Ethereum news
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‘It’s really not just a blockchain anymore’: Vitalik Buterin maps Ethereum’s path to 2030
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin said Ethereum is "really not just a blockchain anymore" and laid out how its design will change by 2030 in a post.
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Vitalik Buterin maps Ethereum’s shift beyond a blockchain in sweeping 2030 vision
Buterin wants Ethereum to do far more work without forcing every computer on the network to repeat the same calculations.
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SEC Staff Clarifies Token Buybacks and Liquid Staking in New FAQs
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission staff said Sept. 25 that announcing buybacks of non-security tokens on a functional crypto system does not constitute a promise to undertake essential managerial efforts—a key element of the investment-contract analysis. The new FAQs, issued by the...
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Circle and Tether Freeze Stablecoins Tied to Bitget Hack—But Most Funds Slip Away
The two stablecoin issuers blacklisted a wallet labeled "Bitget Exploiter 8," locking about $318,000 in USDC and USDT—but the attacker swapped most funds into unfreezable ETH before they could act.
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Magic Eden Warns Old Ethereum NFT Listings Are Exposed to Payment Processor Exploit
A flaw in Limit Break's Payment Processor V2 put old Magic Eden Ethereum listings at risk, prompting a whitehat rescue of more than 23,000 NFTs.
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Legacy Magic Eden Approvals Exploited as White Hats Rescue NFTs
Attackers exploited Limit Break’s Payment Processor contracts to steal NFTs and tokens from wallets with legacy Magic Eden approvals, prompting a white-hat rescue across Ethereum and ApeChain. Yuga Labs’ vice president of blockchain, 0xQuit, said on Sept. 25 that the rescue team secured 23,155......
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Aave Adds Coinbase Stock Tokens as Collateral on Base
Aave has opened a market on Base where eligible non-U.S. holders of seven Coinbase-issued stock tokens can borrow USDC without selling them, bringing stock-backed lending to its V4 deployment. The Sept. 25 launch supports AAPLc, AMZNc, GOOGLc, METAc, MSFTc, NVDAc and TSLAc—tokens representing......
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Aave V4 on Base adds Coinbase tokenized stocks as collateral for USDC loans
Aave V4 added Apple, Nvidia, Tesla, and four more tokenized stocks as collateral for USDC loans for non-U.S. users.
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Ethereum Draft Proposes Compliance Controls for Confidential RWA Tokens
Developer Aryeh Greenberg has proposed an Ethereum token interface that would add compliance checks and issuer enforcement powers to confidential tokens representing real-world assets. The submission, pull request #2034, opened Thursday evening ET, remains an unmerged draft. It extends ERC-7984,...
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ARK Invest brings $1.3 billion venture fund onchain through Securitize
ARK Invest is bringing its $1.3B ARK Venture Fund (ARKVX), which holds OpenAI, Anthropic and Stripe, onchain via Securitize on Ethereum.
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ARK Launches Tokenized Venture Fund on Ethereum With $500 Minimum
Cathie Wood’s ARK Invest has launched tokenized shares of its ARK Venture Fund (ARKVX) on Ethereum through Securitize, with a $500 minimum investment. The offering is available to U.S. retail investors, Securitize CEO Carlos Domingo said, describing the launch as ARK’s first tokenization...
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Payy Halts Network After $1.92 Million USDC Drain
Payy, a privacy-focused stablecoin payments network, halted transactions on Sept. 24 after an exploit of its Ethereum bridge. Onchain records show two withdrawal batches sent about 1.92 million USDC to the same attacker-linked address. The company confirmed the attack and said “all Payy Network......
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Crypto casino Duelbits goes offline after $7 million hot wallet hack
Attackers drained Duelbits' hot wallets across four blockchains; about $6 million in stolen funds now sits in a single Ethereum address.
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Arbitrum Replaces Timeboost With Per-Transaction Priority Auctions
Arbitrum has replaced Timeboost on its Arbitrum One network with Priority Gas Auctions (PGA), letting users bid for execution priority transaction by transaction. It has also launched Fast Feed, a paid service that delivers ordered transaction data before a full block is published. An onchain......
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[[alloc] init] Releases Shielded Bitcoin Proposal For Private Bitcoin Transactions
Bitcoin Magazine [[alloc] init] Releases Shielded Bitcoin Proposal For Private Bitcoin Transactions Shielded Bitcoin is a proposal put forward by [[alloc] init] researchers Clara Shikhelman, Misha Komarov, and Aleksei Moskvin for a novel privacy metaprotocol on the Bitcoin base-layer to enable...
