Heze upgrade, named after a star. The headliner EIP for Hegotá will be chosen in February. There will be no ACD calls taking place over the next two weeks. Developers aim to finalize the scope for Glamsterdam by January 5th, when ACD calls resume.

The EigenFoundation published ELIP-012, a proposal to create an Incentive Council designed to transition from a programmatic rewards system to a flexible value-driven framework. Operating under the oversight of the Protocol Council, the new council will have the authority to adjust incentive allocations in weeks rather than months. The proposal redirects rewards from idle stake toward productive stake. The incentives will prioritize assets that are actively securing services through slashable or redistributable positions. The proposal introduces significant revenue-capture mechanisms with proceeds allocated to a fee contract intended for token buybacks.

The Protocol Guild, a collective supporting Ethereum core protocol contributors, introduced Sponsor a Core Dev, a new initiative that allows corporations, DAOs, and individuals to directly fund core developers to close a $160,000 annual compensation gap. Sponsors receive recognition through leaderboards and public visibility.. Sponsorships start at $160k and can be made using tokens, ETH, or stablecoins, which will be vested over one year to a curated pool of audited members. While this program focuses on direct gaps, the Protocol Guild still recommends the 1% Pledge for projects launching new tokens.

Fintech firm SoFi Technologies launched SoFiUSD, its native U.S. dollar stablecoin on Ethereum. SoFi is positioning itself as a stablecoin infrastructure provider, with the asset issued by its nationally chartered bank, SoFi Bank, N.A. While currently used for internal settlements, SoFiUSD will soon be available to SoFi members and enterprise partners. The launch makes SoFi the first nationally chartered retail bank to issue a stablecoin on Ethereum.

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• Nimbus v25.12.0 release

• JPMD migrates to Base

• Scroll activities Galileo

• 8004 roadmap to mainnet

• MegaETH is open to builders

• ETHGas Foundation introduced

• RAI dollar introduced

• Coinbase gaming board lawsuits

• Crypto GTM guide

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• Base App opens for everyone.

• Coinbase Custom Stablecoins.

• Future of Ethereum’s state.

• Fed withdraws 2023 policy.

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During the Coinbase System Update livestream, Coinbase launched the Base App for all users, providing global access to its social-focused onchain app. Now available in over 140 countries, the app integrates a non-custodial wallet with secure XMTP messaging and an onchain discovery feed powered by the Farcaster social graph. The launch opens the app to over 1.5 million users who had been on the waitlist. Coinbase is hosting a holiday rewards program that offers up to $2 million in incentives for successful Base App referrals. The program concludes on December 2nd.

Coinbase launched Custom Stablecoins, a new service that enables companies to issue their own branded stablecoins. The custom stablecoins are backed 1:1 by a flexible mix of USD-pegged stablecoins, primarily USDC, rather than direct fiat cash holdings. Collateral is custodied through Coinbase's infrastructure. The Custom Stablecoins launch was part of several major announcements, including U.S. stock trading, prediction markets through a Kalshi integration, perpetual futures trading, and tokenization tools for real-world assets, aimed at establishing Coinbase as an everything exchange.

The Ethereum Foundation’s Stateless Consensus team outlined the challenges of "state bloat," where the ever-expanding record of transactions demands higher requirements for node operators. While statelessness allows validators to verify blocks without storing the full state, it shifts data history to a small group of actors. The team proposes three paths: State Expiry to remove inactive data, State Archive to separate "hot" and "cold" data for stable performance, and Partial Statelessness to let nodes store only specific subsets of the state. The team is currently prioritizing low-risk initiatives like archive development, RPC infrastructure enhancements, and collaborative stress-testing.

The Federal Reserve has withdrawn a 2023 policy that restricted state member banks to the same activities as national banks, a rule that previously limited the ability of uninsured banks to engage in activities like crypto. According to Eleanor Terrett, the old policy effectively blocked uninsured banks from becoming Fed members and engaging in crypto. Citing the need to evolve with modern banking, the Board issued a new policy that creates a clear path for both insured and uninsured state member banks to pursue responsible innovation.

• Wonderland is hiring engineers

• ETHGas raises $12m seed

• Privacy Poools live on Arbitrum

• Coinbase product announcements

• Vitalik on network states

• Sophia Gold leaves EF

• Deep funding feedback requested

• Polygon experiences chain issues

• Polygon acquires Boys Club

• ENS guide to dwebsites

• SEC clarifies broker-dealer

• FDIC framework for banks

• Tom Lee buys $140m ETH

• Tempo introduces txs

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• EigenDA achieves 1GB/s throughput.

• SEC ends Aave investigation.

• Aave 2026 Master Plan.

• Etherealize guide for enterprises.

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EigenDA achieved cloud-scale throughput of 1 GB/s, benchmarked across 100 operators and 10 countries. The milestone represents a 10,000x scaling of Ethereum blobs, enabled by an architecture redesign and the development of a custom database called LittDB, which is claimed to be 1000x better than traditional databases. EigenDA also implemented GPU acceleration in partnership with Ingonyama to achieve a 20x latency improvement for encoding. EigenDA also released its whitepaper, which outlines its path to reaching terabit-level throughput. EigenDA is the first data availability layer with full end-to-end verifiability.

Aave founder Stani Kulechov announced that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has officially concluded its four-year investigation into the DeFi protocol. The probe, launched in early 2022, focused on the classification of Aave's token and operations as potential securities. A letter dated August 12, 2025, confirmed that the agency will not recommend enforcement action. The resolution follows a broader trend of reduced SEC enforcement against crypto projects following the Trump administration's pro-crypto stance. The SEC has since dropped actions against Uniswap, Kraken, and Coinbase.

Stani Kulechov also published a master plan for Aave, outlining a multi-decade vision to onboard the next trillion dollars in assets and millions of users to the DeFi protocol. Kulechov highlighted Aave's position as the largest and most trusted lending protocol. The latest strategy is built on three main pillars: Aave V4, Horizon, and Aave App. Aave v4 brings a complete architectural redesign to unify fragmented liquidity and handle trillions of dollars in assets. Horizon is a dedicated, compliance-focused market for institutions, targeting $1 billion in assets for 2026. Lastly, the Aave App will feature an integration with Push for zero-fee stablecoin on and off-ramping.

Etherealize and Chainlink released a guide for enterprises to establish a shared understanding and unified language for the architecture of decentralized systems. It recognizes that Ethereum is now entering its institutional phase. The report provides a framework to bridge the vocabulary of traditional finance with the complexity of the onchain economy. The guide defines foundational concepts, the security and operational layers, and the aspects of data connectivity necessary to enable smart contracts to interact securely with the external financial world.

• RNBW TGE on 5th February

• Coinbase stats on crypto holders

• SEC on financial surveillance

• GigaGas Stress Test

• Etherscan multichain cards

• Paragraph adds Farcaster feed

• Article: Ethereum’s Blockspace Market

• Stani on Aave DAO vs Labs

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