Zama launches confidential Morpho vaults on Ethereum, first vault exceeds $40 million
Private transactions on DeFi let users swap and lend without revealing their positions.
The Ether: Tuesday, September 15, 2026
Blocks: 25,979,137 - 25,986,306
Slots: 15,217,199 - 15,224,398
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The day in review
The day in review
Protocol
- Lodestar shipped Gloas builder support while FOCIL's devnet launch stayed blocked by a Teku-Lodestar bug.
- Ethereum's account abstraction alignment with Base collapsed, and Lido shifted stake to Obol for safer validator keys.
Apps
- Ethereum DeFi saw a $40M confidential vault launch, a bot foiling a $7.8M Safe hack, and warnings on Uniswap v4 hooks.
World
- US crypto policy stalled as the Senate blocked the CLARITY market structure bill and a new tax bill reshaped fee rules.
rsETH drained from Safe via over-permissioned module, bot front-runs attacker for $7.8 million
A vulnerability in Safe's module permissions led to a $7.8 million theft of rsETH, but an automated bot intercepted the attacker's withdrawal attempt and claimed the funds in the same block.
0x flags 54% of analyzed Uniswap v4 hooks as malicious, disputes hook safety model
A DEX aggregator found that most custom hooks on Uniswap v4 are designed to exploit traders, highlighting friction between permissionless extensibility and user protection in the protocol.
Top podcasts this day
chapters (9)
- 0:00Can the CLARITY Act Get 60 Senate Votes?
- 1:58Is This Crypto’s Dodd-Frank Moment?
- 3:13Could a Change in Congress Threaten Crypto Rules?
- 4:24Why Crypto Could Face a Congressional “Logjam”
- 5:30What Comes After the CLARITY Act?
- 5:49The Bitcoin Strategic Reserve
- 6:14Implementing Stablecoin Regulation
- 6:31Congress Turns Its Attention to AI
- 6:50How the Crypto Industry Should Engage Washington
chapters (15)
- 0:00Intro
- 2:31Why Ethereum?
- 5:11What is broken with privacy today?
- 6:52What should be private in DeFi?
- 11:50The call for privacy runs deep in Ethereum
- 15:05How Ethereum gets native private transactions by next year
- 20:53The importance of FOCIL for Ethereum
- 26:51When will private DeFi be ready on Ethereum?
- 30:58Network-based privacy vs protocol-based vs wallet-based privacy
- 35:04What is unique about Aztec’s approach to privacy on Ethereum?
- 38:14How will private DeFi on Ethereum compare to Zcash?
- 41:22What will privacy mean for institutional investors?
- 43:36The challenge with network meta data and privacy
- 45:44Lack of privacy today vs future private UX on Ethereum
- 51:22Closing
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 fails Senate cloture vote, stalling the crypto market structure bill
- FOCIL Breakout #42: devnet-0 launch blocked on Teku-Lodestar interop fix, EIP-8369 defines eligibility profiles
- Lodestar v1.48.0 ships Gloas builder and payload support
- Ethereum and Base account abstraction proposals diverge, alignment effort abandoned
- DSRV migrates Lido Curated Module v2 stake to Obol for distributed validator keys
- ethrex v27.0.0 upgrades RPC simulation and bootnode records
- ETHSecurity Initiatives Round 2 opens for proposals at TheDAO Fund
- Risk Stewards: Aave V3 cap and interest rate management changes