TL;DR: Greetings, Ethereum community! We are excited to announce that the application period for the fourth cohort of the Ethereum Protocol Fellowship (EPF) is officially open! The EPF is an initiative aimed at supporting the development of Ethereum’s core protocol by providing a pathway for aspiring protocol contributors to gain the experience needed to make
North Korean hackers infected 30,000 devices and stole data from 7,000 crypto wallets while targeting victims across 100 countries. North Korea-linked hackers infected more than 30,000 devices and stole information from over 7,000 crypto wallets. Japan’s National Police Agency says the attacks were carried out against targets in over 100 countries from December 2025 to
LSEG has outlined plans for 24/5 trading, a digital securities depository, tokenized equities, and new infrastructure involving Kraken and HSBC. Summary LSEG expects its LSEG24 trading cycle to begin in the first half of 2027. The group is building a digital securities depository and tokenized equity products. LSEG is working with Kraken on listings and
Community & education Autonomous Ecologies #1 Black Sky Conference that delved into the relationship between sovereignty and privacy, and how to establish privacy as a cornerstone of new technology. Community & education BuildETH 2023 Ethereum developer conference hosted in San Francisco, California for those interested in building, designing, scaling, and securing decentralized applications and protocols.
This article was originally published in Alternative Investor. Private markets have long been the lifeblood of growth-stage and mid-size businesses looking to scale. Private equity alone saw $2.6 trillion in deal value globally in 2025, up by almost a fifth on the year before. Yet while private markets are seeing a resurgence, their infrastructure still
A BaFin official has warned that centralized EU crypto supervision could place extra burdens on firms while reducing flexibility in applying MiCA rules. Summary BaFin’s Stephan Mögelin raised concerns about transferring authorization to a centralized EU supervisor. National regulators would still hold knowledge of local markets and business models. Mögelin said EU countries lack a
We are thrilled to announce the first-ever Devconnect Scholars Program! The Devconnect Scholars Program will provide talented and values-aligned individuals from communities currently geographically and demographically underrepresented in Ethereum with financial support to attend Devconnect in Istanbul this November. Apply to the program here by July 23rd, 2023. Why The Program Exists & Program Details
Bitcoin is trading at $80,000. This after the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned Tehran-based cryptocurrency exchange BitBank on Sept. 17, alleging the platform moved hundreds of millions of dollars in bitcoin to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). The muted recovering price action around BTC USD raises the central question
The SEC has opened a five-year pathway for tokenized U.S. stocks that requires each approved token to carry the economic, voting, dividend, and liquidation rights attached to the underlying share. Summary Tokenized NMS stocks must provide the same rights as their traditional share equivalents. Synthetic products that offer only price exposure fall outside the SEC
Barriers and drivers of blockchain adoption in emerging markets: Large-scale text analysis and survey experiments among African regulators and citizens Eliza R Oak, Dr. Emmanuel Joel Aikins Abakah, & Mohammad Abdullah Yale, University of Ghana, & UniSZA, Malaysia To discern the key drivers and barriers to blockchain adoption across Africa, this project proposes to systematically
