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Core developers have moved Glamsterdam's multi-client devnet into its final stage, with a 200 million gas-limit target that would roughly triple current L1 capacity if it survives contact with mainnet.
A five-person team of former Ethereum Foundation researchers stood up EthLabs on Wednesday, backed by roughly $11.3 billion in ETH held by Bitmine Immersion Technologies and SharpLink Gaming. The new nonprofit will compete with the Foundation for talent and research direction — and the funders have said so publicly.
Consensys is trying to turn MetaMask from a swap interface into a full self-custodial current account, routing stablecoin balances into Morpho for yield while letting users spend at any Mastercard merchant.
Kleros founder Clément Lesaege posted a 'Validator Redirected Revenue' proposal to ethresear.ch on June 21 that would let validators redirect 0-10% of staking rewards to public goods. If a majority signals support, the redirect becomes mandatory for the entire validator set.
Consensys's Agent Wallet runs through a CLI, lets an AI agent trade across ten EVM chains plus Hyperliquid, and routes any flagged transaction back to the user for 2FA approval. Early Access opens to 200 traders.
Three of six Gnosis Safe owner keys controlling the Hyperlane bridge ProxyAdmin sat on one machine. When the laptop was breached, the attacker drained 141 million H on Ethereum and minted 200 million more on BSC — and the H token fell 89 per cent.
Former Ethereum Foundation researcher Dankrad Feist wants a new institution funded with at least $1 billion in ETH and sustained by staking revenue. He posted the proposal days after the EF confirmed its eighth senior departure of the year.
USDF, a USDC-backed stablecoin issued on Solana through Coinbase's Custom Stablecoin platform, launched yesterday with wallet app Flipcash as its branding partner — the first commercial deal under the program.
The biggest consensus overhaul in Solana's history is now running on validator infrastructure outside mainnet, with Anatoly Yakovenko targeting Q3 for mainnet activation. The change replaces Proof-of-History and TowerBFT outright.
Ethereum's co-founder published a long essay on Sunday arguing that machine-checkable mathematical proofs, generated and verified by AI, could become the foundational security layer for blockchains, cryptography and critical internet infrastructure — even as the same AI capabilities accelerate vulnerability discovery on the offence side.
An attacker minted roughly 1,000 unbacked eBTC worth $76.7 million on Echo Protocol's Monad deployment by compromising a single admin key, though the realised loss was around $816,000 after the team regained control and burned the remaining tokens.
Base announced on May 4 that its Azul upgrade would integrate Succinct's SP1 zero-knowledge prover alongside its existing TEE proof system, with mainnet activation planned for May 13. The change cuts withdrawal finality from a multi-day challenge window to roughly one day — and makes Base the largest single Ethereum operator to put ZK proofs in production.
Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko told Ethereum Layer 2 users to "abandon all hope" of being quantum-safe over the weekend, citing fresh production hardening on Solana's Falcon-512 verification suite. The dig is more than tribal — the cryptographic argument has merit.
MoonPay went live Friday with the MoonAgents Card, a virtual Mastercard debit product that lets autonomous AI agents transact using stablecoin balances on Solana. Funds stay self-custodial; a smart contract authorises each purchase one transaction at a time.
Robinhood's crypto trading revenue collapsed 47 per cent year-on-year to $134 million in Q1, but CEO Vlad Tenev used the earnings call to reframe the entire business around tokenisation and a new public testnet of Robinhood Chain.
Blockchain intelligence firm TRM Labs reports that North Korean state-backed hackers stole approximately $577 million in 2026 — 76% of all crypto hack losses — across just two attacks: the Drift Protocol and Kelp DAO exploits.
Bitcoin's daily spot trading volume has fallen below $5 billion across major exchanges, the lowest reading since October 2023, with Glassnode warning that the resulting drop in market depth has historically preceded sharp directional moves rather than calm consolidation.
State Street said it will deliver tokenised fund servicing from Luxembourg by the end of 2026, extending administration, custody and transfer agency to digitally native funds and bringing the world's second-largest custodian into direct competition with BNY Mellon and JPMorgan on-chain.
MegaETH's native token launches on Thursday, with 53.3 per cent of supply locked behind on-chain performance milestones rather than calendar dates. Pre-market perpetuals on Hyperliquid have been trading at an implied $1.5 to $2 billion fully diluted valuation.
Anza and Jump Crypto's Firedancer reached the same conclusion on Falcon without coordinating, and the Solana Foundation has now adopted it as the network's planned post-quantum signature path.
