Ethereum kept shipping. Stablecoin adoption accelerated. Tokenization moved further into the mainstream.
A few things that stood out in August:
→ Platåberget launched, pushing Glamsterdam closer to mainnet
→ Quick Slots and Account Abstraction advanced for Hegotá
→ @BlackRock brought tokenized European money-market funds to Ethereum
→ @Revolut launched EURR, while @ethena introduced Ethena Pay
→ Ethereum stablecoin transfer volume reached $72.9T
From protocol upgrades to payments and tokenization, here’s what shaped Ethereum in August.
👉 Read the full recap:
https://t.co/TYBKwLj6qG
10 days to go until Taiwan meets the global Ethereum stack.
Vitalik Buterin. Cryptonative builders. Communities across Asia. Banks and institutions exploring Ethereum. All in Taipei.
ETHTaipei 2026 | Sep 13–14 | POPOP Taipei
Sep 13 · Cryptonative Day
Vitalik Buterin returns to ETHTaipei, with the program spanning protocol research, ZK, security, wallets, DeFi, and developer infrastructure. In the afternoon, Community Day runs alongside the Cryptonative program, bringing together communities from Taiwan and across Asia for panels, whitepaper sessions, and a community showcase.
Sep 14 · Institution Day
Taiwan Mobile General Manager Jamie Lin opens a day connecting Ethereum with banks, financial institutions, and enterprise teams across stablecoins, custody, RWA, compliance, and institutional infrastructure.
Also joining: builders and researchers from Polymarket, Uniswap, the Ethereum Foundation, LINE NEXT, CertiK, Morpho, Fluidkey, and more.
Two days. One venue. From Ethereum’s technical frontier to its next wave of adoption.
Join us in Taipei: https://t.co/hFLgR0EkmT
ETHTaipei is a two-day event, but Taipei’s Ethereum community runs all year.
Geode Labs @geodelabs helps make ETHTaipei’s year-round community programs possible as a Community Support partner.
A spin-out of the Ethereum Foundation, Geode Labs is an ecosystem product studio focused on global Ethereum ecosystem development. It builds community infrastructure, supports grants and early experiments, and publishes Local Ethereum to track Ethereum R&D, regional adoption, and communities around the world.
Explore Geode Labs: https://t.co/L56MnKQ8P1
Join ETHTaipei 2026: https://t.co/hFLgR0EkmT
A lot of progress this August on Ethereum:
Scaling, UX & Hardness: from faster finality and gas repricing to privacy UX.
Alongside stablecoins, payments and tokenized assets go mainstream on Ethereum.
The full story ➡️
Thrilled to be partnering with @EDCON_Official for Kuala Lumpur this October.
Our work is about making Ethereum accessible, resilient and available to the people who need it most. The teams closest to that problem are usually local ones, and Southeast Asia has a lot of them.
Applications to speak and volunteer are open 👉 https://t.co/4akzwgMZcd
Super thrilled to announce our strategic partnership with @geodelabs 🚀
Geode Labs is an Ethereum ecosystem development organization and product studio, aiming to make Ethereum more accessible, resilient, and available to those who need it most.
Want to get involved as well?
Applications to speak and volunteer are offically OPEN!!
👉 https://t.co/T4VQf5PWNK
See you in Kuala Lumpur on Oct 17th & 18th!!
Plenty of interesting ideas here, both useful and intellectually stimulating.
Let's build. 🛠️
Special thanks to @sarangparikh22 and @SarthiB7 for the review and feedback. ❤️
Pretty much every 2026 outlook pointed at the same list: stablecoins, payments, agents, privacy, tokenization.
Some are real markets now; others still need the infra, product, or distribution to catch up.
Here’s a builder’s list of what’s ACTUALLY worth building, from the outlooks and talking to REAL builders. 👉
→ Stablecoin on/off-ramps: make dollars locally useful
→ Agents: build the identity and payment layer
→ Privacy: a core infrastructure for agentic economy, still under-built
Let’s build! Full piece:
https://t.co/uc8ncXFAsA
SPONSOR ANNOUNCEMENT 🚀
@geodelabs is joining ETH Belgrade!
Geode Labs develops programs and products that help grow Ethereum’s global talent, from grants supporting research, education and local communities to tools like ETHStars and the Ethereum Job Board.
Their work helps more builders find the opportunities, funding and connections they need to keep building.
Meet the Geode Labs team on August 26–27. 🇷🇸
Enter: EthCoordinate.
tl;dr: EthCoordinate is a crypto-native organization born inside the EthStaker community, bringing together separate efforts under one umbrella to help with Ethereum governance coordination, support Forkcast, increase stakeholder engagement on proposed or upcoming EIPs and, of course, continue providing software, tooling, and technical support for home stakers.
