The Ethereum Foundation has begun staking a portion of its treasury, in line with its Treasury Policy announced last year. Approximately 70,000 ETH is being staked with rewards directed back to the EF treasury. Architecture & configuration After assessing many good staking software options, the Ethereum Foundation chose to use the open source software options Dirk
The House Financial Services Committee has scheduled a hearing on the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act (H.R. 3633) for July 17 in New York. First introduced and House Financial Services Chairman French Hill on May 29, 2025, the CLARITY Act is the most significant attempt yet to build a durable regulatory framework for digital assets
Zcash miner Fortitude Mining Holdings has secured a path to the public markets through an all-stock merger with HeartSciences, a transaction that will place the crypto mining company on the Nasdaq without a traditional IPO. Summary Fortitude will go public through an all-stock merger with Nasdaq-listed HeartSciences. HeartSciences shares surged as much as 91% after
The commons called. It wants a runway. Every so often, in the blockchain world’s usual cycle of funding scares, a team maintaining a widely used open source public good declares mayday. Libp2p is a core infrastructure stack that powers multiple Ethereum clients (among others) and a large part of Web3 infrastructure. It was, not long
Chainlink launches Project Pangea with 50+ banks to test T+0 FX settlement using stablecoins and ISO 20022. Chainlink has launched Project Pangea with multinational banking groups across Europe and South Korea. The project brings together more than 50 banks representing over $10 trillion in assets under management. The initiative will test how stablecoins can support
Robinhood stock has remained in focus after Cantor Fitzgerald raised its price target to $130 while the company moved ahead with plans to raise up to $2.2 billion through a convertible debt offering. Summary Cantor Fitzgerald raised its Robinhood price target to $130 while maintaining a Buy rating. Robinhood plans to raise up to $2.2
Dearest Friends, Today we are publishing the EF Mandate, a document that serves as part constitution, part manifesto, and part guide for the Ethereum Foundation. It is written primarily for the EF itself: to be clear about what we are here to do, the principles by which we make decisions, and what we must both
In BlackRock Bitcoin news today, BTC USD price is sitting near $62,240, roughly halfway back from the peak it set just eight months ago, and Wall Street’s two most powerful asset managers have reached opposite conclusions about what that means for the next 12 months. The central tension this article unpacks is whether the next
Bitcoin price has confirmed a bearish head-and-shoulders breakdown, putting the $60,000 support zone under pressure as traders react to easing Middle East tensions and persistent institutional selling. Summary Bitcoin price has confirmed a bearish head-and-shoulders breakdown, exposing a potential decline toward the $57,500 support zone. More than $600 million in crypto liquidations, persistent ETF outflows,
The North Star of the Platform team is for Ethereum to scale as a cohesive system and enable confident adoption by all users. This post is intended to share our perspective on the L1 L2 relationship, the roles of each layer, and how we (as an ecosystem) are leveraging the strengths of L1 & L2
