The Oct. 6 snapshot also showed a smaller bid advantage on Binance spot, while Coinbase, OKX and Hyperliquid books had more offers than bids.
EEZ contributor Eduardo Antuña said the transaction puts atomic synchronous composability into practice and begins work on cross-layer interaction and unified liquidity.
Ethereum has prepared to test a 200 million gas limit on Sepolia under the Glamsterdam upgrade, putting more than three times the network's previous block capacity through a public test before developers decide what could eventually work on mainnet.
One of Ethereum's main validator clients updated its software hours before a Sepolia test that will raise the amount of work each block can hold to 200 million gas.
The listed order represented about 5,523 ETH, with nearby bids exceeding asks by $35.58 million.
The Ethereum Foundation introduced a research track on native assertions under its Trillion Dollar Security initiative on October 5, 2026. Technical proposal EIP-7906 proposes introducing three new opcodes (TXTRACE, TXDIFF, and EVENTDATACOPY) alongside a post-execution framework dubbed POST_TX.
New Ethereum stakers face a 25-day entry wait as the exit queue falls to 767,349 ETH from an 850,736 ETH peak driven by MetaMask's validator exits.
Ethereum controls 53.2% of the $349.2 billion onchain market, with $185.8 billion across tokenized assets and stablecoins. Tron follows with $94.2 billion, while Solana ranks third at $18.2 billion as activity expands across 50 blockchain networks.
The reduced exit queue highlights Ethereum's resilience and ongoing staking demand, despite security concerns impacting major operators. Ethereum exit queue eases to 767,349 ETH after MetaMask exits.
Ethereum's proposal could enhance transaction security, reducing reliance on wallet interfaces and appealing to institutions seeking robust risk controls. Ethereum proposes native transaction assertions to tackle blind signing.
Native Transaction Assertions would check changes to balances, contract storage, code and events. EIP-7906 is one candidate implementation.
BitMine Immersion Technologies increased its Ethereum holdings to 6.02 million ETH, equal to 4.9% of supply, while total crypto, cash, marketable securities and moonshot holdings reached $17.4 billion. The company has 5.07 million ETH staked, representing 84% of its holdings and producing projected annualized staking revenue of $363 million.