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Odaily reports: Orochi Network announced an additional $8 million in funding, bringing its cumulative fundraising to $20 million. The funds will be used to build verifiable data infrastructure for real-world asset (RWA) tokenization. This round received support from MEXC Ventures, Plutus VC, Bolts Capital, Ant Labs, and previous investors, and the project also received a grant from the Ethereum Foundation.Orochi Network stated that its verifiable database zkDatabase has launched on mainnet, having processed over 700 million proofs cumulatively with more than 10,000 downloads. It has established partnerships with projects such as Plume, Lumia, Nexus, and OG, and its alliance has over 120 enterprise partners. The network aims to use cryptographic technologies such as zero-knowledge proofs to verify the authenticity and integrity of asset data, providing data verification and audit infrastructure for applications including RWA, stablecoins, and AI.
According to The Block, the Ethereum Foundation announced a delay of the Glamsterdam upgrade, originally scheduled for October 26 on the Hoodi testnet, to allow for further review of EIP-8037's interaction with mainnet smart contracts. A new activation date has not yet been announced. Hoodi is one of Ethereum's test networks, primarily used to validate network upgrades before they go live on the mainnet.
According to Wintermute's weekly market update, Federal Reserve meeting minutes showed most officials expected another rate hike by year-end, with rate cuts unmentioned, while the US 10-year Treasury yield reached multi-decade highs. Consequently, BTC fell 3.2% this week to around the $83,000 level, ETH dropped 7.0%, and the S&P 500 index rose 1.2% to an all-time high. US spot BTC ETFs recorded weekly net outflows of approximately $679 million, marking the largest single-week outflow since June; ETH ETFs saw outflows of $542 million. CoinGlass data indicates roughly $1.19 billion in liquidations within 24 hours near Thursday's low, with long positions accounting for $1.06 billion. ETH faced additional pressure from news that researchers associated with the Ethereum Foundation advised users to migrate to new addresses. BTC's market share rose to approximately 59.5%, representing the most prominent internal signal of the week. Wintermute noted that amid the Fed's inclination toward rate hikes, yields are unlikely to retreat in the short term. Renewed optimism for crypto markets requires simultaneously meeting two conditions: "stabilization of long-end rates" and "spot ETFs resuming net inflows." It advised closely monitoring Wednesday's September CPI data and earnings reports from financial institutions and AI-related companies this week.
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 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.
The Ethereum Foundation, in collaboration with the Open Anonymity Project, has launched zkAPI, which is now live on the Ethereum mainnet. zkAPI allows users to first deposit assets such as ETH and USDC into an on-chain Vault, and then use zero-knowledge proofs to authorize API usage quotas, without exposing their specific payment identity to service providers.
Odaily News: The Ethereum Foundation has announced that zkAPI, jointly developed with the Open Anonymity Project, is now running on the Ethereum mainnet. The solution separates payment from identity through zero-knowledge proofs, allowing users to deposit ETH, USDC, and other assets into a vault contract in a single transaction and authorize AI API usage quotas without revealing their identity.Service providers can view request content but cannot know the payer's identity, while the payment service provider can only see the amount spent and cannot associate it with specific requests or users. zkAPI is initially aimed at AI inference scenarios and can also be used for pay-as-you-go scenarios such as blockchain RPC, image and video generation.
According to an official announcement from the Ethereum Foundation, the Ethereum Glamsterdam network upgrade has been confirmed to activate on the Sepolia testnet at 13:53:36 UTC on October 6, 2026 (Epoch 353,024), with activation times for Hoodi and the mainnet yet to be determined. Glamsterdam combines the Amsterdam execution layer and Gloas consensus layer upgrades. Core changes include introducing embedded proposer-builder separation (ePBS, EIP-7732), incorporating the block building process into the consensus protocol to reduce reliance on middleware; adding block-level access lists (BALs, EIP-7928) to enable clients to read state in parallel and verify transactions in parallel, thereby improving execution throughput. Additionally, the upgrade adjusts the gas pricing mechanism (EIP-8037/8038) to more accurately reflect the actual costs of state creation and access, requiring application developers to test their contracts to adapt to the new rules. Currently confirmed client versions supporting Sepolia activation include: consensus layer Lodestar 1.49.0, Prysm 7.2.0, Teku 26.9.1; execution layer Besu 26.9.0, Erigon 3.7.0, go-ethereum 1.17.6, Nethermind 2.0.0, Reth 2.7.0. Node operators must update simultaneously before activation.
