Mainnet upgrades, validator economics, staking, EIPs, and the L2 ecosystem built on Ethereum's settlement layer.
Senator Kennedy was the last holdout who could kill the CLARITY Act. Today he voted yes. The most comprehensive crypto market structure bill in US history just cleared the Senate Banking Committee and is headed to the Senate floor.
Charles Schwab launched spot BTC and ETH trading for retail clients today — no new exchange account, no seed phrase, 0.75% flat fee. The largest non-bank brokerage in the US just went full crypto.
The Ethereum Foundation, Ledger, MetaMask, Trezor, Fireblocks and WalletConnect just launched Clear Signing — an open standard that replaces the hex garbage users blindly approve with human-readable transaction descriptions. Bybit's $1.5B hack started with a blind signing. So did most of yours.
The world's largest asset manager quietly filed SEC paperwork for two tokenized money-market funds specifically designed to let stablecoin holders earn Treasury yield — the same yield that Congress just voted to ban stablecoins from paying. The loophole is elegant. The implications are massive.
ZKsync Lite shut down permanently today, May 4, 2026. The original ZK-rollup that helped prove the technology works is gone. $33.9 million in user funds are still bridged to a dead network — and this is only the beginning of L2 consolidation.
A coordinated attacker swept over 500 long-dormant Ethereum addresses, stealing ~$800K and routing funds through ThorChain. The compromise vector is still unknown — and your old wallets may not be safe.
MegaETH's $MEGA token went live April 30, 2026. Backed by Vitalik Buterin and Joe Lubin with $470M in funding, claiming 100,000 TPS — and airdropping to 500,000 wallets on day one. Here's the full breakdown.
DeFi United drops its technical rescue blueprint today, with Consensys, Aave, Compound, the Solana Foundation and 14 other protocols pledging $300M+ in ETH to re-collateralize rsETH after the $292M Lazarus-linked KelpDAO exploit. This is the most coordinated cross-protocol rescue in DeFi history.
Bitmine Immersion Technologies (NYSE: BMNR) has quietly amassed 4.976 million ETH worth $12.9B, staked 70% of it through Coinbase Prime, and is now printing $221M a year in staking rewards — on autopilot.
Mint Blockchain shut down April 17. Myria is pulling the plug on its L2 with an April 27 asset-bridging deadline. They're not alone — 20+ crypto projects went dark in Q1 2026. The NFT-era infrastructure bubble is officially over.
Bitmine Immersion Technologies quietly accumulated 4.8 million ETH, staked 3.3 million of it, and is now uplisting to the NYSE. The MicroStrategy of Ethereum just went mainstream.
Charles Schwab — the brokerage that manages $12 trillion in client assets — just announced direct spot Bitcoin and Ethereum trading. This isn't Fidelity or a crypto-native firm. This is the brokerage where America's retirees keep their 401(k)s.