Ethereum News from Yesterday - Ethereum Foundation’s ETH Rangers program closing report: ~100 DPRK IT workers identified, over $5.8M in funds recovered or frozen, 785+ vulnerabilities reported - Josh Stark stepping down from the Ethereum Foundation leadership team after 5 years, wrapping up end of April - Ethereum researchers published draft EIP-8222 Lean Staking, breaking the link between deposit addresses and validator keys for staking privacy -Ethereum Foundation’s Use Case Lab published 122 ideas for building on Ethereum across governance, onchain orgs, and commerce - Giveth pushed back Ethereum Security QF Round start to April 23, with apps closing April 30 - Blockchain Association launched Tokenization Workstream to shape US policy on tokenized capital markets - Boundless shipped Prover Node v1.4, delivering up to 67% more revenue for provers via TaskDB optimizations - Optimism proposed stake-based transaction ordering pilot on OP Mainnet, letting users stake OP for priority tx treatment

Ethereum News From Yesterday - Ethereum Foundation launched a $1M security audit subsidy program giving builders access to 20+ audit firms, covering up to 30% of audit costs - Zerion suffered a DPRK-linked AI social engineering attack on a team member’s device, resulting in ~$100K in company hot wallet losses; no user funds or app infrastructure were affected - Etherfi committed $3B in ETH as validator liquidity to ETHGas over three years, sourced from its 2.8M ETH under management - Lido’s CSM now has 17,492 validators with 99.70% average performance, up 3,221 validators in the latest period​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ - Aave crossed $15.5B in all-time Pendle asset deposits - Morpho’s fixed rate protocol gets a name — Morpho Midnight — framed as a completely new paradigm for onchain lending, not a V2 of Morpho Blue - Base launches its first AI Agent Hackathon in Seoul on April 25th with a $5,000 prize pool, building on Virtuals ACP, x402 and AgentKit - Zebec card and payments suite now supports Base, with payroll on Base coming soon - Lattice is shutting down its Redstone L2, with the blockchain going offline on May 15, 2026; users are urged to withdraw funds before then as assets in smart contracts will be unrecoverable - Polygon launched sPOL, its native liquid staking token, backed by up to 100M POL in liquidity support from the treasury, targeting the ~95% of staked POL that currently sits illiquid - ETHEREUM FOLLOW PROTOCOL integrated into Etherscan, displaying onchain follower/following counts alongside ENS names on every account page - Base app launched referral rewards, giving referrers 25% of net swap fees while their friends get 10% off, capped at $100K USDC per month per referrer - ZERO Network scheduled 3-hour maintenance window on April 15 at 13:00 UTC​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ - Emergent Labs launched EigenSkills, an npm package to help developers deploy on EigenCloud - KPK deployed two new Morpho markets: rETH/USDC at 86% LLTV and tETH/WETH at 91.5% LLTV, both live inside KPK vaults with agent-powered rebalancing

Bitmine Immersion Technologies has accumulated 4.87 million ETH valued at $10.7 billion, making it the world’s largest corporate Ethereum holder. Chairman Tom Lee calls ETH “the wartime store of value” as the company generates $212 million annually from staking. Yet BMNR shares are down 32% this year.

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

Ethereum News from Yesterday - ZKsync and BitGo partnered to deliver tokenized deposits solution for banks. - TheDAO Security Fund launched $1M quadratic funding round for Ethereum security. - Ethereum[.]org released version 11.0.0, introducing under-the-hood improvements and expanded translations to make the site faster, smoother, and more accessible. - PGN shuts down, users advised to withdraw funds by April 20. - Ostium reached over $30 million in total protocol revenue, with $1.1 million generated in the past seven days.

Ethereum News from Yesterday - Ethereum Foundation launched https://t.co/wTghXuf7oq a resource for Ethereum’s transition to post-quantum cryptography. - Eureka Labs raised $6.7M seed to scale programmable blocks on Ethereum - Lido reported $40.5 million in revenue for 2025, down 23% year-over-year from $52.4 million in 2024 - Bitmine purchased another 67,111 ETH ($145M), bringing total holdings to about 4.66M ETH ($10B). - Vyro launched non-custodial borrowing protocol on Unichain with vyUSD. - David Walsh announced a closed-door Institutional Ethereum Forum in New York City, with executives from major institutions including BlackRock, JPMorgan, Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, Nasdaq, and others. - Polygon increased gas limit to 120M - Protocol Guild members to be granted tickets to EthPrague (May 8–10) in recognition of core contributors supporting Ethereum’s infrastructure.

Ethereum Foundation launched pq[.]ethereum[.]org a resource for Ethereum’s transition to post-quantum cryptography. Eureka Labs raised $6.7M seed to scale programmable blocks on Ethereum Lido reported $40.5 million in revenue for 2025, down 23% year-over-year from $52.4 million in 2024 - Bitmine purchased another 67,111 ETH ($145M), bringing total holdings to about 4.66M ETH ($10B). - Vyro launched non-custodial borrowing protocol on Unichain with vyUSD. - David Walsh announced a closed-door Institutional Ethereum Forum in New York City, with executives from major institutions including BlackRock, JPMorgan, Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, Nasdaq, and others. - Polygon increased gas limit to 120M - Protocol Guild members to be granted tickets to EthPrague (May 8–10) in recognition of core contributors supporting Ethereum’s infrastructure.

Ethereum News from Yesterday - ENS launched an ENSIP-25 demo app that verifies if an AI agent registered in an on-chain registry is truly linked to an ENS name. - Will Corcoran of Lean Ethereum released fastconfirm[.]it detailing the Fast Confirmation Rule (FCR) for Ethereum. - Curve Finance launched FastBridge for faster crvUSD withdrawals from L2s using L0 messaging - Coinbase x402 now supports all ERC-20 tokens - Registration for the March 2026 Arbitrum Security Council election is now live. Interested candidates have until March 22 to submit their applications. - Bungee Incognito is now live on Base, enabling private transactions - ERC-8004 ecosystem celebrates mainnet launch. - BitMine ETH holdings reached 4.596M ETH after acquiring 60,999 ETH over the past week.

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

Ethereum News from Yesterday - Yearn announced yvUSD, a cross-chain stablecoin yield vault. - Starting April 9, all Base apps will transition from Farcaster mini-app customization standard to web native standards for better UX - GSR completed the first confidential Ethereum OTC trade using Zama protocol. - BitMine bought 30,000 ETH for $61.89M. - A user lost $50M buying Aave on Aave interface, receiving only 324 AAVE (~$36K) due to high price impact on CoW swap - Vitalik Buterin says Ethereum should be seen as a privacy-preserving data tool, a public bulletin board for verifiable, permissionless data. - BlackRock debuted staked ETH ETF. - Lighthouse released v8.1.2 (Krombopulos Michael) update, a high-priority patch due to a security fix. - ZisKVM announced ZisK v0.16 update featuring performance and architectural upgrades. - Lido launched EarnETH and EarnUSD vaults. - Perp Dex GRVT to tge by end of June 2026.