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Notably, Vitalik Buterin, the influential co-founder of the Ethereum blockchain, is one of three members of the executive board of the Ethereum Foundation, according to its website. The organization is described as a “non-profit that supports the Ethereum ecosystem,” and part of a “larger community of organizations and individuals that fund protocol development, grow the […]
The Core Devs are, of course, part of that community, but it’s also clear they have an outsized influence on the protocol relative to the other stakeholders. Further, what we are really talking about here are the various researchers who are paid by the Ethereum Foundation. — because, well, the Ethereum Foundation is one of […]
Staking platform Lido’s share of staked ether (ETH) has continued to fall, which should reduce concerns about concentration in the Ethereum network, raising the chance that ETH won’t be designated as a security in the future, JPMorgan (JPM) said in a research report on Wednesday. “The share of Lido in staked ETH has decreased further […]
The valuation is based on the future expected usage of several layer 2 networks across usecases such as metaverse, banking and gaming. Source link
April 4: Velodrome, an AMM-based decentralized exchange on Optimism, officially announced their second major deployment onto the BOB (Build on Bitcoin) network, a Bitcoin layer-2 network with EVM compatibility. According to the BOB team: “The Superchain is a network of interoperable layer-2 chains that will share bridging, governance, upgrades, a communication layer and more, all […]
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Eight potential issuers, including BlackRock, have submitted filings with the SEC to bring a spot ether exchange-traded fund (ETF) to the market. The final decision by the regulator is due in May, with industry experts predicting that applications won’t get approved, regardless of what the SEC finds the nature of ether to be. Source link
The rapidly rising validator count on the Ethereum blockchain following the Shapella upgrade in April last year is causing concerns about technical capacity and centralization, Fidelity Digital Assets wrote in a research report on Thursday. Fidelity noted that “with the lowered risk from increased liquidity, the active validator count has risen by 74%,” and said […]
Ethereum fees for “blobs” – the blockchain’s new dedicated class of cheaper data storage – spiked Wednesday after a project called Ethscriptions created a new way of inscribing data, known as “blobscriptions.” Source link