Ethernews (@ethernewscc) now attests each day's news archive onchain using @eas_eth on @base. And I made a "Verify" widget to help show what is going on. The code is in Open Aggregator on Github. Had fun building this, let me know what you think!

There are a thousand ways to tell the story of Devcon. We want to see yours 🤳 Introducing the Devcon 8 Creator Fellowship: 10 creators will join us in the lead-up to Mumbai to make stories that spark curiosity, explain big ideas, and bring new people into the Devcon experience. No single format. No single style. Just your creative lens. Selected Fellows receive one free Devcon ticket, exclusive perks, recognition across Devcon channels, and more. Applications are open now through September 20 ↓

Drumroll please... We are thrilled to announce the 14 Community Hubs selected for Devcon 8! 🔐 Privacy Hub 🛟 Security Hub 📑 EIP Hub 🤝 P2P Networking Hub 🪙 Token Rights Hub 📈 Prediction Markets Hub 🛠️ Open Source Builders Hub 🎨 Onchain Art Hub 🔬 DeSci Hub 🌐 Resilient Networks Hub 🇮🇳 Katta Developers (India Hub) 🧩 Fragmentation Hub 🤖Agentic Hub 🌱 Zuzone Hub Selected from 32 proposals, this year’s hubs will create spaces for new ideas, unexpected conversations, and community-led programming throughout Devcon 8 🌍 Check the full forum post below, link in the replies 👇🏻

The EF Protocol teams are hosting a Reddit AMA on September 16. This is your chance to ask EF Protocol researchers and devs directly. Submit your questions about post-quantum Ethereum, L1-zkEVM, formal verification, the future of state, finality, privacy, and more now! 🔗↓

Live now: exploring the Kohaku CLI, how it makes Ethereum privacy tools easier to use, and demoing private transactions across Railgun, Tornado Cash, and more With @jchaskin22 and @kassandraETH of the @ethereumfndn

When @VitalikButerin speaks, he means it. And it's hard not to agree with him here: privacy gives us the freedom to optimize for happiness. But freedom is not given. That's why our latest round is funding projects that protect privacy. 👉 Only a day and a bit left to apply:

We just shipped a new building block OSS lib: rotortree - A durable append-only Merkle tree for note commitments - Builds the entire Tornado Cash tree in 19ms - 450x faster than TypeScript library often used Kudos to @_rymnc and more to come :)

Morpho Effect: August 2026 🔹 Total Deposits reached $14B, a new all-time high 🔹 New features for fixed rate: Lend Callbacks, Early Exit & Quoter Bot 🔹 Continued growth on @base and @RobinhoodCrypto The full update👇

1/ Devcon is built by the teams that put Ethereum’s principles into practice. If your project believes in open systems, privacy, security and infrastructure that serves the ecosystem, we want you to be part of Devcon 8. Here’s what supporting Devcon actually means ↓

We've published the EF Protocol cluster's priorities and our first shared Hegotá EIP tier list, with input from ~60 researchers and engineers across all 9 Protocol teams. We're aggressively targeting a quantum-resistant Ethereum L1 no later than December 2029. That has implications for what we propose including in Hegotá, and how much capacity we leave for the forks after it. Keeping mainnet safe remains our first priority. We'll be on r/ethereum for an AMA on September 16 at 2pm UTC. Please come ask us about the priorities, the tier list, or anything else you're curious about. Tier and priorities posts and question form can be found below in this thread:

Ethereal news weekly #38# 🐻‍❄️ @parithosh_j Sepolia testnet Glamsterdam upgrade targeting October 6 🕶️ @PrivacyBoost V2 live 🧪 @buidlguidl Learning Lab Ethereum 101

1/ 24 Road to Devcon events happened across India in August alone. 🤯 From university campuses to local community meetups, builders, students, and organizers came together to learn, connect, and bring Ethereum conversations closer to home. A few highlights from the month ↓

