The Ether: Wednesday, July 29, 2026

Blocks: 25,634,764 - 25,641,938
Slots: 14,871,599 - 14,878,798

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The day in review

pcaversaccio joined the Ethereum Foundation Board, bringing security research expertise to protocol governance.

Aave Risk Stewards proposed pruning low-adoption reserves and deployments to shrink ecosystem risk surface, while Safe smart accounts reached 130 million trans…

Ethereum Institutional closed funding with 100+ backers to accelerate institutional adoption of the Ether.

pcaversaccio joins Ethereum Foundation Board

A prominent security researcher and EF contributor joins the foundation's governing board.

Aave Risk Stewards recommend offboarding low-adoption reserves and six whole deployments to reduce ecosystem risk surface.

A new initiative backed by over 100 ecosystem participants launches to accelerate institutional adoption of Ethereum.

Safe's abstracted accounts crossed 130 million transactions in the second quarter, demonstrating mainstream adoption momentum.

Core developers convene to discuss peer-to-peer network protocols and simulation tooling for Ethereum clients.

Arbitrum's governance DAO votes on a system upgrade bringing language runtime improvements to the L2.

A new ERC standard is proposed to let agents stake collateral while verifying claims on behalf of users.

Stories that gathered new coverage this day but broke earlier, so they live on their own day's page.