Bitcoin price risks $70K if $78K neckline breaks
Bitcoin price remained under pressure near $78,500 after a retreat from its Sept. 3 peak of $82,283, while weakening momentum and a possible head-and-shoulders pattern raised the risk of a deeper correction. Summary ...
The Future of Ethereum’s State
Disclaimer: The following blog is a proposal from the Stateless Consensus team. Content may not imply consensus views, and the EF is a broad organization that includes a healthy diversity of opinion across Protocol and beyond that together strengthen Ethereum. Special thanks to Ladislaus von Daniels and Marius van der Wijden for reviewing this article. Ethereum has grown from...
World opens Solana prediction market to 1M users
World has opened its standalone Solana prediction market platform to more than 1 million waitlisted users after creating over 150,000 markets through its Phantom integration. Summary ...
Shipping an L1 zkEVM #2: The Security Foundations
Thanks to Arantxa Zapico, Benedikt Wagner, and Dmitry Khovratovich from the EF cryptography team for their contributions, and to Ladislaus, Kev, Alex, and Marius for the careful review and feedback. The zkEVM ecosystem has been sprinting for a year. And it worked! We crossed the finish line for real-time proving! Now comes the next phase: building something mainnet-grade. From speed to...
Mastercard launches Agent Connect for AI shopping
Mastercard has launched Agent Connect to give merchants one integration for product discovery, cart creation and customer-approved payments across AI shopping platforms. Summary ...
Hegota Upgrade EIP Proposal Timelines
Fusaka shipped PeerDAS in addition to a myriad of minor features and Glamsterdam’s major features will include Block-level Access Lists and enshrined Proposer-Builder Separation. Now we begin outlining the subsequent upgrade: Hegotá. Timeline Jan 8th - Feb 4th: Headliner proposals (EthMag) Feb 5th - Feb 26th*: Headliner discussion & finalization (ACD calls) 30-day window to follow: Non-headliner EIP proposals (Hegota Meta EIP) *subject to...
Ripple CLO urges Senate to hear crypto holders
Ripple Chief Legal Officer Stuart Alderoty has urged undecided and opposing senators to hear from an estimated 67 million American crypto holders before the CLARITY Act faces a 60-vote procedural test on Sep. 15. Summary ...
Devcon 8 is coming to Mumbai, India in November 2026
Devcon, the Ethereum community’s annual global gathering for builders, will take place from 3-6 November 2026 at the JIO World Center in Mumbai, India. This Devcon 8 update is not a full vision, but will help organizers and the wider ecosystem plan. More details on programming, tracks, and participation will follow in the coming months. Why India, why Mumbai India was...
XRP fell 27% while RLUSD crossed $2.3 billion and nobody blinked
Ripple’s stablecoin has grown 1,278% this year while XRP shed more than a quarter of its value. The network is busier than ever, but the token capturing that activity has a dollar sign and a peg. ...
Checkpoint #8: Jan 2026 | Ethereum Foundation Blog
Ethereum’s All Core Developer calls are a lot to keep up with, so this "Checkpoint" series aims for high-level updates roughly every 4-8 weeks, depending on what’s happening in core development. See the previous update here. If you enjoy reading core development updates, you may also be keen to learn that Forkcast now publishes call summaries, chats and transcripts...
