The year in the Ether: 2026
This year is still in progress. The list below updates all year and freezes on January 1.
Individual days live in the daily archive.
The SEC's temporary order lets tokenized real stocks trade in permissioned pools on public, permissionless chains, under strict volume, access, and issuer controls.
More: ETH Daily · CoinDesk
BlackRock's new onchain treasury funds join Morgan Stanley and Fidelity in expanding institutional adoption of tokenized reserves on Ethereum.
More: The Block · Bankless · Decrypt
A sophisticated theft targeting crypto exchange Bitget's hot wallet exposed criminal actors and prompted stablecoin issuers to freeze accounts, illustrating both the scale of exchange risk and the limits of on-chain asset controls.
More: CoinDesk · The Defiant · Decrypt
ARK's tokenized venture fund (holding OpenAI and Anthropic stakes) launches on Ethereum with retail access via Securitize at lower subscription tiers, trades 24/7.
More: CoinDesk · The Defiant
Tom Lee's company has accumulated nearly 6 million ether as its chairman argues institutions remain underweight crypto and could increase exposure.
More: The Block · Decrypt
Core developers locked Frame Transactions as the centerpiece of Hegotá, moved nonce-bump protections to the next upgrade, and approved 16 additional EIPs for further review.
Landmark US market-structure legislation faces Senate passage obstacles while major financial institutions weigh in on crypto regulation.
More: Decrypt
Ethereum's long-term protocol vision now emphasizes post-quantum cryptography and privacy as core pillars, shaping research priorities for scaling and security.
More: Decrypt
Ethereum has joined Bitcoin in preparing its cryptography for the quantum computing era, with research on breaking post-quantum signatures intensifying and regulatory pressure mounting.
Ethernews covers price only on exceptional moves, and a jump this large clears that bar. Factual coverage of the move collects here.
Ethernews covers price only on exceptional moves, and a rise this large in a day clears that bar. Factual coverage of the move collects here.
Ethernews covers price only on exceptional moves, and a rise this large in a day clears that bar. Factual coverage of the move collects here.
GnosisDAO voted to transform the chain from a standalone Layer 1 into an Ethereum-settled rollup, ending independent staking and unlocking treasury collateral.
Vitalik explores the philosophical and technical foundations of Ethereum's design as a platform for trustless computation and decentralized coordination.
More: CoinDesk · The Block · The Defiant
Core developers finalized row-based data availability sampling to cut per-node CPU by two orders of magnitude, and advanced fast payload broadcast and IPv6 support across clients.
More: Ethereum Magicians
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