tl;dr I am stepping down from my co-ED role at the EF at the end of February 2026. Bastian Aue is taking over the co-ED role alongside Hsiao-Wei. The future is bright for builders, for Ethereum, for the EF, and for me. Future of Ethereum As competing ideas emerge and fail and the markets jump
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, April 15, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — What will it take to build a financial system that billions of people can trust — and barely notice? That question set the tone for a fireside chat titled “Trust, Technology, and Transformation: Building the New Financial Platform for a Tokenized Economy”, where Bybit Co-founder and
Bitwise’s new BAVA product will list on the NYSE in 2026, wrapping spot AVAX exposure and an estimated 5.4% staking yield into a single, liquid ETP for traditional investors. Summary Bitwise will list its Bitwise Avalanche ETP (BAVA), a spot product with on‑chain staking, on the NYSE in 2026. The fund targets an average Avalanche
Ethereum (ETH) holds near $3,000 as institutions accumulate despite mixed short-term sentiment. Strong staking, wallet growth, and ETF inflows support Ethereum’s price floor. ERC-8004 could unlock AI-driven on-chain demand and long-term ETH value. Ethereum is entering a pivotal phase as price action, institutional flows, and protocol-level innovation begin to converge. After a volatile start to
Bitcoin’s surge this week to $76,000, put it at its highest level in 70 days, and coincides with the 15 April ex-dividend date for the Strategy Variable Rate Perpetual Stretch Preferred Shares (STRC). We believe this significant price appreciation is attributable to a confluence of multiple layered factors. The initial catalyst was a geopolitical repricing
BNB price has broken out of a falling wedge pattern, which positions it for significant upside over the coming weeks. Summary BNB price broke out of a falling wedge pattern, signaling a potential trend reversal, with price hovering near $620 after a 30% drop from its January high. Technical indicators, including a bullish MACD crossover,
Ethereum price falls to $2,325 on profit-taking after rising to $2,416. The repeated rejection at $2,360–$2,400 resistance weakens the overall momentum. Breaking below the key support at $2,312 could send ETH toward $2,173. After a rally that pushed Ethereum close to $2,416, things quickly changed, and now ETH sits around $2,325. This sharp drop near
Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan is arguing that Bitcoin’s addressable market could eventually surpass gold’s, currently sitting around $20 trillion, if geopolitical fragmentation continues accelerating. The claim isn’t abstract: Hougan’s April 2026 memo frames Bitcoin not just as a store of value competing with gold, but as a politically neutral settlement asset for a world where
Pakistan has officially ended its long-standing freeze on the digital currency sector by allowing banks to facilitate licensed virtual asset providers. Summary Pakistan’s central bank has ended an eight-year ban on virtual currencies by allowing banks to open accounts for licensed digital asset service providers. The State Bank of Pakistan requires strict segregation of funds
Development of Ethereum has been progressing increasingly quickly this past month. The release of PoC5 (“proof of concept five”) last month the day before the sale marked an important event for the project, as for the first time we had two clients, one written in C++ and one in Go, perfectly interoperating with each other
