Topic: #ethereum
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Ethereum order-book depth falls to 35–45% of Bitcoin's, CoinGecko data shows
A CoinGecko analysis of eight major exchanges, reported by Crypto Briefing, found Ethereum's market depth fell to 35–45% of Bitcoin's, down from above 60% a year earlier, as Bitcoin's order books deepened.
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Bitcoin, Ethereum and XRP enter October on ETF inflows, U.Today outlook says
Bitcoin and Ethereum each gained about 7% in September, according to U.Today's October outlook, which points to ETF flows, Ethereum's Oct. 6 Glamsterdam testnet and elevated bond yields as the month's key factors.
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Vitalik Buterin tests three-layer privacy setup for querying frontier AI
Ethereum co-creator Vitalik Buterin said in an X post he used a local AI model, zkAPI and Tor to get diet and exercise advice from frontier models without leaking his private data.
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SEC approves Cboe rule to list Volatility Shares' 3x Bitcoin, Ether funds
The SEC on Oct. 2 approved Cboe BZX's rule change to list VS Trust's 3x Bitcoin and 3x Ether futures funds, but registration effectiveness and a first trading date remained unconfirmed as of Oct. 4.
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Arbitrum Security Council pauses new Stylus activations, citing AI-assisted attacks
Arbitrum's Security Council blocked new Stylus activations on Arbitrum One and Nova on October 2, citing AI-assisted attack risks. Live Stylus apps and Solidity contracts are unaffected.
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XRP ETFs log $4.07M inflow as Ethereum ETFs shed $55.37M on October 1
XRP ETFs drew about $4.07 million in net inflows on October 1 while Ethereum ETFs saw a $55.37 million net outflow, a one-day flow gap of roughly $59.44 million, according to SosoValue data reported by U.Today.
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Ethereum Foundation's zkAPI goes live on mainnet for private AI API payments
The Ethereum Foundation said zkAPI, built with the Open Anonymity Project, is live on Ethereum mainnet. It lets users pay for AI and other APIs without revealing billing identities, but it doesn't hide prompts or network metadata.
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Open USD (OUSD) launches with $468M supply, Stripe distribution deal
Open USD (OUSD), a stablecoin backed by more than 200 organizations, debuted Sept. 30 with about $468 million in circulation and a Stripe distribution deal, entering a market where USDT and USDC hold about 84%.
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MetaMask exits staking validators as precaution after security incident
MetaMask said Wednesday it's responding to a security incident affecting part of its infrastructure and exiting affected staking validators, adding it hasn't found any immediate threat to wallets.
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MetaMask Staking exits its Lido validators, citing a security incident
MetaMask Staking is exiting its Ethereum validators in the Lido protocol to address a security incident, according to a post on Lido's research forum reported by Crypto Briefing.
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Sentora proposes running isolated Aave V4 Hub for 50/50 revenue split
Sentora posted an Aave governance proposal on Sept. 28 to run an isolated V4 Hub for a 50/50 revenue split with the DAO. CryptoSlate's analysis says the Hub's suppliers would bear any bad debt.
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Aztec Labs relaunches zk.money wallet for private stablecoin payments
Aztec Labs relaunched its self-custodial zk.money wallet on Aztec Network three years after shutting it down. Users can send USDC, USDT or DAI privately using readable ENS-based tags.
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Tom Lee's BitMine tops 6 million ETH after 17,362 ETH weekly buy
BitMine Immersion Technologies, chaired by Tom Lee, bought 17,362 ETH worth $46.82 million over the prior week, per Lookonchain data, pushing its holdings past 6 million ETH, U.Today reported.
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Vitalik Buterin calls Ethereum a 'cryptographic world computer' and names roadmap upgrades
Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin said the network is becoming a hybrid of blockchain and modern cryptography, according to U.Today, and named FOCIL, EIP-8288 and Lean consensus among proposed upgrades.
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SEC issues new crypto Howey FAQs as Bitget resumes Bitcoin withdrawals
The SEC issued new FAQs on how the Howey test applies to token buybacks, network development and staking receipt tokens, while Bitget resumed BTC withdrawals after a breach affecting nearly $388 million.
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USDT issuance grew on Ethereum without a sustained rise in contract holdings, BIS finds
A BIS working paper found more USDT was issued on Ethereum without a sustained rise in smart-contract holdings, with the contract-held share slipping to roughly 10% to 15% after late 2024, CryptoSlate reported.
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Bitget $387.5M breach: Sygnum shields institutions while retail freezes
Bitget's $387.5 million breach on September 24 triggered a withdrawal freeze, but Sygnum's Swiss bank custody service let institutional clients trade with collateral held off-exchange—a protection unavailable to retail traders.
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EIP-4444 slashes Ethereum node sync time to under half a day
EIP-4444, activated July 8, reduces full node storage to under 0.5 TB and enables sync in under 12 hours by pruning pre-Merge historical data, lowering barriers for node operators and strengthening network decentralization.
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Nomic Foundation launches slang-solx compiler with 5x speed gains for Ethereum
The Nomic Foundation released slang-solx, an LLVM-based Solidity compiler backend, on September 7, 2026, achieving up to 5x faster compilation speeds in via-IR mode. The Solidity core team followed with version 0.8.37, adding security fixes and support for the SLOTNUM opcode tied to the Amsterdam EVM upgrade.
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Ethereum staking queue hits 13.6x entry-to-exit ratio
Ethereum's staking queue has reached an extreme imbalance, with 13.6 times more ETH waiting to enter staking than exit. The buildup reflects strong institutional appetite and may reshape the network's liquidity dynamics as over a third of ETH's supply locks into staking.
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Ethereum and Base end account abstraction standard talks, pursue separate designs
Ethereum and Base ended efforts to align on a shared account abstraction standard, with each network now pursuing separate designs. The divergence could require wallet developers to support multiple transaction formats across chains.
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Ethereum and Base abandon joint wallet standard, exposing L2 fragmentation
Ethereum and Coinbase-backed Base ended collaboration on a unified account-abstraction wallet standard in mid-September, with each network now pursuing separate technical approaches that reflect competing priorities between security and speed.
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Ethereum ePBS: Builders Face Capital Lock or Trusted Payment Trade-off
Jason Vranek argues that collateral-backed payments under ePBS impose costs on builders—idle reserves, failed delivery risk, and opportunity cost. Trusted payment arrangements could offer relief but shift risk, creating a structural choice for the network.
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DeFi Audits Miss 72% of Attack Vectors, $885M Study Reveals
A preprint by ack3-affiliated researchers examining 135 DeFi incidents in H1 2026 found that 72.1% of losses in audited protocols came from attack paths never covered by their security reviews, raising questions about what an audit actually guarantees.