Ethereum (ETH)

One of Ethereum's biggest upgrades is now in the final testing phase. Mainnet is loosely targeted for the second half of 2026, and one of the EF devs is already calling it the biggest fork since the Merge. These are some of the planned upgrades: → ePBS (EIP-7732): block-building gets baked into Ethereum itself → Block-level access lists (EIP-7928): blocks start running in parallel → Gas repricing: compute gets cheaper, state growth gets pricier → Gas limit: increased over time from ~60M toward 200M IMO, the most significant change is ePBS. Right now, close to 90% of blocks are built by outside builders and passed through offchain relays like MEV-Boost, which is critical infrastructure that Ethereum doesn't control. ePBS builds that step directly into Ethereum, which cuts out the relay middleman and the ordering/censorship risk that comes with it. Do you think this will put ETH into the spotlight again?

Shoutout to the KOLs posting 15-tweet threads on MEV bot mechanics. Your public wallets have never sent a single tx on Ethereum mainnet.

A $54.8M $ETH long opened with liquidation at $1,380 Not long after, shorts started getting squeezed and price moved higher Pure Manipulation? Maybe But the timing never stops being interesting GM. https://t.co/z1TugX53s9

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JPMorgan's Kinexys has already processed more than $1.5 trillion on blockchain rails. DTCC is advancing tokenized Treasury infrastructure. NYSE is building tokenized securities rails with BNY and Citi supporting the cash leg. Roughly 93% of U.S. tokenized assets already settle on Ethereum. At this point, the debate is no longer whether institutions will move onchain. The real question is which settlement rails they will standardize around. That is why the development I keep coming back to is not a token launch or a pilot program. It is the decision by five U.S. regional banks representing more than $600 billion in combined deposits to onboard to Cari Network on @zksync. There is a question that separates people who analyze institutional blockchain adoption from people who have actually watched infrastructure decisions get made inside financial institutions. The question is not: "Does the technology work?" The question is: "At what point does the cost of staying where you are become greater than the cost of moving?" For Huntington Bancshares, First Horizon, M&T Bank, KeyCorp, and Old National Bancorp, that calculation appears to be changing. Cari Network, founded by Eugene Ludwig, the 27th U.S. Comptroller of the Currency, is currently onboarding these five banks with production rollout planned for later in 2026. Ludwig's role matters for a reason that goes beyond reputation. A former Comptroller understands exactly what regulators examine when reviewing new settlement infrastructure: operational resilience, legal finality, compliance controls, Bank Secrecy Act requirements, auditability, and risk management. Most blockchain initiatives struggle to move beyond pilots because they underestimate those constraints. Infrastructure designed with regulatory review in mind starts from a different position. The operational case is equally important. Today, regional banks rely on layers of correspondent banking relationships, clearing arrangements, and pre-funded NOSTRO balances to move money across institutions. None of this is broken. It is simply expensive. Idle capital sits in accounts that could otherwise support lending or investment activity. Counterparty relationships require monitoring. Settlement flows generate ongoing operational and fee costs. Those expenses are often treated as permanent features of the system. The interesting question is what happens when multiple banks begin operating on shared settlement rails instead. If five banks with substantial interbank activity can settle through institution‑controlled environments connected through a common network architecture, the economic comparison starts to change. A migration project is a defined cost. Maintaining fragmented liquidity, redundant balances, and legacy settlement relationships is an ongoing cost that compounds every year. Eventually those curves cross. That is the part many public discussions miss. Institutional adoption is rarely driven by enthusiasm for new technology. It is usually driven by economics becoming difficult to ignore. The broader context around @zksync makes the timing even more significant. Memento is already running in production as Deutsche Bank's DAMA 2.0 tokenized fund platform. That is a tier‑one global bank operating regulated fund infrastructure on ZK technology today. ADI Chain is live with First Abu Dhabi Bank, the Central Bank of the UAE, BlackRock, Mastercard, and Franklin Templeton. BitGo has integrated institutional custody and wallet services with Prividium. More than thirty additional institutions are reportedly in active engagement across banks, central banks, sovereign issuers, and global custodians. Viewed individually, each deployment is notable. Viewed together, they begin to look like the early formation of a settlement network. That distinction matters because settlement infrastructure tends to follow the same pattern repeatedly throughout financial history. Network effects arrive slowly, then all at once. Ten institutions create 45 potential settlement corridors. One hundred institutions create nearly 5,000. The dynamic is not new. SWIFT expanded from a few hundred institutions to more than 11,000 because every new participant increased the value of the network for existing participants. Visa followed a similar path from a regional network to global infrastructure. Financial institutions rarely choose infrastructure in isolation. They choose the infrastructure their counterparties are already using. That is why every additional deployment increases the cost for the next institution to select different rails. The architectural side is what makes this possible. Production‑grade institutional settlement requires four properties at the same time: Privacy. Institutional control. Cryptographic finality. Atomic composability. Most architectures solve one or two. The missing piece is usually privacy. And privacy is not a feature request for regulated finance. It is a requirement. No trading desk wants counterparties observing positions. No bank wants transaction flows exposed to network participants. GDPR obligations, banking secrecy requirements, and competitive realities all point in the same direction. Privacy has to exist at the architectural layer, not as an add‑on. The approach behind @zksync combines private execution environments, institution‑controlled chains, validity‑proof settlement without optimistic challenge periods, and interoperability designed for direct cross‑chain interaction. Underneath sits Airbender, currently ranked first on eth_proofs, delivering approximately one‑second block proving on consumer‑grade GPUs. Just as important, the proving system, platform layer, and institutional product layer are developed as a unified stack rather than assembled across multiple independent organizations. That matters because financial institutions are not evaluating isolated technical components. They are evaluating whether an entire settlement architecture can operate reliably for years. The reason 2026 feels important is not because the technical race is finished. It is because infrastructure advantages become harder to challenge once network formation begins. Technology gaps can close. Regulatory trust compounds. Operational integrations compound. Counterparty networks compound. And once enough institutions share the same rails, the question stops being whether the network works. The question becomes why anyone would choose a different one. That is the decision window I think the market is underestimating. Not whether institutional settlement will happen onchain. But whether the standards being chosen right now become the standards the industry is still using a decade from now.

Ethereum MEV bot, Jaredfromsubway.eth, hacked for $15M. 👀

eth went from $5000 to $1500 while everyone used it btw i get your point but please get mine as well

Jaredfromsubway.eth has extracted millions from traders since 2023. It was Ethereum's most notorious sandwich attack bot. 70% of all sandwich attacks on the network came from this one wallet. This weekend it got hunted. An attacker built 66 fake token contracts disguised as WETH, USDC, and USDT. Looked exactly like the trades the bot was programmed to chase. The bot took the bait. Approved spending to what it thought were real opportunities. One activation later. $15 million gone. The predator became the prey.

🔊 JARED FROM SUBWAY BOT DRAINED! The notorious $ETH MEV bot that squeezed millions from traders in sandwich attacks just lost $15 Million to its own greed! How it happened: • Chased fake bait • Approved wrong contracts • Cleaned out in minutes The Loot Taken: • 1,474 WETH • $2.87M USDC • $2M USDT • $7.6M in a single tx Hundreds of thousands of victims over 3 years, and it ends like this. Karma?