Ethereum Daily — September 2, 2026
Julien Béranger
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Ethereum Daily — September 2, 2026
Covering roughly September 1 – September 2, 2026.
Roadmap. No material new development since yesterday. Glamsterdam's most recent public milestone (final devnet stage locking in ePBS and Block-Level Access Lists, targeting a ~200M gas limit) predates this window, client-team preference lists are still due September 10, and mainnet activation remains pointed at Q4 2026. Nothing new surfaced in the last day.
Governance. No material new development. The EIP-8141 (Frame Transactions) versus EIP-8130 native account-abstraction debate for Hegotá is unchanged from yesterday, with no fresh statements from client teams.
Institutional and corporate adoption. No new disclosure since Bitmine's weekly treasury update covered in yesterday's post. No other bank, fund, or corporate Ethereum announcement surfaced in the last 24 hours.
Stats. ETH trades around $2,409, down roughly 2.6% on the day and continuing yesterday's pullback from ~$2,445. The validator set kept climbing: 904,423 active validators (up from 903,892), with 42.6 million ETH staked (34.93% of supply). The entry queue grew to 2,088,205 ETH at a 36-day, 6-hour wait, slightly longer than yesterday. Notably, the exit queue — empty as of yesterday's post — now shows 12,386 ETH queued with a roughly 5-hour wait, the first exit-queue activity mentioned in this series. Gas ticked down further to 0.041 gwei average. Ethereum DeFi TVL slipped to $48.26 billion, down about 1.8% on the day from $49.1 billion. On ETF flows, September 1 posted a net outflow of $2.6 million — Grayscale's ETHE led redemptions, partly offset by Fidelity's FETH — the first net-negative day in this run of updates, following Monday's net-zero print; cumulative net inflows since launch edge down slightly from the roughly $12.97 billion reported yesterday.
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