The Ether: Thursday, August 27, 2026
Blocks: 25,842,830 - 25,850,009
Slots: 15,080,399 - 15,087,598
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The day in review
The day in review
Protocol- Client teams pushed Gloas fork readiness forward with new Lodestar and Ethrex release candidates.
- A wave of new EIPs advanced account abstraction, stateless wallet discovery, and private voting designs.
Apps- Moonwell's Base lending market lost $8.7 million to a collateral price manipulation exploit.
- Developers also floated an encrypted mempool for Optimism and reviewed Aave's WETH interest rate.
A new MEV-X and academic paper explores how DeFi markets stay efficient at scale despite constant microlocal dislocations from swaps, bridging the traditional roles of passive liquidity providers and active arbitrageurs.
More: Flashbots Forum
An attacker exploited a price manipulation vulnerability in Moonwell's Base deployment, draining millions in user collateral and highlighting risks in newer lending protocols across Ethereum's L2 ecosystem.
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