# Ethereal news

> Ethereum news focused on developers.

Ethereal news is a weekly newsletter covering the latest Ethereum news focused on developers. It covers ecosystem updates, enterprise developments, applications, developer tools and resources, security, and research.

Ethereal news is edited by Andrew B Coathup (former editor of Week in Ethereum News).

## Issues

- [Ethereal news weekly #30](https://ethereal.news/ethereal-news-weekly-30.md) (2026-07-03): Ethereum basics for governments & institutions, Ethereum Institutional launched, Robinhood Chain live
- [Ethereal news weekly #29](https://ethereal.news/ethereal-news-weekly-29.md) (2026-06-26): Strawmap updated, Ethereum Foundation restructure, Ethlabs launched
- [Ethereal news weekly #28](https://ethereal.news/ethereal-news-weekly-28.md) (2026-06-19): Hsiao-Wei Wang stepped down, 1M lifetime developers, Glamsterdam upgrade adds separate builder deposit & exit contracts
- [Ethereal news weekly #27](https://ethereal.news/ethereal-news-weekly-27.md) (2026-06-12): LG Electronics built L2 for advertising, Aave risk framework proposed, history of account abstraction
- [Ethereal news weekly #26](https://ethereal.news/ethereal-news-weekly-26.md) (2026-06-05): Justin Drake qday odds: 10% by 2030 & 50% by 2032, Aave rsETH post mortem, glamsterdam-devnet-5 launched
- [Ethereal news weekly #25](https://ethereal.news/ethereal-news-weekly-25.md) (2026-05-29): Vitalik: EF will be smaller & more opinionated, Base Azul upgrade live with multiproofs, FTSE Russell US indexes: Bitmine & Sharplink to join
- [Ethereal news weekly #24](https://ethereal.news/ethereal-news-weekly-24.md) (2026-05-22): Devcon 8 early bird tickets, ApeWorX collective: nonprofit for Python dev tooling, glamsterdam-devnet-4 launched
- [Ethereal news weekly #23](https://ethereal.news/ethereal-news-weekly-23.md) (2026-05-15): Clear signing, CLARITY Act advanced out of Senate Banking committee, Ben Edgington fast finality plan
- [Ethereal news weekly #22](https://ethereal.news/ethereal-news-weekly-22.md) (2026-05-08): 200M+ gas limit target post-Glamsterdam, 25M blocks on mainnet, Arbitrum DAO voted to release frozen ETH
- [Ethereal news weekly #21](https://ethereal.news/ethereal-news-weekly-21.md) (2026-05-01): DeFi United technical implementation plan to restore rsETH backing, Solidity 0.8.35, Status Network merging into Linea stack
- [Ethereal news weekly #20](https://ethereal.news/ethereal-news-weekly-20.md) (2026-04-24): Etherealize: ETH is productive money, DeFi united: effort to restore rsETH backing, Arbitrum security council froze exploiter ETH
- [Ethereal news mini #0](https://ethereal.news/ethereal-news-mini-0.md) (2026-04-17): Solidity developer survey results, ether.fi migrated to OP Mainnet, X $ETH cashtag
- [Ethereal news weekly #19](https://ethereal.news/ethereal-news-weekly-19.md) (2026-04-10): Roman Storm acquittal hearing, ETHGlobal Cannes hackathon finalists, EVM Now block explorer
- [Ethereal news weekly #18](https://ethereal.news/ethereal-news-weekly-18.md) (2026-04-03): Quantum breakthrough papers, Aave v4, Aztec alpha
- [Ethereal news weekly #17](https://ethereal.news/ethereal-news-weekly-17.md) (2026-03-27): Frame transaction Considered for Inclusion for Hegotá, EthStaker staking survey, EF post-quantum website
- [Ethereal news weekly #16](https://ethereal.news/ethereal-news-weekly-16.md) (2026-03-20): US SEC securities laws application to crypto, fast confirmation rule, EF mandate
- [Ethereal news weekly #15](https://ethereal.news/ethereal-news-weekly-15.md) (2026-03-13): US DoJ seeks Roman Storm retrial, BlackRock staked ETH ETF live, EF bug bounty $1M max payout
- [Ethereal news weekly #14](https://ethereal.news/ethereal-news-weekly-14.md) (2026-03-06): ePBS first devnet live, Aave Labs temp check passed, Synthesis AI + human hackathon
- [Ethereal news weekly #13](https://ethereal.news/ethereal-news-weekly-13.md) (2026-02-27): Strawmap (strawman roadmap), EF staking 70k ETH, BNP Paribas tokenized fund
- [Ethereal news weekly #12](https://ethereal.news/ethereal-news-weekly-12.md) (2026-02-20): FOCIL is Hegotá consensus layer headliner, EF protocol priorities: Scale, Improve UX & Harden the L1, Base moving to own stack
- [Ethereal news weekly #11](https://ethereal.news/ethereal-news-weekly-11.md) (2026-02-13): BlackRock BUIDL tradeable via UniswapX, ENS staying on mainnet, Solidity developer survey
- [Ethereal news weekly #10](https://ethereal.news/ethereal-news-weekly-10.md) (2026-02-06): Vitalik: role of L2s has changed, Hegotá upgrade headliner proposals, Lido v3 live
- [Ethereal news weekly #9](https://ethereal.news/ethereal-news-weekly-9.md) (2026-01-30): Fidelity Investments FIDD stablecoin, TheDAO Security Fund, Hegotá upgrade headliner proposals
- [Ethereal news weekly #8](https://ethereal.news/ethereal-news-weekly-8.md) (2026-01-23): NYSE tokenized securities platform, Neynar new steward of Farcaster, Glamsterdam upgrade Considered for Inclusion scope finalized
- [Ethereal news weekly #7](https://ethereal.news/ethereal-news-weekly-7.md) (2026-01-16): Ethereum must pass walkaway test, Base app focuses on trading, Trail of Bits Claude Code skills
- [Ethereal news weekly #6](https://ethereal.news/ethereal-news-weekly-6.md) (2026-01-09): BPO2 upgrade increased blobs, write Roman Storm a letter of support, Octant epoch 10
- [Ethereal news weekly #5](https://ethereal.news/ethereal-news-weekly-5.md) (2026-01-02): Vitalik: call to improve usability & decentralization, Nethereum 10 year anniversary release, Uniswap interface fees set to zero
- [Ethereal news weekly #4](https://ethereal.news/ethereal-news-weekly-4.md) (2025-12-26): Uniswap voted for UNIfication, Devcon 8 November 3 - 6 at JIO World Center, Punks & Squiggles donated to MoMA
- [Ethereal news weekly #3](https://ethereal.news/ethereal-news-weekly-3.md) (2025-12-19): J.P. Morgan tokenized fund, Privacy Pools on Arbitrum & Optimism, SEC talks privacy
- [Ethereal news weekly #2](https://ethereal.news/ethereal-news-weekly-2.md) (2025-12-12): BPO1 upgrade increased blobs, DTC securities tokenization pilot, William Mougayar: Ethereum valuation
- [Ethereal news weekly #1](https://ethereal.news/ethereal-news-weekly-1.md) (2025-12-05): Fusaka upgrade live on mainnet, client diversity: Lighthouse 55%, Beacon chain 5th anniversary
- [Ethereal news weekly #0](https://ethereal.news/ethereal-news-weekly-0.md) (2025-11-28): Gas limit increased to 60M, Fusaka upgrade December 3, FOCIL not in Glamsterdam upgrade

## Resources

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