The Ether: Wednesday, July 29, 2026

The day's top ranked stories.

All days are in the daily archive and posted to Farcaster.

blocks: 25,634,764 - 25,641,938
slots: 14,871,599 - 14,878,798

The day in review

Protocol

pcaversaccio joined the Ethereum Foundation Board, bringing security research expertise to protocol governance.

Apps

Aave Risk Stewards proposed pruning low-adoption reserves and deployments to shrink ecosystem risk surface, while Safe smart accounts reached 130 million trans…

World

Ethereum Institutional closed funding with 100+ backers to accelerate institutional adoption of the Ether.

Ethereum Foundation Blog:

pcaversaccio joins Ethereum Foundation Board

A prominent security researcher and EF contributor joins the foundation's governing board.

Aave Governance:

Aave Risk Stewards recommend offboarding low-adoption reserves and six whole deployments to reduce ecosystem risk surface.

Bankless:

A new initiative backed by over 100 ecosystem participants launches to accelerate institutional adoption of Ethereum.

The Block:

Safe's abstracted accounts crossed 130 million transactions in the second quarter, demonstrating mainstream adoption momentum.

Ethereum Magicians:

Core developers convene to discuss peer-to-peer network protocols and simulation tooling for Ethereum clients.

Arbitrum DAO:

Arbitrum's governance DAO votes on a system upgrade bringing language runtime improvements to the L2.

Ethereum Magicians:

A new ERC standard is proposed to let agents stake collateral while verifying claims on behalf of users.