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The Ethereum Foundation announced that Trezor now supports clear signing via ERC-7730. This feature aims to improve the readability of transaction content, helping users better understand what they are signing when transacting on Ethereum. Previously, the Ethereum Foundation's "Trillion Dollar Security Plan" detailed progress from the Clear Signing Working Group and encouraged more wallets and decentralized applications to participate in developing this standard.
According to The Block, the Ethereum Foundation Protocol Cluster has released a list of EIP ratings for the upcoming Hegotá upgrade, setting December 2029 as the target milestone for achieving full quantum resistance. The two S-tier (mandatory delivery) proposals for the upgrade are: FOCIL (EIP-7805) at the consensus layer, which enhances censorship resistance by requiring validator committees to enforce the inclusion of public mempool transactions; and framework transactions (EIP-8141) at the execution layer, which natively integrates account abstraction, supporting custom signatures, sponsored gas, and batch operations to improve security and quantum resistance. The Ethereum Foundation stated that this timeline aligns with the independent migration targets of Google, Cloudflare, and Microsoft, and the December 2029 deadline will be considered non-negotiable prior to January 2027. Hegotá is not the final quantum-safe fork, but rather a critical milestone determining whether subsequent upgrades can proceed on schedule. From the Q4 2026 Glamsterdam upgrade to December 2029, the average fork cycle is only about 7.2 months, leaving extremely limited execution slack.
The Ethereum Foundation (EF) has officially selected EIP-7805 (FOCIL) and EIP-8141 (Frame Transactions) as two key mandatory proposals for the Hegotá upgrade, with these two updates forming the core of this hard fork.
Odaily News: The Ethereum Foundation has stated that the Protocol Cluster has published two articles providing a systematic assessment of the next network upgrade, Hegotá. Among them, "Hegotá EIP Opinion Post and Tier List" evaluates and grades the 62 EIPs currently proposed — marking the first time the team has released a unified EIP rating list for a network upgrade. Approximately 60 researchers, engineers, and domain experts from 9 teams under the Protocol Cluster participated in the review, submitting a total of 397 rating opinions, and engaging in discussions on controversial proposals. The current and future key focuses of the Ethereum protocol layer include advancing quantum resistance for Ethereum L1 by December 2029. The Protocol Cluster will host an AMA on September 16 at 14:00 UTC to discuss the Hegotá EIP ratings and protocol development priorities.
Odaily News Lyle Pratt posted on X, stating that if meme coins can indirectly contribute to the treasury of the underlying company through trading fees or licensing agreements, it would create a further flywheel effect between meme coins and the underlying company. Solana Foundation product lead @vibhu responded, saying they could create a meme coin launch platform for its stock and expressed willingness to help, with Lyle Pratt indicating that in-depth discussions could be held on the matter.Vida Global (NASDAQ: VIDA) is committed to helping enterprises build, deploy, and sell AI agents at scale. The meme coin CTO, which uses the stock token as its liquidity pool on Stonk, has a market cap of $7.47 million, up 51% in the last 24 hours.
: The G7 cybersecurity working group stated in its latest report that quantum computing poses both a security threat and an economic threat to public and private institutions, and related organizations should immediately begin migrating to post-quantum cryptography (PQC).The working group noted that the migration process could take several years, as attackers can already collect and store encrypted data today and decrypt it once sufficiently powerful quantum computers emerge. Quantum computing could also break digital signatures, leading to identity theft and exposing companies and their supply chains.The report did not mention cryptocurrencies, but similar public-key cryptography is used for blockchain wallets and transaction authorization. Current quantum computers are not yet capable of breaking Bitcoin's cryptography, but developers are considering post-quantum solutions such as BIP-360.Ethereum researchers plan to replace multiple cryptographic components used by accounts, validators, and applications. The Solana Foundation has tested post-quantum signatures on its testnet and launched an optional hash-based vault. The G7 working group also urged governments to support related research, public-private cooperation, and national PQC strategies. (Decrypt)
An unaudited report released by the Arbitrum Foundation shows that Arbitrum DAO generated $6.19 million in revenue in the first half of 2026, primarily from Arbitrum One transaction fees, Timeboost priority auctions, Expansion Program license fees, and treasury management yields, with the protocol revenue gross margin exceeding 97%. As of the end of June, the DAO held $125 million in non-ARB treasury assets.
