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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.
Odaily News: On October 1, the Ethereum Foundation and Open Anonymity Project launched zkAPI on the Ethereum mainnet. The system allows users to pre-deposit ETH, USDC, and other balances, separating billing identity from requests when paying for AI and other usage-based services.After depositing funds, users can authorize payments via zero-knowledge proofs and one-time API keys. Once the server verifies the payment proof, it generates a short-term key with a preset spending cap. AI service providers can receive prompts but will not learn the corresponding payment identity.zkAPI does not hide prompt content, and AI service providers can still read prompts and responses; stable IP addresses, timing patterns, and repetitive behavior may also link user identities. The project's code repository labels zkAPI as an experimental project. (Bitcoin.com News)
Bitget PoolX is about to launch a new round of its ETH locking event. Users can lock ETH to participate in sharing a $200,000 airdrop, with a personal locking cap of 1,500 ETH. The locking period is from October 5, 15:00 to October 9, 15:00 (UTC+8).This round of PoolX supports a long-term holding bonus mechanism. The system will provide a 1x additional bonus on the locked amount based on the user's minimum holding of the corresponding locked asset over the past 15 days. For more details, please refer to Bitget's official platform.
Odaily reports: Porsche announced on October 1 that it is ending its Web3 project and PIONEERS CIRCLE. The PORSCHE 911 NFT will remain in holders' wallets and on-chain, the PIONEERS Discord server will be converted to a read-only archive, and the @eth_porsche account will stop posting updates.The collection was originally planned to issue 7,500 pieces, with minting opening in January 2023 at 0.911 ETH each, and ultimately 2,363 pieces were minted. Porsche has not announced any token burn, buyback, migration, or redemption plans, and holders can still hold, transfer, or list their NFTs for sale.The PORSCHE 911 NFT has accumulated nearly $20 million in total trading volume, with approximately $38,000 in trading volume over the past year and about $2,900 over the past month. (Bitcoin.com News)
Users can complete withdrawals via the standard Blast interface before October 26. Afterward, assets can still be withdrawn, but require direct interaction with the Blast Bridge contract on Ethereum L1. The team will publish specific instructions before the deadline.
Arthur Hayes stated that U.S. policymakers may support the AI industry and government debt financing through money printing, driving cryptocurrency prices higher; if China shifts from limited tightening to large-scale monetary stimulus, it could also boost demand for scarce assets. He is also monitoring financial stress in France, including BNP Paribas-related credit default swaps and French government bond spreads.Catrina Wang, General Partner at Portal Ventures, said that banks and asset management companies have advantages in on-chain financial markets thanks to their existing client relationships. Todd McDonald, co-founder of R3, pointed out that public blockchains can help institutions reach clients beyond their own networks; Justin Kugel, Executive Vice President of Growth at World Liberty Financial, said that user demand for asset management and investment evaluation still leaves room for intermediaries.Chetan Karkhanis, Senior Vice President of Digital Asset Client Relationships at Franklin Templeton, said the company has no intention of issuing its own stablecoin and hopes tokenized money market funds will provide investment returns. Haonan Li, co-founder and CEO of Codex, said that trade routes connecting Latin America, sub-Saharan Africa, and Asia are driving demand for stablecoin payments; buyers pay eastward for goods, while manufactured products flow westward.Ilya Podoynitsyn, co-founder and CEO of FinHarbor, said that before allocating to crypto assets, companies need to confirm they have long-term idle funds that will not affect daily operations. Michael Camarda, Chief Development Officer of Ethereum treasury company SharpLink, said that both buying back shares and increasing ETH holdings can raise ETH per share; the company has adopted both methods to meet the preferences of institutional and retail investors. (Cointelegraph)
According to CoinDesk, Utexo, an infrastructure project supported by Tether, plans to issue USDT on the Bitcoin network this month. Utexo has obtained a commercial license to issue USDT on Bitcoin and plans to provide corresponding APIs, SDKs, and cloud infrastructure for exchanges, wallets, and payment service providers. Based on the RGB protocol and the Bitcoin UTXO model, Utexo will keep most transaction data off-chain, with a focus on supporting three types of applications: private USDT transfers, direct swaps between native BTC and USDT, and borrowing using native BTC as collateral without wrapping BTC to other blockchains. USDT was first issued on the Bitcoin network via the Omni protocol in 2014, after which Ethereum and Tron gradually became its primary circulating networks. Following the issuance of USDT on the Bitcoin mainnet, Utexo also plans to further expand to the Lightning Network.
Odaily News: Porsche's Web3 project PORSCHΞ announced on X that the project and the PIONΞERS CIRCLE community have ceased operations. Follow-up arrangements include: the previously issued PORSCHΞ 911 NFT will continue to be held by holders and remain on the blockchain, the PIONΞERS Discord server will be converted to a read-only archive state, and the official PORSCHΞ project X account will no longer be actively updated.Additionally, according to NFTScan data, the current floor price of PORSCHΞ 911 NFT is 0.0794 ETH, with only sporadic transactions recently.
SlowMist has issued a security alert stating that a vulnerability has been discovered in the Aave V3 Loop Safe Module. Attackers exploited forged Safe authentication and arbitrary Module execution to steal approximately 114.09 ETH from two Safe multisig wallets.The attackers bypassed authentication by forging a Safe that always returns true, and leveraged an arbitrarily controllable router and calldata to execute module transactions, transferring weETH and Aave collateral. The attackers repaid approximately 1,300 WETH in debt to unlock the collateral.
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.