Bitmine buys additional $74 million ether, nearing 5% of supply with 5.99M ETH
Tom Lee's company has accumulated nearly 6 million ether as its chairman argues institutions remain underweight crypto and could increase exposure.
The Ether: Monday, September 21, 2026
Blocks: 26,022,170 - 26,029,315
Slots: 15,260,399 - 15,267,598
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The day in review
The day in review
Protocol
- Sepolia's Glamsterdam fork was set for October 6, swapping EIP-8411 for EIP-8142, leaving the block window unresolved.
- EIP-8142 was declined for Hegotá as teams advanced fee-market research, trace specs, and Lean 4 verification.
Apps
- Circle's wrapped bitcoin moved toward an Aave Arc listing, letting institutions borrow USDC against it via Morpho.
World
- The CFTC advanced crypto market rules as Bitmine expanded its ether stake and Ondo streamlined tokenized stock trading.
RPC Standards #35: unmerged Geth PRs block V1 spec release, clients still lack unified trace-output spec
This RPC Standards working group call found that a handful of unmerged Geth pull requests are the main blockers to finalizing the eth_simulateV1 specification, and that Ethereum clients still disagree on how to format transaction trace data, delaying a shared trace API.
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Scroll becomes first zk-rollup to achieve Stage 1 confirmation
Scroll reaches Stage 1, eliminating reliance on the centralized sequencer and offering users censorship resistance.
Top podcasts this day
- Guy Young: Why This Is The Biggest Opportunity In Stablecoins Yet (Full Thesis)video · apps · 3.7k views · 40d ago
chapters (9)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:40Three Years Of Four-Sigma Events
- 2:44Why Build A Neobank
- 4:23Is USDe More Resilient Now
- 7:10Are Stablecoins A National Priority
- 9:47The Dirty VC Coin Problem
- 12:23Buying Out Every Selling Investor
- 13:55Why He Disagrees On Buybacks
- 16:59The Bifurcated Business Model
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.
- CFTC sends crypto market structure rulemaking to White House after Clarity Act fails
- ACDT #97: Sepolia Glamsterdam fork confirmed for October 6, EIP-8142 withdrawn for EIP-8411, BAL window unresolved
- EIP-8142 (Block-in-Blobs) declined for Hegota
- Circle Wrapped Bitcoin (cirBTC) pre-listing assessment on Aave Arc, $14.3M borrowed via Morpho
- Ondo's in-kind conversion system lets institutions mint tokenized stocks without cash
- ZisK v1.3.0-alpha merges develop into main
- Daml launches Reason safety layer for AI assistants in smart contract code
- Post-Glamsterdam fee market analysis compares one-dimensional model with EIP-7999