Bastian Aue, the Ethereum Foundation’s interim executive director, outlined how EF will implement its new mandate: treating MEV extraction as a structural threat, making privacy a protocol default, and moving EF compensation into ETH and Ethereum-native stablecoins.

Ansgar Dietrichs, Barnabé Monnot, Caspar Schwarz-Schilling, Josh Rudolf, and Julian Ma have launched Ethlabs, an independent non-profit R&D lab backed by Bitmine, Sharplink, and Consensys founder Joe Lubin, with a thesis that Ethereum will become the universal onchain settlement layer.

The chairman of BitMine, the largest corporate holder of Ether, brushed off a former Ethereum Foundation contributor's warning that core development could run short of money within nine months.

Glamsterdam has reached its final devnet stage, locking in ten EIPs including ePBS and Block-Level Access Lists. The bundle clears the path for a 200 million gas-limit floor and mainnet activation in H2 2026.

A team led by Thomas Coratger and Justin Drake published the design for a dedicated XMSS public-key registry, the first protocol fork on the EF Strawmap before validators swap off BLS signatures.

Ethereum staking demand vastly outpaces validator exits, with over 3.39 million ETH queued to enter the network against just 64 ETH waiting to unstake.

The Ethereum Foundation's Kohaku Initiative released an SDK enabling seamless integration of shielded pool protocols like Railgun, Tornado Cash, and Privacy Pools directly into wallet interfaces, with 4337 relaying now operational.

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin outlined a leaner, more focused future for the Ethereum Foundation (EF).

At least eight senior EF researchers and leaders have announced departures this year.

Solana, Cardano and Hyperliquid led the day's losses as risk appetite cooled across digital assets.