Ethereal news weekly #40 spotlights SEC tokenized-stock exemption

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:

• S&P Global announced a deal to acquire OpenZeppelin, which will continue as its own business unit under the OpenZeppelin name, with Contracts remaining open source
• Blockspace Forum multi-party block construction went live
• Also covered: EF Protocol cluster AMA, ETHOnline finalists, client-team positions on the Hegotá upgrade, and security incidents including a ~$3.5M exploit on Nostra

Weekly metrics put gas averaging 0.1 gwei and ETH supply at ~122M.