When financial institutions put client assets onchain, supervisors expect a defensible answer to one question: how was the blockchain network evaluated? Networks differ in finality guarantees, governance, and continuity exposure. And those differences shape regulatory risk.

It’s our birthday 🎉 9 years of ENS on Ethereum, naming the internet one .eth at a time. May the 4th be with you ✨

Ethereum core devs just met in the Arctic to shape Glamsterdam and Ethereum’s future ❄️ All the notes are public at Ask your LLM what happened, and dive deep into any breakout discussions!

Last week, Ethereum core contributors gathered in Svalbard for the Soldøgn interop: a week long event focused on hardening Glamsterdam implementations to scale Ethereum securely ☀️ Read the full recap, including their candidate post-fork gas limit, below:

Romania Builds Quietly: The Ethereum Ecosystem in Eastern Europe's Hidden Engineering Powerhouse. 🇷🇴 -> From @peter_szilagyi & @MihaiAlisie to teams like Bware Labs, QED & Ocean Protocol, hundreds of builders are building the future of infra & DeFi. -> Nodes: @ETHBucharest_ &

1inch was born at a hackathon. The first DEX aggregator. $800B routed later, here's what happened next 🧵

Verifiable Agent Trust with @googlecloud and @intel. As autonomous agents move capital and coordinate high-stakes workflows, promises aren’t enough. EigenCompute makes agent execution, identity, builds, and upgrades verifiable. Verifiable compute for the agentic era.

USDC earn is now @ready_co Ready is scaling its neobank thesis at an accelerated pace as it rolls out USD Prime. Users can access USDC yield in Ready within just a few taps. Curated by @SteakhouseFi. Powered by Morpho.

Launching the Ethereum Applications Guild (EAG) The Ethereum Applications Guild (EAG) is being launched as a global non-profit collaborative organization supporting the Ethereum application ecosystem. As the Ethereum ecosystem reaches a new level of infrastructure maturity, the

Governance & voting capabilities are coming to Ondo tokenized stocks. Ondo has partnered with @Broadridge, which facilitates issuer communications for retail and institutional investors, to enable holders of Ondo's 250+ tokenized stocks and ETFs to access investor communications

Five years ago, we asked a simple question: what if trading could be fairer? Today, CoW Swap turns 5. 🐄🎂 And the answer - built trade by trade, wallet by wallet - is $200,000,000,000 in volume. Two hundred billion dollars. Let that sink in.

non-USD stablecoins up only on @base 20+ currencies supported with more every week

You can now use ETH as collateral to trade perps on Lighter! Choose how much ETH to deploy and trade with greater capital efficiency.

Ethereal news weekly #20 💸 @Etherealize_io $ETH is productive money 🤝 @KelpDAO DeFi united effort to restore rsETH backing 🧊 @arbitrum security council froze exploiter ETH

We've launched Risk metrics in DefiLlama! The best metrics come with real money on the line, so we devised a new one: how much $ would be lost across lending markets if a token got hacked This aggregates trust and willingness to extend credit to a token across risk managers

Our ZK Catalog just got a quantum resistance upgrade and a new fancy badge! Quantum computers can potentially crack ZK proving systems securing L2s, but some of them are ready for Q-day even now. Read🧵to learn more about the weak links of ZK and which projects avoid them👇

Private transactions are here. Payy’s privacy-by-design approach unlocks the next generation of stablecoin adoption for people and enterprises. Onchain payment infrastructure wasn't built for the speed, scale, or privacy that modern businesses demand. We're partnering with

If you’re tired of watching exploits dominate the timeline, this is your moment to act. The Ethereum Security QF Round is LIVE! Support the people and projects securing Ethereum and its L2s. 500 ETH (~$1M+) in matching from @thedaofund. Explore & donate:

🇭🇰 Hong Kong Ethereum Community Hub is here ✨ to build a decentralized future ✨ to light the spark in Asia Join us, join the future.