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Cathie Wood's ARK teams with Securitize to tokenize venture fund with OpenAI, Anthropic stakes
The ARK Venture Fund is bringing exposure to sought-after private tech companies onchain through Securitize, first on Ethereum then potentially expanding to other chains.
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KB Securities, Securitize and Optimism Sign Exploratory Korea Tokenization MOU
KB Securities has signed a memorandum of understanding with Securitize and Optimism to explore tokenized securities for institutional investors in Korea, with OP Mainnet identified as the intended blockchain. The agreement remains exploratory, and Optimism’s official materials give different......
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Ondo Opens In-Kind Minting for Tokenized US Stocks
Ondo Finance has opened an in-kind creation and redemption route for Ondo Stocks, allowing approved institutions to exchange U.S. stocks and ETFs held at Alpaca for corresponding tokens on Ethereum or BNB Chain. The change, announced on Sept. 21, lets eligible institutions use existing share......
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EU watchdogs warn quantum computers could pick crypto’s locks
EU supervisors warn quantum computing could weaken blockchain security as Bitcoin developers weigh a draft migration plan and Ethereum targets 2029.
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Vitalik Buterin Backs Trueo's Ethereum Move As TRUE Jumps 900%
Vitalik Buterin endorsed a prediction market by name on Monday, welcoming Trueo's plan to move its primary deployment from Base to Ethereum mainnet. Ethereum's base layer has no prediction market of scale. Polymarket settles on Polygon, and Kalshi is a CFTC-designated contract market with no......
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Kinetiq Opens Elysium Testnet for Hyperliquid-Focused DeFi Apps
Kinetiq said the testnet for Elysium is live, opening the Hyperliquid layer 2 it unveiled in August to developers with a published chain ID, a public RPC endpoint, a block explorer, a bridge and a faucet. The post went up at 9:45 a.m. ET on Sept. 22. Mainnet has no date. Elysium is Kinetiq's bid...
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European central banks push to expand stablecoin yield ban to crypto lending and staking
Central bankers argue that indirect yield structures blur the line between electronic payment tokens and commercial bank deposits, distorting financial system competition.
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Kamui Finance Brings Three Institutional Real-World Asset Vaults Live Onchain, Integrated With DigiFT, Hastra Prime, Midas
Built on Ethereum with DigiFT, Midas and Hastra Prime integrations, the vaults give platforms a single operational connection to real-world asset yield that would otherwise take a separate issuer onboarding for each asset. MAJURO, September 22, 2026 — Kamui Finance today announced bringing its......
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Onchain prediction market Trueo migrates to Ethereum; Vitalik Buterin welcomes ‘ethical’ market contender
Vitalik Buterin touted Trueo as a strong prediction market contender that is decentralized, ethical, and 'not corposlop.'
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Trueo prediction market moves from Base to Ethereum
Trueo said Base was the right choice when it launched, as Ethereum gas fees were higher, but said mainnet now offers greater integration potential.
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One Size Dominates Kalshi's ETH Perp Volume
Most of the dollar volume in Kalshi's ether perpetual futures market comes from trades carrying one repeating dollar value, according to data The Defiant pulled directly from the exchange's public perpetuals API. The pattern is the basis of wash-trading allegations made against the exchange this......
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Tom Lee's Bitmine Adds $74M in Ethereum, Declares a Crypto Bull Market 'Underway'
The purchase lifts Bitmine's stash to nearly 5.99 million ETH—4.9% of supply—as chairman Tom Lee argues Ethereum's outperformance signals a stronger move ahead and institutions remain underweight.
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Kyle Samani predicts SOL flippening, claims ‘no one’ uses ETH
Multicoin Capital co-founder Samani expects SOL to surpass Ether’s market capitalization “this market cycle” and argues that “today, no one really uses Ethereum.”
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‘Crypto bull market is underway,’ Tom Lee says as Bitmine nears 5% Ethereum supply target with 27,562 ETH buy
Bitmine's total investments currently stand at $17.1 billion, and the company owns over 4.9% of Ethereum's circulating supply.
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Bitmine bought $75 million ether as Tom Lee says institutions are still underweight crypto
The largest Ethereum-centric treasury firm kept buying, while its chairman argued ETH’s strong third quarter could push institutions to increase crypto exposure.