The Ethereum Foundation is taking a smart gamble. No longer involved in the day-to-day operations, co-founder Vitalik Buterin will be spending more time doing research and exploration. This change is a milestone for Ethereum, allowing it to adapt and grow well into the future. Tomasz K. Stanczak, co-executive director of...
Polygon’s network operates on a dual architecture for increased security. It unites Heimdall and validator nodes to better coordinate staking and transaction validation. Heimdall nodes, which interact with smart contracts on Ethereum, are an important part of this architecture. This system allows to coordinate staking and validation overall Ethereum blockchain...
Ethereum’s eagerly awaited Pectra upgrade is scheduled for mainnet deployment on May 7th, 2025 at epoch 364032. Pectra also in July of this year builds on the legacy left by past major upgrades like Dencun March 2024. It builds upon 11 Ethereum Improvement Proposals (EIPs) to improve network performance, scalability,...
SOL Strategies has raised a $500 million convertible note with the expectation of rapidly building its Solana (SOL) position. This strategic step is geared towards making it a more dominant institutional staking platform in the overall Solana ecosystem. As of this writing, SOL Strategies is responsible for 267,151 SOL with...
In addition, SOL Strategies has already raised a major USD $500 million convertible note facility with ATW Partners. The funding is exclusively targeted at increasing the developer’s Solana (SOL) assets. Pending approval, SOL Strategies’ stock price immediately began to moon, with the share price rising by more than 23%.At the...
Vitalik Buterin, one of Ethereum’s cofounders, is calling for a radical restructuring of Ethereum’s underlying architecture. He proposes taking the current Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) and swapping it out for the open-source RISC-V instruction set architecture. This proposal, advanced by members of the Ethereum Magicians community, is a pragmatic solution...
Cardano Overlord Charles Hoskinson has gone so far as to say that Ethereum will ‘die’ in the long term. He raises alarm over its technological decisions and governance framework. Hoskinson claims that Ethereum is having a hard time keeping up with the recent developments in the recent world of blockchain...
Bitfinex, one of the largest digital asset exchanges in the world, has commented on their recent integration of USDT0 on the Optimism network. This strategic move looks to improve stablecoin liquidity and transaction efficiency on behalf of their users. The integration is in perfect harmony with Bitfinex’s mission to bring...
Scroll, a popular Ethereum layer-2 network, has deployed its Euclid upgrade earlier today. The Scroll team is right to boast that this upgrade is the biggest protocol change they have made so far. The network’s Total Value Locked (TVL) has tanked to just $62.6 million as of April 22nd 2025....
With completion of the Qubic Technical Specification, Qubic has officially established a new blockchain technology standard. It reached a mind-blowing transaction speed of 15.52 million transactions per second (TPS) recently on its live Layer 1 mainnet. This milestone exceeds current performance standards by several orders of magnitude and represents a...
