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The Ethereum Foundation stated on the X platform that the Trezor hardware wallet now supports the "Clear Signing" feature through the ERC-7730 standard, making transactions more readable and understandable on the hardware device.This progress is the result of the Clear Signing working group promoted under the foundation's "Trillion Dollar Security Initiative," aimed at reducing the risk of users suffering asset losses due to "blind signing" of unclear transactions and encouraging more wallets and decentralized applications to participate.

According to The Defiant, the decentralized lending protocol Morpho deployed its fixed-term, fixed-rate lending agreement Midnight to Ethereum on September 8, expanding the product from the Base network to Ethereum, allowing Ethereum users to access USDC loans collateralized by WBTC or cbBTC. Morpho co-founder Merlin Egalite stated that the Ethereum launch will start with the "USDC | cbBTC and USDC | WBTC markets" and will gradually expand.The core difference between Midnight and Morpho Blue lies in interest rate certainty. Blue uses open loans where interest rates fluctuate according to a formula; Midnight, on the other hand, trades credit units at market-priced rates with fixed terms, allowing borrowers to determine financing costs in advance, and lenders can lock in returns instead of bearing interest rate changes with each block. Midnight lenders purchase credit units at prices below the one-to-one redemption value at maturity.However, the largest potential source of funds for Midnight remains constrained. The Morpho Vaults, holding approximately $5 billion in deposits, can only allocate to the Morpho Blue market until the DAO enables the Midnight configuration. Morpho co-founder and CEO Paul Frambot stated that enabling the Vault configuration requires just one DAO transaction, but Vault activation is expected to be achieved in the fourth quarter. At launch, the total deposits in the Ethereum Midnight market were approximately $7.41 million, with outstanding loans of about $2.63 million.

According to MistTrack monitoring, Tether froze approximately 39.27 million USDT across 10 addresses on the Tron network a few hours ago, which are related to Xinbi Guarantee.Previously, Tether had frozen funds related to Huiwang Guarantee, and this action seems to be another blow against illegal hosting platforms on Telegram.

According to Lookonchain monitoring, a certain Ethereum OG whale sold 11,000 ETH through Wintermute one hour ago, worth 27.23 million USD.

According to Lookonchain monitoring, the net inflow of Bitcoin ETFs in the United States is 398 BTC, with a net inflow of 8,937 BTC over 7 days; the net outflow of Ethereum ETFs is 19,667 ETH, with a net inflow of 15,939 ETH over 7 days.

According to on-chain analyst Yu Jin's monitoring, last week Strategy did not increase or decrease its holdings of BTC, currently holding 845,050 BTC, valued at approximately 6.6125 billion USD, with an average cost of 75,412 USD, resulting in an unrealized profit of approximately 2.398 billion USD.The Ethereum treasury company Bitmine continued to increase its holdings by 28,086 ETH last week, valued at approximately 6.885 million USD, with an average purchase price of about 2,451 USD. Currently, Bitmine holds a total of 5,929,198 ETH, valued at approximately 14.651 billion USD, with an average cost of 3,347 USD, resulting in an unrealized loss of approximately 5.194 billion USD.

According to data from DefiLlama, the DEX trading volume on BSC in the past 24 hours reached 1.327 billion USD, surpassing Ethereum (1.3 billion USD), and only behind Solana (2.872 billion USD) and Robinhood Chain (1.512 billion USD).In addition, BSC's revenue in the past 24 hours reached 1.99 million USD, while Robinhood Chain's revenue in the past 24 hours reached 1.91 million USD.

CoinMarketCap released the RWA perpetual contract market report for August 2026. The report shows that from December 29, 2025, to August 31, 2026, the cumulative trading volume of the RWA perpetual contract market has exceeded $3.16 trillion.From the platform distribution perspective, Binance leads with approximately $1.59 trillion and a market share of 50.4%. Hyperliquid ranks second with $542.8 billion, accounting for 17.2%; OKX ranks third with $345.1 billion, accounting for 10.9%; Bitget ranks fourth with $238.2 billion, accounting for 7.5%. The top four platforms together account for about 86% of the market share.

