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Ethereum is a decentralized, smart-contract-enabled public blockchain whose native asset is ether (ETH), underpinning DeFi, NFT, and Layer 2 ecosystems.
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Ondo Finance launched three tokens that each hold a rebalanced basket of its tokenized stocks and ETFs, using strategies BlackRock designed. Using the tokens as DeFi collateral is so far only a possibility Ondo has named.
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Ether's order-book depth slid to 35-45% of bitcoin's in the third quarter, CoinGecko found, while its price rose 70%. The slide came mainly from bitcoin's book growing by about half while ether's stayed near $13 million to $14 million.
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Ethereum Foundation launched zkAPI on mainnet, letting users pay for AI model calls from a private vault without revealing who is paying. The project's own repository still labels the protocol experimental, so early use will come from privacy-minded users and AI agents willing to test it.
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Coin Metrics has recomputed all daily and hourly Ethereum exchange-flow metrics from the first block, using the exchange wallets it knows today. Outflow backtests run on a fresh download can now count wallets nobody had identified on the trade date.
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Lido's proposed 0x02 module asks permissionless operators for a 32 ETH first bond, more than 13 times the 2.4 ETH its default route requires. Measured per ETH posted, the larger key catches up only after Lido's queue funds it with about 747 ETH of stake, so the speed of allocation sets the return.
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Blast is closing its Ethereum layer-2 after the chain earned $1,793 last month, down from about $3.5 million in June 2024. Revenue fell far faster than deposits, a pattern that fits an airdrop-era chain better than an industry-wide squeeze.
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U.S. spot Ether ETFs lost a net $118 million in the week to Oct. 2, after taking in about $689.8 million the week before. The selling shrank as the week went on, and with ETH stuck under $2,800, Glamsterdam's Oct. 6 Sepolia activation is the dated event to watch.
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Bitcoin ETFs took in $6.34 billion in the third quarter as the coin rose nearly 43%, about $3.1 billion of it in a nine-day September streak. The money is real, but its late arrival leaves open whether it drove the rally or chased it.
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MetaMask's validator key rotation after its Sept. 30 breach sends clients' staked ETH through exit and re-entry queues of about 45 days each. Joseph Lubin says self-custodied wallets were never within the attackers' reach, so the cost of the incident lands on staking clients.
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Crypto job listings on CryptoJobsList more than tripled to 1,241 from July to September as applications fell below 20,000, about 16 per opening. Most of the squeeze comes from employers posting more roles, and higher pay for finance and trading hires remains an inference.
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Bitget has recovered an estimated 0.2% of the $387.5 million hackers drained on September 24, through freezes by NEAR Intents, Tether and Circle. Its own User Protection Fund is covering the rest, so the protocols that cooperated cut Bitget's bill by less than $1 million.
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DefiLlama's October 3 snapshot shows 399 of the 558 blockchains it tracks earned zero fees in 24 hours, while only seven cleared $100,000. For most of the field, user fees are too small to support a token price.
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ARK's Brett Winton says each Starship flight could add over $700 million of annual SpaceX revenue, a figure tied to ARK's $2.5 trillion 2030 valuation. At about $2.0 trillion, SPCX already trades at 80% of that target while AI contracts bring in close to $2.2 billion a month, more than launches earn.
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Two Safe multisigs lost up to $310K after an attacker impersonated a Safe to get past FlashLoopAdapter, an Aave leverage add-on the owners had enabled. Aave and Safe's core code held, so the loss fell on owners who let a module move funds without signatures.
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Buyers spent about $6 million sweeping 63 CryptoPunks around Sept. 23, roughly 73% of the collection's $8.2 million week. The newer lending and brokerage tools turn up in wrapped, USDC-paid grail sales that the weekly count leaves out.
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Sucuri says a WordPress backdoor it calls SC keeps itself in at least eight places across files, the database and shared memory. Cleaning the plugin or wiping files on disk does not clear it, because any surviving copy rewrites the rest on the next page load.
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Scammers ran a working copy of Dunamu's unlaunched GIWA network on its reserved chain ID 9134 and drained 766.25 ETH from users. The ID got through an exchange's listing checks, so a matching network ID is now weak evidence that a chain is the real one.
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Citigroup lifted its 12-month Bitcoin target to $113,000 from $82,000 on a forecast of $5 billion in crypto inflows over the next year. A single month like June, when $4.51 billion left spot Bitcoin ETFs, would nearly cancel that forecast.
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Solana and Robinhood Chain took 49% of the $467.66 million onchain apps earned in September, the best month of 2026 in DefiLlama's data. Memecoin launchpads account for Solana's share, but Robinhood Chain's near-tripling has no reported source, so one month cannot show fees settling there.
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Pluto Security says the SleepyDuck operator re-listed fake Solidity extensions on Open VSX within hours of a takedown, in a stage it calls EtherDuck. Each wave stayed up about 19 hours, long enough for a single install to leave persistent access that the takedown did not remove.
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