Ethereum
Ethereum Foundation Launches zkAPI for Private AI Payments
The Ethereum Foundation wants people to be able to use AI models without handing over a billing identity. On Oct. 1 it introduced zkAPI, a payment system built with the…
Porsche Shuts Down Its 911 NFT Project and Pioneers Circle
Porsche is ending its Web3 project and the PIONΞERS CIRCLE club. The 911 NFTs stay with holders; our on-chain snapshot shows a thin market.
FlashLoopAdapter Exploit Drains $305K From Two Aave-Linked Safe Wallets
An attacker drained two Safe multisig wallets on Ethereum on Oct. 1 by abusing FlashLoopAdapter, a third-party module that opens and closes leveraged Aave v3 positions. Monitoring service Defimon flagged…
Base Activates Cobalt Upgrade With Conditional Transactions and a B20 Seize Function
Base, the Ethereum layer-2 network incubated by Coinbase, switched on its Cobalt upgrade on 30 September. According to the Cobalt overview in Base’s documentation, the upgrade extends the chain’s B20…
MetaMask Exits Staking Validators, Including Lido’s, After Security Incident
MetaMask is exiting its Ethereum staking validators, including those it runs for Lido, after a security incident in part of its infrastructure.
Balancer Holders Approve Wind-Down, Pools Go Withdrawal-Only on 30 October
The decentralized exchange Balancer is shutting down. A governance vote that closed on 29 September at 18:00 UTC approved BIP-928, the plan to wind down the protocol and hand what…
Aztec Relaunches zk.money Private Wallet With a $2,500 Cap per Payment
Aztec Labs brought back zk.money on Tuesday, three years after the original privacy wallet stopped taking deposits. The new version runs on the Aztec Network, the company’s private layer 2…
Fake GIWA Mainnet Bridge Drains 766 ETH From DYORSWAP Users
A bridge to a blockchain that does not exist yet took in about $2 million in ETH over the weekend. The target was GIWA, an Ethereum layer 2 network that…
Bitmine Crosses 6 Million ETH, Now 98% of Its 5% Supply Goal
Bitmine Immersion Technologies now owns more than 6 million ether. In its weekly update of 28 September 2026, the NYSE-listed company reported 6,001,302 ETH as of 27 September at 3:00…
Ethereum’s Glamsterdam Upgrade Set for Sepolia on October 6
Ethereum’s next network upgrade now has its first public testnet date. Glamsterdam will activate on Sepolia on 6 October 2026 at 13:53:36 UTC, according to release notes from two of…
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