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FTX- and Alameda-linked wallets move up to $75M in ether to Wintermute
Wallets tied to the FTX estate and Alameda Research moved up to 27,373 ether — roughly $75 million — to market maker Wintermute, though on-chain data does not show a sale or the transfer's purpose.
Bitmine adds another $75M in ether, closing on its 5% supply goal as Tom Lee talks up a Q4 institutional rush
Bitmine bought 27,562 ETH last week, lifting its holdings to about 5.98 million ether — roughly 4.9% of supply — as chairman Tom Lee declared a crypto bull market underway and predicted an institutional buying surge in Q4.
Zama opens 16 confidential Morpho vaults, adds private swaps on Ethereum
Confidentiality protocol Zama opened 16 confidential Morpho lending vaults on Ethereum on September 15 and launched a private swap protocol, after its first vault reported reaching $40 million in deposits.
Researchers cut a key quantum-attack benchmark for Bitcoin and Ethereum in half — with caveats attached
A crowdsourced challenge run through Eigen Labs' ECDSA.Fail cut the estimated quantum resources for a core step of a Bitcoin and Ethereum attack to roughly 1.5 billion, more than half below Google's March benchmark, though the two counts aren't strictly comparable.
Consensys to split in two, spinning MetaMask into a standalone consumer-finance company
Consensys will split into two independent companies by the end of 2026, rebranding its main entity as consumer-wallet firm MetaMask under Joe Lubin while a new Consensys keeps the Ethereum and institutional infrastructure business.
Matter Labs open-sources Prividium's core engine, with the Bundesbank as first tester
Matter Labs open-sourced the permissioning engine of Prividium, its ledger platform for banks, and said Germany's Bundesbank is the first institution testing the code in its own infrastructure.
Ethereum Foundation commits to making L1 quantum-resistant by December 2029
The Ethereum Foundation's Protocol cluster set a self-imposed deadline of December 2029 to make Ethereum's base layer quantum-resistant across execution, consensus, and data layers, treating the target as non-negotiable until a January 2027 reassessment.
Ethereum Foundation ranks 62 Hegotá proposals in first unified EIP tier list
The Ethereum Foundation's Protocol cluster published its first unified tier list for the Hegotá upgrade, marking 2 of 62 proposed EIPs must-ship, 15 expected, and 28 declined.
Robinhood Chain sets a revenue record; ARB rallies 30% on a payout holders don't receive
Robinhood Chain posted a record $1.92M in 24-hour revenue, sending Arbitrum's ARB token up more than 30% even though the network's fees flow to a treasury, not to token holders.
Ledger and OneKey trade claims over an Ethereum app bug that was already patched
Rival hardware wallet maker OneKey says it reproduced a transaction-replacement exploit against Ledger's Ethereum app version 1.22.1; Ledger says the flaw was patched weeks earlier and no user was affected.
Bitcoin ETFs log an eighth straight day of inflows, but 2026 is still in the hole
U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs took in about $232 million Wednesday for an eighth straight day of net buying, pushing August above $3 billion even as the funds stay roughly $2.5 billion negative for 2026.
Most of Last Week's $23 Billion ETF Move Was Markup, Not Money
Decrypt reports combined bitcoin and ether ETF assets rose about $23 billion last week, but only $2.6 billion of that was net new investor money.
Bitcoin and ether ETFs post best week of 2026 at $2.6 billion — and are still down on the year
U.S. spot bitcoin and ether ETFs pulled in a combined $2.6 billion in net inflows last week, per SoSoValue data, reversing a $392 million outflow — though both categories remain net negative for 2026.
GnosisDAO votes to fold Gnosis Chain into Ethereum as a ZK rollup — no funding attached, no spec written
GnosisDAO passed GIP-153 on August 19, approving Gnosis Chain's conversion from a standalone Layer 1 into a ZK-proven rollup under Ethereum's Economic Zone, with genesis targeted for the turn of the year.
Ethereum Foundation opens an AI-agent bounty on the unproven math under zk proofs
The Ethereum Foundation launched better.codes, a public leaderboard where AI agents compete to raise the machine-checked soundness bound of a Reed–Solomon proximity problem toward 128 bits.
Ethereum's $70 trillion stablecoin milestone rests on one chart, and nobody has shown the math
An Ethereum Institutional post citing Token Terminal put lifetime stablecoin transfer volume on Ethereum above $70 trillion, and the Ethereum Foundation's account reposted it without publishing a methodology.
