Ethereum news
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Pendle Daily Volume Hits $159 Million, Led by Ethereum
Ethereum accounted for $121.5 million of trading, while the protocol's locked value rose only modestly during the day.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Wallet Linked to Drift Exploit Sends $61 Million in Ethereum to Tornado Cash
The North Korea-linked attacker behind April's $295 million Drift heist pushed 25,700 ETH through the mixer in two hours, and still controls roughly $198 million more.
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Ethereum Staking Hits Record 43.8 Million ETH, Bitwise Says
Ethereum's gross annualized staking yield fell to 2.63% from 2.81%, while Solana also saw more stake and lower returns.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Ethereum staking hits record as yields fall and Solana activity grows: Bitwise
A record 43.8 million ETH, nearly 36% of supply, was staked in Q3 as yields fell to 2.63%. Solana staking hit a record 440.5 million SOL.
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Optimum Says Block Propagation Layer Is Live on Ethereum Mainnet
The MIT-incubated network says 16 node operators and about 1.4 million ETH in stake are running mump2p, with ether.fi making it standard across its validator set... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Mastercard opens early access to AI agent payments following pilots with Coinbase, Base and Cloudflare
Mastercard opened early access to Agent Pay for Machines after pilots with Coinbase, Base, Cloudflare, and other partners.
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Blockchain.com rolls out crypto options as it pursues US derivatives licenses
Blockchain.com now offers call and put options on BTC, ETH, SOL, HYPE, AVAX, XRP and TRX, with expiries up to one week.
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Joe Lubin sells SharpLink after 94% stock collapse
Consensys, the software company controlled by Joe Lubin, has sold $48 million worth of SharpLink, the gambling marketing company-turned-ETH treasury stock that pumped 40x last year during a manic bubble in crypto treasury stocks . Lubin, who's also chairman of SharpLink, oversaw the sale of all 5.7...
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Drift exploiter sends $61M ETH to Tornado Cash, holds $194M
The April 1 hack caused about $295 million in losses and was later attributed to a North Korean threat group in a Mandiant investigation.
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Drift-Linked Wallet Sends $54.8 Million in ETH to Tornado Cash
Five Etherscan-labeled Drift exploiter wallets still hold about 84,164 ETH as recovery efforts continue after April’s attack.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Lido Engineer Warns of Staking Deposit Hijack at Glamsterdam
The related consensus-specs issue was closed as ‘not planned’; its author points to pre-deposit checks as a defense.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Sophon sets Nov. 25 withdrawal deadline ahead of mainnet shutdown
In June, Sophon’s developers said the costs of maintaining a standalone blockchain no longer justified its benefits and announced plans to focus on consumer finance and AI applications on Base.
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JPMorgan's JPM Coin Arrives on Ethereum, Putting Bank Dollars on a Public Blockchain
JPMorgan is rolling out JPM Coin on Ethereum for institutional clients, a token backed by dollars in its accounts that settles in seconds, any day of the week.
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Lighter Launches BTC and ETH Binary Options on Core
The Up/Down contracts pay winning shares 1 USDC and require full funding, with no leverage or liquidations.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Frax Announces Six-Currency FX Lineup on Aerodrome
The six Base pools held about $241,000 in liquidity and recorded roughly $20,000 in trading over 24 hours, according to GeckoTerminal data.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Tom Lee’s Bitmine Adds $30 Million in Ethereum as Buying Nears Its Finish Line
The purchase lifts Bitmine’s stash to 6.04 million ETH—4.9% of supply and 99% of the way to its “Alchemy of 5%” goal—as chairman Tom Lee framed a market-wide selloff as an attractive entry point.
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Bitmine adds 12,535 ETH as treasury reaches 6.04 million tokens
Bitmine bought 12,535 ETH last week, lifting its treasury to 6.04 million tokens and total investment holdings to $15.1 billion.
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World Liberty’s USD1 stablecoin sheds $400M in market cap in two weeks
World Liberty Financial’s USD1 stablecoin saw its market cap decrease more than $400 million over two weeks of large redemptions on Ethereum and BNB Chain.
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JPMorgan's JPM Coin, representing dollar deposits, is coming to Ethereum: Bloomberg
JPMorgan's dollar deposit token is heading to Ethereum as the lender looks to offer it to wider selection of institutional clients.
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JPMorgan takes JPM Coin to Ethereum for institutional clients: Report
JPMorgan is reportedly expanding its JPM Coin deposit token to Ethereum, allowing institutional clients to make payments and settle tokenized asset transactions.
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JPMorgan expands ‘JPM Coin’ deposit token to Ethereum for institutional clients
The USD-denominated deposit token now supports peer-to-peer transfers within the Ethereum Virtual Machine ecosystem, including Base.
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Bitcoin, Ether ETFs shed $549M as October ETH outflows near $1B
US spot Ether ETFs recorded around $955 million in October net outflows so far, while Bitcoin funds extended their weekly withdrawal streak to two weeks.
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JPMorgan Extends JPM Coin to Ethereum for Institutional Clients
The bank-issued dollar token remains restricted to approved counterparties, bringing permissioned bank money onto another public blockchain.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Cysic suspends bridge after attacker mints tokens and moves $727,000 to Ethereum
The attacker, after minting 10 million CYS, managed to bridge about $727,000 in proceeds to Ethereum through Mayan, deBridge and SWFT's Bridgers.
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Strive Prices $630 Million SATS Preferred Offering at $90
The $100 dividend base implies a 16.7% simple annual yield at the offer price, above SATA's initial 15%.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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STRK’s L1 Bet: Eli Ben-Sasson on Starknet’s Exit Plan
Starknet says it is “actively considering becoming an L1” — leaving Ethereum to become what it calls the first fully quantum-resistant network, with 2027 as the target. StarkWare co-founder and CEO Eli Ben-Sasson joins Camila Russo to explain the plan. The announcement came as a post on X on...
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INJ Surges 27%, Outpacing NEAR and Sei
INJ outpaced NEAR, Sei and Cosmos Hub over 24 hours, while a proposed 21Shares fund would hold the token directly and allow discretionary staking.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Coinbase and Marqeta Expand Partnership for Enterprise Stablecoin Cards
The planned offering would let businesses fund card programs around the clock, with Coinbase holding balances and Base providing onchain settlement infrastructure.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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How Ethereum Works
The focus is how Ethereum works under the hood: how it tracks and updates state, how transactions flow through the network, how computation is priced through gas, how smart contracts and token standards make Ethereum programmable, and how other Layer 1 blockchains approach the same problems in...
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OpenAI agent questions its own ethics after going rogue and stealing crypto
OpenAI revealed its AI agent was left questioning its own ethics after it embarked on an unauthorized search for publicly known recovery phrases and stole testnet ETH from a developer wallet. The incident, shared on OpenAI’s Alignment Research Blog , involved an internal research model that was...