ACDT #96: Sepolia Glamsterdam set for October 6, all clients confirmed
Sepolia testnet will upgrade on Oct 6 as devnets showing stable performance and all major clients ready to ship.
The Ether: Monday, September 14, 2026
Blocks: 25,971,962 - 25,979,136
Slots: 15,209,999 - 15,217,198
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Attested this day's snapshot (download json file, ) with EAS on Base ().·
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The day in review
The day in review
Protocol
- Glamsterdam advanced as Sepolia locked October 6 and Frame Transactions devnet testing began.
- Lodestar ranked Hegotá EIPs, Base and Ethereum split on account abstraction, and gas sponsorship needed collateral.
Apps
- Aave advanced institutional lending with a collateral hub and Arc review, as Spark planned treasury grants.
World
- The CLARITY Act neared Senate passage, and EU wallet rules and Robinhood's tokenized stock plans added pressure.
Top podcasts this day
- Austin Griffith on ETHSkills, agents, and cypherpunk hardwarevideo · apps · 46d ago
chapters (9)
- 7:15First job in Ethereum
- 9:32Facebook horse racing and Lyrical Labs
- 15:18The instant wallet and ATECC608
- 17:40BuidlGuidl origins with Mr. D
- 26:50EF, Albert, and Scaffold-ETH
- 35:15The Claude plus Codex harness
- 38:34Blood wallet and meta transactions
- 44:49Live multisig with ClawdBot
- 1:16:17MACI, private voting, and cypherpunk apps
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.
- CLARITY Act final text posted ahead of Senate cloture vote, ethics division removed sunset, state AG enforcement restored
- Frame Transactions Breakout #4: test v0.3.0 ready, frames-devnet-0 awaits EthPandaOps, Glamsterdam ratification expected Thursday
- Nethermind v2.0.0-rc2 defaults flat DB, adds SinceBlock archive mode
- Lodestar team publishes Hegotá EIP tier rankings and fast-fork strategy
- Aave V4 proposes Isolated Hub and Spoke for institutionally custodied collateral
- Lido DAO proposes expense optimization and NEST/stETH buyback parameter restructuring
- Base and Ethereum account abstraction proposals diverge on smart account design
- Aave Labs technical assessment of Arc protocol launched on mainnet