Ethereum News from Yesterday - Aave V4 hits its initial $20M deposit cap shortly after deployment, with limits set to scale incrementally under a security-first rollout - BitMine now holds 4.875 million ETH (4% of global supply) after acquiring 71,524 tokens over the past week - WalletConnect Pay went live on Monad - Dappnode cut the Smooth MEV smoothing pool fee from 7% to 5%, and TheDAO Fund committed 69,420 ETH to the pool, helping solo Ethereum stakers access steadier execution rewards - Ethereum hit a new all-time high of ~3.6M daily transactions on April 12, 2026, while ETH price remains ~55% below its ATH - BOLD stablecoin can now be shielded via RAILGUN, bringing private transactions to Liquity’s decentralized stablecoin - Clanker named new stewards for its Ecosystem Fund, with 20% of protocol fees flowing back to builders in the Farcaster ecosystem - Reah launched its waitlist for an agentic onchain neobank combining regulated banking rails, stablecoin ops, and AI-native execution in a single unified ledger​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ - Scroll proposes dissolving its Security Council and handing protocol admin to a multisig, which would downgrade the chain from Stage 1 to Stage 0 within 10 days - Kraken was targeted in an extortion attempt; the exchange confirmed no breach and no client funds at risk