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Ethereum is a decentralized, smart-contract-enabled public blockchain whose native asset is ether (ETH), underpinning DeFi, NFT, and Layer 2 ecosystems.
a16z crypto researchers say Aerie aggregated 32,768 Falcon signatures in 0.65 seconds on a laptop, 29 times faster than leanVM on consensus signatures. Ethereum, which targets full quantum resistance by December 2029, has not committed to adopting it.
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DWF Labs says tokenized equities reached $3.8 billion in early October, up 483% since January, as weekly DEX trading rose 55-fold to $2.54 billion. Usage grew faster than value, though only about 8% of the market is deployed in DeFi.
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Coinbase and Marqeta announced on October 16 an expanded deal for stablecoin-backed enterprise cards, with Coinbase handling custody and Base settlement. Merchants see a normal card transaction, so the stablecoin work falls to the two providers.
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Bitcoin dropped below $80,000 on Thursday after September PPI came in at 6.3% annually, a day after a hot CPI report. CoinGlass counted $948.22 million of liquidations, 90.6% of them longs, and Nexo says US spot ETF holders are back underwater.
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CryptoQuant says about $345 million of Binance ETH longs were liquidated on Oct 8-9, with funding rates near zero. It still rates conditions neutral because Binance USDT reserves fell 2.3% and the Coinbase Premium is not yet rising.
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Starknet opened a seven-day nonbinding vote on October 15 asking STRK holders to back research into becoming a quantum-resistant Layer 1. A yes buys developer time and further votes, so the cost lands before any design exists.
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Ethereum fell 5.5% and XRP 5.1% in 24 hours against Bitcoin's 3.1% after September CPI rose 3.7%, Decrypt reported. Two analysts it quotes split on the cause: one points to the dollar and rate-hike odds, the other to profit-taking after a strong run.
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More than $106 million of Ether longs were liquidated on Binance within an hour of September's CPI release, CryptoQuant's Darkfost reported. Ether fell nearly 6% to about $2,350, with derivatives volume near nine times spot.
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Long positions were over 92% of Ethereum liquidations on October 15, Cryptopolitan reported, in the biggest liquidation event in six months. The same report's positioning data suggests much of that leverage has already been cleared.
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An attacker took about $86,000 from UNCX's shared Ethereum vesting pool on Oct. 14, according to security firm Blockaid. About $3.25 million was still in the contract when Blockaid flagged the attack as ongoing.
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Leveraged crypto longs lost more than $876 million to liquidation in 24 hours, Crypto Briefing reported. A second tracker's October 15 tally puts longs at 84.5% of liquidations, under the 88% to 92% peak share.
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Interactive Brokers, which reports more than $903 billion in client assets, launched Ethereum staking through Zerohash on Oct. 13. Rewards compound inside the staked balance, but the coverage of the launch does not state a reward rate or a fee, so a client cannot yet work out the net yield.
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US spot Ether ETFs recorded $542.2 million of net outflows in the week to October 9 as ETH stalled near $2,500, crypto.news reported. Resistance levels and continued BitMine buying sit in the same report, so the flows alone do not explain the stall.
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Starknet's builders are weighing a standalone L1 aimed at a quantum-resistant network in 2027, Bankless reported. StarkWare's June 30 roadmap had no L1 option, and its third phase depends on Ethereum.
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Aptos switched on an optional encrypted mempool on October 12 that hides transaction contents until a block is finalized, Cryptopolitan reported. Ethereum's two comparable proposals are still drafts.
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ENS Labs posted a draft DAO proposal on October 11 to stop new .eth registrations on ENSv1 and activate ENSv2 on Ethereum mainnet. Existing owners could renew on v1 with no deadline, and the DAO would receive every ENSv2 admin role.
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BitMine, which holds about 4.9% of ether's supply, plans to stop buying at 5%, roughly 100,000 tokens or $250 million away. The sum is small; the loss to ether is the weekly bid after it, at a pace the report does not give.
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Spot BTC ETFs lost about $680 million last week and $65 million on Monday, Decrypt's Morning Minute reported. Price has done better than flows: BTC at $83,400 is about 4% under last week's high after touching $81,000 on Monday.
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Fixed 21,000-gas ETH sends to EIP-7702 accounts made up 201 of 401 failed transactions in a dev.to block sample. Delegated code runs on receipt, so those sends could not succeed at that limit. The author's breakdown puts all 201 on one cluster of senders, so the half says little about the network at large.
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Bitcoin, Ethereum and Solana ETFs shed $1.248B in the week to Oct 9, SoSoValue data reported by Cryptopolitan show. XRP funds drew $11.31M, under 1% of that, and relative to fund size the selling sits mostly in Ethereum.
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