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- Solidity Celebrates 10 Years
Solidity, the most widely used language for writing smart contracts on the EVM, marks 10 years since its 2015 release, with the Solidity team aiming to simplify the core language and move more complexity into standard libraries. Alternative compiler Solx launched its LLVM-based compiler to beta to mark the milestone. The same roundup reports that GMX suffered a $40 million exploit on its V1 instance, in which an attacker manipulated leverage-enabled functionality and inflated the vault's AUM, and that tokenized real-world assets surpassed $25 billion in market capitalization. SEC Commissioner Hester M. Peirce also issued a statement saying tokenized securities remain subject to federal securities laws.
- Introducing Ethereum Community Foundation
Blockchain protocol engineer Zak Cole introduced the Ethereum Community Foundation (ECF), a new organization that funds Ethereum projects aimed at increasing the price and utility of ETH. The ECF focuses on immutable, credibly neutral, token-free projects that contribute to burning ETH, and Cole criticized the absence of a burn mechanism in EIP-4844. As its first initiative, the ECF is launching the Ethereum Validator Association (EVA), which will let validators express preferences using their staked ETH.
- Boundless Launches To Mainnet Beta
Boundless, a zero-knowledge verifiable compute layer, is now live on Mainnet Beta, letting computations run on specialized prover nodes and be verified by other chains or contracts through succinct zero-knowledge proofs. It is currently live on Base, with plans for additional chain deployments, and it introduced The Signal, an open-source ZK consensus client that compresses Ethereum finality into a single proof. Users can vote on which chains The Signal should support next, request proof bundles, or run a prover node.
- MetaMask Introduces mUSD Stablecoin
MetaMask unveiled mUSD, its native USD-pegged stablecoin, which is expected to launch later this year on Ethereum mainnet and Linea. Bridge, a Stripe-owned company, will issue mUSD, which is built on the M0 stablecoin infrastructure platform and will be integrated directly into the MetaMask wallet. MetaMask also plans to make mUSD spendable via the MetaMask Card, accepted at millions of Mastercard merchants.
- Bit Digital Pivots To Ethereum
Bit Digital, Inc. announced a pivot in its corporate treasury from Bitcoin to Ethereum, now holding more than 100,000 ETH. The company raised $172 million through an equity offering and sold approximately 280 BTC to fund the accumulation. CEO Sam Tabar cited Ethereum's programmable capabilities, staking yields, and growing adoption as key drivers, and Bit Digital plans to stake its ETH to generate ongoing yield.
- State of Wyoming Launches A Stablecoin
The Wyoming Stable Token Commission, chaired by Wyoming Governor Mark Gordon, has launched the Frontier Stable Token (FRNT) on mainnet, described as the first state-issued stablecoin in the United States. FRNT is fully backed by U.S. dollars and short-duration treasuries held in trust, with a legislatively mandated 2% overcollateralization, and it is live on seven blockchains including Ethereum, Arbitrum, Base, Optimism, and Polygon. LayerZero handles issuance, Fireblocks provides infrastructure, and Franklin Advisers manages reserves.
- Bitmine Reveals $500m ETH Treasury
Bitmine Immersion Technologies, a Bitcoin mining firm, has become the fourth-largest strategic ETH holder after buying 163,142 ETH, currently valued at around $500 million. The company trades on the NYSE as BMNR and is led by Thomas Lee, who leads its ETH strategy. Separately, more than 29% of the ETH supply is staked on the Beacon Chain, with about 35.9 million ETH staked across roughly 1.1 million validators. Aave also reached $50 billion in combined TVL across its deployments.
- Forkcast Ethereum Upgrade Tracker
The Ethereum Foundation's Protocol and Application Support team launched forkcast.org, an experimental tool that helps users understand Ethereum network upgrades such as Fusaka and Glamsterdam and compare competing "headliner" EIPs. The article also covers Ethereum researcher Toni Wahrstätter, who proposes shipping Delayed Execution EIP-7886 in Glamsterdam instead of ePBS EIP-7732, saying it achieves about 80% of ePBS's pipelining benefits with minimal complexity. Separately, Arbitrum Timeboost has generated over $2 million in fees for the Arbitrum DAO since launching in April 2025.
- Aragon Private Onchain Voting
Aragon introduced a private onchain voting solution for DAOs, built by integrating the Minimum Anti-Collusion Infrastructure (MACI) plugin developed by the Privacy Stewards of Ethereum team. The integration lets DAOs using the Aragon governance stack run encrypted, zk-verified private votes that use zk-SNARK proofs so results can be verified and cannot be censored or falsified. The solution is currently demo-ready, and Aragon is seeking DAOs to pilot the plugin before a wider rollout.
- Sherlock Announces Fusaka Audit Contest
The Ethereum Foundation and blockchain security firm Sherlock have announced an audit contest for Fusaka, Ethereum's next upgrade, which is expected to go live by year's end. The article says Fusaka currently includes around 13 EIPs, with the headliner being Peer Data Availability Sampling (PeerDAS), a scalability enhancement that lets nodes verify blob data availability without downloading the full data set. During All Core Devs Execution Layer Call #216, developers agreed to remove EIP-7907 from Fusaka to speed development, and developers are on track to release Devnet 3 by July 23.
