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Ethereum Dates Glamsterdam's Sepolia Fork for 6 October

The fork is set for epoch 353024, 13:53:36 UTC. A developer warned that free test ether makes stalling the network cheap.

· 19 Sept 2026· 🕐 3 min read

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Quantum Attack Estimate for Bitcoin and Ethereum Falls by 86%

A crowdsourced challenge cut the estimated quantum resources for a core step in attacking secp256k1 by 86%. The authors say it is not an attack.

· 10 Sept 2026· 🕐 3 min read

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Ethereum Foundation Names Two Must-Ship EIPs for the Hegota Fork

The Foundation graded all 62 proposals for Hegota and put two in the top tier. If either is at risk, it says the schedule moves before the scope does.

· 8 Sept 2026· 🕐 3 min read

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Harmony Proposes Shutting Down Its Layer 1 and Moving ONE to Ethereum

Harmony wants to end its seven-year-old chain and reissue ONE on Ethereum. Validators can start shutting down on 10 September, and the vote is non-binding.

· 7 Sept 2026· 🕐 3 min read

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Ethereum Draft Would Let Validator Deposits Carry 8,192-Byte Keys

A draft EIP would replace the deposit contract's fixed BLS fields with keys of up to 8,192 bytes, and leave the post-quantum algorithm itself for later.

· 27 Aug 2026· 🕐 3 min read

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Ledger Patched an Ethereum Signing Flaw, Then Fought Over the Disclosure

Ethereum app 1.22.2 closed a race condition that could swap a transaction mid-review. The patch shipped on 12 August; the argument is about how it reached the public.

· 25 Aug 2026· 🕐 3 min read

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Gnosis Votes on Dissolving Its L1 Into an Ethereum ZK Rollup

Gnosis Chain will dissolve into a ZK rollup on Ethereum after GIP-153 passed almost unanimously, freeing 27% of GNO supply. The token hit a three-month high.

· 20 Aug 2026· 🕐 3 min read

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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