Ethereum news
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U.S. inflation, Ethereum upgrade talks: Crypto Week Ahead
Your look at what's coming in the week starting Oct. 12.
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Kraken Plans UAE Launch After Securing Full Dubai License
The planned rollout includes dirham deposits and withdrawals, AED trading pairs, staking and xStocks, with retail investors covered by Payward’s license.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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ENSv2 Activation Proposal Would Halt New ENSv1 Registrations
Existing .eth holders would have no migration deadline, while ENS Labs would hand its remaining ENSv2 admin roles to the DAO.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Trader nets $1.28 million on new 1,000x exchange Papertrade by moving Hyperliquid’s ETH prices
The same wallet later lost $450,000 when 30 short positions were liquidated on Saturday night after staying open for more than three hours.
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Bitcoin, Ethereum and Solana ETFs All in the Red for October
Bitcoin ETFs have seen $386.3 million in net outflows through the first seven trading days of October, while Ethereum funds have now posted nine straight days of losses.
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Papertrade Traders Lose $18.2 Million as Staking Rewards Reach $12.6 Million
Reported staking rewards equaled about 69% of net trading losses, but the payouts redistribute money to PAPER stakers rather than reimburse each losing trader.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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StarkWare Calls Starknet L1 Shift Its 'Clearest Path Forward'
Starknet still settles on Ethereum, and its official account described an L1 move as 'a question, not a decision' a day earlier.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Wallet Linked to CryptoBilis Thefts Routes 464 ETH to Tornado Cash
Ethereum records show the money passed through an intermediary and four deposit wallets, while the source address retained about 700 ETH.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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AERO Rallies 48% in Four Weeks, Outpacing Bitcoin and Ether
Aerodrome holds about $393 million on Base as its planned merger with Velodrome approaches.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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NEAR Gains 83% in Four Weeks, Outpacing Bitcoin and Ether
A draft plan would lower maximum annual issuance from 2.5% to 1.6%, reducing both dilution and staking rewards.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Robinhood Chain considers technology that gives paying traders priority
A recently updated version of the paid-for transaction-ordering technology “Time Boost” will be available on Arbitrum, Robinhood Chain’s infrastructure provider.
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Ethereum L2 Starknet Jumps 20% After Saying It Wants to Become an L1
Starknet is "actively considering" becoming its own blockchain, a move it says would make it the first fully quantum-resistant network by 2027.
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Ledger investigates potential wallet tampering after reports of $86 million in crypto stolen
The hardware wallet maker said it is investigating devices sold by a Southeast Asian reseller as social posts swirl about crypto assets drained from Bitcoin, Ethereum and Tron addresses.
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Franklin Templeton and Animoca Plan Broader Asset Lineup for NUVA
NUVA launched on Ethereum in May with vaults tied to YLDS and home-equity credit. The partners also plan to explore tokenized cultural assets.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Base creator Jesse Pollak says equities and non-dollar stablecoins will lead upcoming ‘tokenization supercycle’
Coinbase launched tokenized stocks on Base six weeks ago, with about $70 million to $100 million in daily volume, according to Pollak.
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Live updates: XRP ETFs the only ones in green as BTC, ETH, ZEC funds post outflows
Bitcoin ETFs lost $244 million on Thursday and the ZEC fund extended a run of October outflows. Bitcoin is back near $82,000 after a $1 billion liquidation.
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Ether bets were wiped out at six times bitcoin’s rate in crypto’s $1 billion flush
About $356 million in ETH positions were liquidated over 24 hours, more than bitcoin despite ether’s market value being less than a fifth as large.
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Coinbase Cryptographer Calls Drake's 'Bunker Mode' Warning 'The Very Definition of FUD'
Vitalik Buterin said the risk from AI-accelerated math is real but pointed it at lattices rather than elliptic curves. A former Ethereum Foundation researcher said bunker mode would not help if the curves actually broke... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Abstract's ETH Withdrawals Depend on Operators Ahead of Dec. 15 Shutdown
L2BEAT data showed about $17.1 million in canonically bridged ETH; the wind-down plan sets out no independent exit after Dec. 15.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Starknet Weighs Layer 1 Shift to Pursue Quantum Security by 2027
An independent chain would let Starknet control security upgrades rather than wait for Ethereum, says StarkWare CEO Eli Ben-Sasson.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Ethereum Test Network Raises Block Limit to Over 3x Its Current Capacity
Ethereum's Sepolia test network activated Glamsterdam on October 6 with a block gas limit near 200 million, over three times mainnet's 60 million.
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Aptos Reaffirms 210 Million APT Lock as Insider Unlock Cycle Nears End
The network's 2.1 billion APT cap, 2.6% staking reward rate and tenfold gas-fee increase are already live.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Will AI Break Crypto Encryption? Ethereum’s Vitalik Buterin Weighs In on 'Bunker Mode' Shift
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin thinks the crypto industry needs to make sure encryption is both quantum and AI-resistant.
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Gnosis Bridges Adopt Fast Confirmation for Ethereum Deposits
Users and apps need no changes, but the faster processing relies on different security guarantees from Ethereum finality.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Wallet Shifts 150 Million USDT From Aave to Spark Savings
Aave’s Ethereum USDT reserve showed $169.54 million in available liquidity on Oct. 8, after withdrawals coincided with double-digit borrowing rates.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Initiate ‘bunker mode’ to protect crypto from AI, says Justin Drake
Senior Ethereum Foundation researcher Justin Drake, who has spent months warning about the supposedly imminent cybersecurity threat of quantum computing, has escalated his rhetoric with a prediction that AI will “break” elliptic curve cryptography within “months.” Warning the threat could arrive...
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Morning Minute: Ethereum Researcher Says AI May Break Crypto Encryption Before Quantum
Justin Drake is calling for crypto holders to start calmly planning for “Bunker Mode." But reactions so far haven’t been too calm.
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Bitcoin and ether holders urged to enter ‘bunker mode’ against possible AI attacks
Ethereum researchers warned AI could break the signatures guarding bitcoin, ether and the tokens built on them "in months, not years" in the worst case, well before quantum computers arrive.
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Bitcoin slips below $83,000 as Ethereum researcher's 'bunker mode' call divides crypto
Justin Drake's call to prepare for an AI break of wallet cryptography drew a mixed response as bitcoin slipped below $83,000.
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‘Don’t rush anything’: Vitalik Buterin warns against hasty wallet migrations amid growing AI threats
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin warned that the crypto industry should take risks to cryptography from AI-accelerated math seriously.