Blocks: 26,244,425 - 26,251,600
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A quiet day here.
The Ethereum Foundation pulled the Hoodi test network fork with no new date, and Hoodi operators must update their software before October 26 or fall off the network.
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Trades that use outside liquidity now pay Uniswap protocol fees that feed the UNI burn, so Uniswap earns from volume it does not hold itself.
The draft would change how Ethereum validators vote, so transactions become final in minutes instead of much longer and the network is better prepared for quantum computers.
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The merged decentralized exchange lets token stakers steer liquidity rewards toward markets they expect to earn fees, and it runs on Ethereum, Base, Arbitrum and other networks.
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Anyone running a Base node has to update by the deadline or fall out of sync, and the release also speeds up transaction pool checks and changes batcher throttle units.
Solidity's compiler could wrongly swap a stored value for a stale one when optimizing, so contracts built with the Yul optimizer should move to the fixed release, which also compiles faster.
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Stories that gathered new coverage this day but broke earlier, so they live on their own day's page.