Ethereum's upcoming Glamsterdam upgrade changes the long-standing rule that every basic ETH transfer costs a flat 21,000 gas units. Transfers to existing accounts will still cost 21,000 gas, but sending ETH to a new, never-before-used address will require an additional 183,600 units of "state gas" due to the need to create and store a new account. This breaks the assumption many wallets and blockchain services have relied on, which could cause fee miscalculations or rejected transactions. Developers warn service providers to update their software before the upgrade reaches Ethereum's mainnet after testing on several test networks.
Ethereum's supply on all cryptocurrency exchanges has dropped to a multi-year low of about 14.88 million ETH as of September 8, 2026, down from over 21.3 million ETH in July 2025. This decline coincides with increased institutional demand, including ...
The Ethereum Foundation’s Protocol cluster has set a firm deadline of December 2029 to make Ethereum’s base layer quantum-resistant across execution, consensus, and data layers. This move anticipates the arrival of quantum computers capable of breaki...
Tron founder Justin Sun has unstaked a total of 10,000 ETH from the Lido liquid staking protocol since August 26, moving about $12.3 million of that ether to Poloniex, an exchange he supports. While this shows some liquidity being freed up, Sun still...
Uniswap's annualized UNI token burn rate has exceeded $250 million, up from $200 million just days earlier, driven by increased trading volume on decentralized exchanges like Robinhood Chain. This burn mechanism, introduced in late 2025 through the U...
Solana is set to triple its maximum transaction size from 1,232 to 4,096 bytes with the new Transaction v1 update, allowing more complex operations in a single transaction. This technical upgrade closes a gap with Ethereum, which has no transaction s...
