Ethereum: Glamsterdam's test fork is postponed

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News: Ethereum's Glamsterdam test fork is postponed

• Hoodi testnet fork (set for Oct 26) is off; no new date
• Devs are checking how EIP-8037 interacts with mainnet contracts
• Separately fixed: a bug that could credit staking deposits to builders (no losses)

Why it matters

• Glamsterdam brings ePBS (EIP-7732) and block-level access lists (EIP-7928) (ethereum.org)
• Mainnet needs a new Hoodi date first (CoinDesk); Q4 2026 is "not confirmed" (ethereum.org)

For analysts: builder payments move on-protocol with ePBS, so that data will come from the chain, not relays.

Sources: EF blog · CoinDesk · ethereum.org

News: HSBC launches a HKD stablecoin to 3.3M+ PayMe users

• RedCoin (RCHKD), licensed by the HKMA, launched Oct 23 in PayMe
• P2P payments and 100,000+ merchants; HSBC HK app later this year
• ~$10.2M in circulation vs $10.4M cash reserves soon after launch

For analysts: it runs on HSBC's private ledger, so there is no public onchain data; supply comes from HSBC's reserve tracker.

Sources: HSBC · CoinDesk · Decrypt

Onchain Data News

News: Dune streams DEX trades ~1 s after execution

• 200+ venues on 12 chains: spot (incl. Ethereum, Solana, Base) and perps (Hyperliquid, Lighter)
• Each trade: price, size, side, a stable ID and a link to its settling tx
• Up to 8 years of history for backtests

Why it matters

• Dune says ~25% of spot crypto trading is now onchain
• Tokenized stocks and ETFs traded $37B+ onchain in Q3 2026

For analysts: trades link to their transaction, so you can join the feed back to raw chain data.

Sources: Announcement · Dune Feeds · The Block

News: Etherscan and CryptoQuant plug onchain data into AI assistants

• Etherscan's Claude connector: read-only, 60+ EVM chains, no API key
• Balances, tx history, gas, logs, token transfers; answers link to Etherscan
• CryptoQuant MCP server: 245+ metrics (MVRV, SOPR, exchange flows), free Basic tier

For analysts: answers link back to Etherscan, so you can check each number before you use it.

Sources: Etherscan news · Docs · CryptoQuant news

Also: Allium changed its Solana transfers tables (new batch_instruction_index; native rows now SOL); preview tables go away Oct 30. Allium changelog

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WizardCamp · Ethereum

Failed transactions still pay gas

Caption: Exercise sample: 100 mainnet txs, blocks 19,000,000–19,000,099

• A reverted tx changes nothing onchain, but its sender still pays gas
• Gas cost = gas_used × gas_price, in wei
• Puzzle: total gas cost per sender, successful txs only

Catch: 77 senders in the data, 59 rows in the answer. And BIGINT overflows around 9.2 ETH.

transactions(block_date, from_address, value,
  gas_used, gas_price, success)
-- expected: from_address | total_gas_wei
--           (highest first)

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Chart of the Week, powered by Allium

Chart: How much gas do failed Ethereum txs burn?

Caption: Ethereum mainnet · daily ETH paid in gas by failed transactions (bars, ETH) and share of transactions that failed (line, %) · last 90 days

In the last 90 days, 2.4M of 178.6M Ethereum transactions (1.35%) failed, yet they still paid about 280 ETH in gas, or 1.73% of all gas paid.

Pairs with the WizardCamp exercise above.

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