Ethereum is for shipping. Here are 35 things the Ethereum ecosystem launched, upgraded, and announced through August. 1/ GnosisDAO approved a vote to transition @gnosischain from its own L1 to a ZK-proven Ethereum L2 rollup with synchronous composability, so apps on Gnosis and Ethereum can interact in a single transaction. 2/ @BlackRock introduced the BlackRock Select Treasury Based Liquidity Fund (BSTBL) with a tokenized share class on Ethereum mainnet for managing stablecoin and digital asset reserves, and began tokenizing share classes of its $311B European money market fund series on Ethereum. 3/ @aztecnetwork launched Alpha v5, a protocol upgrade that reduced private transaction proving times and brought the first wave of privacy-preserving apps to the network. 4/ @Uniswap processed $1B+ in stock token volume and $20B+ in total volume on @RobinhoodCrypto's Robinhood Chain since its July launch. 5/ @ethPandaOps introduced the Platåberget testnet, preparing client implementations for Glamsterdam, Ethereum's next network upgrade. 6/ @Morpho crossed $880M in total deposits on Robinhood Chain in its first <2 months live and reached $5.75B in total deposits on @base. 7/ @web3privacy shared the Ethereum Privacy Ecosystem Mapping 2026, an updated map and repository covering Ethereum’s privacy ecosystem. 8/ @Revolut announced the phased rollout of its euro-denominated stablecoin EURR, live on Ethereum for eligible users. 9/ @aave v4 surpassed $525M in deposits on Ethereum. 10/ Coinbase Tokenized Stocks launched on @base for non-U.S. users, held 1:1 by a regulated custodian, owned in self-custody wallets, and usable across DeFi 24/7. 11/ @FreedomFactory opened presales for the PQ1, a fully open-source, air-gapped hardware wallet that signs with post-quantum cryptography through an Ethereum smart account. 12/ @OctantApp launched Epoch 13, its latest funding round, focused on privacy on Ethereum and across the open internet. 13/ @selfxyz and Google Cloud launched the USAT Mainnet Faucet on @Celo, letting anyone verified on Self claim USA₮. 14/ @PrivacyBoost launched the Privacy Boost App, a frontend to send private transfers from your connected wallet. 15/ @Whitechain_io, the distribution-focused network connected to the WhiteBit ecosystem, announced it is evolving from an L1 into an Ethereum L2 built on the OP Stack. 16/ @ether_fi added tokenized stocks, portfolio-backed loans through @aave, and other new features to its crypto neobank. 17/ @ethereuminsti announced its ecosystem funding round and supporter coalition, welcoming 100+ organizations to support Ethereum's institutional onboarding, and shared that Open Standard's Open USD stablecoin will launch on Ethereum on day one. 18/ @class_lambda and @gattacahq shared that their PropAMM (pAMMs) infrastructure has facilitated over $2B in total volume swapped on Ethereum. 19/ @theInterfold, an open-source protocol for confidential coordination and encrypted execution environments built on Ethereum, launched its Network Alpha production environment. 20/ @arbitrum activated ArbOS Elara, bringing more responsive fees and 4x bigger Stylus smart contracts to Arbitrum One, along with new features for chains built on the Arbitrum stack. 21/ @Uniswap launched v4 Permissioned Pools, a hook standard to enforce allowlists on swaps and liquidity deposits while the protocol itself stays permissionless, bringing regulated assets to AMM trading with launch partners @SuperstateInc, @Securitize, and Dowgo. 22/ @EthCoordinate, a new crypto-native organization building on the EthStaker community's work, was formed to support Ethereum governance coordination, facilitate stakeholder interaction, and accelerate Ethereum adoption. 23/ @MetaMask launched the MetaMask Agent Wallet, an agentic wallet with built-in spending limits, allowlists, and risk profiles. 24/ @ResearchHub, a tool for the open funding, publication, and discussion of scientific research built on Ethereum and @base, launched a new homepage to surface open research proposals and funding requests. 25/ @base opened applications for Base Batches 004, a startup accelerator program for 10 early-stage teams, and also launched Base Verify Onchain, a privacy-preserving identity layer for apps to enforce one-person-one-claim onchain distributions. 26/ @Cloudflare announced Wallets, enabling AI agents to buy APIs and content with stablecoin payments over the x402 payment standard. 27/ The @ethereumfndn launched the better[.]codes autoresearch challenge to advance post-quantum Ethereum, built with @zksecurityXYZ and @eigenlabs on @yukonresearch, putting a machine-verified security problem on a public leaderboard that anyone can push forward. @Lighter_xyz also launched the Lighter Prover challenge, an autoresearch competition to make Lighter's production exchange faster. 28/ Privacy-focused wallet @staycloakedxyz reached $650k in deposits and $1M in volume in its first 90 days live. 29/ @mtpelerin added support for @ensdomains names as sending and receiving addresses when creating personal IBANs for bank transfers in crypto. 30/ @Blockspace_ETH was announced, a company focused on out-of-protocol infrastructure for Ethereum blockspace. 31/ @0xprivacypools launched onchain payroll support, allowing employers to provide recurring wage payments with privacy for salary amounts and recipient addresses. 32/ Fake World Assets (FWA), a NFT gacha protocol by @token_works, launched the FWAir NFT distribution mechanism with an initial 111 item PFP collection. 33/ Builder @z0r0zzz launched zSwap, a fully onchain decentralized exchange built on Ethereum, with all code, including frontend and application logic, stored on mainnet smart contracts. 34/ MMO game @playcambria surpassed $10M in total game volume in August, and @LootSurvivor and Cambria launched a 72-hour onchain dungeon competition. 35/ @EFDevcon released the official Devcon 8 travel guide for Mumbai ahead of this year's Devcon 8 conference in November.

Looking for your next role in the Ethereum ecosystem? 👀 In collaboration with @dev3pack, for the first time ever, Devcon is hosting a Career Fair, bringing together teams from across the community and India’s growing startup community. More info below! 🎒

Announcing the new Sign in with Ethereum (ERC-4361) is the standard that powers the bridge between web2 and web3 for thousands of crypto (and non crypto) apps. Our goal is to make sovereign cryptography a default option for authentication on the web. We should own our finances, and we should own our web accounts. SIWE makes that possible, while ensuring users have great UX when doing so. Already used by millions, including the likes of OpenRouter, Polymarket, MetaMask, Privy, OpenSea, and many many more. The libraries we develop and support enable apps and wallets to seamlessly integrate the SIWE standard. If you have any questions or need help integrating, please reach out to any of us: @caveman_onchain (aaron@siwe.xyz), @jalilwahdat (jalil@siwe.xyz), @yougogirl_eth (ygg@siwe.xyz). Looking forward to working together on improving Ethereum UX.

We are hosting the next Web3Privacy now meetup in Amsterdam this Tuesday. Come for privacy narratives, Chat Control debates, free software exchange, cryptography and open-minded humans. facilitator: @robdotrego Come if you will be in town: