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Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has responded to warnings from researcher Justin Drake about artificial intelligence threatening the cryptographic schemes securing Bitcoin, Ethereum and other networks, pointing to lattice-based systems as the area of greatest near-term concern.
The Ethereum Economic Zone, Gnosis and Zisk, backed by the Ethereum Foundation, have executed Ethereum's first atomic cross-chain transaction between mainnet and a Layer 2 network, with a full rollup block on Gnosis Chain targeted for early 2027.
A new system built with the Open Anonymity Project lets users pay for AI and other API services on Ethereum mainnet without providers being able to trace payments back to a specific deposit.
In a September 27 essay, Vitalik Buterin argues Ethereum has moved far beyond its Bitcoin-inspired origins and will be transformed almost entirely by 2030, with the PeerDAS upgrade marking the true start of that shift.
US Bitcoin Spot ETFs took in $2.4 billion last week, their strongest weekly haul since October 2025, pulling 2026 flows back into positive territory after a rough start to the year.
Cathie Wood's ARK Invest is tokenizing its $1.3 billion ARK Venture Fund with Securitize, putting exposure to private AI names like OpenAI and Anthropic on the Ethereum blockchain for the first time.
A token exploit that began with the theft of FET and unauthorized minting of NTX has widened to include SingularityNET's AGIX and World Mobile's WMTx, pushing estimated losses above $16.7 million. Fetch.ai has halted AGIX-FET conversion and suspended its Ethereum bridge.
An automated MEV bot named Yoink intercepted roughly $7.7 million in rsETH before an attacker could complete a theft targeting a Safe module linked to Kelp DAO, prompting a 24-hour precautionary pause.
Deutsche Bundesbank has become the first institution to self-host Matter Labs' Prividium framework, running a permissioned Ethereum layer-2 environment on its own infrastructure while anchoring validity proofs to the public network.
Qivalis, a consortium of European banks, is preparing to bring a euro-denominated stablecoin to market before the end of the year, with the token expected to run on the Ethereum blockchain.
The proposal is still a draft, and its authors first present it as a defence against quantum computers.
A new survey shows how once-dominant cryptocurrencies lost relevance over the past decade, while other projects rose to take their place.
Analysts see September as a decisive month for the crypto market, with Hyperliquid, Chainlink and Zcash standing out among the cryptocurrencies to watch.
The acquisition lifts Bitmine's reserves to 5.9 million ETH, as Tom Lee highlights strong cryptocurrency performance in the third quarter.
US spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded outflows of US$201.9 million on 28 August, ending a nine-day streak of inflows, while Ethereum funds extended their own run of gains.
The second-largest blockchain after Bitcoin, Ethereum reshaped the crypto landscape by making decentralised finance possible.