With The Merge now firmly behind us, protocol developers have been making progress across a (record?) number of areas over the past few months. Withdrawals, danksharding, EOF, verkle tries, history expiry, SSZ and more have all seen significant progress recently! In order to help move each of these threads forward, and to run through one
MetaMask has launched Money Account, a self-custody savings and spending product built on the Monad blockchain that pays users up to 4% variable annual percentage yield on stablecoin balances. This is all while keeping those funds available to spend at Mastercard merchants or deploy into DeFi trading, all without leaving the app. Consensys, MetaMask’s parent
Binance recorded about $1.23 billion in net outflows during the week beginning June 29, according to DefiLlama data reported by Cointelegraph. The figure was up 207% from about $400 million in the previous week. Summary Binance ETH withdrawals hit a three-year high as users moved coins away from the exchange. Weekly Binance outflows tripled to
The Privacy & Scaling Explorations team is excited to announce the winners of the Layer 2 Community Grants 2022. The Layer 2 Community Grants round started on October 24th, 2022 and was open for 6 weeks. In total we received 130+ proposals and thank each project for taking the time to apply. The wishlist compiled
Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy said this week that he will hold his bitcoin BTC$62,662.18 all the way down to zero if necessary, while admitting his struggle with timing the market. “I’m holding. I’ll hold this thing down to zero,” Portnoy told FOX Business’ Stuart Varney on Varney & Co. “I know if I sell
Europe’s securities regulator has warned that prediction market contracts offered in the European Union could already fall under existing financial rules, potentially triggering a long-standing retail ban on binary options. Summary ESMA says some prediction market contracts may already fall under MiFID II financial rules. Existing EU binary options restrictions could apply automatically if contracts
Withdrawals are imminent. tl;dr Shanghai+Capella (aka Shapella) is on the horizon. Stakers, node operators, infrastructure providers — pay attention and test! The Academic Grants Round is live! Applications are due by February 27, 2023 Shapella on the horizon 🌅 After much testing and development, the Shanghai+Capella (Shapella) mainnet upgrade is moving into the final pre-launch
Bitcoin price climbed above $60,000 on Wednesday, a level the asset had ceded during the last couple weeks of turbulence, after Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh told a central bank forum that the threat of persistent inflation had moderated. The cryptocurrency traded near $60,171 this afternoon, a gain of about 2.7% on the day, with
Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy has vowed to hold his Bitcoin investment even if it falls to zero after revealing he is down millions on a position bought near $100,000. Summary Dave Portnoy says he will hold Bitcoin even if it falls to zero after losing millions on his investment. Portnoy admits years of mistimed
Withdrawals are coming! The Shapella network upgrade will activate on the Sepolia network at epoch 56832, scheduled for 4:04:48 AM UTC on Feb. 28, 2023 Stakers & node operators should read this post as well as the Withdrawals FAQ The Zhejiang testnet can be used to test Shapella functionality prior to the Sepolia upgrade After
