Welcome to this week’s eth2 quick update! A handful of new eth2 testnets have come online and last week I had them all running on my laptop. There is still plenty of work to be done, but this is getting real :). tldr; Comprehensive Phase 0 audit to be conducted by Least Authority We are
The president told the New York Times he won’t pardon ex-FTX CEO SBF, nor will he be granting help to Sean Combs or Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro. Source link
Morgan Stanley is stepping up its crypto ambitions, unveiling plans for a digital wallet and expanded cryptocurrency trading as Wall Street’s biggest banks race deeper into tokenization and blockchain finance. Summary Morgan Stanley intends to launch a digital wallet in the second half of 2026. The bank also plans to roll out trading in Bitcoin,
VanEck released a new report on Bitcoin’s long-term capital market assumptions today, projecting strong growth over the next several decades and outlining how institutional investors might use the asset in diversified portfolios. The report, authored by VanEck’s Head of Digital Assets Research Matthew Sigel and Senior Analyst Patrick Bush, models BTC reaching $2.9 million per
When we started digging into Europe’s crypto media traffic in the third quarter of 2025, one thing became obvious very quickly: just five countries accounted for 72% of all crypto-native media visits across Europe. Out of roughly 67 million total visits recorded during the quarter, nearly three-quarters came from France, the Netherlands, Germany, Russia, and
The Ethereum network will be undergoing a scheduled upgrade at block number 9,200,000, which is predicted to occur on Wednesday, January 1, 2020. The exact date is subject to change due to variable block times and timezones. Please upgrade your node before Wednesday, December 30, 2019 to account for the variable block times Ethernodes.org has
Image AI Not long ago, digital money felt abstract. Wallet balances refreshed slowly, confirmations took patience, and users learned to trust systems they could not see working. Over time, that experience reshaped expectations. Today, whether someone checks a balance, places a bet, or joins a game, the underlying financial experience is expected to feel calm,
Polygon’s native token extended its rally for an eighth straight session, climbing to its highest level since Dec. 2 as network activity surged, alongside the company’s unveiling of the Open Money Stack — a modular, chain-neutral payments infrastructure aimed at enabling regulated, interoperable stablecoin payments and modernizing global money movement. As part of the shift,
In the last edition of The 1.x files, we did a quick re-cap of where the Eth 1.x research initiative came from, what’s at stake, and what some possible solutions are. We ended with the concept of stateless ethereum, and left a more detailed examination of the stateless client for this post. Stateless is the
