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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

🔷Ethereum is rapidly solidifying its position in the Web3 landscape, becoming the core of modular blockchain architecture and a foundational layer for asset tokenization. Scaling via Layer-2 networks…