Ethereum News. April 14, 2026

Apr 14, 2026

Aave V4 hits its initial $20M deposit cap shortly after deployment, with limits set to scale incrementally under a security-first rollout

Aave@aave

Aave V4 has reached $20M in deposits. Caps scale up from here as the system matures, under a security-first launch.

10:09 AM · Apr 13, 2026 · 55.9K Views

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BitMine now holds 4.875 million ETH (4% of global supply) after acquiring 71,524 tokens over the past week,

Cointelegraph@Cointelegraph

🔥 BIG: Bitmine buys 71,524 $ETH, bringing total to 4.87M $ETH, now holding 4.04% of Ethereum supply.

12:45 PM · Apr 13, 2026 · 21.1K Views

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WalletConnect Pay went live on Monad

Monad@monad

Money moves on Monad

WalletConnect @WalletConnect

WalletConnect Pay is now LIVE on @monad. 💜 And we tested it. Watch ↓

1:10 PM · Apr 13, 2026 · 30.6K Views

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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

Dappnode@dappnode

Hey Ethereum Validators! Smooth fee is now 5% Plus another BANGER announcement below... 👇 We're dropping the fee from 7% to 5% to match current market conditions and improve economics for solo stakers.

3:11 PM · Apr 13, 2026 · 312 Views

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Ethereum hit a new all-time high of ~3.6M daily transactions on April 12, 2026, while ETH price remains ~55% below its ATH

Everstake@everstake_pool

Ethereum just set a new record on April 12, 2026: ~3.6M daily transactions, marking the strongest activity in its history! At the same time, $ETH is still trading ~55% below its all-time high. This creates a notable divergence, because network activity is at peak levels, while

1:21 PM · Apr 13, 2026 · 3.58K Views

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BOLD stablecoin can now be shielded via RAILGUN, bringing private transactions to Liquity’s decentralized stablecoin

Liquity@LiquityProtocol

Your stablecoin transactions are public by default. Not anymore. $BOLD can now be shielded through @RAILGUN_Project and the privacy focused wallet, Kohaku 👀. A truly sovereign stablecoin that's also private. @ethereumfndn's @ncsgy explained at ETH CC 👇 cypherpunk DeFi will

2:59 PM · Apr 8, 2026 · 29.9K Views

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Clanker named new stewards for its Ecosystem Fund, with 20% of protocol fees flowing back to builders in the Farcaster ecosystem

Farcaster@farcaster_xyz

introducing the new stewards of the Clanker Ecosystem Fund (CEF): @gmfarcaster - @age_shulman & @ProfWerder they have been two of the most embedded people on farcaster since almost the beginning, and staying on top of everything being built there is literally their job. they'll

clanker @clanker_world

Introducing the Clanker Ecosystem Fund (CEF) The mission of the CEF is to distribute protocol fees to creators and communities who positively contribute to the Clanker and Farcaster ecosystem $8m has bought 14% of the $CLANKER supply, yet has not proven to be an effective use

9:29 PM · Apr 13, 2026 · 16.1K Views

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Reah launched its waitlist for an agentic onchain neobank combining regulated banking rails, stablecoin ops, and AI-native execution in a single unified ledger

Reah@ReahPlatform

Introducing Reah. The financial stack was not built for the stablecoin economy. ↓

reah.com

Introducing Reah | The Reah Blog

4:18 PM · Apr 13, 2026 · 5.01K Views

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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