Vitalik Buterin
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Tribe Capital’s Evan Park and Blockworks Research’s Ryan Connor explain the issues with Ethereum and outline potential fixes
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Building onchain public goods is noble but they don’t always make the number go up
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Some of Ethereum’s top minds shared a kumbaya moment at Devcon around uniting Ethereum’s fragmented ecosystem
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While inclusion lists could strengthen Ethereum’s censorship resistance, they also raise legal questions that might push participants out of regulated markets
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EIP-7702 was quickly adopted for the next Ethereum upgrade, but developers haven’t quite locked it down
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Plus, Robinhood announced that it entered into an agreement to acquire Bitstamp, one of Europe’s largest and longest-serving crypto exchanges
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New EIP would resolve disagreements around the best path towards universal smart contract wallets by temporarily giving EOAs superpowers
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Plus, Ethereum’s blobs get the inscriptions treatment and Kevin Hart sells his Bored Ape
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Vitalik Buterin has some thoughts on memecoins, and one firm says it’s shorting MicroStrategy
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A greater focus on data availability sampling is top of mind, including additional work that layer-2s must do to become faster and more secure
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There needs to be more solo stakers on Ethereum today; could Rainbow Staking be the solution?
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Crypto loves little more than hot market-moving gossip, and whether it’s real or fake news doesn’t seem to matter
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Blockworks exclusive: The PBS Foundation has collected $1 million to fund initiatives related to proposer-builder separation on Ethereum
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Permissionless: Enterprise blockchain was a mostly failed idea in 2017, but Buterin thinks it can make a comeback
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Industry luminaries turned their attention to what’s next for crypto in the final day of the Permissionless conference
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Permissionless: Ethereum co-founder urges attendees in Austin to keep an eye on the frontier of what’s possible with crypto tech
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Elon Musk and X’s vice president of product signal boosted Buterin’s blog on Community Notes
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