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. @ericjackson : ETHEREUM IS THE AGENT CHAIN Speaking on CoinDesk, Eric Jackson laid out the case: AI agents are about to take over financial transactions, and Ethereum is where they’ll settle.

Ethereum News from Yesterday - Obol proposed EIP-7716 for the Hégota hardfork, briefly raising penalties on validators that go offline en masse to discourage centralized staking setups - Paragraph went AI-native, letting writers draft and publish newsletters from Claude or ChatGPT via MCP, and sell gated files to humans or AI agents via x402/MPP - Peer prev zkp2p, introduced a 0.95% onramp fee starting April 24, offramps stay free - Ledger warned users of a new physical scam letter with holo and scratchy patch impersonating the brand to phish for 24-word recovery phrases​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ - Aave V4 rolled out new reserve pages with per-asset interest rates, supply/borrow caps, and top addresses across mobile and web - Mitsui & Co subsidiary MDC launched Zipangcoin on OP Mainnet, Japan’s first commodity-backed cryptoasset on a public blockchain, with ZPG listing on GMO Coin April 20

Ethereum News from Yesterday - Ethereum Foundation’s ETH Rangers program closing report: ~100 DPRK IT workers identified, over $5.8M in funds recovered or frozen, 785+ vulnerabilities reported - Josh Stark stepping down from the Ethereum Foundation leadership team after 5 years, wrapping up end of April - Ethereum researchers published draft EIP-8222 Lean Staking, breaking the link between deposit addresses and validator keys for staking privacy -Ethereum Foundation’s Use Case Lab published 122 ideas for building on Ethereum across governance, onchain orgs, and commerce - Giveth pushed back Ethereum Security QF Round start to April 23, with apps closing April 30 - Blockchain Association launched Tokenization Workstream to shape US policy on tokenized capital markets - Boundless shipped Prover Node v1.4, delivering up to 67% more revenue for provers via TaskDB optimizations - Optimism proposed stake-based transaction ordering pilot on OP Mainnet, letting users stake OP for priority tx treatment

Ethereum News from Yesterday - Ethereum Foundation’s ETH Rangers program closing report: ~100 DPRK IT workers identified, over $5.8M in funds recovered or frozen, 785+ vulnerabilities reported - Josh Stark stepping down from the Ethereum Foundation leadership team after 5 years, wrapping up end of April - Ethereum researchers published draft EIP-8222 Lean Staking, breaking the link between deposit addresses and validator keys for staking privacy -Ethereum Foundation’s Use Case Lab published 122 ideas for building on Ethereum across governance, onchain orgs, and commerce - Giveth pushed back Ethereum Security QF Round start to April 23, with apps closing April 30 - Blockchain Association launched Tokenization Workstream to shape US policy on tokenized capital markets - Boundless shipped Prover Node v1.4, delivering up to 67% more revenue for provers via TaskDB optimizations - Optimism proposed stake-based transaction ordering pilot on OP Mainnet, letting users stake OP for priority tx treatment

Ethereum News from Yesterday - Trent Van Epps left the Ethereum Foundation, will continue leading Protocol Guild independently - DefiLlama launching a Token Rights framework to classify all tokens by the rights they grant holders - Rainbow launched RNBW staking with tiered swap fee cashback and no lockup period - EVMnow released an open source contract reader SDK and UI, hosted as an immutable IPFS site via ENS​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ - Foundation NFT platform is shutting down after failed acquisition, urging users to pin their IPFS assets and unlist NFTs from the marketplace contract - Etherfi migrated to OP Mainnet with 70,000+ active cards, 300,000+ accounts, and $220M+ in TVL - Aave Labs introduced Aave Checkpoint, a tool to review governance proposal code and security before execution

Fundstrat Global Advisors co-founder Tom Lee projected Ethereum could rise to $60,000 from current levels, calling it a potential 25x return, during a speech at Paris Blockchain Week. $ETH was trading near $2,330 at the time of his remarks.

@ether_fi @Optimism full details x.com/_ethbro/status…

1/ Today, we’re excited to announce our migration to OP Mainnet is complete. 70,000+ active cards, 300,000+ accounts, and $220M+ TVL now live on @Optimism. Learn more about the migration below ↓

. @ether_fi , the $5.8 billion liquid restaking protocol, has completed a full migration of its consumer products to OP Mainnet Moving $220 million in TVL, 70,000 active crypto debit cards, and 300,000 accounts to Optimism’s L2 network The transfer marks the largest single TVL event in OP Mainnet’s history.

