Tagged: eth

October 27, 2026 @ 9:10 am By Omar Faridi  |  

OpenAI announced that internal AI models had produced three significant research outputs spanning mathematics, computer science, and physics. The company described the work as part of an effort to collaborate with academic communities on verification and interpretation, releasing materials in different ways for each result… Read More

October 26, 2026 @ 8:40 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Ethereum (ETH) has experienced a notable pullback in recent weeks, with the second-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization shedding approximately $54 billion in value over a span of less than three weeks. This equates to a decline of roughly 15 percent in ETH’s price, reflecting broader… Read More

October 26, 2026 @ 4:13 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Ethereum (ETH) developers have postponed the planned Glamsterdam network upgrade on the Hoodi testnet, canceling an activation that had been set for October 26, 2026, at 17:42:48 UTC (epoch 132,352). No replacement date has been announced. The decision, reached during the All Core Devs Execution… Read More

October 23, 2026 @ 5:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Uniswap Labs has rolled out Aggregator Hooks for Uniswap v4, converting the protocol into an active liquidity aggregator that draws on sources beyond its own pools. These hooks encapsulate external liquidity venues and surface them as native Uniswap v4 pools. The feature went live on… Read More

October 23, 2026 @ 12:29 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Cysic, the zero-knowledge proof infrastructure and decentralized compute network, has suspended its cross-chain bridge following a security incident on October 17, 2026. An attacker exploited the system to create 10 million unauthorized CYS tokens on BNB Smart Chain, then liquidated the majority of them and… Read More

October 21, 2026 @ 3:38 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Ethereum and Solana both set new highs for staking participation during the third quarter of 2026, even as the returns available to stakers declined, according to Bitwise’s latest quarterly staking analysis. Growing amounts of capital locked into securing the networks diluted individual rewards, while the… Read More

October 19, 2026 @ 1:39 am By Omar Faridi  |  

a16z crypto research has released Aerie, a new system that aggregates quantum-resistant Falcon signatures at speeds practical for Ethereum-scale validator sets. Proof-of-stake networks rely on signature aggregation to handle large numbers of validators efficiently. Ethereum currently uses BLS signatures to combine roughly 32,000 validator votes… Read More

October 18, 2026 @ 10:08 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has outlined an experimental privacy framework for artificial intelligence agents that layers anonymous payments, network anonymization, and on-device prompt handling. The approach, which he describes as a “paranoid mode” wrapper around his personal agent harness, aims to limit the exposure of… Read More

October 14, 2026 @ 2:48 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

On-chain finance continues to draw capital at a steady clip, and the latest weekly figures from Token Terminal illustrate a clear split in where that money is landing. Real-world assets (RWAs)—tokenized versions of funds, U.S. Treasury bills, credit products, equities, and commodities—showed concentrated growth on… Read More

October 14, 2026 @ 8:30 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Interactive Brokers (Nasdaq: IBKR) introduced cryptocurrency staking for eligible clients, allowing them to generate rewards on certain digital assets while holding those positions alongside equities, options, futures, and other instruments on its single platform. The service is delivered by infrastructure partner zerohash. At the outset,… Read More

October 11, 2026 @ 10:00 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Ethereum’s long-running split between its base layer and its rollups took a concrete step toward closing on October 5, 2026, when Eduardo Antuña Díez, a core contributor to the Ethereum Economic Zone (EEZ), published evidence of an atomic Layer 1 to Layer 2 transaction settled… Read More

October 11, 2026 @ 2:02 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has urged holders not to rush digital-wallet migrations, even as he treats faster AI-driven mathematical research as a genuine risk to the cryptography that secures wallets and chains. His comments, posted on X on October 7, 2026, came in reply to… Read More

October 9, 2026 @ 11:37 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitmine Immersion Technologies (NYSE: BMNR) is nearing the end of a buying program that turned the listed firm into the largest corporate holder of Ethereum. Speaking at the Token2049 conference in Singapore on October 7, 2026, chairman Tom Lee said the company will stop accumulating ether… Read More

October 9, 2026 @ 8:42 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Arthur Hayes, the founder and former chief executive of BitMEX and now chief investment officer at the crypto fund Maelstrom, argues that the current rush to build artificial intelligence infrastructure is repeating a familiar pattern from earlier technology waves. Speaking at the Gamma Prime Investing… Read More

October 7, 2026 @ 8:32 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Abstract, a consumer-oriented Ethereum layer-2 network backed by Pudgy Penguins parent Igloo Inc., will cease operations on December 15, 2026, after the company concluded that the project could not be sustained. The decision, announced on October 6, ends an effort to turn a well-known digital… Read More

October 7, 2026 @ 12:48 am By Omar Faridi  |  

On October 1, 2026, the Ethereum Foundation’s dAI team and the Open Anonymity Project placed zkAPI on Ethereum mainnet, a payment layer that lets people buy metered API access—especially AI inference—without tying the payer’s identity to the requests themselves. Today’s typical AI key points back… Read More

October 3, 2026 @ 10:32 am By Omar Faridi  |  

MetaMask has begun withdrawing a large set of Ethereum validators from active duty after reporting a security incident inside part of its infrastructure. The company says ordinary wallet users were not exposed and that customer funds were not put at risk. The response is concentrated… Read More

October 3, 2026 @ 10:27 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Blast, the Ethereum Layer 2 network backed by Paradigm, is winding down after concluding that the cost of keeping the chain running has overtaken the revenue it produces. The project said on October 2, 2026, that it no longer sees a workable route to economic… Read More

October 2, 2026 @ 1:19 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Ethereum Foundation and the Open Anonymity Project have brought a mainnet system online that lets people pay for metered APIs without tying those calls to a durable billing identity. Announced on October 1, 2026, by Vittorio Rivabella of the Foundation’s dAI team, the design—called… Read More

October 1, 2026 @ 11:52 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Fraudsters drained more than 766 ETH—valued by the community at roughly $2 million—by launching a counterfeit Ethereum Layer 2 that posed as GIWA before the real network ever went live. GIWA is an OP Stack project from Dunamu, the operator of South Korea’s Upbit exchange…. Read More