Ethereum is global, resilient, decentralized, and institutional.
So are the multiple organizations building on Ethereum. Extremely excited for Ethlabs to play an important part in building the future of the network.
New Ethereum org just dropped.
While the EF is shrinking its mandate and more focused on protecting Ethereum's core properties, a group of EF builders have spun out to create a second org.
Its mandate is simple: accelerate Ethereum. Increase adoption. Protect DeFi. Solve the biggest problems and make ETH the currency of the internet.
(Yes, this is the number go up org.)
Proud to be supporting ETH Labs.🫡
Disclosure: Dragonfly holds $ETH, but I'm supporting ETH Labs personally.
Ethereum is now MORE supply-starved than Bitcoin! 🔥
Just 12.2% of all ETH sits on exchanges. Bitcoin? 15.3%!
The asset everyone is writing off is having the tightest float.
🔹 $ETH on exchanges: 12.235%
🔹 $BTC on exchanges: 15.286%
Less ETH to sell, more ETH locked away.
Quietly, ETH might be the most squeezed asset in the market right now!
Data via @glassnode
Ether staking requests outpace exit requests by 152x?!
There is now 2,745,510 $ETH, worth around $4.6B, waiting to be staked on the @Ethereum network.
This is versus just 18,037 $ETH waiting to be unstaked.
The difference is MASSIVE but is less than it has been at points in the past few weeks.
Nonetheless, it seems to indicate serious long-term demand for $ETH exposure and accrual.
Ethereum Hits Record Users As Network Activity Explodes
Ethereum $ETH recorded all time highs in users, transactions, and throughput during Q1 2026, according to Token Terminal.
Monthly active users reached 13.2 million, up 85.9% year over year. Transaction count climbed to 200.4 million while throughput rose to 25.78 TPS.
Ethereum is for shipping.
Here are 25 things the Ethereum ecosystem launched, upgraded, and announced over the past month.
0/ @thedaofund Ethereum Security Quadratic Funding Round with @Giveth wrapped. The fund supported 134 security projects and had 3,934 unique donors.
1/ @Ronin_Network, one of the largest gaming blockchains, completed its migration to an Ethereum L2.
2/ Clear Signing went live. It is an open standard designed to help end blind signing and make transaction data human-readable before signing. Contributors include wallets and hardware, infrastructure, tooling, individual builders, and the Ethereum Foundation’s Trillion Dollar Security initiative, with the @ethereumfndn acting as a neutral steward.
3/ @SEAL_911 and @Wonderland_Fi introduced DARC, a Digital Asset Risk & Compliance standard for crypto teams, with continuous monitoring across GitHub, infrastructure, multisigs, DNS, and more.
4/ @arbitrum announced that LG Electronics' blockchain team is piloting an onchain advertising network on Arbitrum.
5/ @base activated Azul, its first standalone network upgrade, introducing multiproofs, new execution and consensus clients, CLZ opcode support, Osaka repricings, and performance upgrades up to 5,000 TPS.
6/ @Mastercard expanded stablecoin settlement support to include USDC, PYUSD, USDG, USDP, and SoFiUSD on Ethereum mainnet, @arbitrum, and @base.
7/ @EFDevcon 8 Mumbai early bird tickets went live. Tickets were available paid in ETH.
8/ Türkiye's Directorate of Communications (@Communications) registered cbiletisim.eth, making its first step in establishing an official onchain identity with @ensdomains.
9/ @CashApp launched stablecoin support, allowing nearly 60 million users to send and receive USDC with no wallet setup required, live on Ethereum mainnet and @Arbitrum.
10/ @torproject and @FundingCommons launched a web3-native crowdfunding initiative supporting 10 internet freedom projects.
11/ @JPMorgan launched a second tokenized money market fund on Ethereum.
11/ @lifiprotocol launched LIFI Intents, a full-stack intent execution engine built on the Open Intents Framework, an initiative for standardizing crosschain intents.
12/ @l2beat launched Token Frameworks, a dedicated place to explore interoperability solutions, token movement, volume, speed, chains, and framework adoption.
13/ @PrivacyEthereum launched a private transfers dashboard comparing 11 protocols across privacy, cost, UX, decentralization, compliance, verifiability, state, and composability.
14/ @Veildotcash launched Veil MCP 0.2.0, enabling agents to make private x402 payments on @base.
15/ @src_co_ introduced SLOW, reversible, self-custodial crypto payments on Ethereum.
16/ @ensdomains ecosystem builders launched ENS8004, a web app that converts an ENS name into an onchain AI agent other applications can find and verify.
17/ @OctantApp introduced properQF in Epoch 12, integrating quadratic funding into the funding round.
18/ @AragonProject launched onchain profiles, making governance participants readable across forums by resolving ENS names, avatars, bios, websites, and social links from Ethereum mainnet.
19/ The Ethereum Community Hub network expanded to Lisbon, hosted at the @gnosisDAO office.
20/ @SuccinctLabs introduced data confidentiality to OP Succinct, enabling institutions to keep transactions confidential while settling to Ethereum.
21/ @HardhatHQ 3 became stable, bringing Solidity tests, multichain support, a Rust-powered runtime, a revamped build system, and Hardhat Ignition for deployments.
22/ The inaugural @ethconf, in NYC, brought together thousands of founders, industry leaders, and builders to discuss building on top of Ethereum.
23/ @EthPrague brought Ethereum builders together in Prague to discuss protocol development, privacy, culture, and long- term societal impact.
24/ @ETHGlobal introduced a new format where, for the first time at an ETHGlobal hackathon, projects do not have to begin from zero.
zkSync founder: “Ethereum is the only option” for institutions
“Tempo is a venture by Stripe. Obviously Stripe, as a large payments processor, wants to have their own network . . . And of course, all of [these organizations] will try to get everyone else on their network. But guess what? That’s precisely the reason why it’s never going to happen.”
Alex Gluchowski explains:
“Yes, Stripe wants everything to happen on Tempo, but JP Morgan wants everything to happen on JP Morgan Chain. And Circle wants everything to happen on Arc. And so on and so forth. They will never agree. The large players will never agree to build on the infrastructure of another large player. This is why Ethereum is the only option — it’s the only way forward as the neutral infrastructure that everyone can agree on.”
Source: @therollupco@zksync@gluk64
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Thanks to community feedback, we've already fixed the initial bugs and improved the experience.
Our previous domain was mistakenly flagged as phishing because of its similarity to https://t.co/dDnvfhbVDu. In reality, $stsato is an ownerless and immutable DeFi protocol built on top of $sato, designed to let holders earn yield seamlessly and each transaction burn $sato.
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@TrustlessState With all of that sell pressure out of the books, do you seriously think we need 18b to break ath’s?
I bet the number is way much lower ;)
HFSP
We've launched a new home for $stsato: https://t.co/iiFJz87LA0
Thanks to community feedback, we've already fixed the initial bugs and improved the experience.
Our previous domain was mistakenly flagged as phishing because of its similarity to https://t.co/dDnvfhbVDu. In reality, $stsato is an ownerless and immutable DeFi protocol built on top of $sato, designed to let holders earn yield seamlessly and each transaction burn $sato.
Thank you to everyone supporting this vision. This is only the beginning.
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Borrow against your position.
Leverage your exposure.
More $sato vaults and other products are coming soon.
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zcash:native is dead
ethereum:native is coded
CROPS will win
Cypherpunk will win
But it won't be zcash:native, and ethereum:native will wear that crown
zcash:native bulls be damned
Higher ethereum:native