Ethereum News. Feb 28, 2026
Vitalik Buterin laid out Ethereum’s scaling roadmap, with Glamsterdam bringing parallel verification and smarter gas pricing, followed by long-term ZK-EVM phased adoption by 2027 and PeerDAS blob scaling to reach ~8 MB/sec data capacity.
Robinhood Chain crossed 10 million transactions in testnet.
Colossus introduced a stablecoin-based credit card system on its Ethereum L2 built on OP Stack
Sigma Prime announced Lighthouse v8.1.1, a mandatory upgrade for all prior versions due to a security vulnerability and fixing head monitor timeouts, DataColumnsByRange duplicates, and a memory leak.
Sigma Prime released Anchor v1.2.1, a mandatory security fix.
Ethereum Community Foundation launched Blobdrop[.]org, a privacy-focused ephemeral file sharing on Ethereum blobspace, built on BlobKit
Rocket Pool announced Smart Node v1.19.3 as a low-priority update for node operators, recommending an urgent manual upgrade to Lighthouse v8.1.1 to address a security issue.
MoonPay and M0 unveiled PYUSDx, a framework enabling developers to issue application-specific stablecoins backed by PYUSD
Bankr introduced the LLM Gateway, enabling users to access multiple AI models with one key and pay for inference using any coin in their Bankr wallet.
Sponge announced Sponge Catalog, enabling agents to access curated x402 services via skills or Sponge Wallet.
Town App announced a redesigned platform with faster group creation and messaging, AI agents for bets and trades, Apple Pay or USDC support, and contact-based friend additions.
Offchain Labs announced job openings in engineering, product, finance, research, and leadership.
