The Ether: Thursday, September 17, 2026
Blocks: 25,993,482 - 26,000,650
Slots: 15,231,599 - 15,238,798
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The day in review
The day in review
Protocol- Glamsterdam's networking layer was locked and Sepolia's fork set for October 6, as Reth shipped default persistence.
- Hegotá review advanced one fast payload broadcast EIP and rejected six others.
Apps- MetaMask blocked malicious tx previews, ENS added payment preferences, and World launched a stablecoin super app.
World- The CLARITY Act failed a Senate vote, but the SEC allowed tokenized stocks and S&P acquired OpenZeppelin.
The SEC's temporary order lets tokenized real stocks trade in permissioned pools on public, permissionless chains, under strict volume, access, and issuer controls.
More: ETH Daily · CoinDesk
The ratings giant buys the leading smart contract security platform to help banks and asset managers evaluate onchain risks as tokenized finance scales.
More: CoinDesk · Cointelegraph
Reth client operators now get state persistence and low-latency payload updates by default, with parallelized trie jobs cutting validator response time.
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