Ethereum News. April 18, 2026

Obol proposed EIP-7716 for the Hégota hardfork, briefly raising penalties on validators that go offline en masse to discourage centralized staking setups

oisin.eth | Obol@OisinKyne

Yesterday we put forward EIP-7716 for inclusion in the Hégota hardfork. This EIP briefly increases penalties for validators that go offline en masse. Penalising centralised outages aims to prevent a centralised mass slashings later. Short term pain, long term gain.

5:56 PM · Apr 17, 2026 · 1.39K Views

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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

Paragraph@paragraph_xyz

one of the biggest releases we've ever shipped. run a newsletter from claude. sell files to agents. build on our full API. details + get started ↓

Colin Armstrong @colinarms

NEW: you can now run a newsletter entirely from Claude. → draft & publish via MCP → sell gated files inside any post → get paid by humans (card/crypto) or AI agents (x402/MPP) → list your whole archive for agents to buy @paragraph_xyz is now AI-native. we shipped it

3:41 PM · Apr 17, 2026 · 739 Views

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Peer[.]xyz introducing a 0.95% onramp fee starting April 24, offramps stay free; ZKP2P protocol remains free and open source

Peer (Prev. ZKP2P)@peerxyz

Peer started as a hackathon project with one goal: remove the middlemen from moving money between fiat and crypto. That was 3 years ago. Since then, the product has been free to use for everyone. From 24th April, peer.xyz has a 0.95% fee on onramps. Offramps stay

peer.xyz

Peer

5:27 PM · Apr 17, 2026 · 4.65K Views

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Ledger warned users of a new physical scam letter with holo and scratchy patch impersonating the brand to phish for 24-word recovery phrases​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

MuhPIT@muh_pit

Next scam. With holo and scratchy patch. @Ledger

2:51 PM · Apr 16, 2026 · 2.73K Views

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Aave V4 rolled out new reserve pages with per-asset interest rates, supply/borrow caps, and top addresses across mobile and web

Stani@StaniKulechov

Every market on Aave V4 now has a brand-new reserve page with interest rates, protocol parameters, and much more. Enjoy!

Aave @aave

We pushed UI and UX improvements to Aave Pro across mobile and web. Including new reserve pages that surface per-asset interest rate data, supply and borrow caps, and top addresses.

8:22 PM · Apr 17, 2026 · 5.11K Views

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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

Optimism@Optimism

Zipangcoin is live on OP Mainnet. @zipangcoin is a commodity-backed cryptoasset issued by MDC, a subsidiary of Mitsui & Co. — gold, silver, platinum. First cryptoasset from a Japanese company on the network.

2:10 PM · Apr 17, 2026 · 9.15K Views

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