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The wallet 0x0965 last moved in 2018, bought under $200, and just exited at $1,625. A $39M realized profit, but still well short of the $130M mark it once sat on.
The same week EthLabs launched with 50+ ecosystem backers, the EF cut deeply, and the loudest voices calling it bullish came from a Solana co-founder and Ethereum's own co-founders.
The arrangement lets Optimism run Ink's production stack while the Ink Foundation redirects engineering capacity to ecosystem growth and new financial products.
Two high-profile voices, Robert Kiyosaki and Solana's toly, are leaning bullish on Ethereum just as the EF trims headcount and resets priorities.
The layoffs come as the network posts record throughput and tokenized assets hit $203B, while base-layer fee revenue halves and spot ETH ETFs bleed for seven straight weeks.
The same address sold 3,065 ETH at a $380K loss two weeks ago and has been loading HYPE ever since, with holdings now worth $30.93M.
When Layer 2 fees fall below the cost of executing on the L1 itself, the original scaling thesis stops paying out, and dozens of rollups are left searching for a reason to exist.
When a treasury accumulates that size across two top venues in four hours, it reads less like trading and more like a custody migration tied to the staking build-out.
A nine-hour-old withdrawal is one transaction, not a trend, but a venture firm moving eight figures from an exchange into self-custody typically signals deployment rather than rebalancing.
A YouTube analyst frames the current drawdown as a post-quantitative-tightening normalization phase mirroring the 2019–2020 setup, betting the worst of the bear is behind even as Ethereum's…
Roughly 54 roles are going as the Foundation reorganizes around the Mandate and a new Treasury Management Policy, signaling a narrower execution focus at the top of Ethereum's core org.
A 40% spending cut this year is the number, but the real signal is Vitalik framing the EF as a 5%-spend endowment by 2030 while nine senior figures have walked out since January.
The layoff lands as EF consolidates from a sprawling org into five clusters tied to its mandate. Departing staff get a severance floor at one month per year, plus transition grants.
The 54-person reduction lands alongside nine senior departures in six months and a separate institutional push led by SharpLink, BitMine, and Joseph Lubin, exposing fault lines inside the ecosystem's…
The Foundation is collapsing its old pods into five protocol-facing clusters plus an ops arm, a structural reset that lands as ETH trades under macro and competitive pressure.
The new lab frames itself around the settlement-layer thesis and is taking on protocol R&D that has historically sat with the Ethereum Foundation and a handful of client teams.
BitMine's $258M annualized staking revenue is more than eight times the $30M Ethereum core-dev funding gap a former Foundation contributor warned of, and ETH treasury firms are now the ones writing…
The new nonprofit surfaces as the Ethereum Foundation loses researchers and absorbs mounting public criticism, framing the next phase of Ethereum development outside its original steward.
Five veteran EF contributors spin out an independent research outfit backed by Bitmine, SharpLink, Lubin, Anchorage, Octant and SNZ, with protocol economics and settlement efficiency at the top of…
Five senior Ethereum Foundation researchers launch Ethlabs with funding from two of the largest corporate ETH treasuries and Consensys, betting a multi-node development model can replace…
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