🗓 Ethereum Staking Weekly | Sep 21, 2026 • 43.35M ETH staked → staking rate 35.91% • Ebunker APR: 2.57% | penetration 0.79% • Queue dynamics: entry queue ~30 days, exit queue ~2.5 days • Effectiveness: Ebunker 99.30% (+1.08% vs avg 98.22%) 📰 News of the Week (Highlights) • Ethereum and Base are moving forward with different account abstraction standards after efforts to agree on a shared standard broke down. • Ethereum Institutional backed Ethlabs’ proposal to reduce Ethereum block times, citing growing institutional activity on Ethereum. • Hegota: 14 EIPs were Declined for Inclusion (DFI’d) as developers reviewed roughly 40 proposed execution-layer changes. • BitMine now has more than 5M ETH staked, projecting $334M in annual staking revenue from its $15.8B crypto treasury. • Lido completed its first validator consolidation on Lido Core, beginning the migration of about 8.4M staked ETH from the legacy Curated Module to CMv2. • L2 infra: Robinhood Chain reached 750M transactions and $60B in cumulative DEX volume, while tokenized funds on Arbitrum One surpassed $800M in market cap.

🗓 Ethereum Staking Weekly | Sep 14, 2026 • 43.18M ETH staked → staking rate 35.77% • Ebunker APR: 2.57% | penetration 0.79% • Queue dynamics: entry queue ~31 days, exit queue zero • Effectiveness: Ebunker 99.30% (+0.53% vs avg 98.77%) 📰 News of the Week (Highlights) • Hegotá: EF identified FOCIL and Frame Transactions as the two “must ship” EIPs, as Ethereum works toward full post-quantum security by December 2029. • Glamsterdam Devnet-9 launched with 1,000 validators but is currently not finalizing, potentially requiring further testing before public testnets. • BitMine purchased another 28K ETH, reaching 97% of its goal to acquire 5% of Ethereum’s supply. • Lido became the first Ethereum staking pool to receive green checks across all decentralization indicators. • L2 infra: Robinhood Chain has generated around $39M in cumulative fees, while Arbitrum added over $56M in tokenized funds in 24 hours.

🗓 Ethereum Staking Weekly | Sep 7, 2026 • 42.92M ETH staked → staking rate 35.55% • Ebunker APR: 2.62% | penetration 0.79% • Queue dynamics: entry queue ~35 days, exit queue zero • Effectiveness: Ebunker 99.40% (+0.90% vs avg 98.50%) 📰 News of the Week (Highlights) • Glamsterdam tentatively targets Sepolia on Sep 28 and Hoodi on Oct 26, ahead of a mainnet hard fork expected in early December. • EIP-8141 received Schedule for Inclusion (SFI) status for the Hegota upgrade. • BitMine added 53.5K ETH, bringing its holdings to 4.9% of ETH supply after 65 consecutive weeks of purchases. • EtherFi added 158.7K ETH staked in August, reaching $5.23B TVL across 18 chains. • Obol released Charon v1.11.0, improving consensus, DKG, P2P, and sync committee performance. • Arbitrum generated $6.1M in H1 2026 income, while total RWA value surpassed $1B.

🗓 Ethereum Staking Weekly | Aug 31, 2026 • 42.60M ETH staked → staking rate 35.30% • Ebunker APR: 3.12% | penetration 1.15% • Queue dynamics: entry queue ~35 days, exit queue zero • Effectiveness: Ebunker 99.30% (+0.62% vs avg 98.68%) 📰 News of the Week (Highlights) • Glamsterdam Devnet-8 lost finality after nearly half of validators failed to process staked builder deposits. • Glamsterdam will reprice state creation and access through EIP-8037 and EIP-8038, laying the groundwork for further L1 scaling. • BitMine continued accumulating ETH as the price moved above $2,500. • Lido is shifting EarnETH Vault fees toward a performance-based model, capped at 0.5% AUM + 20% performance fees. • EtherFi expanded its DeFi strategies to Binance Wallet. • Gnosis Chain will transition into an Ethereum Economic Zone rollup and settle directly on Ethereum. • Tokenized stocks across Arbitrum One and Robinhood Chain reached a combined $227M market cap.

🗓 Ethereum Staking Weekly | Aug 24, 2026 • 42.34M ETH staked → staking rate 35.08% • Ebunker APR: 3.12% | penetration 1.15% • Queue dynamics: entry queue ~38 days, exit queue zero • Effectiveness: Ebunker 99.40% (+0.95% vs avg 98.45%) 📰 News of the Week (Highlights) • Ethereum Foundation launched bettercodes, an open research challenge focused on improving ZK proof soundness. • Ethereum’s next upgrade will change the standard 21,000 gas assumption, making transfers to new addresses more expensive. • Hegotá received 66 proposals, including improvements to wallet transactions and privacy applications. • SharpLink allocated $200M in ETH to Lido for staking and onchain liquidity. • BitMine added 9,926 ETH, bringing total holdings to 5.815M ETH (~4.8% of supply). • EtherFi launched Borrow, enabling users to earn on idle USDC and ETH while borrowing against their portfolio. • L2 infra: Robinhood Chain surpassed $5M in cumulative fees, while Whitechain is migrating from its standalone L1 to an OP Stack Ethereum L2.