Ethereum News. April 8, 2026

Apr 08, 2026

Ethereum researcher Toni Wahrstätter proposed encoding transaction data into blobs to solve a data availability gap that zkEVM creates.

ethresearchbot@ethresearchbot

New post on EthResear.ch! Blocks Are Dead. Long Live Blobs By: - @nero_eth 🔗 ethresear.ch/t/24611 Highlights: - In a zkEVM/proof-verified future, “data availability” is no longer automatically enforced by re-execution; without changes, a builder could provide a

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Blocks Are Dead. Long Live Blobs

1:00 PM · Apr 7, 2026 · 9.21K Views

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KPK, a DAO treasury manager originally incubated by Gnosis, launched a web interface for managing onchain yield strategies. It offers two vault types: Prime Vaults (capital preservation, high liquidity, 90%+ instant withdrawals) and Yield Vaults (broader collateral, active rebalancing, up to 9% on stables).

KPK@kpk_io

Announcing KPK App One interface for curated Vaults and Funds, designed for risk-managed onchain yield.

3:29 PM · Apr 7, 2026 · 9.64K Views

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Velora is winding down DAO operations governance, treasury, fee routing, and staking all transfer to Laita Labs.

Ignas | DeFi@DefiIgnas

Another DAO winding down its DAO operations: Velora (previously Paraswap) What's changing: - DAO governance stopped. Everything moves to Laita labs, the original operator and protocol dev team. - $415K DAO treasury transferred to Laita Labs for running protocol - 20% protocol

12:25 PM · Apr 7, 2026 · 20.8K Views

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PeerAuth Introduced Peer Verify for its peer-to-peer marketplace.

Peer (Prev. ZKP2P)@peerxyz

PeerAuth started as a browser extension to prove payments. Then it became a funding wallet. Now it builds your onchain identity. Introducing Peer Verify.

5:17 PM · Apr 7, 2026 · 3.82K Views

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Base Accounts now support assets on Monad (MON, USDC), ZKsync (ETH, ZK, USDC), and Unichain (ETH, USDC).

Base Build@buildonbase

You can now access and send certains assets on Monad, Unichain, and ZKsync with your Base Account. The list of supported tokens at launch: Monad: MON, USDC ZKsync: ETH, ZK, USDC Unichain: ETH, USDC Features only available at

account.base.app

Base Account: Your universal account for the onchain internet.

8:05 PM · Apr 7, 2026 · 12.2K Views

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L2BEAT’s Interop page now tracks cross-chain value flows for Ink and Celo.

L2BEAT 💗@l2beat

We’re excited to announce that @inkonchain and @Celo are now live on the @l2beat Interop page! If you haven’t seen it yet, Interop allows you to explore how value flows across chains and fits into the broader ecosystem. Here’s how the stats look 👇

1:38 PM · Apr 7, 2026 · 3.15K Views

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ERC-7715 is now live on Polygon, letting dApps and agents request scoped, time-bound permissions from MetaMask without requiring repeated transaction signatures

Polygon | POL@0xPolygon

ERC-7715 is now live on Polygon. Builders can now request scoped permissions from @MetaMask, unlocking new permission models for agents and dApps 🦊

MetaMask Developer @MetaMaskDev

If you've ever used a Web3 wallet, you know the drill... Constant pop-ups, repeated approvals, switching back and forth just to get one thing done. Advanced Permissions change all of that. Now live on @MetaMask. 🦊 Instead of signing every transaction, Advanced Permissions

4:14 PM · Apr 7, 2026 · 13.6K Views

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Biconomy and the Ethereum Foundation co-published ERC-8211, a new smart batching standard that enables AI agents to execute multi-step DeFi strategies onchain with runtime-resolved parameters and inline safety constraints