333 posts tagged with "Ethereum"
Articles about Ethereum blockchain, smart contracts, and ecosystem
Aave Just Crossed $1 Trillion in Loans — And TradFi Can No Longer Pretend DeFi Is a Toy
Aave became the first DeFi protocol to cross $1 trillion in cumulative loan originations in February 2026. Here is how it ran away from Compound, Morpho, and Sky — and why SOC 2 attestation plus Horizon's institutional RWA stack now put it on bank counterparty lists.
Ethereum Hegota: The Post-Glamsterdam Fork and Ethereum's 18-Month Three-Fork Pipeline
Ethereum core developers have named the upgrade following Glamsterdam 'Hegota,' locking in three hard forks across 18 months. Here is what ships, what slips, and why L2s are watching.
Google A2A vs Anthropic MCP: The Agent Protocol Stack Web3 Builders Cannot Ignore
How Google's A2A and Anthropic's MCP became the two-layer protocol stack every Web3 builder now has to speak — and where x402, ERC-8004, and ERC-8183 fit underneath.
Chaos Labs Walks Away From $5M: The DeFi Risk Management Crisis Aave Can't Outgrow
Chaos Labs walked away from a $5M retention package, ending its three-year risk engagement with Aave. The exit caps a 90-day contributor exodus that exposes how fragile DeFi's risk management model has become at $24B+ in TVL.
EigenLayer Slashing Goes Live: The $15B Restaking Reality Check Begins
EigenLayer turned on production slashing on April 17, 2026. For the first time, roughly $15B in restaked ETH faces real cryptoeconomic loss — here is what changed, what it means, and the LST risk nobody was pricing.
$3B Blockspace Futures: How ETHGas and ether.fi Gave Ethereum Its First Forward Curve
ETHGas and ether.fi signed a three-year, $3 billion deal on April 15, 2026 to launch the first forward market for Ethereum blockspace — turning gas into a hedgeable, pre-priced commodity for validators, rollups, and institutional DeFi.
Glamsterdam Slips: Ethereum's MEV Reform Hits Engineering Reality as ePBS Runs Late
Ethereum core developers have quietly conceded that Glamsterdam's ePBS implementation is running late, pushing the May-June 2026 mainnet target into Q3-Q4 and reshaping the L2 and MEV roadmap.
Ethereum Economic Zones: Gnosis and Zisk's Plan to End L2 Fragmentation
Gnosis and Zisk's Ethereum Economic Zone, co-funded by the Ethereum Foundation, uses real-time ZK proving to make L2 rollups compose synchronously with mainnet inside a single transaction.
Intent-Based Wallets: The Endgame of Account Abstraction
ERC-4337, EIP-7702, and the wallet-as-a-service arms race are converging on a single UX paradigm: wallets where users declare outcomes instead of signing transactions.