Ethereum News. Jan 15, 2025

MegaETH open-sourced its Stateless Validator, and introduced SALT, a new data structure that replaces the Merkle Patricia Trie to remove a key EVM bottleneck

MegaETH@megaeth

Today, we open source our Stateless Validator code. This marks our 3rd OSS contribution, following the opening of our SALT database and MegaEVM implementations. TLDRs, Githubs and audits below.

4:19 PM · Jan 14, 2026 · 80.7K Views

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Jesse announced Base App will focus on being a trading-first app built and the best app for onchain economy

jesse.base.eth@jessepollak

Tl;dr: We’re focusing the Base app to be trading-first to drive demand and distribution for every asset and to be the best app for whatever you do in the onchain economy. Since announcing the Base app in July, hundreds of thousands of you have used the app to create, trade,

7:18 PM · Jan 14, 2026 · 448K Views

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Erigon released v3.3.3, latest execution layer client update, improves handling of encrypted transactions

erigon.eth@ErigonEth

🚀Erigon v3.3.3 is Here! We recommend that all users upgrade to enjoy improved stability, security, and node operation. Key Fixes - 🌐Accurate Committee Validation: Resolved an issue with incorrect committee counts during process_attestation. This improves compliance with

3:00 PM · Jan 14, 2026 · 501 Views

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Dream announced it’s now live on iOS and Android users can trade crypto cross-chain, including options on BTC, ETH, HYPE, and SOL.

Dream@dreaming

Dream is here. Leverage without liquidations. Available on iOS and Android. Limited spots. dreamos.app

5:21 PM · Jan 14, 2026 · 48.3K Views

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Morpho leaves Discord and moves to Intercom for safer user support

Merlin Egalite 🦋@MerlinEgalite

Moving from Discord was not an easy choice BUT: - Discord is actually full of scammers. people would get phished while actually searching for answers despite heavy monitoring, safeguards, etc. - We've been testing intercom so far and it has made support 100x easier: instant

Anton Cheng @antonttc

Morpho's shutting down its public Discord. Didn't see that coming. This could be a trend for other protocols too—scams, bot scraping, or just too much noise might be at play. But maybe its also signals that big DeFi teams are focusing more on institutions and less on

8:14 PM · Jan 14, 2026 · 38.2K Views

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Vitalik Buterin highlights Fileverse as a model for true decentralized design. He urged builders to create tools users truly own, not centralized services that lock them in.

vitalik.eth@VitalikButerin

In 2014, there was a vision: you can have permissionless, decentralized applications that could support finance, social media, ride sharing, governing organizations, crowdfunding, potentially create an entire alternative web, all on the backs of a suite of technologies.

6:32 AM · Jan 14, 2026 · 330K Views

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Obol suggests that FOCIL should headline Hegota because Ethereum needs protocol level inclusion guarantees to maintain censorship resistance and also correlated liveliness penalties should be selected to support decentralization.

Obol@Obol_Collective

Hegotá headliner proposals are open. Our take: FOCIL should headline and correlated liveness penalties should also be selected. In a world of private orderflow and builder dominance, Ethereum needs protocol-level inclusion guarantees to maintain censorship resistance.

1:05 PM · Jan 14, 2026 · 12.3K Views

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