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Blockchain

Platåberget Goes Live as Glamsterdam's Public Testnet

Ethereum opened Platåberget, a months-long public testnet for Glamsterdam, testing ePBS, block-level access lists, a roughly 200M gas floor and 64KiB contracts.

· 17 Aug 2026· 🕐 3 min read

News

Coinsbuy Drained of About $8M Across Tron and Ethereum

Attackers pulled roughly $8 million from Coinsbuy's wallets on Tron and Ethereum, moved 79% through FixedFloat within hours, and the exchange is repaying from reserves.

· 9 Aug 2026· 🕐 3 min read

DeFi

BlackRock Launches Two Tokenized Funds Across Three Chains

BlackRock launched BSTBL on Ethereum and BRSRV across Solana, Ethereum and Tempo on 3 August, the latter built as a GENIUS Act-eligible stablecoin reserve.

· 3 Aug 2026· 🕐 3 min read

News

Tether's USAT Goes Live on Celo

Tether's GENIUS Act-compliant dollar token USAT expanded beyond Ethereum for the first time, launching natively on Celo where it can also pay its own gas fees.

· 29 Jul 2026· 🕐 3 min read

News

Singapore's Triple-A Has Its Hot Wallets Drained

Triple-A's hot wallets were drained across six chains and bridged into one Ethereum address. Published loss counts range from $9.3 million to about $12 million.

· 24 Jul 2026· 🕐 3 min read

Blockchain

Glamsterdam Devnet-7 Tests a 300M Gas Limit

Ethereum's final Glamsterdam devnet went live on July 14 testing a 300 million block gas limit, five times mainnet, with state access repriced to match.

· 14 Jul 2026· 🕐 3 min read

Blockchain

Cambridge Puts Ethereum's Power Draw at 0.90 Megawatts

Cambridge measured Ethereum at 7.87 gigawatt-hours a year and 0.90 megawatts of continuous demand, more than 99.9% below its pre-Merge level.

· 12 Jul 2026· 🕐 3 min read

Blockchain

Buterin Argues for an Extremely Lean Ethereum Base Layer

Vitalik Buterin's July 6 post would cut on-chain validator state to about 6 bytes using daily ZK-STARK proofs. Researchers back it, but call 3-4 years slow.

· 6 Jul 2026· 🕐 3 min read

News

Ethereum Institutional Launches as an Independent Nonprofit

A new nonprofit backed by BitMine, SharpLink Gaming and Joseph Lubin takes on institutional outreach for Ethereum, days after the Foundation cut that work back.

· 1 Jul 2026· 🕐 3 min read

News

Ethereum Foundation Cuts 54 Staff and 40% of Its 2026 Budget

The Ethereum Foundation confirmed its largest-ever restructuring: 54 roles gone, about 20% of staff, and a 2026 budget cut of roughly 40%. Co-Executive Director Hsiao-Wei Wang resigned, and Privacy and Scaling Explorations is being wound down.

· 23 Jun 2026· 🕐 3 min read

Blockchain

Taiko Halts Its Ethereum Layer-2 After a $1.7M Bridge Exploit

Taiko stopped block production and froze its bridge on June 22 after forged withdrawal proofs drained about $1.7 million, traced to a leaked SGX signing key.

· 22 Jun 2026· 🕐 3 min read

News

The Ethereum Identity: Balancing Protocol Development and Market Needs

The Ethereum Foundation (EF) is currently changing its operational setup after several high-profile departures. Between February and May 2026, at least eight senior contributors and researchers left or…

· 29 May 2026· 🕐 4 min read