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community member ugurmersin has proposed an alternative to Proposal 613, suggesting that custody of the Ecosystem Protection and Continuity Fund (EPCF) and mainnet Chainlink SVR revenue be transferred from the Safe controlled by the Compound Foundation to a Community Multisig, adopting a 9-party 5/9 multisig mechanism. The proposal does not advocate shutting down the EPCF, but rather preserving its purpose, size, 48-month term, and emergency fund deployment capability.As of October 8, the EPCF held 500,000 USDC and 4.5834 million USDC deposited in cUSDCv3, while mainnet Chainlink SVR revenue held 355.95 ETH. The proposal states that the original Proposal 613 had planned to shut down the EPCF and transfer the funds to the Governor Timelock, and was canceled by the Proposal Guardian on October 7.
StarkWare Co-founder and CEO Eli Ben-Sasson stated that Starknet, which relies on Ethereum's underlying security as an L2, is currently considering multiple options including transitioning to an L1, in order to independently control its network's security transition and address cryptographic risks posed by quantum computing and AI.
Odaily News: Lido is developing a decentralized lending market called Lido Lend, which is built on a modified fork of Morpho Blue, adopts an isolated lending market design, is proposed to be governed by Lido DAO, and is pending a governance vote for approval. Lido Lend is limited to blue-chip assets, encourages price-correlated trading pairs such as stETH/ETH, and provides a deposit screening mechanism to guard against bad collateral. Lido stated that Lido Lend is not a general-purpose pool-based lending solution but is aimed at professional borrowers and risk-averse lenders; currently, stETH staking scale exceeds $25 billion, with no major security incidents since launch.
According to CoinDesk, the Ethereum Glamsterdam upgrade was activated on the Sepolia testnet this Tuesday, raising the block Gas limit from approximately 60 million to nearly 200 million, an increase of over threefold. A review of more than 25 consecutive test blocks showed that actual Gas usage ranged from approximately 52 million to 92 million, accounting for only 26% to 46% of the available limit, with no blocks reaching full capacity. The upgrade also adjusted the Gas consumption model for specific tasks and storage data fees, requiring developers to retest applications that rely on specific Gas cost assumptions. The next public testnet, Hoodi, is tentatively scheduled to launch on October 27, while the Ethereum mainnet activation date remains to be determined.
Odaily News: The Ethereum Glamsterdam upgrade has raised the Sepolia testnet's block Gas limit from approximately 60 million to nearly 200 million, as developers test higher capacity to support more payments and transactions.Early test blocks only used 26% to 46% of their capacity. A 6-minute voting round generated all planned blocks and achieved 99.97% participation of eligible staking weight in finalization.The upgrade adjusts transaction processing costs and data access costs. The Hoodi testnet is tentatively scheduled for October 27, while the mainnet activation date has not yet been determined. (CoinDesk)
Bitget, in collaboration with digital asset research firm BlockScholes, has released a new research report analyzing the synergies between tokenized stocks and crypto assets within a unified trading account. In the report, BlockScholes simulated a $1 million portfolio comprising AI and semiconductor tokenized stocks, BTC and ETH perpetual contracts, and a Nasdaq 100 ETF perpetual contract.
