Ethereum
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Ethereum is the community-run technology powering the cryptocurrency ether (ETH) and thousands of decentralized applications.
17999 followers · 28 stories
Ethereum is the community-run technology powering the cryptocurrency ether (ETH) and thousands of decentralized applications.
Aave said USDC and USDT deposits from Ethereum are now live in the Aave mobile app. Users on the waitlist can use the shared Ghost Pass code to get in, according to the announcement amplified by the Ethereum ecosystem account on X.
Ethereal published its mini #2 developer digest on September 25, amplified by the Ethereum account on X. The headline items: the Hegotá upgrade's frames-devnet-0 went live under ethPandaOps, Nethermind 2.0.0 shipped, and the Daisugi 0.1 post-quantum testnet launched.
The digest also covered:
The Ethereum Foundation's official Glamsterdam testnet announcement confirms the network upgrade activates on Sepolia at epoch 353,024 — slot 11,296,768 — on October 6. Following Fusaka, Glamsterdam advances Ethereum's L1 scaling roadmap with enshrined proposer-builder separation (ePBS), block-level access lists, and gas pricing changes that better reflect the cost of execution and state growth.
Client teams are shipping fork support ahead of the testnet: Geth v1.17.6 schedules Amsterdam on Sepolia at timestamp 1791294816 (October 6) and tells Sepolia node operators to upgrade beforehand, while the EF's Platåberget testnet serves as an early public testing ground for the combined Gloas and Amsterdam upgrades.
Glamsterdam introduces breaking changes for application developers: any tool that relies on a hardcapped maximum gas limit — wallets, indexers, gas estimators — must be updated, since repricing means gas is no longer capped at a fixed maximum. Sepolia activation remains the near-term milestone ahead of mainnet.
Researcher Francesco D'Amato (fradamt) shared a formally verified, machine-checked proof of Ethereum's decoupled consensus protocol — the favored model for 4–8× faster finality — calling it "one step closer" to that target.
The fradamt/verified-consensus repository models decoupled consensus as an executable state machine in Lean 4 and proves its consensus guarantees covering the confirmed, stable, and finalized chains, with no sorry and no project-specific axioms. The results assume honest committee majorities and bounded delivery after GST, among other premises listed in the proof's premise ledger. The Ethereum account amplified the announcement on X.
Researcher asanso announced Daisugi v0.1, a post-quantum Ethereum testnet using hash-based SPHINCS signatures with non-native account abstraction. Announced as "HABEMUS TESTNET," the testnet is an early experiment in quantum-resistant Ethereum accounts, with credit given to RIVA Labs and Giulio Rebuffo for the work.
The launch comes as Ethereum's post-quantum roadmap leans on account abstraction to let users migrate signature schemes without a protocol-wide consensus change. The announcement was amplified by the Ethereum account on X.
Nethermind released version 2.0.0 of its Ethereum execution client, changing how nodes store state. Archive-grade history now lives directly on the flat state database, so a full mainnet archive drops from roughly 30 TB to about 2.1 TB of disk — with no separate archive database and no new sync protocol.
eth_getProof is served on unwindowed flat archives (off by default)The Anon Project rolled out a Custom Gas Update for its private EVM wallet, letting self-paid sends, stealth withdrawals, and dApp calls run on custom gas settings. Users can now set fee caps or a legacy gas price, optionally cap the gas limit, and review estimated versus maximum fees before sending.
The update was amplified by the Ethereum ecosystem account on X. Anon is a privacy-focused EVM wallet available for browser and Android.
L2BEAT shipped a new feature on its dashboard that examines what privacy protocols actually mean by "private" — posing the question of who data is private from. The feature lets users scrutinize the privacy claims of different protocols on the platform.
Ethereal published its weekly #40 developer-focused digest, amplified by the Ethereum ecosystem account on X. The lead item: the US SEC granted a five-year innovation exemption allowing Tokenized Securities Venues to trade tokenized NMS stocks through permissioned AMMs, without registering as exchanges — requiring token holders to have the same rights and privileges as traditional shareholders, with public auditable contracts on permissionless blockchains.
Other headline items in the digest:
Weekly metrics put gas averaging 0.1 gwei and ETH supply at ~122M.
The Nomic Foundation released hardhat-slang-solx, a plugin for the Hardhat development framework aimed at making Solidity compilation significantly faster. The team announced that builds can be up to 5× faster when using the plugin, which is powered by the Slang-based tooling the foundation has been developing.
Nethermind 2.0.0 moves archive-grade history onto the flat state database, cutting full Ethereum mainnet archive storage from ~30 TB to ~2.1 TB and processing blocks up to 2.55× faster on fresh nodes.
The SEC granted temporary, conditional exemptive relief letting Tokenized Securities Venues trade tokenized NMS stocks via permissioned AMM liquidity pools without being classified as exchanges, on the condition tokens carry the same rights as traditional shares.
The Osaka-Fulu ("Fusaka") upgrade, the network's most recent major protocol upgrade, activated December 3, 2025.
GnosisDAO approved moving Gnosis Chain from a standalone L1 into a ZK-proven Ethereum Economic Zone rollup.
The Prague-Electra ("Pectra") upgrade activated May 7, 2025, increasing the maximum validator balance and improving staking and account abstraction.
The Cancun-Deneb ("Dencun") upgrade activated March 13, 2024, adding proto-danksharding (EIP-4844) to dramatically reduce data costs for Layer 2 rollups.
The Shanghai-Capella ("Shapella") upgrade activated April 12, 2023, enabling withdrawals of staked ETH from the Beacon Chain for the first time.
The Merge joined the execution layer with the Beacon Chain on September 15, 2022, permanently replacing proof-of-work and cutting the network's energy consumption by roughly 99.95%.
The London hard fork, activated August 5, 2021, introduced EIP-1559, changing transaction fee mechanics and beginning to burn a portion of ETH fees.
The Beacon Chain, Ethereum's proof-of-stake consensus layer, went live on December 1, 2020, running in parallel with the proof-of-work mainnet and enabling ETH staking as the foundation for The Merge.
Ethereum executed a hard fork at block 1,920,000 that reversed the DAO theft; the minority chain refused the change and continued as Ethereum Classic, a landmark governance split.
An attacker exploited a reentrancy vulnerability in The DAO's smart contract, draining roughly 3.6 million ETH — about a third of the 11.5 million ETH the organization had raised, worth an estimated $50–70 million at the time.
At block 1,150,000 on March 14, 2016, Ethereum executed Homestead, its first planned (production) hard fork, marking the platform's first production release.
Ethereum produced its genesis block on July 30, 2015, launching the Frontier mainnet. The network has run continuously since that date.
Ethereum's public crowdsale ran from July 22 to September 2, 2014, selling more than 60 million ETH for about $18.3 million in bitcoin to fund development.