The Ether: Tuesday, October 27, 2026
Blocks: 26,280,314 - 26,287,495
Slots: 15,519,599 - 15,526,798
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The day in review
The day in review
Protocol- Core devs fixed a FOCIL griefing bug and a Glamsterdam deposit flaw, while Teku dropped a compromised CA root.
Apps- Robinhood Chain grew with Ondo's tokenized stocks, Ripple's RLUSD stablecoin, and Robinhood Earn lending.
- ENS relaunched as ENSv2 for 36 million names, while Keystone's breach risked fake wallets and Safe added spending limits.
World- Robinhood's own blockchain became a real revenue line even as its total crypto trading revenue fell 55% year over year.
ENS, the naming system that turns long wallet addresses into readable names, has moved to a new design that supports its 36 million existing names.
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Robinhood's own blockchain is becoming a real revenue line for the brokerage even as its crypto trading income shrinks.
More: CoinDesk · The Block
The fix closes a conditional scenario, which its author said was not a live exploit, where staking deposits could land in a block builder's account instead of the validator's.
More: Unchained
Tokenized shares, blockchain tokens that track real stocks, can now be bridged to Robinhood Chain and swapped against stablecoins in Uniswap pools, a step toward onchain stock trading.
More: The Defiant
A major US brokerage's blockchain network adds another dollar stablecoin, which widens the payment and settlement options for its customers and institutions.
More: Decrypt
Eligible Robinhood customers can now lend a dollar stablecoin (USDG) onchain through a Morpho lending vault, with withdrawals depending on how much liquidity the vault holds.
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