SVM Layer 1 network Fogo stated that after detecting unauthorized activity, it has taken precautionary measures to temporarily halt the Fogo mainnet in order to prevent the continued transfer of affected assets. During the mainnet suspension, Fogo will upgrade the network and restrict addresses associated with the incident. The team stated that further updates will be released once more information is confirmed, and reminded users to obtain relevant information only through Fogo's official channels. At present, the cause of the incident, the scale of affected assets, and the timeline for mainnet restoration have not yet been disclosed. Previously, the Fogo Foundation was breached by an unknown attacker, with approximately 400 million FOGO tokens transferred to the attacker's address. The foundation stated that it had immediately notified relevant trading platforms and is in communication with law enforcement agencies and forensic experts.
: Blockchain technology company Starkware stated that on August 26, a transaction using researcher Avihu Levy's Quantum-Safe Bitcoin (QSB) scheme was mined on the Bitcoin mainnet, without requiring a soft fork, hard fork, or modification of consensus rules.The transaction consumed 10,000 sats and was processed through MARA Foundation's Slipstream service, as the non-standard format typically cannot propagate through Bitcoin's public mempool. The test consumed several hours of GPU computation, costing approximately $150 to $200.QSB employs hash-based quantum-resistant spending conditions and reduces quantum attack risks through signature trial mining, but still requires users to proactively migrate funds and cannot protect assets whose public keys have already been exposed. Starkware CEO Eli Ben-Sasson still supports introducing a protocol-level solution via a soft fork. (Bitcoin.com News)
Odaily News: 0xbow.io, a privacy and regulatory compliance tool supported by the Ethereum Foundation, has awarded a $5,000 bounty to researcher ross.wei for disclosing a vulnerability in the Privacy Pools v1 SDK. The vulnerability reduced the entropy of user account master key generation and was fixed in March. The team has provided a migration process, and no user funds were lost.
Odaily News, stablecoin protocol Ethena has announced four ecosystem updates, including buying back some locked tokens from early investors, adjusting the relationship between tokens and equity, launching a revenue buyback mechanism, and canceling VC monthly unlocks.The Ethena Foundation stated that it has completed buybacks of locked ENA tokens from certain large seed round investors who had sold ENA over the past nine months.At the same time, the Ethena Foundation has entered into a master framework agreement with Ethena Labs, transferring the intellectual property and value generated by the protocol to the Foundation, governed by ENA token holders, ensuring that protocol value growth does not result in residual cash flows flowing to Labs equity investors.In addition, an Ethena governance proposal has been launched to enable a "fee switch" that would use net income generated from various business lines under the Ethena brand for programmatic buybacks of ENA tokens. The proposal has been approved by the Risk Committee.Ethena also announced the cancellation of monthly unlock arrangements for future VC investors, eliminating market concerns about sustained sell pressure by releasing unvested tokens; team tokens will still follow the original lock-up and vesting schedule. These adjustments are aimed at further strengthening the binding relationship between ENA tokens and protocol value.
The Ethereum Foundation stated that the upcoming Glamsterdam upgrade will adjust the gas costs for creating and accessing on-chain state through EIP-8037 and EIP-8038. After conducting replay tests on historical mainnet transactions, the team found that a small number of smart contracts rely on existing gas cost assumptions and may experience execution failures or performance degradation under the new rules. However, the vast majority of smart contracts remain unaffected, and most issues can be resolved by increasing the gas limit.
Odaily News Aethir announced today the launch of the ACCELERATE strategic initiative, securing access to 10 AI data center sites across the US and Europe, with a total capacity of up to 20 megawatts. According to official disclosures, the total contract value of these sites will exceed $2 billion upon full completion, with an estimated contract value of up to $700 million expected to be finalized by the end of 2026. The sites will support NVIDIA B300 and GB300 clusters, with node scales ranging from 64 to 256 units, and deployment cycles measured in months—unlike the multi-year construction timelines of traditional data centers.Aethir also announced an update to its IDC tokenomics policy, introducing a burn mechanism and a floating platform fee. The Aethir Foundation holds equity in Axe Compute.
