Ethereum News. Dec 19, 2025

Dec 19, 2025

Ethgas raised $12M seed round led by Polychain to build Ethereum blockspace futures market

Today, we’re excited to announce that ETHGas has raised a $12M seed round, led by @polychain, to build Ethereum’s blockspace futures market. We’ve also received $800M in commitments from leading Ethereum builders to support ETHGas’ marketplace and product development.

1:11 PM · Dec 17, 2025

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Etherealize and Chainlink released a guide helping enterprises align on decentralized system architecture as Ethereum enters its institutional phase.

Etherealize@Etherealize_io

We are launching a new resource for enterprises navigating the transition onchain alongside @chainlink: A shared language for building on Ethereum at institutional scale. cdn.prod.website-files.com/6728e9076a3b5a…

7:15 PM · Dec 16, 2025

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Eigen Layer rolled out their ELIP-12 which introduces an Incentives Committee to better direct EIGEN emissions across EigenLayer and EigenCloud, aligning rewards with productive stake, active AVSs, and real fees.

EigenCloud@eigencloud

A new era of EIGEN incentives is coming! ELIP-12, now live on the forum, proposes an Incentives Committee to direct EIGEN emissions with a focus on growing the EigenCloud ecosystem, improving allocation efficiency, and driving value back to EIGEN. Learn more 🧵⬇️

6:37 PM · Dec 18, 2025

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Yesterday, Coinbase announced Base App, a social onchain app, is now open for all users in over 140 countries powered by Farcaster

Coinbase 🛡️@coinbase

The @base app is now live for everyone, everywhere. Time to join the new global economy.

10:58 PM · Dec 17, 2025

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Coinbase is also running a holiday rewards program offering up to $2 million for successful Base App referrals, ending December 22

Base App@baseapp

’Tis the season of earning. The Base app is open for all, and you can earn your share of up to $2M as part of our holiday celebration. Sign up for the Base app, verify your account, and invite friends.

11:05 PM · Dec 17, 2025

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Polygon was down yesterday as some RPCs had issues

zak.eth@0xzak

Seems like Polygon is currently experiencing a chain halt. Can anyone confirm?

7:17 PM · Dec 17, 2025

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apoorv.eth@apoorveth

status.polygon.technology

7:21 PM · Dec 17, 2025

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davidev.eth 💜@davidesilverman

@0xzak blocks are being built still but some RPCs are having issues

8:04 PM · Dec 17, 2025

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Polygon acquired Boys Club to expand into crypto media/storytelling

Polygon | POL@0xPolygon

BREAKING: Polygon Labs is making a strategic investment in @BoysClubWorld to help scale the profitable media business, bringing payments, stablecoins, and everyday crypto use cases to the mainstream.

2:00 PM · Dec 17, 2025

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Eigen DA achieved 1GB/s throughout, they’re the first Data Availability layer with full end-to-end verifiability

EigenCloud@eigencloud

Today @eigen_da reaches cloud scale at 1GB/s. Benchmarked across 100 operators and 10 countries. ft. @sreeramkannan and @0xkydo

4:02 PM · Dec 16, 2025

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Tempo introduced Tempo transactions, a native more censorship-resistant onchain transfer type for real world payments

tempo@tempo

Introducing Tempo Transactions: a native onchain transaction type for real-world payments. Rolling out soon on infrastructure partners including @turnkeyhq, @privy_io, @crossmint, and @FireblocksHQ. Learn more in our blog:

5:05 PM · Dec 17, 2025

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Georgios Konstantopoulos@gakonst

Introducing Tempo Transactions: We shipped a new EIP-2718 transaction for supercharging EVM accounts, based on our learnings from the account abstraction world in 2025. Given it works w/o relays, the Tempo Transaction is a more censorship-resistant way of using passkeys,

6:11 PM · Dec 17, 2025

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Base upgraded its chain capacity, raising the block gas limit to 375 Mega gas, ~25% higher burst capacity and ~4–5% higher average throughput.

Base Build@buildonbase

We pushed a Base Chain capacity upgrade today. Block gas limit is now 375 Mgas/block, which means ~25% higher burst capacity and ~4-5% higher average throughput as activity grows.

11:01 PM · Dec 18, 2025

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Tom lee bought additional $140 million ETH yesterday

Arkham@arkham

TOM LEE JUST BOUGHT ANOTHER $140M ETH Two fresh wallets just received $140.58M ETH from FalconX. Their acquisition behaviour matches Bitmine’s prior purchase patterns. Tom Lee continues to buy the dip.

5:58 PM · Dec 17, 2025

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zk dev, Sophia Gold left Ethereum foundation

Sophia Gold@_sophiagold_

Personal update: I’ve wrapped up my time at the EF. Thankful for the people I had the chance to collaborate with and proud of the work we did advancing zk and beginning to scale Ethereum. Now taking some time to consider what’s next

4:18 PM · Dec 17, 2025

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The Ethereum Foundation is seeking volunteers to evaluate open-source Ethereum projects, research 10 repos, compare pairs, and help select top AI models for funding

Devansh Mehta@devanshmehta

Help Needed: Volunteers for evaluating the contribution of open source repos to Ethereum Your task - Research 10 repos - Make comparisons between 2 repos at a time & provide good reasoning - These comparisons then select winning AI models that distribute funding to repos https://t.co/dqg6ruT7Hb

Allan @niemerg

Ethereum Developers! We need your help get funds to ETH's open source software. @VitalikButerin designed Deep Funding to scale human judgment - but to make it work, we need you. 🧵 👇 with links https://t.co/sg5IqeZTau

4:45 PM · Dec 17, 2025

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Privacy Pools is live on Arbitrum

Privacy Pools@0xprivacypools

privacy pools is now live on @arbitrum deposit ETH/stables & enjoy arbitrum privately without revealing your entire financial history + we've added support for @NeriteOrg's yUSND yield-bearing stablecoin privacy pools everywhere. arbitrum everywhere.

9:51 PM · Dec 16, 2025

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Rainbow wallet token RNBW to tge on 5th February 2025

mikedemarais.eth@mikedemarais

we been working hard on making $RNBW the first token with real equity/token alignment and are very excited to finally announce a locked in date for the $RNBW TGE/airdrop: $RNBW TGE/airdrop goes live February 5th, 2026 https://t.co/njEWtOhfiU

Rainbow @rainbowdotme

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2:53 PM · Dec 16, 2025

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Paragraph adds Farcaster feeds

Paragraph@paragraph_xyz

Now live: when writing is shared or discussed on @farcaster_xyz, those casts surface directly in the home feed. Readers discover more great writing. Writers reach a wider audience.

5:54 PM · Dec 16, 2025

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Etherscan integrated SolidityScan into their Multichain Cards across 30+ explorers, adding real-time smart contract security context to address and contract pages.

etherscan.eth@etherscan

🆕 Multichain Cards Cards with rich insights are now live across 30+ Etherscan explorers on @arbitrum, @BNBCHAIN, @0xPolygon, and more Those available include: • @EtherScore • @kwikclaim • @SolidityScan • @veritas_web3 • @zerufinance Check them out on your address page!