OpenZK is the first Layer 2 solution on ZK rollup technology to unite ETH staking, liquid restaking, and stablecoin staking in one seamless platform.
OpenZK
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Heads-up for anyone maintaining L1 contracts:
→ The Glamsterdam upgrade will include gas repricings (EIP-8037, EIP-8038) that shift state creation and access costs.
→ Most contracts are unaffected, but a small set may break or degrade without updates. Affected contracts rely on assumptions the new schedule changes, such as hardcoded gas values.
Full context in the overview: blog.ethereum.org/2026/08/24…
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LATEST: ⚡️ Vitalik Buterin says Ethereum will be quantum-safe, put users' privacy first, be censorship-resistant, and be lean.
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🇺🇸 SEN. LUMMIS: “Europe has its framework. The UK has its framework. The UAE has its framework. The United States will have the Clarity Act.”
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Short-term things being done to shift Ethereum toward native privacy:
* AA + FOCIL (makes privacy protocol txs, among many other things, first-class with strong inclusion guarantees)
* Keyed nonces: xitter.cf/soispoke/status/205163…
* Access-layer work (Kohaku, private reads...)
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From privacy breakthroughs to AI agents and institutional rails, the Ethereum ecosystem keeps shipping.
Here are 22 things the ecosystem delivered over the past few weeks.
0/ @gnosis_ and partners introduced The Ethereum Economic Zone (@etheconomiczone), a framework to unify the L1 and L2s into a more composable system with better interoperability.
1/ @aztecnetwork Alpha went live, a feature-complete privacy stack built natively on Ethereum.
2/ @aave V4 was released with a new hub-and-spoke architecture with support for over 20 assets across three initial liquidity hubs.
3/ @PrivacyEthereum released Social Recovery SDK, a wallet recovery model where trusted guardians can help restore access if the owner loses their private key, replacing seed-phrase backups with programmable onchain policy.
4/ Post-quantum wallets launched on @Starknet. A path to quantum resistance without address changes or hard forks.
5/ The @ethereumfndn's Board released the EF Mandate. This document, which was first intended for EF members, reaffirms the promise of Ethereum, and the role of EF within this ecosystem.
6/ Private transfers are live on @Scroll_ZKP. You can now send funds privately onchain, advancing default user protections and confidentiality.
7/ @base introduced Batches Cohort 003. 12 teams were selected from 1,100+ building across AI, DeFi, payments, and prediction markets, pushing forward OnchainApps.
8/ @ethereumfndn launched pq.ethereum (dot) org. Supporting coordination and research in post-quantum cryptography. Two breakthrough papers progressing research on PQ, with input from Ethereum researchers, were also released.
9/ Stablecoins on Ethereum hit a new ATH. Supply surpasses $180B, up 150% in 3 years, with ~60% market share globally, reinforcing Ethereum’s role in stablecoins and DeFi.
10/ @Morpho launched Morpho Agents (beta), allowing users to integrate lending into apps via natural language using AI agents and accelerating the convergence of DeFi and AI.
11/ @thedaofund deployed $1M+ via an Ethereum Security quadratic funding round hosted by @Giveth, funding work to strengthen security across the ecosystem.
12/ Deposit time from L1 to L2s and exchanges can now be as low as 13 seconds due to the new Fast Confirmation Rule (FCR). This new industry standard can be adopted by the ecosystem over the next few months.
13/ @hinkal_protocol launched Hinkal Pay, end-to-end confidential payments where sender, receiver, and amounts remain private.
14/ @peerxyz launched Peer Verify, allowing users to prove their identity, in a privacy-preserving way via ZK proofs.
15/ @ensdomains integrated with PayPal, allowing users to send funds cross-border using ENS names instead of addresses.
16/ @AskVenice shipped verifiable end-to-end encrypted AI, introducing privacy systems that can be externally audited and proven.
17/ @safe released Safenet (beta), a pre-execution security layer for Safe wallets that runs before transactions execute onchain.
18/ @SiloFinance launched Silo V3 for safer lending markets in DeFi. The team rebuilt core assumption behind lending so collateral does not need to be sold to keep markets solvent.
19/ @coinbase announced x402, an initiative to establish the x402 protocol as a universal standard for AI-driven payments, is moving under the Linux Foundation to ensure vendor-neutral, community-governed oversight of the protocol.
20/ @zksync introduced The Cari Network, a new platform to bring tokenized deposits onchain, developed alongside five regional banks and powered by ZKsync’s Prividium.