The Pectra Grants Round funded 10+ projs to help the ecosystem prepare for Pectra. Now we're doing it again for Glamsterdam. If you work on Ethereum tooling, validator tools, monitoring, research, etc. to help prepare for the Glamsterdam upgrade, we want to hear from you. 👇👇

Six years ago today, Celo mainnet launched on Earth Day! 🥳 The @Ethereum Layer 2 built for the real world has processed 1.27B+ transactions, bringing fast, low-cost stablecoin txs to 600K+ global users every day What does this look like in practice? Here's a better look ↓

Privacy Boost (@PrivacyBoost) by @sunnyside_io is live on OP Mainnet. The first privacy offering by an Optimism core developer. Drop-in SDK for confidential computing for Sunnyside's customers on any OP Stack chain. ZK + TEE hybrid. Sub-500ms proof generation. High throughput.

Introducing Base Azul, our first independent network upgrade. Now live on Testnet with a targeted Mainnet release on May 13th.

Following the Arsia upgrade on April 16, @Mantle_Official officially transitioned from a Validium to a ZK Rollup, leveraging Ethereum for Data Availability. It now ranks 3rd in Total Value Secured (TVS) among rollups, with $1.72B secured. Here is our technical analysis of the

Yesterday, we hit 100k AI registrations within the Ethereum ecosystem See breakdown by chain here:

1/ Starknet now has the native infrastructure for privacy. The Shinobi’s upgrade is now live on mainnet, introducing the protocol-level changes that make privacy natively possible on Starknet 🧵

We’re thrilled to unveil our new Interactive Interop page - a visual map of how value moves across the ecosystem. The ecosystem is no longer a list of silos. Our interactive hub lets you visualize the connections between 15 chains and 33 supported protocols. 👇

The 2026 Ethstaker Staking Survey is open.

Ethereal news mini #0 🧑‍💻 @solidity_lang developer survey results 🔴 @ether_fi migrated to OP Mainnet 💸 X $ETH cashtag

Ethereum Hub is now open on Magic Island 💚 A space for people working with @ethereum, AI, and decentralized systems to work, connect, and grow closer in daily life. Thanks to everyone who joined us for the opening and helped kick this off with us ✨

This week on Enterprise Onchain 👇 → Hong Kong issues first stablecoin licenses to HSBC & Standard Chartered → Deutsche Börse Group puts $200M behind Kraken → Ondo Finance files with SEC to put equities on Ethereum → Six Swiss banks sandbox a digital franc on Ethereum →

Introducing the open source version of evm now: We believe EVM contracts deserve a simple, open source UI that enables users to use contracts permissionlessly. That's why we're working on a standard and sdk and the above example dApp UI to power better

Hide your trail in two taps ⛓️‍💥 Fluidkey protects your privacy by generating a fresh address for every transaction But what if you want to break the onchain link between receiving and sending funds? This is now possible with our @HoudiniSwap integration

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.

Aave V4 has reached $20M in deposits. Caps scale up from here as the system matures, under a security-first launch.

Introducing "Linea Insights" 📺 A series where Linea's cryptography team shares what we are building and the thinking behind it. Following our announcement at @eth_proofs, @zk_evm walks us through the shift from direct EVM arithmetization to RISC-V.

Ethereal news weekly #19 ⚖️ @rstormsf acquittal hearing 🧑‍💻 @ETHGlobal Cannes hackathon finalists 🕸 @evmnow block explorer

Core devs are targeting next week for the 1st Glamsterdam devnet for @ethereum's next upgrade ePBS has been an incredibly structurally complex change, splitting block production into 2 coordinating parties inside consensus Getchu a download on the upgrade's status here: (🧵)

fun fact: this year’s ETHGlobal Cannes is our 300th event 🥳🎉

Shasta is live on Taiko mainnet! 🔥🔥🔥 We rebuilt the entire protocol from scratch. Deleted more code than we wrote. The result: 22x cheaper to propose blocks, 8x cheaper to prove them. Based rollups just got very competitive.