Odaily News: Russia has registered its first batch of cryptocurrency exchange operators and digital asset custodians under new regulations that took effect on September 1. The Bank of Russia has published the list of the first authorized operators, including 4 exchange operators and 5 custodians.Sberbank, Russia's largest bank, has been included in the custodian list alongside Atomyze, Voltari, and Cloud Infrastructure. Sberbank stated that it has applied for digital asset custodian status and plans to launch its first crypto products on December 1 through the SberBank Online, SberInvestments, and SberBusiness platforms, initially supporting Bitcoin (BTC), Ether (ETH), and USDt (USDT).T-Invest Lab, Zefir, and Sistema-Crypto were included in the exchange operator list, while VTB Bank appears on both lists. The registrations are based on a cryptocurrency bill signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin in August, which brings exchanges, custodians, brokers, and investors under the supervision of the Bank of Russia, and maintains the prohibition on using cryptocurrency to pay for goods and services. (Cointelegraph)
Odaily News: Prediction market platform Kalshi's 15-minute gold market recorded 542 million contracts traded in September, with estimated fees of approximately $5 million, surpassing the Ethereum market's 318 million contracts and $2.6 million; the Bitcoin market's estimated fees during the same period reached $60.4 million.The gold contract was launched in August, allowing traders to bet on whether gold would rise or fall within 15 minutes. Kalshi stated that its commodity trading volume reached $400 million within 7 months of launch, more than 4 times the trading volume of the crypto market during the same period.In the 7 days ending October 5, fees from 15-minute crypto, commodity, and financial markets reached $20.4 million, accounting for 80% of the platform's non-sports fees; this category of markets contributed 13% of trading volume and 20% of fees. (Cointelegraph)
on October 7, WEEX Exchange announced the launch of the "Wall Street Tycoon × Monopoly" campaign. Users can register to receive dice, and by completing tasks such as spot US stock trading, futures trading, dice consumption, and inviting friends, they can earn more dice; rolling dice to advance on the board unlocks random rewards including BTC / ETH / USDT / WXT / stock tokens / bonuses / deduction credits / position airdrops / points / dice, and users can also participate daily in US stock matchup predictions to win more points and share in a million USDT prize pool. Campaign period: October 7, 00:00 to November 3, 23:59 (UTC+8).Among these, October 7 to 11 is the TOKEN2049 theme phase. Users who register on-site at TOKEN2049 Singapore to participate in the campaign can receive a limited VIP experience card. In addition, participants can visit the WEEX Alpha Suite to join roundtable forums, AMAs, AI trading experiences, and Mini Trading House interactions, and receive exquisite merchandise and custom souvenirs.
the Ethereum Glamsterdam upgrade has gone live on the Sepolia testnet, activating at 13:53 UTC on Tuesday, epoch 353024. This deployment is one of the major test runs ahead of the upgrade's final mainnet activation.Glamsterdam will introduce built-in proposer-builder separation (ePBS), block-level access lists, and Gas pricing adjustments more closely aligned with execution costs, aiming to enhance the scalability and efficiency of the Ethereum mainnet. The Ethereum Foundation has published the relevant upgrade plans.Following this testnet deployment, developers will determine the activation time for Glamsterdam on the Hoodi testnet, and subsequently set the mainnet launch date. Once the upgrade is complete, developers will move forward with the next major upgrade, Hegotá. (Cointelegraph)
Odaily News: Global Dollar (USDG), issued by stablecoin issuer Paxos, will launch in the DeFi ecosystem of Ethereum Layer 2 network Arbitrum, covering Morpho, GMX, Fluid, and Maple, with Kraken providing fiat on-ramp and off-ramp services.Arbitrum aims to capture a portion of the economic benefits generated by stablecoins on its network. The network currently holds about $3.8 billion in stablecoins, of which about 60% is USDC issued by stablecoin issuer Circle.Stablecoin alliances are growing. OpenUSD has gained support from Mastercard, Visa, Stripe, Coinbase, and Shopify, while Qivalis has secured backing from 37 European banks. (CoinDesk)
According to CoinDesk, Ethereum Layer 2 network Arbitrum announced its addition to the Paxos-led stablecoin alliance Global Dollar Network (GDN), with its issued US dollar stablecoin USDG officially launched on the Arbitrum network.
Ethereum restaking protocol ether.fi has announced the launch of a USD-denominated stablecoin, ether.fi USD (USD), powered by Ethena. ether.fi stated that over $300 million in stablecoin assets are currently circulating within its ecosystem, and the launch of USD will natively integrate this liquidity into its upcoming products.
According to Upbit's official announcement, Upbit will add new KRW and USDT trading pairs for Numeraire (NMR), with trading expected to officially open at 19:45 Beijing Time tonight, supporting Ethereum network deposits and withdrawals.