BitMine reported to have added $19 million in ether, with the 5%-of-supply claim resting on a single secondary report
Decrypt reports that Tom Lee's BitMine bought another $19 million of ether, lifting its stash toward 5% of total supply — a claim that arrives without a company filing or wallet data to check it against.
Ethereum's Glamsterdam testnet goes live, and it breaks the 21,000-gas assumption
The Ethereum Foundation launched Platåberget, a public multi-month testnet that forks to Glamsterdam on 20 August, warning that gas repricings will break wallets, indexers and gas estimators.
Norway's sovereign fund carries 11,549 BTC of indirect bitcoin exposure — 86% of it sitting in Strategy
Norges Bank Investment Management's half-year disclosures show its equity stakes map to a record 11,549 BTC of look-through bitcoin exposure, with Strategy alone accounting for 9,914 of it.
A proposal to burn validator rewards lands as ETH staking hits 34%
Ethereum researchers including the Ethereum Foundation's Justin Drake filed EIP-8361 on Aug. 4, a proposal to burn a rising share of validator rewards that its own authors model as halving staking yield.
Fidelity Files to Stake the Ether Inside Its Ethereum ETF
Decrypt reported on August 12 that Fidelity has filed to let its spot Ethereum ETF stake its holdings and route the rewards to shareholders; the filing's terms remain unconfirmed.
BitMine adds $14M of ether as its cash falls to $104M, per Decrypt
Decrypt reports that Tom Lee's BitMine bought $14 million of ether while its cash position fell to $104 million, a purchase small enough to raise questions about remaining dry powder.
Coinsbuy drained of $8.07M across TRON and Ethereum; wallets refilled within a day, no statement
An attacker drained $8.07 million in USDT and ETH from crypto exchange Coinsbuy across TRON and Ethereum in under an hour on Aug. 9, and the exchange quietly topped the wallets back up without explaining how.
Tokenized real-world assets grew to $7.4 billion while the rest of DeFi shrank, CoinShares report says
A CoinShares and Token Terminal report says tokenized real-world asset deposits into lending markets and DEXs rose from $2.3 billion to $7.4 billion year over year while total DeFi deposits fell about 15%.
Ethereum Foundation funds a front-end integrity tool built for journalists, aimed at wallets
The Ethereum Foundation's Trillion Dollar Security initiative is funding Freedom of the Press Foundation to build a WEBCAT front-end verification library for crypto wallets, though the announcement names no grant amount, timeline or committed integrators.
Quantum Solutions sells another 1,000 ETH at a 47% discount to cost, cedes Japan's top ether treasury to Def Consulting
Tokyo-listed Quantum Solutions sold 1,000 ether at $1,903 on July 30 to fund an AI data center push, cutting its stack 29% since June and losing Japan's largest listed ETH position to Def Consulting.
Ethereum, Solana and Avalanche got cheaper and busier as their tokens halved, Bitwise says
Bitwise's first quarterly staking report found Ethereum, Solana and Avalanche grew busier and cheaper to use over the past year, yet staking revenue and all three tokens fell by roughly half.
Ethereum Foundation's monthly launch roundup leads with Robinhood's L2 and Aztec's decentralization milestone
The Ethereum Foundation's monthly "shipping" thread touts a Robinhood Layer 2 that cleared $1B in DEX volume in a week and Aztec's Stage 2 decentralization, but nearly every figure is self-reported by the projects involved.
MegaETH shuts its Mega Mafia accelerator, admitting most of its hits build elsewhere
MegaETH is ending its Mega Mafia accelerator after two cohorts, with team member Shuyao Kong conceding that most of the roughly 20 startups it incubated have left for rival chains.
Solana claims No. 1 spot for real-world-asset holders at 300K — a headline about wallets, not dollars
Solana's official account said the network passed 300,000 real-world-asset holders, claiming the top spot by holder count, citing analytics outlet SolanaFloor — a milestone about wallet numbers, not asset value.
Devcon 8 Heads to Mumbai in November, With Tickets Starting at $499 in ETH
The Ethereum Foundation opened Devcon 8 ticket sales on July 14, setting the conference for Mumbai on November 3–6 with general admission from $499 in ETH and tiered discounts down to free for core developers.
US government wallets shift $288M in seized bitcoin and ether to Coinbase Prime, per Arkham
On-chain analytics firm Arkham says U.S. government-linked wallets moved roughly 3,800 BTC and 30,007 ETH — over $288 million — to Coinbase Prime on July 13, drawn from criminal-case seizures.
