ETHEREUM NEWS. DECEMBER 9, 2025
Ethereum’s Blob Parameter Only fork introducing EIP-7892 went live yesterday, increasing blob target from 6 to 10 and max limit from 9 to 15 to reduce L2 costs, with next upgrade scheduled January 7th raising limits to 14 and 21.
GPU powered L2 ADI Chain, built on ZKsync’s Elastic Network, launched on mainnet with native ADI token and will host First Abu Dhabi Bank’s Dirham-backed stablecoin.
Payment chain, Tempo is now live on testnet
OKX migrated their native L2, X Layer from Polygon CDK to Optimism OP stack
BlackRock filed for ETHB stakes ETF
Farcaster announced full focus on Wallet dapp, ending support for Social App
Aztec raised 19,476 ETH from their token sale using Uniswap’s Continuous Clearing Auction mechanism
zksync to depreciate zksync lite next year
Ethereum Phone launched Token Claim app for dGEM1 airdrop pool
MetaMask integrated Relay protocol into their bridge
1inch launched Aqua Protocol, a shared liquidity layer enabling assets to power multiple DeFi strategies simultaneously from one wallet via atomic transactions, with full UI coming early 2026.
Rainbow’s RNBW token public sale will launch on December 11th at 5pm UTC on CoinList for US and non-US users, following announcement of 20% equity stake for token holders via Class F shares.
Zora live feature now open for all