Odaily reports: Vitalik Buterin shared Nethermind's development progress and stated that Nethermind is continuously improving Ethereum's efficiency and operating speed. Nethermind core developer Ben Adams said that its Beacon Chain plugin has completed syncing and is ready for the Glamsterdam fork on Sepolia; running Ethereum's execution layer and consensus layer as a single application appears to introduce no significant additional memory overhead. The Ethereum Foundation previously confirmed that Glamsterdam will activate on Sepolia on October 6, and Nethermind 2.1.0 already supports this upgrade.
a new address funded via Tornado Cash extracted 200 WETH on October 6 from a dormant MakerDAO ETH-A liquidation bot proxy, causing losses of approximately $538,000. The upgradeable proxy had won 4 ETH-A liquidation auctions in 2020, namely auctions #1457 through #1460, earning 50 WETH each, but never called deal(), leaving the collateral stuck in the Flipper. The implementation contract's exit function was not protected by ds-auth, allowing any caller to trigger it: first calling deal() on the aforementioned old auctions, then transferring the collateral to the keeper via Vat.flux, and subsequently calling GemJoin.exit to send the 200 WETH to a caller-specified address and unwrap it into ETH. The MakerDAO core contracts operated as designed; the vulnerability lies in the third-party bot's exit function lacking access controls.
Odaily reports: Eduardo Antuña, a core contributor to Ethereum Economic Zone (EEZ), posted on X that the Ethereum mainnet has successfully executed its first atomic cross-chain transaction from L1 to L2, marking the official deployment of atomic synchronous composability on the mainnet, no longer remaining at the theoretical stage. Eduardo Antuña noted that this is only the starting point for EEZ's efforts to promote synchronous cross-layer interaction and liquidity unification on Ethereum.
Odaily News: The Ethereum development team has completed an emergency software update ahead of the Glamsterdam upgrade testing on the Sepolia testnet, fixing an issue that could cause some validators to produce low-capacity blocks. This test will raise the Sepolia network's Gas limit from approximately 60 million to 200 million, validating Ethereum's future efforts to enhance network processing capacity.Glamsterdam is Ethereum's next major upgrade, and Sepolia, as a testnet, will be the first to deploy the related improvements to simulate the upgrade's effects. Gas is the unit that measures the computational capacity a block can handle on Ethereum. Raising the Gas limit means a single block can accommodate more transactions and more complex on-chain operations, but it also increases the computational burden on node operators.Ethereum validator client Prysm released version 7.2.1 on Monday evening, adding the 200 million Gas limit configuration. The previous version was released before the relevant Sepolia parameter adjustments, so if validators did not manually modify their settings, they would still operate under the 60 million Gas limit. This update ensures that validating nodes can participate in the Glamsterdam test as expected. (CoinDesk)
Odaily News — According to on-chain analyst Ember Monitoring, Meme trading platform GMGN (0x5d044...8960db) deposited 12,000 ETH in fee revenue earned on Robinhood Chain into Ethereum for staking 6 hours ago, worth approximately $32.57 million. Robinhood Chain has been live for 3 months, and GMGN has earned only about 24,500 ETH in fee revenue on the chain, worth approximately $66.54 million.
According to QCP Group's market report, the macro narrative has completely reversed within three weeks, with the consensus for another rate hike in October fully priced out and expectations for a Fed pause intensifying. September US non-farm payrolls increased by just 29,000, significantly below the forecast of 84,000. The unemployment rate rose to 4.2%, while wage growth decelerated to 3.0% (the lowest pace since May 2021). This soft employment data supports the outlook for an October rate hold, pushing the probability of a hike down to approximately 22%. Bitcoin is currently trading at $86,700, with technical support at $85,000/$83,000 and resistance at $87,200/$90,000; Ethereum is trading at $2,725, with support at $2,650/$2,550 and resistance at $2,735–$2,800. The key event for this week is the release of the FOMC minutes at 2:00 AM Beijing Time on October 8, with markets focusing on whether hawkish dissent emerges and the pricing direction ahead of the CPI data on October 14.