Grayscale said its Ethereum Mini Trust ETF and Ethereum Trust ETF are the first U.S.-listed spot crypto ETPs to enable staking.

Impact: Introduces staking yield to regulated ETF wrappers, potentially increasing institutional demand for ETH.

Fluid announced an initiative combining protocol buybacks with growth, highlighting $6B+ market size, $2.5B active loans, $117B+ cumulative volume, and Top-3 lending positioning across chains.

Impact: Establishes a formal capital return + expansion playbook that could support token value and protocol competitiveness.

Marius Kjærstad shared that Lighter has reached the top spot for perpetuals volume across all protocols per DefiLlama.

Impact: Signals strong product-market fit for Lighter’s perps and could re-route trader flow toward onchain venues.

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@polymutex confirmed Walletbeat funding from the Ethereum Foundation to continue their work in establishing uniform security standards across the Ethereum ecosystem.

Impact: Supports ecosystem tooling focused on improved security and user experience for users and applications.

@binji_x of the Ethereum Foundation highlighted 11 active privacy components including confidential tokens (ERC-7984), Noir adoption, and ZK whiteboard sessions.

Impact: Demonstrates steady growth in practical privacy building blocks available to Ethereum developers today.

Pooja Ranjan summarized Fusaka Holesky fork progress, BPO-1 timing, client readiness, and Holesky EOL at month’s end.

Impact: Shows client readiness and testnet milestones ahead of upcoming network upgrades.

Christine Kim noted a new core-dev–focused podcast covering Ethereum and Bitcoin development will go live on October 8 at 11am ET.

Impact: Adds more accessible content for technical upgrades and developments.

BitMine reported a weekly purchase of 179k ETH and detailed holdings including 2,830,151 ETH at $4,535, 192 BTC, and other assets.

Impact: Institutional-scale accumulation underscores treasury adoption of ETH and could influence market liquidity.

Fhenix announced a major decryption-speed breakthrough translating into significant throughput and latency improvements.

Impact: Advances in Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) performance could unlock new privacy-preserving app designs on Ethereum.

Uniswap shared that it has acquired Guidestar to bolster its market design and execution research,

Impact: Better onchain entity graphing can improve discovery, compliance tooling, and UX in DeFi and beyond.

CurrencyCoin said every owner of the dGen1 Ethereum Phone will receive an allocation from the 0.5% community airdrop.

Impact: Rewards early hardware adopters and may spur app-hardware integrations tied to onchain identity.

BSCNews reported that PancakeSwap unveiled CakePad to offer curated early access to new tokens ahead of exchange listings.

Impact: If liquidity routes through CakePad, more launches could experiment with fairer, onchain-first distribution.

Foresight teased new primitives for user-created prediction/market spaces.

Impact: Lowers the barrier to launching markets, potentially expanding long-tail coverage of real-world and crypto-native events.

New launches on Starknet, Abstract, Katana, and Arbtirum were added to the Ethereum Daily app launch tracker linked above.

Thirdweb announced x402 on Celo, enabling agents/builders to pay for any API or service natively via onchain 402 flows.

Impact: Bridges traditional web endpoints with onchain payments, expanding automation/agent use cases.

Routescan shared Ink’s September metrics including ~22.4M total transactions and ~745k average daily txs (+2.8% vs. August).

Impact: Sustained activity suggests durable user traction and validates explorer/infra investment on emerging L2s.

Optimism posted Superchain figures across 32 chains showing $21.7B secured, 20M+ daily transactions, and $5.7B in stablecoins onchain.

Impact: Consolidated reporting underscores Superchain scale and informs developer chain-selection decisions.

Paddle Battles launched an auction in partnership with @EFDevcon for two Devconnect Argentina tickets with proceeds to Crecimientoar.

Impact: Channels community attention and capital to social impact while engaging event-goers.

The Ethereum Foundation announced a live X Space on Argentina’s web3 history featuring Matias Nisenson, nanexcool, Santiago Palladino, and Facu Spagnuolo.

Impact: Contextualizes Devcon host-country dynamics and offers regional builder perspectives.

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Miya Hedge published an explainer on ERC‑S, outlining motivations and potential integration patterns.

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