The second and final testnet for Ethereum’s Glamsterdam hard fork was cancelled after ChainSecurity found vulnerabilities in two gas-scaling proposals (EIP-8037/8038) that could have affected at least 13 DeFi contracts. Derek Chiang of Eth Labs said the flaw was found only a few minutes before midnight, forcing everyone to scramble, and the Hoodi dress rehearsal will not be rescheduled until the second-order effects are fully analysed. To speed up the review, researchers from Eth Labs and the Ethereum Foundation deployed AI agents that coordinated through a message board in a GitHub repo, and a second board now examines EIP-8198 (“Quick Slots”) for the proposed Hegota fork. Separately, the ‘Steal My Bitcoin’ site, which has not been patched against the PHP2Shell vulnerabilities, holds the key to a Bitcoin wallet worth around $2000 and had gone 25 hours without a successful hack at the time of writing.
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| Market | Crypto |
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| Sector | Layer 1 |
| Market cap | $285.6B |
| Close on 10/24/2026 | 2,358.82 |
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| Sector | Layer 1 |
| Market cap | $1.6T |
| Close on 10/24/2026 | 80,888.16 |
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