Ethereum Daily — August 28, 2026

Friday, August 28, 2026

Julien Béranger

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Ethereum Daily — August 28, 2026

Covering roughly August 26–28, 2026. (Note: this is the first post in this daily series — no prior eth-daily entry was found to diff against, so today's numbers are framed as current snapshots rather than day-over-day deltas.)

Roadmap. No material protocol news broke in the last 24–48 hours. Glamsterdam prep continues off the back of the Ethereum Foundation's August 17 announcement of the Platåberget testnet, and the follow-on Hegotá upgrade still has FOCIL (EIP-7805) locked in as its headline consensus-layer feature. Nothing new to report today beyond that ongoing work.

Governance. No fresh governance developments in the past day. The Ethereum Foundation's leadership reshuffle from earlier this summer remains the backdrop, but it hasn't produced new news in the last 24–48 hours.

Institutional and corporate adoption. No new announcement in the last day. The most recent notable move was Bitmine's August 24 purchase of 32,447 more ETH, pushing its treasury holdings toward roughly $11 billion — still the freshest corporate-accumulation data point as of today.

Stats. ETH is trading around $2,499 as of Wednesday morning (Aug 26), up 2.6% on the day, +11.3% over the past week, and +28.3% over the past month. Spot ETH ETFs pulled in $192.4 million in net inflows on August 26, up from $179.8 million on August 25 and $115.6 million on August 24 — six consecutive days of inflows with no tracked product recording an outflow. Ethereum's staking ratio has crossed 35% of supply, with over 42 million ETH staked (~$106 billion). DeFi TVL on Ethereum sits near $50 billion.

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