The development of Ethereum's Lean Virtual Machine (leanVM) has made progress, with its recursive benchmark test speed reaching 2.7 seconds and adopting a streamlined 4-instruction ISA, thereby improving execution efficiency. The current ETH trading price is 4,304.29 USD. Despite the ETF outflow of 447 million USD on September 5, Vitalik Buterin emphasized long-term scalability and decentralization, supporting the use of Layer-2 solutions like Codex to promote ecosystem development.