Ethereum

Celo’s layer-2 will aim for a summer 2024 testnet

Like any new idea, restaking protocols will need a long break-in period to ensure their technical safety — but that’s doesn’t mean they’re not extremely promising

Chorus One tried to tease out some risks that could emerge from the buzzy restaking protocol

EY plans to move the service to Ethereum mainnet and a layer-3 in the future, its blockchain head told Blockworks

I spend an unhealthy amount of time thinking about crypto securities law — and I can’t see how ETH is now a securities offering under Howey

Relm and Chainproof will provide insurance quotes to distributed validators

DLC.Link uses a Taproot-based Bitcoin multisig to let institutions mint dlcBTC, starting on Arbitrum

In-protocol payments and slashing won’t go live until the marketplace stabilizes

Stack enough financial risk onto a blockchain system, and you’re inviting more fundamental instability

Osmosis will serve as the primary destination for Ethereum assets in the Cosmos ecosystem

FHE coprocessors will be focused on enabling computing over encrypted data

Plus, Ethereum’s blobs get the inscriptions treatment and Kevin Hart sells his Bored Ape

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

Blob space stopped being free on Wednesday

ORA’s OAOs are powered through optimistic machine learning (opML) on Ethereum

Ethereum mainnet is slowly losing active addresses but its growing web of layer-2s are more than making up for it

StaFi’s latest testnet launch is the first step in its grand rebrand strategy to become a liquid staking service provider

Plus, derivatives are growing in popularity, and a16z Crypto has a new way for LPs to invest

It’s taken years for BlackRock to start working with Ethereum — and crypto ruined it within minutes

Searching by Ethereum address has been possible for almost a year

The way things are going, Solana could soon be closer to flipping Ethereum than Ethereum is to eclipsing Bitcoin

There needs to be more solo stakers on Ethereum today; could Rainbow Staking be the solution?

The Ethereum Foundation’s disclosure of the probe went unnoticed for weeks

URamp enters the existing ecosystem of products from players like Mastercard, Cross Finance and Beam, which all connect on-chain finance to traditional banking