The Ether: Thursday, October 8, 2026

Blocks: 26,143,956 - 26,151,122
Slots: 15,382,799 - 15,389,998

Onchain record· ?

Attested this day's snapshot (download json file, ) with EAS on Base ().

Posted to Farcaster and X.

The day in review

Protocol

Glamsterdam went live on Sepolia, with Hoodi fork set for Oct 26 and several Hegotá EIPs advanced.
Geth patched DoS risks in p2p and RPC handling ahead of Amsterdam's mainnet activation.

Apps

DeFi expanded with USDG on Arbitrum and Lido's Lend, while Abstract L2 shut down and Aave hiked GHO rates.

World

Justin Drake and Vitalik Buterin both warned of quantum and AI threats to private keys, urging caution.

Geth releases:

Geth v1.17.8 patches DoS risks in p2p and RPC handlers for Amsterdam fork

A security release fixes denial-of-service vulnerabilities in peer-to-peer and JSON-RPC handlers that become exploitable after Amsterdam activates on mainnet, correcting opcode caching and account handling.

protocol22d agopermalink farcaster suggest a link

Forkcast:

ACDE #247: Hoodi fork for Glamsterdam set for October 26, gas limit change to activate at fork, several Hegotá EIPs CFI'd

The All Core Devs Execution (ACDE) call also scheduled Glamsterdam's Hoodi testnet fork, set a gas limit change to activate at that epoch, and advanced several Hegotá EIPs, including a paired post-quantum account migration path, to Considered for Inclusion status.

protocol22d agopermalink farcaster suggest a link

Bankless:

Vitalik Buterin warns against rushed wallet moves amid AI risks, urges multisig caution

Ethereum cofounder flags AI threats to private keys and advises users to secure multisigs before moving assets hastily.

More: The Defiant

world22d agopermalink farcaster suggest a link

Consensys:

Consensys and ClearToken bring 24/7 settlement to wholesale markets on Ethereum

Institutional wholesale settlement moves onchain via Ethereum, extending trading and clearing beyond traditional market hours.

apps22d agopermalink suggest a link

Top podcasts this day

Unchained:
Could AI Crack Crypto's Cryptography? Why Not to Panic Yet - Uneasy Money
video · protocol · 22d ago
chapters (13)
1. 1:57Why Justin Drake’s ‘don’t panic’ tweet has crypto eyeing its cryptography
2. 6:12Taylor on the MetaMask staking incident and the 0.36 ETH that tipped it off
3. 14:03Ben on why even a worst-case ECC break wouldn’t mean instant theft
4. 20:04Why Ben thinks TradFi, not crypto, could be the worse place to hold money
5. 25:02How AI models went from flubbing 2+2 to formalizing hard math
6. 30:451inch: See how LPs can back multiple positions with one token balance at
7. 31:49How the NEAR Intents hacker ended up sending the money back
8. 37:07ZachXBT went undercover with a DPRK money launderer: what he found
9. 51:25Why instant outrage is the tell for launderers and Sybil farmers
10. 56:11From Gnosis’s 2017 ICO to Safe, the multisig securing $100B+
11. 1:02:23The push for Swiss intervention at Safe and what it actually claims
12. 1:08:12Ben on how regulatory fear warped DAOs and why value return matters now
13. 1:17:12Blast and Abstract shut down: too many L2s, and never build a wallet

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.