The Ether: Thursday, October 15, 2026

Blocks: 26,194,189 - 26,201,364
Slots: 15,433,199 - 15,440,398

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The day in review

Protocol

Core devs rejected four Hegotá EIPs at ACDC #189 while clients readied Hoodi's Gloas and Amsterdam forks for October 26.
KR1 became a public company running its own validators through Lido's institutional staking service.

Apps

Starknet weighed independence, Aztec planned quantum-proofing, and Lido and Arbitrum pushed staking and stablecoin growth.

World

Schwab finished rolling out ether trading to retail clients and enabled crypto withdrawals to self-custody wallets.

Aztec:

Aztec targets full post-quantum migration by end of 2030, hardened libraries in early 2027

Aztec's Layer 2 is building quantum-resistant privacy today and mapping a path to full post-quantum security dependent on Ethereum protocol changes.

More: The Defiant

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Forkcast:

ACDC #189: Builder onboarding race condition fix rejected for Glamsterdam on Hoodi, Hegotá EIPs declined

The All Core Devs Consensus (ACDC) call #189 declined to fix a builder-onboarding bug before Glamsterdam forks on Hoodi October 26, and finalized declines of EIP-7716, EIP-8025, and EIP-8359 for the Hegotá upgrade.

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The Defiant:

Lido adds direct ETH staking from four Layer 2s to interface with wstETH returns

Users can now stake ETH natively on Arbitrum, Optimism, Base, and Polygon and receive wstETH rewards, bridging capital back to Ethereum while simplifying the path for L2-based stakers.

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Unchained:

Starknet holds DAO vote on independence research, decoupling from Ethereum as post-quantum L1

Starknet stakers will vote by October 22 on whether to research becoming a standalone chain with post-quantum tech, though approval would not execute the move itself.

Discussed on:Unchained1:00:30

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The Defiant:

Schwab completes retail ether rollout and enables crypto transfers for all clients

The major brokerage finished rolling out bitcoin and ether trading to retail customers and is now letting them move crypto to self-hosted wallets.

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Top podcasts this day

Unchained:
How a Hidden LTE Chip Turned Real Ledgers Into Seed Phrase Thieves: Uneasy Money
video · apps · 15d ago
chapters (13)
1. 0:00Intro
2. 1:32Why a Ledger reseller became the entry point for a supply chain attack
3. 9:15Taylor on how the CryptoBilis attack moved past fake devices and scratchers
4. 19:01Why Taylor says panicked Ledger owners now face the bigger risk
5. 20:17Why Austin sees DIY hardware wallets as the future
6. 30:34How Taylor “demixed” Zcash by following the gas trail
7. 34:52Nexo: Generate daily interest on your crypto or borrow funds against your assets at
8. 35:37What the bug planted in OpenAI's office says about AI espionage
9. 41:42Austin's homemade Alexa, blood wallet, and AI-run electronics bench
10. 48:04Why a decade-old XRP infinite mint bug points to AI-assisted hunting
11. 51:04Is $250K enough? Taylor compares the XRP bounty to Google's Chrome payout
12. 1:00:30StarkNet wants to become an L1: why Kain thinks that's where L2s end up
13. 1:11:03How MegaETH shows why L2 ecosystems struggle to keep their apps

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