Ethereum News

Ethereum News

Tech

The Protocol: Aave community split

Ethereum’s Glamsterdam, Bitcoin and quantum computing, and new Eigenlayer governance proposal

Split

Finance

ETHZilla sells $74.5 million of ether in effort to trim debt load

This is the company's second sale of part of its ETH treasury, following a $40 million sale in October to fund share repurchases.

Ethereum Logo (Midjourney / Modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

BitMine buys $300 million in ether, crossing 4 million ETH treasury milestone

Thomas Lee's ETH treasury firm acquired nearly 99,000 tokens last week as crypto markets slid.

Tom Lee

Markets

Boxing Day bonanza: $27 billion in bitcoin, ether options set for year-end reset

The expiration involves over 50% of Deribit's total open interest, with a bullish bias indicated by a put-call ratio of 0.38.

A person looking at multiple trading screens. (sergeitokmakov/Pixabay/Modified by CoinDesk)

Tech

Ethereum’s ‘Glamsterdam’ upgrade aims to fix MEV fairness

The full scope of Glamsterdam has not yet been finalized, but developers are targeting it to go live in 2026.

Amsterdam buildings (Unsplash/  Azhar J)

Finance

Foundation behind restaking protocol EigenLayer plans bigger rewards for active users

An Incentives Committee would direct programmatic token emissions, focusing allocations on participants that secure AVSs and contribute to the EigenCloud ecosystem.

EigenLayer CEO Sreeram Kannan (University of Michigan, modified by CoinDesk)

Markets

Bitcoin slump deepens as most of top 100 tokens fall below key trading signals

Crypto's bear grip squeezes tighter as 75 of top 100 coins trade below 50- and 200-day SMAs.

Trading screen with price monitors and charts (Yashowardhan Singh/Unsplash)

Markets

Bitcoin plunges below $86,000 as crypto weakness worsens

The curse of the U.S. trading session — in which bitcoin tends to fall as American stocks trade — has hit yet again.

Bitcoin (BTC) price (CoinDesk)

Finance

Crypto's 'Best Days Are Ahead': Tom Lee's Bitmine Immersion Adds $320M of Ether

The company is likely sitting on about $3 billion in unrealized losses on its holdings of nearly 4 million ether tokens.

Screenshot of Tom Lee on CoinDesk TV (CoinDesk)

Tech

Ripple Expands $1.3B RLUSD Stablecoin to Ethereum L2s via Wormhole in Multichain Push

Ripple said it's testing its U.S. dollar stablecoin on Optimism, Base, Ink and Unichain with more blockchains to be added next year pending regulatory review.

Ripple