Ethereum news
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Base Ships Cobalt With Conditional Transactions And A Seize Function
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Base launches Cobalt upgrade with conditional transactions and new B20 asset functions
Base has launched Cobalt, adding conditional transactions and new functions for assets issued under its B20 standard.
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Base completes Cobalt upgrade, adds new tools for tokenized assets
Base’s Cobalt lets traders set transaction conditions while giving issuers tools for compliance checks, stock splits and forced token transfers.
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DogeOS launches testnet to bring EVM smart contracts to Dogecoin
DogeOS launched a public testnet for its zero-knowledge rollup bringing EVM smart contracts to Dogecoin, with DOGE used for gas fees.
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ESMA Proposes MiCA Rules for DeFi Gateways, Staking and Lending
The European Securities and Markets Authority has proposed a new regulated category for crypto firms that connect clients to DeFi, alongside targeted staking and lending requirements under the EU’s Markets in Crypto-Assets regulation, or MiCA. In its response to the European Commission’s MiCA......
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Ethereum Gets Another Privacy Boost as Aztec Brings Back zk.money
Aztec Labs relaunched its self-custodial zk.money wallet on Aztec Network, letting users make private stablecoin payments using readable tags.
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Bitwise Launches First US Spot Near ETF After Token Nearly Triples Since August
Bitwise's NRR began trading on NYSE Arca Tuesday, giving brokerage accounts NEAR exposure and staking rewards as the AI-focused token soars.
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Aztec relaunches zk.money privacy wallet on its Ethereum Layer 2
Aztec Labs has relaunched zk.money, a self-custodial privacy wallet, on Aztec Network after discontinuing the original product in 2023.
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Ethereum users get another way to pay privately as zk.money returns after three years
The relaunched wallet hides payments made on the Aztec Network, while deposits from Ethereum remain visible.
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Coinbase Adds HYPE and ZEC as Collateral for Loans of Up to $100,000
Coinbase added Hyperliquid’s HYPE and Zcash’s ZEC as collateral for USDC loans, saying on Sept. 29 that customers can now “instantly borrow up to $100k” against the assets. The announcement makes the borrowing option available to eligible U.S. users outside New York through Morpho on Base. The......
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Bitwise launches first US spot NEAR ETF with staking rewards
Bitwise's NRR is the first U.S. NEAR ETP, charging a 0.75% fee and staking its NEAR in-house, with rewards flowing to shareholders via NAV.
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Sentora Seeks Aave V4 Markets With 50% Revenue Share for DAO
Sentora has proposed operating independently curated lending markets on Aave V4, starting on Ethereum, with half of the instance's protocol revenue going to the Aave DAO. The Aave Request for Final Comments, or ARFC, remains at the community-feedback stage. It calls for a Snapshot vote followed,...
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Modveon Unveils El Salvador’s Sivar App for Dollar Transfers on Base
Modveon said its Sivar app is live in El Salvador, offering a government-backed service for holding and sending dollar stablecoins on Base, including transfers between the U.S. and El Salvador. The app’s terms of service identify Circle’s USDC as a supported stablecoin and describe...
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Ethereum schedules Glamsterdam upgrade on Sepolia for Oct. 6
Glamsterdam will bring proposer-builder separation, block-level access lists and new gas pricing, while its mainnet date remains unset.
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Ethlabs Says CCIP 2.0 Cuts Ethereum Confirmation Wait to Seconds
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The year’s second-largest XRP hack is spilling over to Bitcoin and Ethereum
The D’CENT wallet hack, the year’s second-largest drain of XRP behind the Bitget crypto exchange hack , has spilled beyond the XRP Ledger onto additional blockchains like Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Stellar. Hackers have drained more than 12.4 million XRP from more than 7,000 D’CENT wallets, still some...
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Polygon Plans Two-Month Boost to 7.7% Gross POL Staking Rate
Polygon says it will use 27.3 million POL in accumulated network fees to fund an estimated 7.7% annualized gross staking reward rate during a two-month window starting Oct. 1. The PIP-92 plan puts the baseline near 3% and schedules a return to the baseline reward setting on Dec. 1. The increase......
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Vitalik Buterin Outlines 'Cryptographic World Computer' Plan for Ethereum
Hegota will be Ethereum's last 'normal' fork, he argues, with everything after built on recursive STARKs and formal verification.
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The restaking gold rush is over, and top protocols are barely making a profit
As restaking yields dried up and smart-contract risks mounted, Ethereum's top liquid restaking protocol walked away from its core business to build a crypto neobank instead.
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Tom Lee’s Bitmine tops 6 million ETH after buying another 17,362 ether
Bitmine's total crypto, cash and other investments currently stand at $17.2B, and the company owns over 4.9% of ether's circulating supply.
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Tom Lee's Bitmine Buys Another $47M of ETH, Taking It to 4.9% of Ethereum Supply
Bitmine has staked 84% of its tokens, a position it projects will generate some $358 million a year in staking rewards.
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DYORSWAP users tricked into sending 767 ETH to fake bridge contract
Crypto scammers managed to trick DYORSWAP, a multi-chain decentralized exchange, into integrating a spoofed version of upcoming blockchain GIWA over the weekend, leading to losses of $2 million. Over one thousand users eager to be early to a new chain sent a total of 767 ETH to the fake bridge...
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Fake GIWA Layer 2 Bridge Drained of 766 ETH
A fake Layer 2 impersonating Upbit-backed GIWA had 766.25 ETH, roughly $2 million, drained from its Ethereum bridge on Sept. 27 after decentralized exchange DYORSWAP mistook it for the genuine network. An Ethereum transaction records the transfer from the bridge at `0xbA9938…435ab2` to... Read the...
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THORChain rejects Bitget request to block hacker as $6 million moves to bitcoin
CoinDesk found 27 successful swaps moving about 2,390 ETH into 75.2 BTC, even as Bitget urged THORChain to stop serving addresses tied to the $387.5 million theft.
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Bitwise NEAR ETF Clears Listing and Registration Hurdles
Bitwise’s NEAR ETF has secured NYSE Arca listing approval and an effective securities registration, clearing two steps toward offering brokerage investors exposure to the token and staking rewards under the ticker NRR. The fund’s Form 8-A, filed Sept. 24, says NYSE Arca approved its listing... Read...
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Bitget resumes Bitcoin withdrawals as hacker swaps ETH via THORChain
Ether withdrawals are scheduled to return Tuesday and USDt on Wednesday as Bitget restores services following last week’s $388 million hack.
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Scammers steal $2M in ETH as fake GIWA network fools DYORSWAP
DYORSWAP said it paid more than 200 ETH in compensation, while Upbit operator Dunamu’s GIWA warned that its mainnet had not launched.
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Vitalik Buterin says Hegotá could be Ethereum’s last ‘normal’ fork
Ethereum’s Vitalik Buterin said PeerDAS marked the start of Ethereum’s transition “from being just a blockchain to being something much more powerful.”
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THORChain under fire over Bitget, ETH evolves beyond blockchain: Hodler’s Digest
THORChain refuses to blacklist addresses linked to the Bitget hack. Vitalik Buterin says Ethereum is evolving from being a mere blockchain, into a world cryptographic computer.
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Buterin Maps Ethereum's Post-Hegota 'Cryptographic World Computer'
Ethereum’s upgrades after Hegota should make cryptographic proof-checking and distributed offchain work central to the network, reducing the need for nodes to repeat the same computation, co-founder Vitalik Buterin argued. In “The cryptographic world computer,” an essay dated Sept. 27, 2026 on...