21/ @EthCC completed their 9th annual event in Cannes with attendees from across the industry. @ETHGlobal hit a milestone with their 300th event following ETHCC, continuing to support builders across the global ecosystem.
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Today, the Foundation’s Board released the EF Mandate.
This document, which was first intended for EF members, reaffirms the promise of Ethereum, and the role of EF within this ecosystem.
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⚡️ NEW: Ethereum Foundation is doubling down on DeFi as it forms a dedicated team to focus on builder support, security, and privacy-first finance across the Ethereum ecosystem.
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I actually don't think it's complicated.
IMO the future of onchain mechanism design is mostly going to fit into one pattern:
[something that looks like a prediction market] -> [something that looks like a capture-resistant, non-financialized preference-setting gadget]
In other words:
* One layer that is maximally open and maximizes accountability (it's a market, anyone can buy and sell, if you make good decisions you win money if you make bad decisions you lose money)
* One layer that is decentralized and pluralistic, and that maximizes space for intrinsic motivation. This cannot be token-based, because token owners are not pluralistic, and anyone can buy in and get 51% of them. Votes here should be anonymous, ideally MACI'd to reduce risk of collusion.
The prediction market is the correct way to do a "decentralized executive", because the most logical primitive for "accountability" in a permissionless concept is exactly that.
Though sometimes you will want to keep it simple, and do a centralized executive at that layer instead:
[replaceable centralized executive] -> [something that looks like a capture-resistant, non-financialized preference-setting gadget]
Thinking in these two layers explicitly: (i) what is doing your execution, (ii) what is doing your preference-setting and is judging the executor(s), is best.
Yesterday Vitalik posted about a curation-style creator platform idea, and while it seems like a complicated solution, his idea will likely prove directionally correct in the not so distant future.
Every major social media platform optimizes for popularity contests over quality content creation.
There has to be an opportunity in an alternative approach.
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Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell: federalreserve.gov/newsevent…
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Welcome to 2026! Milady is back.
Ethereum did a lot in 2025: gas limits increased, blob count increased, node software quality improved, zkEVMs blasted through their performance milestones, and with zkEVMs and PeerDAS ethereum made its largest step toward being a fundamentally new and more powerful kind of blockchain (more on this later)
But we have a challenge: Ethereum needs to do more to meet its own stated goals. Not the quest of "winning the next meta" regardless of whether it's tokenized dollars or political memecoins, not arbitrarily convincing people to help us fill up blockspace to make ETH ultrasound again, but the mission:
To build the world computer that serves as a central infrastructure piece of a more free and open internet.
We're building decentralized applications. Applications that run without fraud, censorship or third-party interference. Applications that pass the walkaway test: they keep running even if the original developers disappear. Applications where if you're a user, you don't even notice if Cloudflare goes down - or even if all of Cloudflare gets hacked by North Korea. Applications whose stability transcends the rise and fall of companies, ideologies and political parties. And applications that protect your privacy. All this - for finance, and also for identity, governance and whatever other civilizational infrastructure people want to build.
These properties sound radical, but we must remember that a generation ago any wallet, kitchen appliance, book or car would fulfill every single one of them. Today, all of the above are by default becoming subscription services, consigning you to permanent dependence on some centralized overlord.
Ethereum is the rebellion against this.
To achieve this, it needs to be (i) usable, and usable at scale, and (ii) actually decentralized. This needs to happen at both (a) the blockchain layer, including the software we use to run and talk to the blockchain, and (b) the application layer. All of these pieces must be improved - they are already being improved, but they must be improved more.
Fortunately, we have powerful tools on our side - but we need to apply them, and we will.
Wishing everyone an exciting 2026.
Milady.
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BREAKING:
The U.S. Treasury and IRS have officially cleared staking for crypto ETPs.
Staking rewards can now flow directly to retail holders.
This flips Ethereum from a speculative asset
into a regulated, yield-bearing product.
A new demand engine for $ETH just came online.
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December’s Fusaka upgrade is a major step in Ethereum's roadmap.
It's proof that Ethereum can evolve responsibly, scaling to meet global demand without compromising decentralization.
Learn how Fusaka will unlock the next wave of growth: ethereum.org/roadmap/fusaka/
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ZKsync has been doing a lot of underrated and valuable work in the ethereum ecosystem. Excited to see this come from them!
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⚡️ NEW: Vitalik defends Ethereum's staking exit queue, describing unstaking as "like a soldier deciding to quit the army" and emphasizing that friction in quitting is essential.
“An army cannot hold together if any percent of it can suddenly leave at any time.”
