Ethereum News. Nov 5, 2025
Vitalik proposed reducing withdrawal time to 1-2 days for stage-1 optimistic rollups while maintaining 7 days for stage-2 rollups
Ethereum recorded a new scaling record at 3,453 TPS yesterday at 14:37 UTC
Linea activated its burn mechanism, becoming the first L2 to burn both ETH and LINEA on every transaction while paying Ethereum settlement fees. The first burn totaled ~$287k, split 20% ETH and 80% LINEA.
Ethereum core devs to begin reviewing features and EIPs for the 2026 ETH Glamsterdam upgrade this Thursday on ACDE #224
Tomasz Stanczak shared dashboard that tracks Blob scaling progress. Fusaka upgrade focused on blob scaling goes live on December 3
zksync opens discussions proposing buybacks, staking, burning and new utility mechanisms for the zk token
The shorter withdrawal windows for stage 1 rollups make sense from a usability standpont. Users won't wait a week for their funds, and if the security model can handle it, why not? Stage 2 keeping the longer timeframe is probably the right call though given the stakes.