The Ether: Friday, September 4, 2026

Top podcasts this day

• Bankless:
  ▶1:06:56

  Weekly Rollup, Sep 4: Robinhood’s Meme Economy | Solana Cuts Issuance | Saylor’s Comeback | AI Alarm

  podcast · 6.4k views · 10d ago
  chapters (8)

  1. 0:00Intro
  2. 2:32Macro Bounce & Treasury-Fed Tug-of-War
  3. 12:41Saylor’s Bitcoin Comeback
  4. 17:35Robinhood Meme & Stock Token Mania
  5. 31:41Ethereum, Solana & the Issuance Vote
  6. 46:5221 Banks Chase Stablecoins
  7. 50:44KYC Breach Fallout
  8. 56:56Astra Raises AI Alarms
• Empire:
  ▶1:09:45

  Robinhood Is Proving Distribution Captures Crypto’s Value | Weekly Roundup

  video · world · 1.6k views · 10d ago
  chapters (15)

  1. 0:00Intro
  2. 0:46Robinhood Chain’s Billion-Dollar Run Rate
  3. 5:26Can Memecoins Move Stocks?
  4. 14:14Why 24/7 Stocks Don’t Scale
  5. 20:53Who Captures Crypto’s Value?
  6. 22:01Ads (Token2049, Avalanche Summit)
  7. 23:41Who Captures Crypto’s Value?
  8. 28:12Ethena’s Neobank Push
  9. 32:46Can Crypto Neobanks Actually Scale?
  10. 38:18Remittances Fight To Own Deposits
  11. 47:34Hyperliquid’s Path Into America
  12. 53:41Prediction Markets And Bitcoin
  13. 58:14Distribution Is Still Crypto’s Moat
  14. 1:01:01Who Brings Stocks Onchain?
  15. 1:06:31Content Of The Week
• ETHGlobal:
  ▶28:32

  ETHOnline 2026 Kickoff | Kartik Talwar

  video · apps · 10d ago
• Unchained:
  ▶21:23

  Robinhood's Stock Tokens Are Getting Weird: Uneasy Money

  video · apps · 10d ago
  chapters (7)

  1. 0:00Boner Corner: A meme coin turned into a tokenized-stock pump
  2. 1:34Why every "BONER" buy routes through a Uniswap V4 pool
  3. 5:14The $1 billion call that forced Robinhood's original meme-stock halt
  4. 10:44Austin's shout-out to FOMO's dead-simple buy-and-sell UX
  5. 13:23Cash in, cash out: why FOMO skipped any-to-any swaps entirely
  6. 14:46Taylor on FOMO's centralized trade-offs, and why the UX still wins
  7. 18:58Where Kain and Austin draw the line on custody

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.

• ACDC #186: Glamsterdam testnet set for October 6, EIP-8037 state gas fix approved
• Nethermind EVM optimizations boost zkEVM performance, jumpdest scanning and RLP encoding improved
• Ethereal weekly #38: Sepolia Glamsterdam targeting October 6, Privacy Boost V2 live, BuidlGuidl Ethereum 101
• The Shape of Ethereum: A Six-Year Study of Topological Anomalies
• Fast payload broadcast optimization explores segmentation and transmission strategies for gossip scalability
• Osero seeks ALLOCATOR-PRYSM-A debt ceiling increase to 100m USDS, Atlas rates edited for weekly cycle
• Robinhood Chain blob submission to Ethereum stalled for 14 minutes on September 4
• Draft ERC-8410 proposes Portable Execution Plan Artifact for cross-wallet transaction coordination