According to The Block, the Ethereum Foundation's protocol team has released the priority list for the Hegotá upgrade EIP, setting the target date for achieving "quantum safety" on Ethereum's layer one in terms of execution, consensus, and data to December 2029.In terms of the consensus layer, FOCIL (EIP-7805) is listed as S-level "must launch," enhancing censorship resistance by mandating the inclusion of public mempool transactions; in terms of the execution layer, Frame Transactions (EIP-8141) is also a "must launch," laying the groundwork for native account abstraction and custom signatures, gas payment, etc., by splitting transactions into programmable "frames" for validation, gas payment, and execution, thereby improving post-quantum safety readiness. The protocol team stated that starting from the "Glamsterdam" fork in Q4 2026, subsequent forks need to be completed in an average of about 7.2 months to ensure the achievement of the minimum viable post-quantum safety milestone before "Q-day" around 2030.

According to a report by the Korean News Agency, Matthew Dawson, co-founder of Ethereum Institutional, visited South Korea for the first time and held meetings with local major banks, securities companies, asset management firms, and exchanges to establish cooperative relationships. Dawson stated that South Korea has strong financial institutions and a developer community capable of fully utilizing blockchain infrastructure, and pointed out that the recent policy direction on token securities released by the Financial Services Commission (FSC) provides a good opportunity for cooperation.He anticipates that South Korean institutions, which currently start with private chains, will eventually upgrade to public blockchains, and emphasized that Ethereum, with its security, liquidity, and neutrality, is the ideal infrastructure for carrying core institutional assets. In terms of organizational expansion, Ethereum Institutional plans to introduce a head of Asia within 6 to 7 weeks and recruit technical, business, and consulting talent in Hong Kong, South Korea, and Japan.

According to Token Terminal data, the scale of ETH transferred from Ethereum L1 to Robinhood Chain L2 has exceeded 700 million dollars, growing by approximately 150% in the past month.

The Ethereum Foundation (EF) stated that the Protocol Cluster has released two new articles that systematically assess the upcoming network upgrade Hegotá. Among them, the "Hegotá EIP Opinion Post and Tier List" evaluates and ranks the currently proposed 62 EIPs, marking the first time the team has published a unified EIP rating list for a major network upgrade.It was reported that approximately 60 researchers, engineers, and domain experts from 9 teams under the Protocol Cluster participated in the review, submitting a total of 397 rating opinions and engaging in live discussions on controversial proposals. The accompanying article outlines the current and future key directions of the Ethereum protocol layer, with one core goal being to promote Ethereum L1's quantum resistance by December 2029.The Ethereum Foundation indicated that the aforementioned upgrade plans, long-term commitments, and shared priorities at the cluster level provide the contextual basis for finalizing the scope of the Hegotá upgrade and the EIP ratings. Additionally, the Protocol Cluster will hold an AMA on September 16 at 14:00 UTC in the r/ethereum community on Reddit to discuss topics such as the Hegotá EIP ratings and key protocol developments.

According to CoinDesk, Ethereum core developers have included EIP-8141 (Frame Transactions) in the 2027 Hegotá upgrade plan. During the core developer call on August 27, the proposal was marked as "Scheduled for Inclusion," meaning it will become part of the network update rather than just a candidate proposal. Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin, one of the ten authors of the proposal, stated on X on Sunday night that Frames have made significant progress in the past few months.Frames aim to address the issue where users hold stablecoins but cannot transfer them due to a lack of ETH. It splits transactions into independent steps such as authorization verification, fee payment, and instruction execution, allowing the sender and payer accounts to no longer have to be the same. For example, payment applications can cover fees themselves or settle ETH bills on behalf of users after collecting stablecoins, while the Ethereum network still prices in ETH, and users do not need to purchase ETH. Unlike existing wallet solutions that rely on third-party services, Frames will achieve this capability through the standard Ethereum transaction process.Additionally, Frames will bundle operations that need to be executed simultaneously, such as authorization and submission in token transactions, with authorization being revoked if the transaction fails; it also allows accounts to customize transaction approval rules, enabling the replacement of private keys or the adoption of quantum-resistant keys without needing to migrate funds to a new address. Currently, the specification is still a draft, and details may be adjusted before the Hegotá upgrade, with users unable to use Frames yet.

