Charon v1.11.3 ships a routine patch to the Obol distributed validator middleware
Charon is the software that lets several machines jointly run one Ethereum validator, and this patch comes with no detailed release notes.
The Ether: Wednesday, October 28, 2026
Blocks: 26,287,496 - 26,294,679
Slots: 15,526,799 - 15,533,998
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The day in review
The day in review
Protocol
- Protocol work stayed incremental, with a new wallet-signing safety standard, an EPBS explainer, and research on fairer block auctions.
Apps
- Aave tightened USDT borrowing costs while loosening bitcoin and ether collateral limits, adjusting risk across its pools.
- Stablecoin access widened as Coinbase listed RLUSD and Peer let yuan buyers grab USDC via Alipay, while Ethena Pay launched a leveraged vault.
World
- Robinhood Chain kept growing, pulling in $26 million in Q3 crypto revenue and pushing tokenized assets on its network past $246 million.
Local Ethereum explainer EPBS 101: how enshrined proposer-builder separation replaces a trusted middleman and frees time to scale
The post explains how Ethereum is building proposer-builder separation into the protocol to replace a trusted middleman, which also frees up time in each slot.
Uniswap launches Developer Analytics, giving API users a dashboard of integration activity and health
Teams building on Uniswap's API can now see how their integration is being used and whether it is working properly, right from their dashboard.
Ethena Pay rolls out Earn+, an Upshift vault targeting up to 12% rewards with about 11 times leverage on Aave
The vault borrows heavily on Aave to boost yield, and depositors bear any losses, with an initial $4.5 million capacity limit.
Coinbase adds Ripple's RLUSD stablecoin across retail, exchange and Prime, with 1:1 USD conversion on Ethereum and Base
Coinbase supporting RLUSD, a dollar-pegged stablecoin (a token meant to hold a steady $1 value), on Ethereum and Base widens where institutions and retail users can hold and move it.
Robinhood Chain adds eight more stock and ETF tokens, with $246.7 million in real-world assets deployed in DeFi on the network
Robinhood's Ethereum layer 2 network is widening its menu of tokenized stocks, which can already be traded and used as collateral for loans.
Aave raises borrowing limits on bitcoin and ether collateral across V3 and V4, giving WBTC and cbBTC borrowers about 11% more capacity
Borrowers on Aave, a lending protocol, can now take out about 11% more against the same collateral, but borrowing the maximum leaves less cushion if prices fall.
Peer adds Alipay-funded USDC trading on Base in beta, with buyers paying individual sellers in yuan
Peer lets people buy USDC, a dollar-pegged stablecoin, on the Base layer 2 by paying sellers in yuan through Alipay, though Peer says it has no official partnership with Alipay.
Flashbots forum post formalizes why searchers and builders favor candle auctions over sealed bids
The post argues that open auctions with a random end time pay the few participants more than sealed bids, which bears on how block space is sold.
Sky forum post scopes the Beacon and Configurator launch on Base, letting Spark's DPAU rate limits be adjusted in an emergency
Sky contributors describe a safety control for Spark's upcoming Base deployment that can adjust rate limits and remove features quickly if something goes wrong.
Top podcasts this day
- Anthropic's IPO and Hardware Wallets' Bad Weekvideo · protocol · 2d ago
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.
- Robinhood Chain contributes $26 million of $120 million Q3 crypto revenue, up 20% on Q2 though EPS missed estimates
- Draft ERC proposes Secure Transaction Verification and Authorization to stop blind signing and multisig interface attacks
- Aave raises USDT borrowing costs on its Ethereum pool, steeper rate tier now starts at 92% utilization