The Ether: Monday, October 5, 2026

Blocks: 26,122,440 - 26,129,614
Slots: 15,361,199 - 15,368,398

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The day in review

Protocol

Clients finished Glamsterdam's Sepolia fork prep for October 6, and MetaMask Staking exited Lido after a breach.
Research calls tackled mempool fairness, trace API standards, tx assertions, and resolved RPC error grouping.

Apps

OKX restricted tokenized stock trading to approved wallets, Aave raised GHO rates, and Spark rotated multisig signers.

World

Bitmine topped 6 million ETH, nearing its 5% supply target, while Safe's governance dispute reached Swiss regulators.

Unchained:

OKX's tokenized stock trading on X Layer runs on a restricted Uniswap v4 hook, blocking aggregator access

OKX's tokenized stock trading on X Layer, its Ethereum Layer 2, uses a Uniswap v4 hook that restricts trading and liquidity provision to approved wallets and blocks aggregators from routing orders.

More: The Defiant · CoinDesk · The Defiant

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Lido Research:

Accountability for Encrypted Mempools proposes validator reputation to deter sandwich attacks

A forum post proposes tracking block proposer behavior to penalize those who include sandwiched transactions, strengthening mempool fairness on Ethereum.

More: ethresear.ch

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Cointelegraph / Cointelegraph by Felix Ng:

Greenfield Capital escalates Safe governance dispute to Swiss regulator

An investor in Safe Ecosystem Foundation sought regulatory intervention after months of failed board change requests, raising questions about governance accountability in decentralized infrastructure projects.

More: The Defiant

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Top podcasts this day

The Rollup:
Sergey Nazarov: Why Hundreds Of Trillions Of Dollars Are Coming Onchain (Tokenization Supercycle)
video · world · 24k views · 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

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