EthStaker started in 2020 when a loosely connected group of Ethereum enthusiasts joined efforts to speed up the development of the beacon chain. The organization steadily evolved, incorporating as a 501(c)4 nonprofit and taking up initiatives around independent participants of Ethereum's consensus mechanism, aka home stakers.
Throughout the years, it has played a decisive role in coordinating the launch and operation of devnets, testnets, and mainnet hard fork upgrades; facilitating information flows and generally connecting dots that needed connecting.
This year's tectonic organizational changes in the ecosystem have opened up functional gaps in Ethereum coordination. To close these gaps and continue supporting the network, EthStaker's core members are joined by mission-aligned fresh blood to aggregate efforts under one name to produce greater results than operating independently.
EthCoordinate is a natural evolution of EthStaker; as Ethereum mainnet heads to its third radical consensus protocol change at a steady pace, it’s time for EthStaker to recalibrate around what Ethereum’s evolving community needs.
Our mission is to facilitate interaction between stakeholders of the ecosystem to accelerate the adoption of the Ethereum network and to provide continuity for governance operations.
We believe that the Ethereum mainnet is an unparalleled bedrock for the augmentation of humanity's productivity output and that ETH, the asset, is the token that aligns the incentives of all actors involved.
We stand up for our values, combining technical rigor with pragmatism for Ethereum to continue being the most accessible and credibly neutral global blockchain.
The team is 10 long-tenured Ethereum professionals and currently our main work streams are:
⇥ Maintain a high-quality venue for independent stakers to remain engaged and informed
⇥ Facilitate coordination around core protocol development and adjacencies
⇥ Develop and steward Forkcast, the most popular platform to track the research and engineering initiatives around Ethereum's core protocol
⇥ Facilitate research, discussion, and coordination around protocol economics in support of Ethereum's long-term economic health
⇥ Maintain open source tools and documentation used by participants of the consensus set
We're energized for this chapter in Ethereum coordination & our role in it.
Ethereum turned 11. The protocol kept shipping. Regulation moved closer. DeFi kept maturing.
A few things that stood out in July:
-> Ethereum celebrated 11 years with zero global downtime. 🎂
-> Glamsterdam on track, Hegotá advancing, and @ethlabs_org proposed cutting slot times from 12s to 10s
-> More independent teams are helping shape Ethereum's future @eth_systems, @ethereuminsti, @ethlabs_org, @argotorg and more
-> The CLARITY Act entered its final stretch
-> @Morpho launched Midnight, bringing fixed-rate lending to DeFi
From protocol upgrades to policy and DeFi, here's what shaped Ethereum in July.
👉 Read the full recap: https://t.co/VLIXRiThUc
Big ideas deserve the right rooms.
For the past five editions, Web3Lagos Conference has brought together developers, founders, researchers, investors, and ecosystem leaders to have the conversations that move Web3 forward. It’s where ideas are challenged, partnerships begin, and the next generation of builders finds community.
We’re excited to have @geodelabs joining us as a sponsor for #W3LC5.
Thank you for believing in our vision and helping us create another unforgettable edition of Web3Lagos. See you in Lagos.
📅 August 28 & 29, 2026
📍 Glover Memorial Hall, Lagos
🎟️ https://t.co/mxuqYY81Zm
#W3LC5 #Web3Lagos #Conversations #Blockchain #Web3
Ethereum turns 11 today.
To celebrate, we made a summer reading list tracing the ideas behind it, from pseudonymity and privacy to digital cash and programmable coordination.
Crypto was never only about efficiency. It was about making freedom durable.
Enjoy your summer readings! 🌞📖
https://t.co/8YnoCkDFui
All your Ethereum opportunities in one feed.
Jobs, grants, hackathons, and more at high-impact organisations.
Instead of checking 10 places, check ethstars.
https://t.co/VgnaTfmcX1 ✨
Ethereum's June, unpacked 🌞
→ The @ethereumfndn reorganized around a leaner, "multi-node" future
→ @Polymarket hit new highs on World Cup fever
→ @Morpho raised $175M, one of DeFi's biggest rounds ever
Our June recap is live in Local Ethereum ↓
https://t.co/5mDnaGheE8
I built https://t.co/IXPs0Gepxi. 📖
A curated collection of books and essays on Ethereum, cryptography, and decentralized systems.
Free to read, free to keep.
There has been a lot of discussion around CROPS Hegotá lately.
A good opportunity to revisit one of Ethereum's core goals: censorship resistance.
-> FOCIL 101: how Ethereum helps resist transaction censorship.
https://t.co/IO2dYg1EOg