The Ether: Wednesday, October 14, 2026

Blocks: 26,187,015 - 26,194,188
Slots: 15,425,999 - 15,433,198

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The day in review

Protocol

Researchers advanced EIP-8025 toward Hegotá inclusion as Nethermind flagged a prover-breaking hash-map bug.
Developers advanced mempool privacy specs, pricing tools, and Solidity upgrades as Ethrex prepped Amsterdam on Hoodi.

Apps

Uniswap added dynamic fees, Polygon closed its Coinme buy, Safe added stablecoin yield, and Base prepped Denim.

World

Standard Chartered opened direct ether trading for Gulf wealth clients while EasyA eyed a 2027 tokenized share listing.

Uniswap:

Uniswap VolatilePair Hook launches dynamic fees for volatile pairs starting ETH/USDC

The Uniswap hook charges asymmetric buy and sell fees on ETH/USDC to retain arbitrage value for liquidity providers during sharp price moves.

More: The Defiant

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Polygon:

Polygon completes Coinme acquisition, adding 37 state money transmitter licenses

Polygon secures direct regulatory authority to offer stablecoin payments across the U.S., embedding payments into its Open Money Stack.

More: The Block

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CoinDesk / Francisco Rodrigues:

Standard Chartered enables direct ether trading for affluent UAE clients via in-house custody

The bank settles bitcoin and ether trades in-house without external wallets, bringing direct crypto trading to Gulf wealth clients.

More: Cointelegraph · Decrypt

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Aave Governance:

Babylon advances native Bitcoin collateral for Aave V4, permissionless liquidations via WBTC

Collateral stays on Bitcoin but WBTC settles liquidations permissionlessly, with risk settings and governance votes still pending.

More: The Defiant

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Solidity:

Core Solidity frontend adds algebraic types, pattern matching, generics, and compile-time evaluation

A new Solidity compiler frontend enables functional programming patterns and moves compiler logic into a standard library, making the language more flexible for complex contract development.

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Top podcasts this day

The Rollup:
Krista Lynch: Wall Street Is Going All In On Digital Assets (Insider Take)
video · world · 9.9k views · 16d ago
chapters (10)
1. 0:00Intro
2. 2:01Zcash ETF In-Kind Transactions Explained
3. 4:08Tax Planning And Succession Via ETF
4. 6:13Re-Tokenizing Back Onchain From An ETF
5. 8:14Covered Call Yield Funds Filed By Grayscale
6. 10:33Advisors Now Inundate Grayscale With Crypto Questions
7. 12:30How Much Of The FA Landscape Is Left?
8. 14:20Zcash Is AI Resistant Money
9. 15:01Grayscale Hires Head Of Onchain Asset Management
10. 16:22Institutional Bull Market Turns Into A Broad One
Unchained:
After the Ledger Hack and Quantum Warnings, Is Self-Custody ‘Slowly Dying’?
video · world · 16d ago
chapters (11)
1. 1:27Why Lorenzo says crypto investing is moving from '0 to 1' to '1 to 100'
2. 8:41Justin Drake's ECDSA warning and why RIAs keep asking ARK about quantum
3. 16:42Nexo: Generate daily interest on your crypto or borrow against your assets at
4. 17:31The barbell: why Lorenzo favors exchanges and core crypto infrastructure
5. 24:34Satoshi's coins and why Lorenzo is less worried about Bitcoin's quantum fix
6. 26:28Ledger, Bitget, and why Lorenzo sees 'nowhere to hide' in hardware wallets
7. 30:11Ethereum's 'franchise model' and why Lorenzo says L1 value accrual is broken
8. 38:04Why Lorenzo thinks crypto has gone 'crazy' over token buybacks
9. 45:17Why ARK thinks tokenized equities could pass stablecoin supply in 3 years
10. 51:04Cloudflare, AI bots, and why L1s are still orders of magnitude too slow
11. 54:05Why Binance never dropped USDT, and what that says about Tether and Circle
Unchained:
The Ledger Drain, OpenAI Espionage and Models That May Self-Replicate
video · apps · 16d ago
0xResearch:
Grading Citrini's Viral Crypto Portfolio
video · apps · 16d ago
chapters (12)
1. 0:00Intro
2. 0:27Is This Just Bullish Consolidation?
3. 5:17Is Citrini Overweight Derive?
4. 12:23Lighter Or Hyperliquid?
5. 17:24Is Ether.fi Still Undervalued?
6. 23:42Is Aave The Best Lending Bet?
7. 28:15Why Aren’t Tokenized Equities Taking Off?
8. 33:19Can Crypto Neobanks Go Mainstream?
9. 36:19Ethena’s Bull And Bear Cases
10. 42:19Can Ethena Grow Without Incentives?
11. 46:45Does Solana Deserve Its Allocation?
12. 55:13Should Hyperliquid Be The Top Holding?

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