Special thanks to Sacha Yves Saint-Leger & Joseph Schweitzer for review. Sharding is one of the many improvements that eth2 has over eth1. The term was borrowed from database research where a shard means a piece of a larger whole. In the context of databases and eth2, sharding means breaking up the storage and computation
T. Rowe Price has brought what it said is the industry’s first actively managed multi-token spot crypto exchange-traded fund (ETF) to the market. The T. Rowe Price Active Crypto ETF (TKNZ) began trading on Thursday, giving investors exposure to a portfolio of crypto assets rather than a single token. The launch marks a milestone for
A White House teleprompter operator has been placed on paid leave after allegedly earning more than $90,000 from Kalshi bets tied to words President Donald Trump would use in his speeches. Summary The CFTC is investigating Gabriel Perez over more than $90,000 in reported Kalshi profits. Kalshi froze most of the gains after flagging bets
Friends, Out of respect for those within our own community and around us currently facing the ongoing global health crisis, our team has decided to temporarily hold scheduled Devcon announcements, first teased in our last post. In the meantime we wanted to share something else that we’ve been working on, which was intended for release
President Donald Trump has promoted more than 20 companies, including Nvidia, Tesla and Apple, within days of purchasing their shares, according to a CNN investigation. Summary CNN linked Trump’s company promotions to stock purchases made only days earlier. Trump bought up to $500,000 in Nvidia shares before announcing faster AI permits. The findings have added
Have some fun announcements for y’all this week 🙂 Other than the items below, client teams continue to move toward production. More on that next week! tl;dr Least Authority Phase 0 audit complete As discussed many months ago, we engaged with Least Authority to conduct a full audit of the Phase 0 specifications. The audit
Global market maker Citadel Securities has invested $400 million in crypto exchange Crypto.com, giving the platform a $20 billion valuation, according to a Thursday announcement. Crypto.com, which has a number of digital asset products, said the cash would help the Singapore-based company expand its services to assets such as blockchain-based securities and derivatives. The cash
Trump Media & Technology Group has unveiled a paid data service that will deliver real-time posts from Truth Social’s highest-ranking accounts to financial firms and news organizations. Summary Trump Media will sell real-time Truth Social posts through a licensed API for financial firms. President Trump’s 12.9 million-follower account gives the paid feed its main market
As we embark on a new decade(!), the Ecosystem Support Program team wanted to speak to some of the recent growth, transition and learning around the program, and share details of our 2019 financial allocations. What is ESP? The Ecosystem Support Program (ESP) is the arm of the Ethereum Foundation focused on providing support to
Bitmine owns 4.8% of the total ETH coin supply of 120.7 million Bitmine is 96% of the way to the ‘Alchemy of 5%’ in just 12 months Bitmine was added to the Russell 1000 Large-cap index on June 26, 2026 Bitmine’s Series A Preferred Stock is trading on the NYSE under the symbol BMNP Bitmine
