Vitalik deposits 50 ETH into Privacy Pools, endorses ZK tool
Buterin's 50.25 ETH deposit — modest in dollar terms — is the first public validation of an OFAC-aware privacy protocol since Tornado Cash was sanctioned, and the test case for whether…
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Buterin's 50.25 ETH deposit — modest in dollar terms — is the first public validation of an OFAC-aware privacy protocol since Tornado Cash was sanctioned, and the test case for whether…
The $146.7M net loss narrowed sequentially from $185.3M, but the revenue line tells the harder story: the staking-yield compression that defined Q1 is now hitting the top line.
The bank's analysts frame the gap as a network-activity problem, not a flow problem — without a revival in DeFi and real-world use cases, the underperformance is unlikely to reverse.
Joseph Chalom argues Ethereum treasury books are staking-led and structurally simpler than Strategy's debt-financed BTC accumulation — and that tokenization will deepen that divergence.
The investor put in $124 at the Ethereum genesis sale and walked away with 400 $ETH — now worth $906K, a 7,303x paper return on the original bet.
The holder paid roughly $245 in the 2014 crowdsale and never touched the bag — the transfer is the first on-chain movement, not a sale, but the return on record is hard to ignore.
Ethereum L2 fees have dropped below one cent and Optimism and Arbitrum hit the Stage 1 security milestone, finally making on-chain payments economically viable for the first time.
Near-parity resets the competition for onchain volume: both chains are positioned to absorb the next rotation, and the L1 race now runs on market share rather than narrative.
Galaxy's launch of an onchain yield fund with SharpLink landed the same week the treasury posted the loss — a partnership that lets the public-company ETH stack work harder, not a bailout.
The address has absorbed 21,800 ETH at an average of $2,155 — a steady, multi-week accumulation pattern rather than a one-off splash.
The wallet now holds 127,716 ETH ($292M) — and the buy cadence is what makes it notable: repeated USDC-funded spot adds at scale, not a single opportunistic entry.
A previously dormant wallet — identified by the address prefix 0xB476 — re-entered the market roughly seven hours ago…
The Ethereum Foundation has rolled out Clear Signing, an open standard designed to replace blind signing across the…
The cross-wallet standard brings Ledger, Trezor, MetaMask, WalletConnect, and Fireblocks onto one human-readable transaction format — the kind of infrastructure-layer move that compounds quietly.
After billions lost to phishing and wallet drains, the Foundation pairs ERC-7730 with a public registry so wallets can show users plain-English prompts before they hit approve.
The reiteration hinges on Sharplink's 0.8x discount to NAV and a Galaxy Digital co-managed yield fund that the bank argues marks a structural widening of Ethereum's demand base beyond just treasury…
The ratio at 0.02835 sits well below its 200-week moving average of 0.04828 — a structural marker, not a single-day wobble, and the signal investors keep reading as bitcoin-defensive positioning.
Capital is small next to Sharplink's 873K ETH stack, but the structure — a public-markets vehicle farming active DeFi yield without selling its core ETH — is the template that matters.
Glamsterdam testing advanced at the Svalbard interop, but the leadership turnover — Beiko and Monnot out, Corcoran, Wedderburn and Fredrik in — is the beat every Ethereum dev channel will read.
The handoff pairs a familiar Ethereum face (Wedderburn) with two less-public names, while Barnabé Monnot, Tim Beiko and Alex Stokes step back from day-to-day Protocol leadership.