Open USD stablecoin launches on Ethereum, Base, Solana, Tempo via Stripe Bridge
Stripe's issuer-backed stablecoin goes live across multiple chains including Ethereum L2s.
More: Unchained · Bankless · The Defiant
The Ether: Wednesday, September 30, 2026
Blocks: 26,086,570 - 26,093,737
Slots: 15,325,199 - 15,332,398
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The day in review
The day in review
Protocol
- Nine clients plus Grandine scheduled Sepolia forks for Glamsterdam on October 6, signaling mainnet readiness.
- MetaMask pulled validators from Lido after a breach, while PQTS advanced quantum-resistant signing plans.
Apps
- Stripe's Open USD, Base's Cobalt upgrade, and Chainlink's faster CCIP all launched, expanding Ethereum's app layer.
World
- Kalshi denied a CFTC probe into ether perp trading as SEAL warned of a new Gmail-based crypto scam.
Base launches Cobalt upgrade with conditional transactions and asset seizure for B20 tokens
Base adds dormant transactions that execute when price or block conditions are met, plus new compliance tools for tokenized stock issuers.
More: Cointelegraph · Unchained · The Defiant
MetaMask Staking exits Lido validators after infrastructure compromise, no wallets affected
MetaMask's staking service exited its Ethereum validators from Lido as a precaution following an infrastructure security incident, though the company confirmed user wallets themselves face no immediate threat.
More: MetaMask
Top podcasts this day
- Variational Wants to Build the Robinhood of Onchain Tradingvideo · apps · 4.1k views · 30d ago
chapters (15)
- 0:00Broker, Not Exchange
- 5:07Why Brokerage Wins for Retail
- 8:22What Is a Swap?
- 9:58The Real Cost of Trading
- 11:43Bringing TradFi Liquidity Onchain
- 14:44Building Variational
- 23:14From Crypto Traders to Everyone
- 26:42The Next User Base
- 30:35What Actually Happens Onchain?
- 34:00Inside OLP
- 37:03Arbitrum and User Funds
- 39:44The VAR Token and 32% Airdrop
- 42:34Funding the Token Model
- 44:11The 2027 Roadmap
- 47:44Protocol or Platform?
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.
- Nimbus v26.9.0, Reth, Teku, Lodestar, Prysm, Besu, ethrex, Grandine, and SSV Node schedule Glamsterdam on Sepolia for October 6
- Chainlink CCIP 2.0 goes live with Fast Confirmation Rule, cuts cross-chain settlement to under 24 seconds
- PQTS Breakout #16: EIP-8288 signature aggregation targeted next, Nethermind and ethrex to embed LeanVM verification
- Kalshi denies CFTC investigation into ether perpetual trading patterns
- Geth v1.17.7 patches PPA publish, adds history pruning
- Grandine 3.0.0-rc.0 schedules Gloas fork on Sepolia
- ZisK v1.3.1-alpha fixes precompile and memory soundness bugs
- SEAL warns of Gmail compromise and fake support call social engineering pattern