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Ethereum Rivals Cardano With Upcoming Upgrades as Markets Rally
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Ethereum plans on implementing Proposer-Builder Separation (ePBS) and Fork-Choice-Enforced Inclusion Lists (FOCIL) within this year’s Glamsterdam and Hegota upgrades. Both aim to uphold network decentralization and scalability while increasing speed, privacy, and security.
PBS will roll out first with the Glamsterdam fork scheduled for the first half of this year. The feature will further separate block builders and validators on Ethereum, preventing large validators from monopolizing and profiting from select transactions, a concept referred to as Maximal Extractable Value (MEV).
On the other hand, FOCIL (EIP-7805), scheduled for the 2nd half of 2026, will compel 16 randomly chosen validators to include certain transactions in their block. This will prevent transaction blocking or censoring on the grounds of perceived profitability.
Ethereum rivals Cardano in network development
In early 2026, Ethereum’s MEV rose to about $24 million in a single month. While profitable for validators, revenue-driven approaches such as front-running and sandwiching resulted in increased network congestion and gas fees for users.
PBS distributes validator power, mitigating MEV-induced centralization that was typically associated with large validators. A bigger version of FOCIL, simply known as “Big FOCIL,” would offer the same benefits as its parent, only on a much larger scale.
Source: X
Rival chain Cardano plans on offering similar benefits with the upcoming Midnight sidechain. The chain would leverage a dual tokenomics system that would enable users to hide sensitive information, including account transactions and balances. This development would also separate private and public computations, making Cardano less congested and effectively lowering gas fees. Midnight will also be regulatory compliant, which will encourage adoption among privacy-centric institutions.
ETH and ADA prices
At press time, both ETH (2nd by market cap) and ADA (10th by market cap) showed positive price movement following the recent broad relief rally. ETH traded at $2,042, up 6%, while ADA traded at $0.28, up 2.70% in the last 24h. Cardano also showed positive market sentiment, following the recent launch of its USDC-backed stablecoin, USDCx.
Since the two altcoins move in lockstep with Bitcoin, their future price action largely relies on whether BTC will break above $70K.
Source: CoinMarketCap
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Singapore is again the largest crypto economy in Central and Southeast Asia and Oceania. Chainalysis put activity there at $284 billion in the year to June 2026, up 55.4%. The wider region contracted 6.8% over the same window, July 2025 through June 2026.
The jump was not a retail wave. Institutional-platform activity rose 94% to $60 billion, concentrated in a small set of market makers, over-the-counter desks and institutional brokerages. Chainalysis told Cointelegraph the growth was “mostly high-volume activity by existing platforms rather than the dynamic entry of new services.” Outside that book, flows into centralized exchanges rose 30% and flows into decentralized exchanges rose 69%. Both moved. Neither explains the headline.
Australia was second at $173.1 billion. Total activity there fell 5.6%, mostly on a drop in DEX flows, while institutional-platform activity rose 33.3% to about $39.9 billion. India was still large, at $135 billion, but down 14.7% — one of the sharper declines in the set. It kept the region’s biggest centralized-exchange inflows, $88.4 billion, ahead of Singapore’s $82.3 billion and Australia’s $79.3 billion. Vietnam was fourth at $122.2 billion, then Indonesia at $83.2 billion, Thailand at $82.8 billion and the Philippines at $44.5 billion.
The other half of the report is the opposite market. The Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam together logged 5.4 million peer-to-peer transfers under $10,000, domestic and cross-border. That is 14.4% of such transfers worldwide, from countries that are 2.5% of the global crypto economy. Thailand and Vietnam also ran sizable domestic stablecoin markets, $10.4 billion and $6.9 billion. Cross-border stablecoin flow was larger than domestic in those markets. Chainalysis tied that to speed, cost and ease of use, not to a trading desk in Raffles Place.
Read together, the region split. Singapore’s number is a financial-center number: existing institutional pipes, more volume through them, plus broader exchange flow while the Monetary Authority of Singapore has been tightening licensing and still backing tokenization and stablecoin settlement. India’s number is an exchange-inflow number that shrank at the top line. The Mekong and Philippine number is small tickets. Institutional platforms across CSAO processed $152.3 billion, up 40%, and took 18.9% of regional activity by the end of the second quarter. That share is rising. It is not the same thing as adoption.
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