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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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Base Activates B20, the Token Standard Its June Outage Delayed

Base switched on B20, a token standard built into its node software rather than deployed as a contract, two weeks after June's outages pushed it out of Beryl.

· 8 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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Base Halted Block Production Twice in Two Days, Delaying Beryl

Base stopped producing blocks for 116 minutes on 25 June and again for 20 minutes on 26 June, after stale state from a failed transaction produced a block validators rejected. No funds were at risk, but the Beryl hardfork was postponed.

· 26 Jun 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

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Starknet Ships STRK20, Bringing Privacy to Arbitrary ERC-20 Tokens

Starknet put STRK20 live on mainnet on 9 June, a privacy standard covering arbitrary ERC-20 tokens. Private transfers are validated by zero-knowledge proofs, with encrypted notes stored in contract storage and a stated cost of roughly 4 STRK each.

· 9 Jun 2026· 🕐 3 min read