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Ethereum News From Yesterday - Ethereum Foundation launched a $1M security audit subsidy program giving builders access to 20+ audit firms, covering up to 30% of audit costs - Zerion suffered a DPRK-linked AI social engineering attack on a team member’s device, resulting in ~$100K in company hot wallet losses; no user funds or app infrastructure were affected - Etherfi committed $3B in ETH as validator liquidity to ETHGas over three years, sourced from its 2.8M ETH under management - Lido’s CSM now has 17,492 validators with 99.70% average performance, up 3,221 validators in the latest period​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ - Aave crossed $15.5B in all-time Pendle asset deposits - Morpho’s fixed rate protocol gets a name — Morpho Midnight — framed as a completely new paradigm for onchain lending, not a V2 of Morpho Blue - Base launches its first AI Agent Hackathon in Seoul on April 25th with a $5,000 prize pool, building on Virtuals ACP, x402 and AgentKit - Zebec card and payments suite now supports Base, with payroll on Base coming soon - Lattice is shutting down its Redstone L2, with the blockchain going offline on May 15, 2026; users are urged to withdraw funds before then as assets in smart contracts will be unrecoverable - Polygon launched sPOL, its native liquid staking token, backed by up to 100M POL in liquidity support from the treasury, targeting the ~95% of staked POL that currently sits illiquid - ETHEREUM FOLLOW PROTOCOL integrated into Etherscan, displaying onchain follower/following counts alongside ENS names on every account page - Base app launched referral rewards, giving referrers 25% of net swap fees while their friends get 10% off, capped at $100K USDC per month per referrer - ZERO Network scheduled 3-hour maintenance window on April 15 at 13:00 UTC​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ - Emergent Labs launched EigenSkills, an npm package to help developers deploy on EigenCloud - KPK deployed two new Morpho markets: rETH/USDC at 86% LLTV and tETH/WETH at 91.5% LLTV, both live inside KPK vaults with agent-powered rebalancing

Bitmine Immersion Technologies has accumulated 4.87 million ETH valued at $10.7 billion, making it the world’s largest corporate Ethereum holder. Chairman Tom Lee calls ETH “the wartime store of value” as the company generates $212 million annually from staking. Yet BMNR shares are down 32% this year.

Ethereum News from Yesterday - Aave V4 hits its initial $20M deposit cap shortly after deployment, with limits set to scale incrementally under a security-first rollout - BitMine now holds 4.875 million ETH (4% of global supply) after acquiring 71,524 tokens over the past week - WalletConnect Pay went live on Monad - Dappnode cut the Smooth MEV smoothing pool fee from 7% to 5%, and TheDAO Fund committed 69,420 ETH to the pool, helping solo Ethereum stakers access steadier execution rewards - Ethereum hit a new all-time high of ~3.6M daily transactions on April 12, 2026, while ETH price remains ~55% below its ATH - BOLD stablecoin can now be shielded via RAILGUN, bringing private transactions to Liquity’s decentralized stablecoin - Clanker named new stewards for its Ecosystem Fund, with 20% of protocol fees flowing back to builders in the Farcaster ecosystem - Reah launched its waitlist for an agentic onchain neobank combining regulated banking rails, stablecoin ops, and AI-native execution in a single unified ledger​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ - Scroll proposes dissolving its Security Council and handing protocol admin to a multisig, which would downgrade the chain from Stage 1 to Stage 0 within 10 days - Kraken was targeted in an extortion attempt; the exchange confirmed no breach and no client funds at risk

Ethereum News from Yesterday - Ethereum Foundation researcher, Devansh Mehta, proposed an in-protocol mechanism to redirect a portion of staking rewards to fund developer teams, to be introduced via hard fork and coordinated through the Ethereum Validators Association. - Scroll manually increased its fee scalars by up to 1,280x over six days, resulting in over $50,000 in excess fees charged to users before partially rolling back the increase to 8x above baseline - Steakhouse post Morten explained the DNS hijack on March 30 after an attacker social-engineered OVH support into removing 2FA, briefly serving a wallet drainer via a cloned site for ~4 hours before the team regained control — no user funds were lost - Zerion took its web app offline after detecting suspicious activity, confirming user funds and the iOS, Android, and browser extension remain safe. - RedStone is deprecating its oracle price feeds on Sonic Labs, shutting down five Silo V2 markets permanently once feeds go offline — affected borrowers must repay and lenders must withdraw immediately. - Aave V4 deposit caps hit maximum capacity and were increased to accommodate additional liquidity, with supply and borrow caps set to scale gradually. - TheDAO Security Fund opened applications for Round Operators to design and run future Ethereum security funding rounds​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​. - Hackers exploited a Hyperbridge gateway vulnerability to forge messages and mint 1 billion DOT tokens on Ethereum mainnet, netting ~$237K; South Korean exchanges Upbit and Bithumb suspended DOT deposits and withdrawals - Ether Machine and Dynamix mutually terminated their SPAC merger citing unfavorable market conditions. - Aave’s AWW proposal passed, shifting the protocol to a fully AAVE-centric model where all revenue from Aave App, Pro, Horizon, and Aave Kit flows back to the DAO treasury as additive on top of existing protocol revenue

Ethereum News from Yesterday - ZKsync and BitGo partnered to deliver tokenized deposits solution for banks. - TheDAO Security Fund launched $1M quadratic funding round for Ethereum security. - Ethereum[.]org released version 11.0.0, introducing under-the-hood improvements and expanded translations to make the site faster, smoother, and more accessible. - PGN shuts down, users advised to withdraw funds by April 20. - Ostium reached over $30 million in total protocol revenue, with $1.1 million generated in the past seven days.