Ethereum
Vitalik Buterin Advocates for EIP-8288 to Reduce Ethereum Precompile Additions
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin is calling for EIP-8288 adoption to move heavy cryptography off the main chain, arguing that signature and proof systems should be aggregated client-side rather than adding new precomp...
Ethereum Gas Limit to Rise to 200 Million on Hoodi Testnet with Glamsterdam Upgrade
The Ethereum Foundation announced a 3.3x increase in the gas limit on the Hoodi testnet when Glamsterdam activates on October 26, raising the ceiling from 60 million to 200 million. The upgrade includes enshrined propose...
Anthropic's Claude Traces P-256 Cryptographic Curve Origins, Reducing Backdoor Concerns
Anthropic's research shows how Claude reconstructed the public seed behind P-256, a curve used for Ethereum passkey signing. The finding addresses longstanding questions about the curve's origins but leaves some question...
Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs Both Post Losses as Underlying Assets Decline
Spot Bitcoin ETFs saw net outflows of $228.58 million last week as BTC fell below $80,000, while Ethereum ETFs experienced steeper losses with roughly $320 million in outflows over the same period.
Ethereum ETFs See $320 Million in Weekly Outflows as Bitcoin Redemptions Slow
US spot Ethereum ETFs recorded $320.1 million in net withdrawals for the week ending October 16, exceeding Bitcoin fund outflows of $228.4 million, with BlackRock's ETHA accounting for nearly 93% of Ether redemptions.
Solana's App Revenue Hits $299M in Q3 as RWA Market Expands
Solana's real-world asset market has grown to $4.3 billion over the past year, while application revenue reached $299.1 million in Q3. The network processed record transaction volumes, but price gains remain uncertain.
XRP Ledger Upgrade Set for October 23 as Native Lending Stalls
The XRP Ledger is preparing to activate a software upgrade on October 23 that fixes a security flaw in token-handling permissions, while its proposed native lending system remains short of the approval threshold needed f...
Ethereum schedules Hoodi testnet upgrade for October 26 with 200 million gas target
The Glamsterdam upgrade will activate on Ethereum's Hoodi testnet on October 26, 2026, requiring node operators to update their software. The test includes a 200 million gas target and protocol changes to block productio...
Fidelity Report: Solana Shows Strong Uptime but Faces Concentration Risks
Solana has operated without a major mainnet outage for over two years, according to a Fidelity analysis, but the network faces concentration risks across validators, hosting providers, and geographic regions.
Ethereum Derivatives Show Mixed Signals as Options Bulls Outnumber Bears
Ethereum's derivatives market reflects competing pressures this week, with options traders favoring bullish positions while futures liquidations have disproportionately hit leveraged longs. Open interest remains substant...
Former Ripple Adviser: XRPL Has Banking Technology, but Adoption Won't Guarantee XRP Price...
Anthony Welfare, a former Ripple CBDC adviser, says the XRP Ledger has the technical capacity for large-scale banking and cross-border payments, but institutional adoption and network growth do not automatically translat...
Real Vision CEO Raoul Pal Argues Ethereum Is Wildly Undervalued Based on Network Risk
Raoul Pal, CEO of Real Vision, contends that Ethereum is significantly undervalued relative to the infrastructure risk it represents, citing the potential damage to stablecoins, DeFi, and Layer-2 networks if the blockcha...
Starknet's STRK Token Surges 210% in Four Weeks as L1 Pivot Proposal Emerges
Starknet's STRK token has climbed 210% over four weeks, driven partly by the project's consideration of transitioning to a Layer 1 blockchain. However, network activity and social sentiment are cooling, signaling potenti...
Vitalik Buterin Develops Privacy-Focused AI Agent Setup Combining Tor, Zero-Knowledge Proo...
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has unveiled an experimental 'paranoid mode' configuration for AI agents that uses encrypted routing, anonymous payments, and locally processed prompts to protect user identities and p...
a16z researchers unveil Aerie to improve quantum resistant signature aggregation for Ether...
A team of cryptographers at a16z crypto introduced Aerie, a system that aggregates quantum resistant signatures using lattice-based cryptography. The researchers argue their approach offers performance advantages over ha...
Lido Enables Direct ETH Staking on Four Layer-2 Networks via Chainlink CCIP
Lido has launched direct Ethereum staking across Arbitrum, Base, Linea, and Optimism using Chainlink's cross-chain protocol, allowing users to stake without manually bridging assets to mainnet.
Ethereum's EIP-8061 Would Speed Exits While Keeping New Validator Entry Capped
A proposed Ethereum improvement would remove fixed caps on validator exits and scale them with active stake, but would preserve the 256 ETH-per-epoch activation ceiling, leaving new stakers waiting an estimated three wee...
Solana Activates Alpenglow Upgrade, Cutting Transaction Finality to 150 Milliseconds
Solana will deploy its Alpenglow consensus mechanism on October 21, reducing transaction finality from 12.8 seconds to approximately 150 milliseconds while improving security resilience. The upgrade marks the network's f...
Solana Alpenglow Upgrade Launches October 21, Replacing Consensus System
Solana's Alpenglow upgrade goes live on mainnet October 21 at epoch 1064, replacing TowerBFT with a new voting system designed to cut transaction finality from 12.8 seconds to approximately 150 milliseconds.
Starknet Votes on Potential Independence as Post-Quantum Layer-1 Blockchain
Ethereum's layer-2 network Starknet has opened a non-binding vote asking token holders whether the network should explore transitioning to an independent layer-1 blockchain with quantum-resistant security.






