- SharpLink Expands ETH Reserve
SharpLink Gaming acquired an additional 10,000 ETH at an average price of $2,572.37 per ETH, directly over the counter from the Ethereum Foundation, making it the largest publicly traded company holding a strategic ETH treasury reserve. The company now holds a total of 215,957 ETH and ranks as the second-largest ETH-holding entity after the Ethereum Foundation. The article states that proceeds from the sale will fund the Foundation's core operations, including protocol research and development.
- ETH Daily 729 · June 26, 2025
World Chain launched Priority Blockspace for Humans (PBH) on mainnet, guaranteeing transaction inclusion for 13 million verified users without requiring priority fees. The feature reserves a portion of each block for Orb-verified human transactions, independent of gas bidding, and is implemented via the World Chain Builder on the Reth Ethereum client, with infrastructure that Nethermind independently audited. The same newsletter reports that the amount of ETH staked on Ethereum's Beacon Chain reached a record over 29% of total supply, with more than 35 million ETH staked across 1 million validators according to Beaconcha.in.
- The Worst Day In Crypto History
The cryptocurrency market suffered a record $19 billion in liquidations on Friday, October 10, 2025, surpassing the Covid, FTX, and Luna crashes. The crash intensified after President Trump announced 100% tariffs on Chinese imports effective November 1, and Bitcoin and Ethereum fell about 12%. A newly created Hyperliquid account reportedly opened large BTC and ETH short positions about thirty minutes before the announcement, netting $192 million in profits, and the timing has sparked insider trading allegations. Aave processed $180 million in liquidations in one hour, and founder Stani Kulechov praised the protocol's performance.
- Ethereum Foundation Decentralized AI Team
The Ethereum Foundation launched a Decentralized AI (dAI) Team to make Ethereum the preferred settlement and coordination layer for AI agents, with a focus on enabling agents and robots to pay, coordinate, and follow rules on Ethereum without relying on centralized entities. The Foundation is hiring a Member of AI Staff for research and an AI Project Manager for coordination. The item appears in a September 15, 2025 Ethereum news roundup that also covers the Fusaka audit contest, with up to $2 million in bounty rewards, and MetaMask's launch of mUSD.
- SSV Validators Experience Slashing Event
A number of Ethereum validators on the SSV Network were slashed due to operator-side errors, which SSV Network says was not caused by the SSV protocol. A single validator was penalized about 0.3 ETH for a double-signing violation, and about 90 minutes later a cluster of 39 validators was affected after keys were active simultaneously in two infrastructures, which Ankr acknowledged as an internal key management error during maintenance. The SSV protocol and infrastructure were not compromised, and the slashed validators will automatically exit the active set.
- Validator Entry Queue Overtakes Exit Queue
The Ethereum validator entry queue has overtaken the exit queue, with nearly 1 million ETH waiting to join the beacon chain compared to roughly 815,000 ETH awaiting withdrawal, according to validatorqueue.com data. The queue is at a two-year high, and the current wait for both new entries and full exits is over two weeks, due to a protocol-level cap on deposits and withdrawals processed per slot. The report also covers eth.limo disclosing that the case has cost the ENS ecosystem around $250,000 in legal expenses, and Safe launching a Positions widget that shows DeFi holdings alongside wallet balances.
- Ethereum UX Roadmap Focuses On Interop
The Ethereum Foundation's Improve UX team has released an update on its work to create a unified user experience across Ethereum's L2 ecosystem, with a focus on interoperability through intent-based architecture. Key initiatives include the Open Intents Framework, a modular infrastructure for cross-chain intents, with a production-ready release, audits, and a full solver system expected by Q4 2025. The Ethereum Interoperability Layer, designed for trustless cross-L2 execution, will have its design released in October 2025. The Ethereum Foundation's Ecosystem Support Program has also paused open grant applications to refine its priorities, with an updated grants strategy due by Q4 2025.
- U.S. Commerce Department Posts GDP Data Onchain
The U.S. Department of Commerce published Q2 2025 GDP data on nine blockchains, including Ethereum, Arbitrum One, Polygon PoS, and Optimism, marking the first time a U.S. federal agency has published official economic data onchain. The Department published a SHA256 hash of the GDP release and its topline figure, using Pyth and Chainlink oracles, with Coinbase, Gemini, and Kraken supporting execution. Chainlink also made six key macroeconomic metrics from the Bureau of Economic Analysis available onchain, to be updated monthly or quarterly.
- Arbitrum Brings ZK With Succinct
Offchain Labs announced that its partner studio Tandem and Succinct Network will co-develop a ZK-powered version of the Arbitrum Orbit stack, bringing Zero-Knowledge Proofs to all Arbitrum chains over the next year. Succinct already secures more than $4 billion in TVL and supports the OP Stack, and Tandem will provide engineering, product, and go-to-market support. The same issue covers MetaMask's Social Login, which lets users create and manage a wallet with a Google or Apple account and a password, and Euler's EulerEarn vaults, the first of which is live for USDC.
