Ether rose 7% in 24 hours to $2,622
Ethernews covers price only on exceptional moves, and a rise this large in a day clears that bar. Factual coverage of the move collects here.
The Ether: Friday, September 18, 2026
Blocks: 26,000,651 - 26,007,835
Slots: 15,238,799 - 15,245,998
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The day in review
The day in review
Protocol
- Sepolia locked in its Glamsterdam fork for October 6, switched to QUIC as default transport, and advanced Hegotá's EIP-8015.
- Lido began moving its 8.4 million staked ETH to new withdrawal credentials as zero-knowledge tools patched bugs and mempool privacy design advanced.
Apps
- Lending apps widened collateral options as Aave tightened risk parameters, Morpho took tokenized stock collateral, and Ethena's USDe entered review.
World
- The SEC cleared tokenized stock trading on public chains for five years, and ether jumped 7% to $2,622.
Top podcasts this day
- Clarity Failed, Many Stablecoins Debate, Circle Launches Arc & Meta's AI Edge | Weekly Roundupvideo · world · 1.7k views · 42d ago
chapters (10)
- 0:00Intro
- 3:50Corporate Stablecoin Debate
- 13:03Why The CLARITY Act Failed
- 16:58The SEC Opens Tokenized Markets
- 22:43Who Wins Tokenized Markets?
- 29:06S&P Moves Deeper Into Crypto
- 37:40Can Circle Make Arc Work?
- 46:14Can AI Startups Survive Meta?
- 51:26Polymarket’s War For Talent
- 57:15Content Of The Week
- Weekly Rollup, Sep 18: The Bull Market Test | Clarity Dies | SEC Opens the Door | Hyperliquid Comes Onshorepodcast · 8.9k views · 42d ago
chapters (9)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:26Bull Market Signals: BTC, Zcash & Altcoins
- 8:39Macro: Tom Lee, Bonds & the Fed Hike
- 23:43Clarity Act Falls Apart
- 26:27Regulators Fill the Gap: SEC & Tokenized Stocks
- 42:31The Crypto Options Race
- 45:46Hyperliquid Comes Onshore
- 48:38Arc Chain Launches
- 50:50OpenZeppelin Joins S&P Global
- Clarity Died in the Senate. Does Crypto Even Need a Law Now?video · world · 43d ago
chapters (10)
- 1:18Why the Clarity Act's cloture vote failed: 'politics beat policy'
- 2:38Scoring Trump's corruption against Nixon and Suharto fuels the ethics fight
- 6:51Election pressure: a lame duck vote and crypto PAC money's next targets
- 11:57Why Cody blames the banks' stablecoin rewards fight for killing Clarity
- 14:351inch Aqua: See how LPs back multiple positions with one token balance at
- 15:23The SEC's new innovation exemption for tokenized stock venues
- 18:28Could 2 years of SEC and CFTC rulemaking replace a crypto law?
- 23:20Why regulators are staying silent on synthetic stock tokens
- 26:46What's left to negotiate: developer liability and stablecoin yield
- 31:14Is the lame duck Clarity's last shot, or could agency rules become permanent?
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.
- SEC grants five-year innovation exemption for tokenized stock trading in permissioned AMMs
- ACDC #187: Sepolia Glamsterdam fork set for October 6, QUIC becomes default transport, EIP-8015 CFI for Hegotá
- Ethereal weekly #39: Frame Transactions confirmed for Hegotá, Nomic Foundation launches Slang-Solx, Consensys splits
- Lido begins validator consolidation onto 0x02 withdrawal credentials
- Cysic Venus v0.3.1 patches signed remainder soundness bug in arithmetic circuits
- Ethereal weekly #40: SEC exemption for tokenized stocks, S&P acquires OpenZeppelin, Blockspace Forum live
- OpenVM v2.1.0-rc.1 updates certified verifier to Lean4 v4.34.0
- Risk Stewards: Aave V3 cap and interest rate management changes