The Ethereum Foundation is excited to announce the winners of the Merge Data Challenge 🐼. The challenge ran for ~9 weeks surrounding the Merge, allowing for data analysts to gather and review information both before and after the big event. Participants submitted a treasure trove of data and analysis in 45(!) different blog posts. Enjoy
Ethereum traded near $1,764.43 on July 5, according to crypto.news market data. The token was up 0.2% over 24 hours and 11.58% over seven days. Its market cap stood near $212.91 billion, while 24-hour volume was about $11.16 billion. Summary Ethereum remains trapped between $1,700 support and $1,800 resistance as liquidation clusters frame price action.
Community & education Crowdsourcing Technical Ethereum Content in Taipei Nic Lin Open call for technical papers from Taipei’s Ethereum community. Community & education Crypto Economics Security Conference Berkeley Center for Responsible, Decentralized Intelligence The Crypto Economics Security Conference (CESC) bringing together researchers and practitioners to discuss the most recent developments in web3. Community & education
President Trump and family crypto ventures cleared more than $1 billion in 2025, according to his latest federal financial disclosure. It was the same year that Bitcoin crashed more than 50% from its $126,000 all-time high, erasing every gain retail investors captured during the post-election euphoria. Market Cap 24h 7d 30d 1y All Time World
Senator Cynthia Lummis has renewed her call for lawmakers to advance the CLARITY Act, a bill aimed at setting clearer rules for digital asset markets in the United States. A post shared by CryptoGoos cited Lummis as saying the bill would “lay the foundation for the financial services of the 21st century.” Summary Lummis says
The Protocol Support team is organizing a grant round to support the upcoming Ethereum KZG Ceremony. The KZG Ceremony is a coordinated public ritual that will provide a cryptographic foundation for Ethereum scaling initiatives like EIP-4844. Learn more about the Ceremony and participate in the test version at ceremony.ethereum.org. If you’d like funding support to
The president also disclosed holding north of $100 million in various cryptos, and a few smaller stakes in firms like Corewave. Senator Elizabeth Warren, the senior-most Democrat on the Banking Committee, called for an ethics provision in the Clarity Act in a statement after the disclosure, saying, “The crypto legislation heading to the Senate floor
Kraken has started allowing eligible users to use select tokenized stocks and ETFs as collateral for futures and margin trading on Kraken Pro. The update gives traders a way to support leveraged crypto positions without selling those tokenized holdings first. Summary Kraken allows ten xStocks as collateral, widening capital use for eligible non-US traders globally
Friends, As the year of the Merge ends, we wanted to share updates from many of the Ethereum gardeners and EF-supported teams that achieved long sought accomplishments, both big and small, alongside the rest of the ecosystem in 2022. We all have a lot to be thankful for, from the new communities we’ve come to
A new installment of Chain of Thought, the Brownstone Research newsletter written by Ben Lilly, argues that the battle over open-source artificial intelligence is following the same path Bitcoin walked a decade ago, and that investors who recognize the pattern stand to profit. The note opens with testimony that Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei gave to
