Lodestar v1.50.0-rc.0 adds Gloas fork scheduling and ePBS builder support for Hoodi
Lodestar schedules the Gloas fork and sets Hoodi gas limit to 200M, advancing Ethereum's ePBS rollout and testnet readiness.
The Ether: Friday, October 9, 2026
Blocks: 26,151,123 - 26,158,300
Slots: 15,389,999 - 15,397,198
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The day in review
The day in review
Protocol
- Lodestar scheduled Ethereum's Gloas fork for the Hoodi testnet, as researchers explored ePBS incentives, quantum key risks, and faster sync proofs.
Apps
- Safe added post-quantum signers while Unichain upgraded to OP Enterprise and the ENS Foundation adopted its first independent-era budget.
World
- Thailand approved bitcoin and ether ETFs as Franklin Templeton and Animoca expanded their tokenized asset lineup beyond real estate.
Thailand SEC issues bitcoin and ether ETF rules effective October 16
Thailand's financial regulator approved limited crypto ETF offerings of bitcoin and ether with new custody and trading rules for local asset managers.
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Top podcasts this day
- Weekly Rollup, Oct 9: AI Threatens Crypto Security | Tom Lee Stops Buying ETH | Ethereum L2s Shut Down | Zcash ETFspodcast · 6.8k views · 21d ago
chapters (9)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:51Yields, Oil & Bitcoin
- 9:32Tom Lee Stops Buying ETH
- 19:06AI Threatens Crypto Security
- 31:24Cryptographers Push Back
- 37:00Ethereum L2 Shutdowns
- 41:25Zcash ETF Momentum
- 44:57FinCEN Withdraws Wallet Rules
- 50:22Token2049 Takeaways
- TOKEN2049: Bunker Mode? feat. Balaji & Arthur Hayes Live - The Chopping Blockvideo · apps · 1.4k views · 21d ago
chapters (8)
- 0:00Cold open
- 0:31Live at TOKEN2049 with Balaji and Arthur Hayes
- 2:35Why Network School moved to Kazakhstan
- 6:55How to shop for a country
- 15:45OpenAI's math drop and crypto bunker mode
- 21:47What crypto does if the cryptography breaks
- 32:13Blockchains that hack themselves, and Arthur's Flop Network
- 34:28Blast, Abstract, and the L2 shutdowns
- Understanding ePBS through the Lens of Game Theoryvideo · protocol · 21d ago
chapters (12)
- 0:29Introducing Mike Neuder, a PhD student at Princeton
- 3:47Glamsterdam testing updates
- 6:09How block proposals work today
- 10:27How ePBS changes things
- 17:41Why trusted payments were built into ePBS
- 19:20The role of relays in ePBS
- 25:21The role of MEV-Boost in ePBS
- 31:24Why the focus of ePBS shifted to scalability
- 34:57The free option problem in ePBS
- 55:08What core devs need to know about ePBS
- 56:46What MEV stakeholders need to know about ePBS
- 59:51Was ePBS worth its complexity?
- Cecilia Zhang on execution harnesses for onchain agentsvideo · apps · 21d ago
chapters (10)
- 11:38ZK engineer origins at Taiko
- 15:32Technical solo founder, stuck shipping
- 19:43Distribution and the mid-curve
- 30:21Hiring: intelligence, agency, harness
- 35:42Model vibes: Opus, Fable, Codex
- 42:08Codebase ergonomics for clankers
- 57:33Why talk-to-your-wallet is still slow
- 1:03:15Kernel-style wallet permissions
- 1:24:37Pool of forks and simulation stack
- 1:36:13Back pressure turns dumb models smart
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.
- Unichain upgrades to OP Enterprise, enabling native interoperability across OP Stack
- Ready for Merge Ep. 36 explores ePBS game theory
- Ethereal weekly #42: Glamsterdam live on Sepolia, Hoodi fork October 26, quantum risk planning
- Lido proposes post-quantum readiness working group for validator signing keys
- ENS Foundation adopts 2026 budget after DAO transition to independent governance
- Winterlock brings post-quantum hash-based signers to Safe without migration
- Aave proposes onboarding USAT stablecoin to V3 and V4 on Ethereum
- Spark governance proposes sUSDS bridge to Arbitrum and six protocol updates for October 22 spell