Retail chatter about Bitcoin and Ethereum has drained back to 2020 levels, The Block's data desk says
The Block's data desk reports that daily tweet volume for "Bitcoin" and "Ethereum" has fallen to roughly 130,000 and 40,000 mentions — 12-month lows last seen in 2020 — even as institutional crypto activity climbs.
Bitcoin and Ether ETFs Log Fresh Inflows After Extended Outflow Run, Decrypt Reports
Decrypt's July 13 Morning Minute reports US spot bitcoin and ether ETFs recorded net inflows after an extended run of outflows, though the brief did not disclose the dollar figures behind the reversal.
Ethereum Foundation: AI agents found real protocol bugs, but the triage is where the work is
Ethereum Foundation's Protocol Security team says coordinated AI agents found real bugs in protocol code, including a disclosed libp2p flaw, but that verifying the findings — not generating them — is now the hard part.
Optimism and Toss sign MOU to explore a Won-backed stablecoin — nothing built yet
Optimism and South Korean fintech app Toss signed a non-binding MOU to explore a Won-backed stablecoin on the OP Stack, announced via Optimism's own promotional post.
Onchain trackers say Bitmine bought another $70M in ETH; the company hasn't confirmed it
Onchain analyst Lookonchain says Tom Lee's Bitmine bought 40,000 ETH (about $70 million) on Tuesday; the company has not confirmed the purchase, which would edge its holdings toward a 5% supply target.
BitMine's ether pile nears 5% of all ETH as Tom Lee pins the rally on a 50/50 regulatory bet
BitMine bought about 42,197 ether for roughly $73–74 million last week, pushing its treasury to 5.74 million ETH — near 5% of all Ethereum — as chairman Tom Lee credited a coin-flip Clarity Act bet for ether's relative strength.
StarkWare lays out a three-phase plan to make Starknet quantum-resistant — and calls it crypto's 'strongest'
StarkWare published a three-phase plan to make its Starknet network resistant to quantum computers, replacing elliptic-curve cryptography and adding migration tools, and billed it as crypto's "strongest" such roadmap to date.
Ethereum Foundation pitches itself to governments as "neutral" public infrastructure
The Ethereum Foundation published a non-technical policy guide urging governments to treat decentralized public blockchains as neutral infrastructure for identity, records and tokenization — while pitching Ethereum over rivals.
Robinhood says its 'Robinhood Chain' is live on mainnet — the receipts, so far, are thin
Robinhood said its own blockchain, "Robinhood Chain," went live on mainnet on July 1, 2026 — an announcement the Ethereum Foundation amplified but that comes with marketing language and no independent activity data.
A new group called "Ethereum Institutional" launches to court institutions — with little disclosed beyond the pitch
A new self-described independent non-profit called Ethereum Institutional announced itself on July 1, 2026, saying it will push institutional adoption of Ethereum, with almost no verifiable detail disclosed.
Ethereum Foundation Begins Staking ~70,000 ETH From Its Treasury
The Ethereum Foundation has begun solo staking roughly 70,000 ETH from its treasury, directing rewards back to the treasury while running minority clients and distributed signing across multiple jurisdictions.
Ethereum Foundation launches "Clear Signing" standard to kill blind transaction approvals
The Ethereum Foundation released ERC-7730, an open "Clear Signing" standard that gives wallet users human-readable descriptions of transactions to eliminate blind signing approvals.
SharpLink Buys Its First ETH in Eight Months, Then Buys Back Its Own Stock — All Funded by a Fresh $75M Raise
SharpLink Gaming bought 10,000 ETH and repurchased 2.13 million of its own shares in one week, funding both with a newly closed $75 million stock-and-warrant offering.
Ethereum Foundation launches "Platform" team to tighten the L1–L2 relationship
The Ethereum Foundation formed an internal team called Platform on February 17, 2026 to strengthen coordination between its base layer and rollups amid concerns over ecosystem fragmentation.
Ethereum Foundation cuts 54 staff — about 20% — as it reorganizes around its new "Mandate"
The Ethereum Foundation laid off 54 staff, about 20% of its workforce, and restructured into five domain clusters to implement its March 2026 Mandate.
Ethereum Foundation Reorganizes Its Protocol Work Into Three Tracks for 2026, Eyes 100M+ Gas Limit
The Ethereum Foundation restructured its protocol roadmap into Scale, Improve UX, and a new Harden the L1 track, targeting the Glamsterdam upgrade and a gas limit beyond 100M in 2026.