The Ethereum Foundation announced on Twitter that it will sponsor the inaugural Workshop on Privacy-Preserving Technologies (WPPT 2026). The workshop is an affiliated event of Asiacrypt 2026 and will be held in Hong Kong in December 2026. Organized by staff from the Ethereum Foundation, it focuses on topics such as ZK, MPC, FHE, PIR, privacy identity, blockchain privacy, and practically deployed privacy systems, aiming to connect theoretical research with practical applications. Official calls for demonstration papers are now open; submissions require abstracts of no more than three pages, with a deadline of September 25.
The Paul Ryan Foundation has announced plans to launch RISE, a blockchain-based benefits distribution pilot project on the Canton network, expected to begin in three U.S. states in 2027. The initiative aims to reduce the income penalty effect for recipients by integrating multiple benefits and automating calculations.
Odaily News: Jacob Creech, Vice President of Technology at the Solana Foundation, stated that Solana has reduced its network slot time to 350 milliseconds, the first adjustment since the network's inception. He shared on X that the next step is to bring it down to 300 milliseconds.Solana's slot time browser shows the current average slot time is 360 milliseconds, down from the network's initial setting of 400 milliseconds. In June, the Solana Foundation unveiled a plan to shorten slot time from 400 milliseconds to 200 milliseconds, with three subsequent reductions of 50 milliseconds each.All four phases are planned to be activated on the mainnet via the validator client Agave v4.2, developed by Anza, though the timeline has yet to be finalized. The related proposal, SIMD-0525, was approved and merged on May 14. (Cointelegraph)
an Optimism community governance proposal has been passed, reallocating 546.9 million OP tokens originally intended for user airdrops to the "Strategic Ecosystem Fund" managed by the Optimism Foundation, sparking discussions within the community over governance transparency and user rights.The OP tokens involved in this proposal account for approximately 12.7% of the total supply, valued at around $49.7 million at current prices. The Optimism Foundation stated that as the ecosystem strategy shifts toward institutional adoption and enterprise partnerships, large-scale user airdrops no longer fully align with the current development direction, and unused tokens can be deployed for ecosystem incentives, partnership building, and enterprise-level project expansion.The vote ultimately passed with 17.974 million OP in favor and 10.931 million OP against. The pivotal turning point came 16 minutes and 52 seconds before the vote closed, when Test in Prod (delegate.testinprod-io.eth), the core development team of the Optimism ecosystem, cast 8.486 million OP in support, raising the approval ratio from 45.77% to 61.84% and ultimately pushing the proposal through.Excluding Test in Prod's vote, the proposal's support rate would stand at only 46.47%, failing to pass, and the relevant tokens would likely have remained in the user allocation pool. The Optimism Foundation previously committed to disclosing the cumulative usage of the fund and related outcomes through annual budget reports. This vote has also reignited discussions about the influence of "large delegated voting power" in DAO governance and the balance of token holder rights. (CoinDesk)
Qwen releases Qwen-UI-Agent, positioned as a GUI agent foundation model for the real world, covering mobile, desktop, web, and DeepSearch environments. The model emphasizes reliable task execution on real devices, supports mixed GUI and CLI operations, batch actions, and long-horizon online reinforcement learning, while featuring security boundary control and cross-platform proactive service capabilities.
This funding round is supported by MH Ventures, Amber Group, ArkStream Capital, 0G Foundation, Kirin Capital, CatcherVC and New Oak International.
Odaily News - The Berachain Foundation has announced that its stablecoin HONEY has completed a brand rebranding, now renamed Bera USD with the ticker changed to BUSD. The contract address and the token itself remain unchanged; only the name and symbol have been updated.Since the token name is part of the EIP-712 domain separator design, permits or off-chain authorizations previously signed under the HONEY name will automatically become invalid and will need to be re-signed. Berachain stated that the BUSD-related updates will soon be fully rolled out across all integrated parties, with more updates to follow.