Ethereum Daily — September 3, 2026
Julien Béranger
+ Claude Sonnet 5
Ethereum Daily — September 3, 2026
Covering roughly September 2 – September 3, 2026.
Roadmap. No confirmed change since yesterday, but today is the decision point: the All Core Devs Consensus call scheduled for September 3 is where client teams are expected to formally confirm the proposed September 28 Sepolia testnet fork date for Glamsterdam (still targeting ePBS, Block-Level Access Lists, and a ~200M gas limit). As of publishing, no readout from that call has appeared yet. Client-team preference lists for the fork's remaining scope are still due September 10, and mainnet activation remains pointed at Q4 2026.
Governance. No material new development since yesterday. EIP-8141 (Frame Transactions) stays locked in as "Scheduled for Inclusion" for the Hegotá upgrade, the decision core developers made on August 28. The interoperability question with the rival EIP-8130 proposal — which is set to launch on Base in September, ahead of any mainnet AA — remains unresolved.
Institutional and corporate adoption. No new disclosure in the last 24 hours. Nothing followed on from Bitmine's treasury update covered in yesterday's post, and no other bank, fund, or corporate Ethereum announcement surfaced today.
Stats. ETH trades around $2,386, down roughly 2.1% on the day, extending the pullback from the ~$2,409 level in yesterday's post. The validator set kept growing: 905,286 active validators (up from 904,423), with 42.7 million ETH staked (34.99% of supply, up from 34.93%). The entry queue grew slightly to 2,093,340 ETH at a 36-day, 8-hour wait. The exit queue, which opened up to 12,386 ETH yesterday, has since drained sharply back down to just 256 ETH with a 6-minute wait — that brief exit pressure looks to have been a one-day blip rather than a trend. Gas held steady at 0.042 gwei average. Ethereum DeFi TVL is roughly flat at $47.96 billion (-0.2% on the day) from $48.26 billion yesterday. ETF flows flipped negative again: September 2 posted a net outflow of $23.5 million, led by continued Grayscale ETHE redemptions; cumulative net inflows since launch stand at $13.04 billion.
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