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The Ethereum Foundation is the nonprofit that funds research, protocol development, and ecosystem support for the Ethereum blockchain network.
a16z crypto researchers say Aerie aggregated 32,768 Falcon signatures in 0.65 seconds on a laptop, 29 times faster than leanVM on consensus signatures. Ethereum, which targets full quantum resistance by December 2029, has not committed to adopting it.
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Matter Labs says its Airbender Prime prover cleared 99% of 7,200 Ethereum blocks in under 10 seconds each on one GPU. Starknet is weighing its own L1 for 2027. The record shows no fee stream behind either route.
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Two Ethereum Foundation-linked wallets sent 4,393 ETH, worth about $11.13 million, to Kraken on October 12, according to analyst EmberCN. Neither the Foundation nor Kraken has said publicly what the deposit was for.
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Starknet says it is actively considering leaving Ethereum to become its own L1, with 2027 as its target for full quantum resistance. STRK rose about 20% to $0.073, Decrypt reported, so holders are already paying for an exit that is still only under discussion.
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Ethereum Foundation researcher Justin Drake says AI could break ECDSA in "months not years" and wants large holders on fresh addresses now. Custodians would bear most of the cost, and his evidence is a single AI math result.
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Ethereum Economic Zone settled its first atomic L1-to-L2 transaction on mainnet on October 5, moving 0.001 ETH as one all-or-nothing unit. At that size it proves the design works on mainnet, and its value now depends on rollups agreeing to let Ethereum set the order of their transactions.
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Zakura, a Zcash full-node builder, expects opcodes for hash-based signatures on transparent payments to land in Zcash in January. No date has been confirmed for switching them on across the network, so January is when the code arrives and the protection date is still open.
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HKT Payment is testing, in a Hong Kong regulator's sandbox, a blockchain 'agentic ID' that ties an AI agent's payments to a verified person or company. The pilot brings the question of whom an agent acts for under supervisory review, though the report describes a test and no rule.
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Justin Sun says Tron is ready to bring quantum resistance to mainnet at any time, now that post-quantum signatures run on its Nile testnet. Mainnet still needs separate governance approval, Crypto Briefing reported, and the opt-in design reaches only holders who adopt it.
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Ethereum's fee burn has offset 2.07% of 2026 issuance through Oct. 9, leaving supply about 0.64% higher, ethsupply.fyi data show. A larger gas limit would spread the roughly 2,992 ETH of daily burn needed to cancel issuance across more gas, so it slows supply growth only if blocks actually fill.
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Ethereum's draft EIP-7906 lets transactions reject bad trade results, but only a floor set by someone other than the trade's builder protects users. What the proposal is worth to a trader depends on whether wallets and account providers write their own limits from prices the app does not control.
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Bitcoin climbed back to about $82,500 after Trump said the U.S. would not attack Iran before the Nov. 3 midterms, still about 4% down on the week. Futures open interest barely moved on the way up, so traders bought the bounce without taking on fresh leverage.
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Ethereum's Glamsterdam upgrade lifts Sepolia's gas limit to 200 million from about 60 million, a load test for validators. Developers will use the result to size an upgrade that has no mainnet date, while user fees still turn on demand and on how Glamsterdam reprices state.
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Curve Finance says Ethereum's Glamsterdam upgrade could make complex DeFi transactions more reliable during congestion. It told crypto.news the test is inclusion speed and fees under load, and that repriced state charges would raise gas for some actions.
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Vitalik Buterin said AI-driven mathematics has a good chance of seriously weakening lattice cryptography within two years. He offered no demonstrated attack, and for teams adopting post-quantum schemes the forecast argues for lattice deployments built to be replaced.
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Bitcoin traded near $82,800, roughly 4% below Tuesday's high, as the 30-year Treasury yield rose to 5.71% after Fed minutes pointed to another hike. Futures bets shrank at least as fast as prices, the pattern of traders cutting leverage, while an Ethereum Foundation researcher's 'bunker mode' warning split the industry over wallet security.
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Ethereum will activate Glamsterdam, likely its largest fork since the Merge according to a core developer, on the Sepolia testnet on Oct. 6. It reprices gas and lays groundwork for higher layer-1 gas limits, with no date yet for the Hoodi testnet or mainnet.
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Ethereum Economic Zone moved 0.001 ETH from Ethereum mainnet to a layer-2 in its first atomic cross-chain transaction. The all-or-nothing design now works on mainnet in one direction, with two-way calls and real-time proving on a roadmap running through 2027.
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Ethereum Economic Zone has run its first all-or-nothing transaction spanning Ethereum mainnet and a Layer 2, settled inside a single block. How much liquidity that pools depends on how many rollups agree to give Ethereum the final say over their transaction order.
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Ethereum Foundation says EIP-7906, a check that could have reverted the $1.5 billion Bybit theft, will not ship before 2027. Its own post concedes the check cannot stop the stolen-key and social-engineering attacks behind most of 2026's losses.
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