Jonas Reid

Jonas Reid covers Ethereum and DeFi for up&down. He has spent years translating fee markets, governance votes, and protocol releases into plain English for traders and builders. He prefers shipped mechanics over roadmaps.

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Ethereum News

Lighthouse v8.3.3 is a high-priority patch, not a fork

Sigma Prime tagged Lighthouse v8.3.3 as a high-priority beacon-node security patch on 9 Nov 2026. Advisories come later. This is not an Ethereum mainnet fork.

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Ethereum News

EF Glamsterdam: 8 invariants, not a mainnet fork

The Ethereum Foundation Nov 6 post is an auditor call on eight gas invariants after EIP-8037 and EIP-8038. Hoodi stays delayed. Hegota work continues in parallel.

3 days ago Jonas Reid

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Ethereum News

Besu 26.11.0 is a node patch, not a mainnet fork

Besu 26.11.0, tagged 2 November 2026 at 10:46 UTC, is an execution-client patch for RPC, DiscV5 memory, and Vert.x 5.2.2, not an Ethereum mainnet fork clock.

5 days ago Jonas Reid

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Ethereum News

Geth v1.17.10: Hoodi Amsterdam is off, not mainnet

Geth v1.17.10 cancels the Hoodi Amsterdam fork set for 26 October 2026 at 17:42:48 UTC. v1.17.9 still carries timestamp 1793036568. Mainnet has no action.

2 weeks ago Jonas Reid

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Crypto News

Lighthouse v8.3.2: Hoodi Gloas is off, not mainnet

Lighthouse v8.3.2 disables the scheduled Gloas fork on Hoodi. Mainnet users do not need the tag. The old Monday clock is postponed, and client binaries still disagree.

3 weeks ago Jonas Reid

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Crypto News

Lighthouse v8.3.1: cert patch, not the Hoodi fork

Sigma Prime tagged Lighthouse v8.3.1 high-priority on Oct 22, 2026 so operators patch trusted certificates after the eMudhra CA key failure. Hoodi remains a Monday testnet clock.

3 weeks ago Jonas Reid

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Ethereum News

Lighthouse v8.3.0: Hoodi Gloas binary, not mainnet fork

Sigma Prime published Lighthouse v8.3.0 at 10:12 UTC on 19 Oct 2026. The tag bakes in Hoodi Gloas for 26 Oct 17:42:48 UTC and recommends a mainnet upgrade,…

3 weeks ago Jonas Reid

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Ethereum News

Hoodi Glamsterdam is a testnet clock, not mainnet

The Ethereum Foundation scheduled Glamsterdam on Hoodi at epoch 132352 on Oct 26, 2026, 17:42:48 UTC. Mainnet stays TBD. ETH holders need no action.

3 weeks ago Jonas Reid

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Crypto News

VanEck Lido stETH ETF pull is not an SEC denial

VanEck asked the SEC on Oct. 14, 2026 to withdraw the never-effective S-1 for VanEck Lido Staked Ethereum ETF. The letter is a Rule 477 sponsor pull, not…

4 weeks ago Jonas Reid

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Ethereum News

Lodestar 1.50.0: Hoodi Gloas clock, not a mainnet fire

Lodestar v1.50.0, tagged 12 Oct 2026, is mandatory for Hoodi Gloas at epoch 132352 on 26 Oct 2026 17:42:48 UTC. ChainSafe only recommends it for Ethereum mainnet, not…

4 weeks ago Jonas Reid