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The Security Council raised activation gas to a prohibitive level on Arbitrum One and Nova. Existing programs keep running and no reopening date was given.

· 4 Oct 2026· 🕐 3 min read

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Ethereum's zkAPI Goes Live, Paying for AI Without an Identity

The Ethereum Foundation and the Open Anonymity Project put zkAPI on mainnet on 1 October. Users deposit ETH or USDC, then spend against zero-knowledge proofs.

· 3 Oct 2026· 🕐 3 min read

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Blast Winds Down Its Ethereum Layer-2 With a 26 October Exit Date

Blast said operating costs exceed revenue and it sees no credible path to sustainability. Users have until 26 October to withdraw through its own interface.

· 3 Oct 2026· 🕐 3 min read

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EIP-8363 Authors Pull Ethereum's Staking Reward Burn From Hegota

The authors of EIP-8363 withdrew their tapered issuance burn from Ethereum's Hegota fork, saying an issuance policy change deserves a process of its own.

· 2 Oct 2026· 🕐 3 min read

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Base's Cobalt Upgrade Adds Conditional Transactions and Token Seizure

Base activated Cobalt on 30 September. It adds transactions that wait for an on-chain condition, and lets B20 asset administrators reassign balances.

· 1 Oct 2026· 🕐 3 min read

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Aztec Caps zk.money Transfers at $2,500 on Its Privacy Relaunch

Aztec Labs revived its private payments wallet after three years. Every transfer is capped at $2,500 and deposits share a $50,000 daily ceiling.

· 30 Sept 2026· 🕐 3 min read

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Buterin Puts Ethereum's 2030 Finality Target at 8 to 32 Seconds

An essay published Sunday sets slot intervals of 4 to 8 seconds and finality of 8 to 32 seconds by 2030, with the shift beginning after the Hegota fork.

· 28 Sept 2026· 🕐 3 min read

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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