
BTCS Sold Ether Below Cost to Protect a $64.1 Million Aave Loan
BTCS told the SEC it sold ether below its purchase price to manage a $64.1 million Aave loan backed by 46,676 ETH, with liquidation calculated near $1,717.
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BTCS told the SEC it sold ether below its purchase price to manage a $64.1 million Aave loan backed by 46,676 ETH, with liquidation calculated near $1,717.

The research group withdrew its own faster-block proposal to free resources for a 2027 target. Core developers have not adopted the schedule.

Almost the whole loss is a paper mark on 5.9 million ether the company has not sold. It kept buying after the year closed and now holds 4.97% of the supply.

Denim replaced two-second blocks with five a second and ended Flashblocks. Anything on Base that counts blocks instead of seconds now expires ten times sooner.
A one-block Ethereum reorg on 31 October made a THORChain vault refund 10 ETH it never received. Accounts split on how many chains are still trading.

Blockaid flagged withdrawals from zkLink Nova's layer-1 escrow while the attack was still live. The loss is reported two ways, near $786,000 and near $779,000.

A consensus-spec change merged on Monday stops a validator deposit being credited to a builder holding the same key. Developers closed the same fix on 19 October.

Bitmine bought 10,452 ETH in the week to 25 October and 2.04 million of its own shares. On the company's own figures the buyback cost nearly twice as much.

Developers cancelled Monday's Hoodi activation on 22 October after an auditor reported 13 real-world examples hit by two gas-repricing proposals.

US spot Ether ETFs have shed $1.08 billion since 1 October, erasing September's inflows, while bitcoin funds took in about $550 million across two sessions.

The dollar deposit token leaves Base for Ethereum's main chain, open only to institutional counterparties the bank has vetted. Kinexys cites deeper liquidity.
Vitalik Buterin and Thomas Coratger's draft would have mempool nodes bundle signatures and proofs into one recursive STARK that every block must carry.