The Ether: Friday, October 2, 2026

Blocks: 26,100,914 - 26,108,081
Slots: 15,339,599 - 15,346,798

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The day in review

Protocol

Hegotá's scope shifted as a quick slot timing proposal joined consideration while a staking reward burn plan was pulled.
Client teams pushed fork readiness, with ethrex hardening ahead of Sepolia's Glamsterdam test and Lighthouse adding early Gloas block building.

Apps

Blast L2 announced it was shutting down, giving users until October 26 to withdraw funds.
Institutional DeFi push continued as Aave proposed a separate trademark holder, SMBC Nikko partnered on compliant Uniswap pools, and Centrifuge funds launched…

World

A quiet day here.

The Defiant:

Blast L2 shuts down, users have until October 26 to withdraw via bridge

Once holding $2.3 billion in crypto assets, Blast is winding down after activity faded and costs rose.

More: Bankless · Decrypt · Cointelegraph · Unchained

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Aave Governance:

Aave Foundation proposed to hold trademark and IP for protocol benefit

Aave Labs proposed creating an independent Cayman Islands entity to hold the protocol's brand, trademark, domain, and codebase, with asset transfers requiring separate governance votes in later phases.

More: The Defiant

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Top podcasts this day

Bankless:
Weekly Rollup, Oct 2: Uptober Green Light? | Robinhood Goes All-In | $400M Bitget Hack | Prediction Markets to Scotus
podcast · 13k views · 28d ago
chapters (8)
1. 0:00Intro
2. 0:09Bitcoin Breaks Bearish Structure
3. 6:35Bond Yields, Liquidity & Macro Risk
4. 22:06Robinhood Goes All-In
5. 33:19BitGet Hack & NEAR Permissionless Debate
6. 44:23Prediction Markets Head to Court
7. 48:29Ethereum’s Cryptographic World Computer
8. 56:14AI Agents & Bank Runs
Unchained:
Kalshi Cooked, Bitget Hacked + Agentic Bank Runs - The Chopping Block
video · world · 28d ago
chapters (12)
1. 0:00Intro
2. 1:42Bitget loses $387M to North Korea
3. 7:08Should chains freeze hacked funds?
4. 15:35Chains as laboratories of democracy
5. 21:44The hidden premium on janky chains
6. 27:13Consensys hacked: is staking still risk-free?
7. 30:53Pricing and hedging validator risk
8. 40:24Kalshi's perps volume
9. 44:17How Kalshi's rebates went awry
10. 53:07Apollo's agentic bank runs
11. 56:04A banking system built on consumer laziness
12. 1:02:46SVB-style runs at agent speed
The Rollup:
Sergey Nazarov: Why Hundreds Of Trillions Of Dollars Are Coming Onchain (Tokenization Supercycle)
video · world · 28d ago
chapters (11)
1. 0:00Intro
2. 2:25Chainlink's Best Sibos Booth Ever
3. 4:19Chainlink Is The Interface For Swift Ledger
4. 6:14More Chains Means More Chainlink Value
5. 8:14DTCC Deeply Integrates Chainlink Data Feeds
6. 10:26Chainlink Solves The Digital Twin Problem
7. 14:55Tokenization Is Not About Tokens Themselves
8. 18:14Laws Will Change Then All Settlement Goes Onchain
9. 20:08Fragmentation Is Actually Chainlink's Tailwind
10. 22:09Chainlink Solves Each Problem As It Appears
11. 24:04Smart Contracts Defined By Sergey
The Edge Podcast:
Is It Time to Buy ENA? Ethena Pay, The Equity Basis Trade, and The Token Cleanup
video · apps · 2.3k views · 29d ago
chapters (13)
1. 0:00Intro
2. 2:33Lito’s background in DeFi
3. 10:45What is Ethena Pay?
4. 14:14Ethena Pay’s edge as a neobank and stablecoin issuer
5. 19:45The mobile app breakthrough for DeFi
6. 25:05Competing in the DeFi neobank sector
7. 29:41What is Ethena’s new equity basis trade?
8. 34:18What other strategies underpin sUSDe yield?
9. 36:56ENA token cleanup: buyouts, equity, buybacks, unlocks
10. 40:23StablecoinX, the ENA DAT
11. 42:47What’s next at Ethena?
12. 45:23Ethena Pay's key features and expected launch in US
13. 50:26Closing

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