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Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin released the plan for "The Computer of the Crypto World," stating that the Hegota fork scheduled for next year may be Ethereum's last "regular" fork, with subsequent upgrades introducing recursive STARK, automated formal verification, optimized consensus, and quantum security capabilities.He indicated that Ethereum will transition from a blockchain to a hybrid architecture that integrates modern cryptography. This roadmap aims to shorten transaction finality to 8 to 32 seconds, significantly reduced from the current approximately 200 seconds with 12 confirmations, and will adjust verification, consensus, and block construction mechanisms through PeerDAS, SNARK, and FOCIL.

Onchain Lens reported that BlackRock has withdrawn approximately $126.95 million in crypto assets from Coinbase Prime in the past 40 minutes.This includes about 1,150 Bitcoins, worth approximately $95.43 million, and about 11,840 Ethereums, worth approximately $31.52 million.

According to SolanaFloor data, Solana's application revenue reached 49.9 million dollars last week, the highest weekly revenue since mid-2025, which is 2.6 times that of Hyperliquid and 3.9 times that of Ethereum.

Binance Chinese posted on platform X that the Binance wallet now supports using USDT to pay for Gas fees, covering BNB Smart Chain, Ethereum, Solana, and Tron, with plans to support more public chain networks in the future.

According to SoSoValue data, last week's trading day saw a net inflow of $690 million into Ethereum spot ETFs. The Ethereum spot ETF with the highest net inflow last week was Blackrock ETF ETHA, with a weekly net inflow of $326 million, bringing ETHA's historical total net inflow to $13.28 billion.Following that was Fidelity ETF FETH, with a weekly net inflow of $174 million, and FETH's historical total net inflow currently stands at $2.42 billion. As of the time of writing, the total net asset value of Ethereum spot ETFs is $17.78 billion, with an ETF net asset ratio (the market value as a percentage of Ethereum's total market value) reaching 5.42%, and the historical cumulative net inflow has reached $13.94 billion.

According to CoinDesk, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has released a long-term roadmap, referred to as Streamlining Ethereum. The vision proposes that by 2030, Ethereum will surpass a mere blockchain ledger and plans to completely restructure the protocol in the next three to four years.The transformation includes expanding transaction throughput by approximately 1000 times, introducing zero-knowledge proofs to enhance privacy and combat quantum computing threats. By 2030, the network is expected to accommodate 2TB of traditional dynamic state data, along with an additional 100TB of new scalable storage, to achieve underlying state separation and optimization. The vision also aims to establish Ethereum as an infrastructure driven by cryptographic validation, with applications extending from finance to social systems. Most developers support this plan, although some voices believe the implementation timeline is somewhat delayed.

Tom Lee, Chairman of Bitmine, stated that artificial intelligence and the cryptocurrency industry are gradually merging, with tokenization and AI agents likely becoming the two main driving forces of the next cryptocurrency market cycle.Tom Lee mentioned that BlackRock expects more assets to be tokenized, and financial settlement infrastructure is increasingly being built on cryptocurrency networks. Some fintech companies, such as Revolut, have already begun to build related businesses based on Ethereum. He also stated that AI is driving the formation of the digital economy, while cryptocurrencies provide the digital currency and blockchain infrastructure needed to support this economic system.

Vitalik posted on the X platform, stating that he attempted to briefly explain the true meaning of the plans for Ethereum that forked after Hegota. Ethereum is no longer just a blockchain; it is a hybrid architecture that combines blockchain with modern cryptography, enabling more powerful features.Related plans include FOCIL, EIP-8288, streamlined consensus, state management, formal verification, memory pool improvements with privacy features, and long-term obfuscation techniques.

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin stated that PeerDAS has been running stably for nearly a year with virtually no issues, which is an "underappreciated achievement" by Ethereum client developers.Vitalik mentioned that PeerDAS is a complex task and is the first large-scale blockchain system case to achieve "consensus on data availability without any single node downloading the complete block," realizing decentralized consensus without the need for complete data replication.

According to SoSoValue data, yesterday (Eastern Time September 25), the total net inflow of Ethereum spot ETFs was $86.9469 million.The Ethereum spot ETF with the highest net inflow yesterday was Blackrock ETF ETHA, with a net inflow of $50.3701 million. Currently, the historical total net inflow of ETHA has reached $13.284 billion.Following that was Blackrock Staked ETH ETF ETHB, with a net inflow of $31.8845 million. Currently, the historical total net inflow of ETHB has reached $885 million.As of the time of writing, the total net asset value of Ethereum spot ETFs is $17.779 billion, and the ETF net asset ratio (market value as a percentage of Ethereum's total market value) is 5.42%. The historical cumulative net inflow has reached $13.940 billion.

Vitalik posted on the X platform stating that synchronizing an Ethereum node now takes only half a day at the fastest, with aggressive settings allowing disk space usage to be below 0.5 TB.EIP-4444 and the client teams' optimizations for snapshot synchronization have significantly improved the synchronization situation. Glamsterdam will further enhance node synchronization, for example, the new synchronization protocol of Nimbus will adopt relevant improvements.

According to SoSoValue data, yesterday (Eastern Time September 24) the total net inflow of Ethereum spot ETFs was $66.0113 million.The Ethereum spot ETF with the highest net inflow yesterday was Blackrock ETF ETHA, with a net inflow of $26.8060 million. Currently, the historical total net inflow of ETHA has reached $13.233 billion.Following that was Fidelity ETF FETH, with a net inflow of $21.4535 million. Currently, the historical total net inflow of FETH has reached $2.416 billion.As of the time of writing, the total net asset value of Ethereum spot ETFs is $17.695 billion, with an ETF net asset ratio (market value compared to the total market value of Ethereum) of 5.39%. The historical cumulative net inflow has reached $13.853 billion.

