ICE takes stake in tZERO for tokenized securities settlement on NYSE market
A major traditional exchange owner is building infrastructure for trading tokenized stocks, positioning Ethereum and EVM chains as settlement layers for Wall Street assets.
The Ether: Monday, August 31, 2026
Blocks: 25,871,536 - 25,878,704
Slots: 15,109,199 - 15,116,398
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The day in review
The day in review
Protocol
- Core devs synced on client testing and pushed research into account abstraction, fast finality, and multi-resource fee design.
- Lido moved on two fronts, proposing CEX market-making support for its token and tightening its oracle's validator exit batching.
Apps
- ENS funded a new marketplace platform and floated linking multiple wallets to one name, while an old Balancer pool bug drained funds.
World
- Traditional finance edged closer to Ethereum as ICE backed tokenized stock settlement and Sberbank took ether as loan collateral.
Top podcasts this day
- SharpLink & Lido: Ethereum Doesn't Need To Change Issuance (Here's Why)video · protocol · 7.4k views · 14d ago
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- Kassandra on Kohaku CLI and practical cypherpunk walletsvideo · protocol · 14d ago
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Also in the news this day
Stories that gathered new coverage this day but broke earlier, so they live on their own day's page.
- ACDT #94 scheduled for August 31, testing agenda posted
- Ethlabs Week 10 update: account abstraction on L1, fast Ethereum principles, fast finality milestone
- EIP-7999 multi-dimensional fee market research examines execution-data fee coupling
- ACDT #95 scheduled for September 7, testing agenda posted
- ENS DAO awards $500k to Nomentum Labs for SPP3 Marketplace platform
- Lido DAO proposes contingent LDO CEX liquidity market-making mandate
- ENSIP-28 proposes ENS Name Owned Accounts to link multiple addresses per chain
- Lido Oracle 8.0.6 caps exit requests at 500 per VEBO report