The Ether: Thursday, July 30, 2026

The day's top ranked stories.

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

blocks: 25,641,939 - 25,649,109
slots: 14,878,799 - 14,885,998

The day in review
Protocol

A quiet day here.

Apps
  • Aave governance proposed retiring deployments on six low-revenue chains to focus operational resources on higher-value markets.
  • Polygon Chain upgraded throughput to 5,000 payments per second for stablecoin settlement and prepared for prediction market surge during a major sporting event.
World
  • Twenty-eight global banks including JPMorgan and UBS tested tokenized money for cross-border settlement in a BIS blockchain pilot.