According to CoinDesk, asset management company ARK Invest announced a partnership with tokenization platform Securitize to tokenize its ARK Venture Fund (ARKVX), initially issuing it on Ethereum, with potential expansion to other blockchains in the future. The fund invests in private and public companies, with holdings including OpenAI, Anthropic, Stripe, and Databricks. ARK founder and CEO Cathie Wood stated that bringing the ARK Venture Fund on-chain is a natural extension of its mission to democratize investment in disruptive innovation.Securitize CEO Carlos Domingo stated that this move provides investors with diversified exposure to popular private tech companies, allowing them to hold both OpenAI and Anthropic simultaneously if they are uncertain about which will win the AI race. He also noted that tokenization does not put these companies or their shares on-chain; instead, investors receive an on-chain representation of the fund's equity, while the underlying assets remain private, but user investments are liquid. Securitize also plans to provide daily net asset values and support on-chain market trading of fund equity.This collaboration builds on the existing relationship between the two parties, as ARK made a strategic investment in Securitize last year. Currently, Wall Street asset management companies are accelerating the introduction of traditional financial products to the blockchain, with early attempts like BlackRock's BUIDL and Franklin Templeton's BENJI fund primarily focused on U.S. Treasury and money market products, now expanding into stocks and private markets.

Tom Lee, the chairman of the Ethereum treasury company BitMine, stated that cryptocurrency concept stocks have led the way in the third quarter, viewing this as a signal for the start of a bull market. This cycle is different from the past ones driven by ICOs, NFTs, meme coins, and stablecoins, as it now includes tokenization, AI, and a more favorable regulatory environment, with broader participation in funding.After years of consolidation, the market may welcome a clearer breakthrough, with upward potential possibly exceeding previous cycles. Tom Lee also expressed optimism for Ethereum, believing it will strengthen due to Wall Street's tokenization implementation, and thinks ETH has a chance to challenge its previous high within the year.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring, in the market prediction event "Ethereum September Price Prediction" on Polymarket, the "Yes" option in the sub-market "Below $2,600" experienced a sharp fluctuation in winning probability, soaring from 72.5% an hour ago to the current 88% (a fluctuation of 15.5%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

According to SoSoValue data, yesterday (Eastern Time September 23) the total net inflow of Ethereum spot ETFs was $105 million. The Ethereum spot ETF with the highest single-day net inflow yesterday was Blackrock ETF ETHA, with a single-day net inflow of $50.7996 million, bringing the historical total net inflow of ETHA to $13.206 billion.Following that was Fidelity ETF FETH, with a single-day net inflow of $41.2754 million, and the historical total net inflow of FETH has reached $2.395 billion. The Ethereum spot ETF with the highest single-day net outflow yesterday was Grayscale Ethereum Trust ETF ETH, with a single-day net outflow of $4.0901 million, and the historical total net inflow of ETH has reached $2.015 billion.As of the time of writing, the total net asset value of Ethereum spot ETFs is $17.505 billion, and the ETF net asset ratio (the market value as a percentage of Ethereum's total market value) is 5.37%, with a historical cumulative net inflow of $13.787 billion.

David Hoffman, founding partner of Bankless Ventures, published a discussion on the "Bitcoin Buy Side Trophy," stating that the crypto market occasionally sees a single asset absorbing the capital shift from Bitcoin holders. The Bitcoin community has long maintained a consensus of "holding only BTC," with a scale of about $1.7 trillion; individual shifts usually go unnoticed, but when enough people turn to the same asset, it becomes contagious. He cited 2021's ETH as an example, where its market cap rose from about $12 billion at the bottom to about $554 billion at the top, and referenced Su Zhu's statement from October that year, indicating that some people specifically moved cold-stored Bitcoin to buy ETH, and some publicly known Bitcoin maximalists may privately hold ETH.He believes that ZEC in 2026 is similar to ETH in 2021, having formed a consensus point for some Bitcoin capital, with reasons including privacy, quantum, or as a hedge against Bitcoin exposure "just in case." ZEC's market cap rose from about $200 million to about $2.6 billion, which is still small relative to the $1.7 trillion BTC; the key lies in relative scale rather than dollar appreciation, as the buying pressure is driven by Bitcoin wealth. As long as a very small proportion of holders can be persuaded to allocate a small amount of ZEC, the buying pressure will continue; very few people skip BTC, ETH, and other crypto assets to buy based solely on ZEC's own merits.He also believes that NEAR will win the weaker "smart contract buy side" in 2026, with funds coming from more decentralized market participants. The crypto market has always prioritized value storage, with smart contract chains coming second; ETH's position is weaker than BTC's, and SOL's challenge to ETH is greater than any asset's challenge to BTC.

According to Cointelegraph, the European Banking Authority (EBA), the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA), and the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) stated in a joint risk update that advancements in quantum computing could undermine the cryptographic systems that secure blockchain transactions, communications, and databases.Google Quantum AI researchers estimated in March that the number of physical quantum bits required to break the cryptographic techniques used by many cryptocurrencies is about 20 times less than previously estimated. There currently exists no computer capable of executing such an attack.Bitcoin developer Jameson Lopp and others proposed in February to gradually phase out the current signature scheme and to restrict the usage of untransferred funds five years after the proposal is activated; this proposal has not yet been adopted. The Ethereum Foundation plans to enable Ethereum's execution, consensus, and data layers to be resistant to quantum attacks by December 2029.