Author: Sophia Brown

Bitmine has increased its Ethereum (ETH) holdings to over 4.73 million. The company is adding to its ETH treasury strategy despite market struggles. Ethereum price holds near $2,000. Bitmine Immersion Technologies, led by Tom Lee, has accelerated its Ethereum acquisitions, marking its largest purchase of 2026 so far. According to a company update, Bitmine’s total Ethereum holdings have risen to more than 4.73 million ETH, while its combined crypto and cash reserves now exceed $10.7 billion. The firm has also expanded its staking activity, even as Ethereum trades near the $2,000 level amid broader weakness in the crypto market. The…

BitMine tripled its weekly ETH buy to 126,971 tokens, now holding 4.59% of supply. Only 11% of ETH supply is in threefold profit, the lowest reading since Feb 2017. A weekly close below $1,500 could push ETH toward the $1,000 support zone. The Ethereum price dropped to a low of $1,522 last week before bouncing back within the $1,670–$1,712 range at the beginning of this week. While the recovery is modest, the ETH price is still down 15.3% over the past seven days and 28.1% over the past 30 days. From its all-time high of $4,946 set in August 2025,…

An Ethereum Working Group consisting of wallet developers, security firms and the Ethereum Foundation’s Trillion Dollar Security Initiative today launched an open standard designed to end blind signing — a structural flaw that has contributed to billions in user losses, including the Bybit hack. Ethereum Foundation’s Trillion Dollar Security Initiative is taking an active role as a credibly neutral steward of the Clear Signing registry. Across major exploits in crypto and blockchain applications, the final step often isn’t a bug in code, but a user approving a transaction. Even when phishing or an infrastructure compromise initiates the breach, the last…

A semi-regular gathering of Ethereum core devs from various client teams, or interop, recently took place in Svalbard, Norway. Over the week-long event, teams focused on hardening and preparation for the next upgrade, Glamsterdam. Several important milestones came out of the week, including: 200M gas limit floor established: Credible post-Glamsterdam target derived from convergence of ePBS, BAL optimizations, and EIP-8037 repricingePBS stabilized: Multi-client Glamsterdam-devnet running with external builders pipeline tested end-to-end across nearly all clientsEIP-8037 finalized: Fixed cost_per_state_byte adopted; full repricing numbers delivered by Friday on bal-devnet-6Hegotá groundwork laid: FOCIL prototypes are functional; native AA requirements were scoped; the multi-client…

This past week, just over 100 Ethereum core contributors gathered above the Arctic Circle — in Longyearbyen, Svalbard — for the Soldøgn Interop: a week of intense work on the Glamsterdam network upgrade. Soldøgn followed last year’s Berlinterop, but returned to the format used by Amphora 🏺, Edelweiss 🏔️, and Nyota ✨: a single-track week of focused, multi-client progress toward a specific upgrade — in this case, hardening Glamsterdam. By Friday, the group had delivered on its three core goals: alignment on a post-Glamsterdam gas limit floor of 200M, stable ePBS implementations running with external builders, and final EIP-8037 repricing…

TL;DR: We are excited to announce that applications are now open for the seventh cohort of the Ethereum Protocol Fellowship (EPF7). EPF provides a pathway for aspiring protocol developers to make meaningful contributions to Ethereum. In each cohort, a diverse group is assembled to work toward advancing Ethereum’s roadmap focused on the core properties that define Ethereum; censorship resistance, open source, privacy, and security. This includes the development of client implementations, testing and specifications, and engaging with the latest core protocol research. With an overarching goal of finding placement for fellows in R&D teams working on core protocol development, EPF…

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