Ethereum News. Jan 8, 2025

Jan 09, 2026

Lighter tops Ethereum L2s at 58,311 TPS, alongside a recent Ethereum ecosystem peak of 58,786 TPS.

New Ecosystem TPS ATH = 58,786 TPS Lighter was the largest contributor by a significant margin. Top chains by TPS at time of ATH: • Lighter: 58,311.2 • Base: 84.7 • Polygon_Pos: 61.5 • Soneium: 60.3 • Arbitrum: 30.0

3:27 PM · Jan 7, 2026 · 3.38K Views

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SharpLink Gaming deployed $170M ETH on Linea, restaking through EigenCloud and direct incentives from Linea and EtherFi

SharpLink (SBET)@SharpLink

NEW: We just deployed $170M ETH with first-of-it’s-kind enhanced yield on @LineaBuild. This combines native Ethereum yield, restaking rewards from @eigencloud and direct incentives from @LineaBuild and @ether_fi, all within an institutional-grade qualified custodian thanks to

2:01 PM · Jan 8, 2026 · 139K Views

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Vitalik said Ethereum handling more bandwidth is safe and scalable, but making it faster is limited by physics (internet speed can’t beat the speed of light), and nodes need to work globally, even in rural areas, without centralizing in data centers. Ethereum should be the “world heartbeat” (steady, decentralized backbone), while L2s host dapps. L2s like MegaETH is seen as a good shout here

vitalik.eth@VitalikButerin

Increasing bandwidth is safer than reducing latency With PeerDAS and ZKPs, we know how to scale, and potentially we can scale thousands of times compared to the status quo. The numbers become far more favorable than before (eg. see analysis here, pre and post-sharding

7:00 AM · Jan 8, 2026 · 268K Views

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MegaETH@megaeth

vitalik.eth @VitalikButerin

6:49 PM · Jan 8, 2026 · 15.4K Views

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Another $105.3 million worth of $ETH was purchased by Tom Lee’s Bitmine.

Arkham@arkham

TOM LEE BOUGHT ANOTHER $100M $ETH Tom Lee’s Bitmine bought another $105.3M $ETH over the past week, bringing their total holdings to $13.23 BILLION. Bitmine staked $1.46 Billion of Ethereum last week, and now holds 3.43% of the supply. Tom Lee is still buying and staking $ETH.

3:04 PM · Jan 7, 2026 · 53.2K Views

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second Blob Parameters Only fork went live on Ethereum mainnet increasing Blob target from 10 to 14, raising maximum Blob limit from 15 to 21

Ethereum@ethereum

The second Blob Parameters Only (BPO) fork happened today. BPO #2 was the next scheduled step in the Fusaka upgrade cycle to scale Ethereum’s data capacity. Here’s what you need to know about BPO #2, and why these parameter adjustments matter.

5:45 PM · Jan 7, 2026 · 54.5K Views

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Yeildbasis introduced their free IL-Free Ethereum pools

yieldbasis@yieldbasis

https://t.co/RvWGKXJWg9

11:11 AM · Jan 7, 2026 · 45.9K Views

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The Optimism Foundation has proposed directing 50% of Superchain revenue toward OP token buybacks, with voting scheduled for January 22. If approved, the 12 month program would begin in February.

Optimism@Optimism

A proposal for the next chapter of Optimism 🔴 The Optimism Foundation is putting forward a proposal to align the OP token with growing Superchain demand by directing 50% of incoming Superchain revenue to regular OP buybacks

Optimist Prime @jinglejamOP

Happy new year everyone! In November last year, I wrote about the changes we were making to refocus the team on what comes next for crypto. Today, the @Optimism Foundation is proposing a token buyback. The goal is to unify the broader ecosystem outside of just our internal

3:15 PM · Jan 8, 2026 · 48.9K Views

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ADI Chain, an EVM L2 powered by GPU computing, partners with M-Pesa Africa to enable cross-border payments.

The network supports RWA powering dirham-backed stablecoin.

ADI Chain@ADIChain_

42% of sub-Saharan Africa remains unbanked. @ADI_Foundation is partnering with @MPESAAfrica to address this gap. Our most significant African partnership to date aims to extend ADI Chain’s institutional-grade blockchain infrastructure to 60+ million users across eight African

9:47 AM · Jan 8, 2026 · 157K Views

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Obol announced that the new Charon v1.8.0 is live with new features including new charon sign command,updated Charon alpha test mev command and track blinded block building the BN

Obol@Obol_Collective

The new Charon is live. Here’s what’s included in the upgrade 👇

5:59 PM · Jan 8, 2026 · 365 Views

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Morpho announced that over 1M+ humans have accessed DeFi through the Morpho mini app

Morpho 🦋@Morpho

A new World milestone 1,000,000+ unique humans have accessed DeFi via the Morpho Mini App on @world_chain_

5:04 PM · Jan 8, 2026 · 14.6K Views

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DefiLlama introduced new suite of features for LlamaAI.

DefiLlama.com@DefiLlama

Introducing a suite of new features for LlamaAI. 1) Research mode 2) Trading indicators & candlestick charts 3) Investment forecasts 4) Save LlamaAI charts to Pro dashboards 5) Image upload 6) 7-day free trials are now available for DefiLlama Pro. defillama.com/ai

2:03 PM · Jan 8, 2026 · 13.4K Views

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Gitcoin and Octant propose Yield-Powered Funding Pool for GG25 to deploy capital into Octant’s vaults to generate yield that funds Gitcoin Grants matching for fair public goods funding

Gitcoin@gitcoin

PROPOSAL - Gitcoin x Octant Yield-Powered Matching for GG25 [by @owocki]

gov.gitcoin.co

PROPOSAL - Gitcoin x Octant Yield-Powered Matching for GG25

3:14 PM · Jan 8, 2026 · 3.45K Views

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ethOS released a major upgrade to its Ethereum phone, ethOS v4.1.4 introduces eSIM support that lets users buy mobile data with crypto, no credit card, no KYC, alongside new privacy features

ethOS@EthereumPhone

A new update for your dGEN1 is now available!!! ethOS v4.1.4 is available for download on your dGEN1 now. This update includes a lot of new features and bug fixes:

2:47 PM · Jan 7, 2026 · 7.77K Views

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ETH foundation Toni Wahrstätter, shipped two new tools: bids(.)pics for live MEV-Boost auction transparency and xof(.)pics for block-level private order flow, all built on ethPandaOps data

Toni Wahrstätter ⟠@nero_eth

I got two new tools: bids.pics shows the MEV-Boost auction live, including bids, their timing, and dynamics that are usually opaque. xof.pics shows private/exclusive order flow at the block level. Both are built on data from @ethPandaOps. I had

10:57 AM · Jan 7, 2026 · 9.76K Views

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Rocket Pool shares its latest smart Node version v1.18.8.