
Ethereum News from Yesterday - POAP to enter maintenance mode on March 16, 2026, halting operations - Vitalik shared the Ethereum Foundation’s Mandate, emphasizing Ethereum as a sanctuary technological object for CROPS (censorship and capture resistance, open source, privacy, security) - BlackRock’s staked ETH ETF ETHB recorded $15.5M day-one trading volume. - CoW swap addressed the $50M Aave swap incident and said it’ll refund all fees sent to CoW DAO - Ethereum Foundation published EF Mandate to guide network stewardship. - Spire Labs announced that Pylon now supports full synchronous composability, allowing appchains to perform synchronous reads and writes across layers in a single transaction. - Aave V4 on mainnet is close

