Ethereum News. April 7, 2026
Polygon’s Giugliano hardfork is set for block 85,268,500 at ~2 PM UTC on April 8, adding faster finality and fee parameters in block headers
Ethena is diversifying USDe backing to include overcollateralized institutional lending via Anchorage Digital, Maple Institutional, and Coinbase Asset Management, plus liquid RWAs and commodity basis trades
Aave V4 pulled in nearly $10M in deposits in its first week with no incentives, with a $500K bug bounty live via Sherlock; supply caps will be progressively raised
Ethereum researcher Toni Wahrstätter launched txdelay[.]xyz to track transaction inclusion times, warning that ePBS (EIP-7732) in the upcoming Glamsterdam hardfork will add ~2 seconds of inclusion delay
Phantom wallet suffered a service outage lasting over an hour affecting token prices and balances; the issue has since been resolved and user funds were not at risk
SEAL Security Alliance launched frameworks[.]securityalliance[.]org, a free open resource covering Web3 security best practices for developers and teams across the full project lifecycle
Stripe, Visa, and Mastercard are building around the stablecoin sandwich architecture fiat in, stablecoin across, fiat out as the de facto standard for cross-border enterprise payments
Chaos Labs is proactively terminating its 3-year Aave engagement, citing misalignment on risk management, expanded scope under V4, and negative operating margins despite a $5M retention offer
Polymarket is rolling out a full exchange upgrade over the next 2-3 weeks, including a rebuilt trading engine, upgraded smart contracts, and a new native collateral token (Polymarket USD) to replace USDC.e
Ethereum staking nears 32% of total supply with ~38.5M ETH locked and a ~50-day entry queue
Bitmine acquired an additional 71,252 ETH, bringing total holdings to 4.8M ETH (~3.98% of supply) with $8.64B in ETH and 3.3M ETH currently staked