- Kaiko Ranks Ethereum #1 Blockchain
Kaiko's Q2 2025 Blockchain Ecosystem Ranking places Ethereum first, citing strengths in governance, integrations, liquidity, operational efficiency and security, supported by $7B in RWA TVL and broad DeFi integration. Arbitrum ranked second, with its operational efficiency and robust integrations highlighted. Separately, BitMine Immersion Technologies bought 190,500 ETH, bringing its treasury to 1.71 million ETH worth over $7.5 billion, and Chainlink partnered with SBI Group to accelerate tokenized asset adoption.
- Ethereum Blob Scaling Updates
The Ethereum Foundation's L2 and blob scaling team published an update on blob scaling, with PeerDAS scheduled for the Fusaka upgrade expected in late 2025. PeerDAS lets nodes verify blob data availability by sampling subsets of data, enabling capacity to scale from 6 up to 48 blobs per block, and PeerDAS v2 is planned for the Glamsterdam upgrade. The blob scaling efforts are led by Alex Stokes, Raúl Kripalani, and Francesco D'Amato. Separately, Ameen Soleimani argues that U.S. validators could face criminal liability under FOCIL (EIP-7805) if compelled to include sanctioned address transactions.
- BitMine Unveils 1.5m ETH Treasury
BitMine Immersion Technologies, described as the world's largest corporate holder of Ethereum, announced it now holds 1.52 million ETH valued at $6.1 billion, a $1.7 billion increase in one week after adding roughly 500,000 ETH. The article says this makes BitMine the second-largest crypto treasury overall, behind MicroStrategy, and that its strategy aims to secure 5% of circulating ETH supply, which it puts at $26 billion at current prices. The same roundup reports that BTCS plans an ETH-based "Bividend" of $0.05 per share, that Davide Crapis introduced the draft ERC-8004 trustless AI agent standard, and that ETHZilla changed its Nasdaq ticker from ATNF to ETHZ.
- Ethereum Hits 45m Block Gas Limit
The Ethereum block gas limit reached 45 million gas early Monday, July 21, 2025, at block number 22,968,004, after over 50% of validators signaled for the increase. The change can occur without a hard fork when enough validators adjust their node configurations to propose larger blocks, and it lets each block carry more data and boost transaction throughput. It is part of efforts toward a 60 million gas target, with EIP-7935 proposing 150 million by the Fusaka hard fork and EIP-9698 proposing a 100x exponential increase over four years.
- Coinbase Introduces The Base App, Base Pay, And Base Account
Coinbase introduced The Base App, the newest version of its non-custodial wallet, designed to enhance social discovery through integration with the Farcaster social graph. The app now offers a Base Account smart wallet, a social feed, payments, secure chat, and over a thousand apps, and any developer can release apps on it. Coinbase also released the Base Account SDK, which includes Sign in with Base and a USDC payments module called Base Pay, which will be integrated into Shopify Checkout.
- U.S. Treasury Removes Crypto Broker Rule
The U.S. Treasury and IRS removed a crypto broker rule issued during the Biden Administration, which would have required certain decentralized finance protocols to report digital asset sales similarly to centralized exchanges. Because Congress and the President disapproved the rule under the Congressional Review Act, it has no legal force or effect and is treated as though it never took effect. As a result, the regulations are reverting to their prior form, and DeFi protocols facilitating digital asset sales no longer must collect and report user information to the IRS.
- Ethereum Clients Support History Pruning
All Ethereum execution layer clients now support partial history expiry, which prunes historical block data older than the Merge and reduces node disk space requirements by approximately 300 to 500 GB. Before the update, full nodes stored the entire chain history from Genesis on July 30, 2015, often requiring over 1 TB. Ethereum core developer Lightclients noted that archive node users and developers relying on full historical data will soon need to migrate to external history data providers, while current state data is always retained.
- Robinhood Token Stocks On Arbitrum
Robinhood has launched tokenized U.S. stocks and ETFs on Arbitrum One, with over 200 available to European users. The offering includes zero commissions, dividend payouts, and 24/5 trading, and one token is minted onchain for each share purchased. Robinhood plans to migrate the tokens to Robinhood Chain, its own Layer 2 built on the Arbitrum Orbit stack, and to allow transfers to self-custodial wallets in later phases. It also announced plans for a crypto perpetual futures exchange and tokenized private company shares, such as OpenAI and SpaceX.
- Nethermind Release Sets 45M Gas Default
Nethermind released v1.32.0, an Ethereum execution layer client update that sets a new default gas limit of 45 million gas, above the network's current 36 million. The release also drops pre-merge history data from Ethereum Mainnet, saving around 300 GB of disk space for node operators. It adds performance improvements including faster block production and syncing, along with support for parallel block downloads.