Ethereum News. Jan 23, 2026
AZTEC announced TGE proposal, submitted by BlackNodesHQ, is now live, If approved, it would unlock token allocations, make staking rewards claimable, and launch trading on Uniswap v4
Optimism Foundation governance vote on a proposal to allocate 50% of incoming Superchain revenue toward OP token buybacks is live
JPMorgan launched its tokenized money market fund, My OnChain Net Yield Fund (MONY), on Ethereum mainnet
Ben Edgington, former Ethereum client developer and ex-lead at OP Labs, has joined the Ethereum Foundation, where he will work on implementing fast finality for Ethereum.
Privacy Pools is now live on Starknet, allowing users to deposit ETH, USDC, or STRK, withdraw to a fresh address, and interact with any app on Starknet privately, without exposing their on-chain history or public identity.
ENS states that its naming infrastructure provides a neutral, portable, and human-readable identity layer that can support autonomous AI agents across blockchains and applications.
EthResearch, published a research on how reducing Ethereum’s slot time from 12 seconds to 1 second could increase CEX-DEX arbitrage transactions by 535% and trading volume by 203%.
Coinbase Launched Independent Advisory Board for Quantum Computing and Blockchain
Morpho has crossed $750 million in RWA deposits, with syrupUSDC ($166M) on Arbitrum as its largest single asset.
Superstate raised $82.5M Series B to expand onchain capital markets.
























Wow, the JPMorgan MONY fund launch is trully fascinating, making me wonder how you predict this institutional adoption will evolve next.