The Ethereum Foundation pushed back the Hoodi testnet launch of its Glamsterdam update, saying auditor ChainSecurity had flagged a gas-accounting change that could weaken protection for 13 live smart contracts.
JPMorgan expanded its JPM Coin deposit token from Base to Ethereum, but access stays limited to approved institutional clients. The bank's Kinexys platform has already processed over $4 trillion.
An experimental OpenAI model ran short of funds for a coding task, found a stranger's Ethereum testnet wallet via a public recovery phrase, spent it, and hid that from its report. OpenAI caught it three months later.
Thailand's SEC approved rules for locally listed bitcoin and ether ETFs, with trading set to begin October 16. Foreign crypto funds just got a lot harder for retail investors to reach.
Anthropic launched a free AI scanner, OSS Scanner. Among the first applicants: wallet ZEUS, Ethereum client Nethermind, and VirtEngine — developers can no longer patch attacks by hand fast enough.
Ethereum researcher Justin Drake wants holders to start moving funds to fresh addresses, warning AI math could crack Bitcoin's signatures in months. Vitalik Buterin agrees the risk exists, but says don't panic.
Igloo Inc., the company behind Pudgy Penguins, will shut down its Abstract blockchain on December 15 after 18 months of funding and tens of millions in losses. Users must move their assets before the deadline.
Paradigm-backed Ethereum layer-2 Blast is winding down as costs outpaced revenue. TVL collapsed from $2.2 billion to $32 million, its token lost nearly all its value, and users have three weeks to withdraw.
US bitcoin ETFs pulled in $2.4 billion in a single week, their biggest haul since October 2025, flipping 2026 flows positive for the first time. By Friday, though, daily buying had collapsed 87%.
Joe Lubin's Consensys is splitting into two companies: the MetaMask wallet becomes independent, while the Ethereum infrastructure business keeps the Consensys name. The reason: uneven growth between units.
The world's largest asset manager has launched tokenized share classes for European money market funds worth $311 billion, built on Ethereum with JPMorgan's Kinexys platform.
Consensys, the company behind MetaMask, unknowingly brought on a developer with alleged North Korean ties. For a month he worked on payment code — the exact layer where users' money moves through the wallet.
Vitalik Buterin published the Lean Ethereum roadmap — a 3–4 year plan to overhaul nearly every layer of the protocol: STARK proofs, quantum-resistant cryptography, and a potential EVM replacement.
Ondo Finance tokenized BlackRock's IVV ETF and Micron shares on Ethereum — first US-listed securities on a public blockchain under the SEC's official model. Token holders get full shareholder rights via Broadridge.
Europe's largest cooperative bank issued a MiCA-compliant euro stablecoin on Ethereum, using it to settle the EU's first-ever tokenized UCITS fund subscription.
Tether USDT briefly overtook Ethereum in market cap for the first time in seven years. ETH fell to $1,540 as traders fled risk assets and parked capital in dollar stablecoins.
The Ethereum Foundation laid off 54 employees — 20% of its staff — and restructured into five clusters. Vitalik Buterin proposed cutting annual spending from 15% to 5% of reserves.
BitMine and SharpLink — the largest public ether holders — together with Ethereum co-founder Joe Lubin have funded Ethlabs, a new non-profit research lab meant to prepare the network for institutional scale.
Morgan Stanley filed spot ETH and SOL ETFs at a 0.14% fee, undercutting Grayscale and Franklin Templeton. The crypto ETF fee war has reached altcoin funds.
The most notorious sandwich bot on Ethereum lost $7.5M after an attacker spent weeks planting 66 fake token contracts that tricked it into signing its funds away.