Odaily News: The European Banking Authority (EBA), the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA), and the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) stated in a joint risk update that advances in quantum computing could weaken the cryptographic systems that secure blockchain transactions, communications, and database security.In March, Google Quantum AI researchers estimated that the number of physical qubits required to break the cryptographic techniques used by many cryptocurrencies may be about 20 times fewer than previously estimated. A computer capable of carrying out such an attack does not yet exist.In February, Bitcoin developer Jameson Lopp and others proposed phasing out current signature schemes and restricting how unmigrated funds can be used five years after the proposal's activation. The proposal has not yet been adopted. The Ethereum Foundation plans to make Ethereum's execution, consensus, and data layers quantum-resistant by December 2029. (Cointelegraph)
Odaily News: Researchers from institutions including the Ethereum Foundation, Theta Labs, and StarkWare have jointly published a paper, using AI coding agents to deeply optimize the core operations of Shor's algorithm. The computing resources required for a potential quantum attack on Bitcoin and Ethereum (secp256k1 cryptographic system) have been reduced by more than 50% compared to Google's benchmark in March of this year. The number of logical qubits required for the circuit has been compressed to 1,151, and later versions have even been reduced to 813. Although current quantum hardware still cannot directly break public chains, the research shows that pure algorithmic optimization is significantly narrowing the time window for the quantum threat. The researchers emphasize that quantum-resistant upgrades take a long time and cannot be applied retroactively, and the industry needs to prepare defenses in advance. (Coindesk)
According to CoinDesk, the U.S. Department of Commerce is allocating up to $100 million each to three quantum computing companies—Rigetti, D-Wave, and Quantinuum—through the CHIPS Act, totaling up to $300 million. The funding will support the expansion of hardware, manufacturing, and error-correction systems, alongside the simultaneous acquisition of minority stakes in all three firms. Meanwhile, Bitcoin and Ethereum developers are accelerating post-quantum cryptography upgrade initiatives. The Ethereum Foundation has set December 2029 as the deadline for foundational-layer quantum-resistant upgrades encompassing the execution, consensus, and data layers. While Bitcoin has no unified timeline, two proposals—BIP-360 (post-quantum output types) and BIP-361 (phasing out ECDSA and Schnorr signatures)—are advancing rapidly, with researchers likewise identifying 2029 as the critical window to complete a trusted migration path.
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: 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.
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.
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.
According to Cointelegraph, the Ethereum Foundation Protocol DevOps team issued a warning that due to significant adjustments to the Ethereum gas model in the upcoming Glamsterdam upgrade, some wallets, indexers, and gas estimators may experience malfunctions. Any tools relying on hardcoded maximum Gas limits will face the risk of becoming non-functional and need to be updated as soon as possible. EIP-8037 will introduce an independent "state Gas dimension" to handle operations that create new state—transfers to existing accounts will still be 21,000 Gas, but transfers to new accounts will incur additional state Gas fees. The Foundation recommends developers complete system testing on the public testnet Plataberget (launched on August 13) as soon as possible. The Glamsterdam fork is scheduled to activate on this testnet this Thursday, subsequently deployed to the Sepolia and Hoodi testnets, and finally launched on the mainnet. This upgrade also covers the Proposer-Builder Separation (PBS) mechanism, block-level access lists, as well as increases in contract and initialization code size limits.
Odaily News: The Ethereum Foundation (EF) has warned that the Gas model changes in the Glamsterdam upgrade may cause some wallets, indexers, and gas estimation tools to malfunction. The EF Protocol DevOps team stated that tools relying on hardcoded maximum gas limits will fail, and developers need to update their systems and test on the Plataberget public testnet. Plataberget went live on August 13 and is expected to run for several months. The Glamsterdam fork is scheduled to activate on the Ethereum network on Thursday, followed by deployment to the Sepolia and Hoodi testnets. EIP-8037 will introduce a separate state gas dimension for operations that create new state. Transferring ETH to an existing account will still require 21,000 gas, while transfers to new accounts will incur additional state gas; developers should also re-examine software that treats 21,000 gas as the cost for all ETH transfers, or that estimates transaction fees using only a single gas dimension. (Cointelegraph)