Bitmine Chairman Tom Lee recently expressed the view that Ethereum (ETH) is more like "digital land" rather than cash. Lee believes that the core value of quality assets lies in their ability to store value, meaning that investors believe they can effectively hold and allocate capital over the long term.Lee pointed out that stocks can become store of value assets because investors expect companies to manage capital effectively when they buy stocks; real estate, on the other hand, has both store of value and cash flow properties, generating income through rentals. Within this framework, he believes Ethereum is closer to the stock market or land, with its long-term value primarily derived from the network itself as underlying infrastructure.Bitmine has been increasing its holdings for 65 consecutive weeks. As of August 30, 2026, its total Ethereum holdings reached 5,901,112, accounting for approximately 4.9% of the total Ethereum supply.

Li Bit Mining Pool's Jiang Zhuoer stated that due to improved market sentiment, Ethereum has risen close to its previous high, and Bitcoin spot ETF continued to see inflows from September 3 to 4. Previously, it sold 100% of its Bitcoin position at $82,050 and bought back at $79,480, and has now restored its full position in Ethereum spot.

According to SoSoValue data, last week's trading day saw a net inflow of 218 million dollars 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 136 million dollars, bringing ETHA's historical total net inflow to 12.87 billion dollars; followed by Blackrock ETF ETHB, with a weekly net inflow of 81.8506 million dollars, currently ETHB's historical total net inflow stands at 775 million dollars.The Ethereum spot ETF with the highest net outflow last week was Grayscale Ethereum Trust ETHE, with a weekly net outflow of 36.9659 million dollars, currently ETHE's historical total net outflow has reached 5.38 billion dollars. As of the time of writing, the total net asset value of Ethereum spot ETFs is 15.57 billion dollars, with an ETF net asset ratio (market value relative to Ethereum's total market value) of 5.2%, and the historical cumulative net inflow has reached 13.19 billion dollars.

Harmony has released two proposals to comprehensively shut down the mainnet launched in 2019, migrate the native token ONE to Ethereum, and shift towards an AI video "mashup economy" business. The team stated that the threats posed by national-level attackers and AI entities are the reasons for proposing the network shutdown plan.The migration plan proposes to take a snapshot of user wallets, staking delegations, validator rewards, smart contracts, and tokens within centralized exchanges at the last block of the network, airdropping new ONE to the same wallet addresses on Ethereum, with holders not needing to actively claim; delegated stakes and unclaimed rewards will be airdropped to their respective governance vaults. The total supply of ONE and the issuance rate will remain unchanged, with newly issued tokens intended for the new business and feedback from governors being considered.Multi-signature wallets, liquidity pools, and on-chain applications cannot be migrated. The team urges users to exit all smart contracts by September 10, 2026, and plans to publicly disclose token contracts, snapshot calculations, and airdrop scripts for auditing. Validators can stop running nodes starting from September 10 at 22:00 Beijing time. The team plans to compensate for the difference in issuance rewards between node shutdown and the final block of the network, establishing a one-time compensation pool of $1.372 million, to be paid in four quarters to validators and their delegators who timely shut down, sign agreements, retain stakes, and serve as governors of the new project.The new business will open up prompts and materials for users to create secondary content, with AI entities expanding video stories, and will recruit operators responsible for video generation, distribution, and content review. Harmony plans to subsidize GPU hardware in the first year and promote demand for video generation, with operators required to stake tokens to earn rewards based on service online time. The team plans to help operators generate up to $1 million in total revenue in the first year, provided they meet staking and online rate requirements; promoters can initially earn a 30% ongoing commission from each $10 monthly subscription they recommend. Both proposals are non-binding and the plans may still be adjusted.