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Ethereum is for shipping. Here are 25 things the Ethereum ecosystem launched, upgraded, and announced over the past month. 0/ @thedaofund Ethereum Security Quadratic Funding Round with @Giveth wrapped. The fund supported 134 security projects and had 3,934 unique donors. 1/ @Ronin_Network, one of the largest gaming blockchains, completed its migration to an Ethereum L2. 2/ Clear Signing went live. It is an open standard designed to help end blind signing and make transaction data human-readable before signing. Contributors include wallets and hardware, infrastructure, tooling, individual builders, and the Ethereum Foundation’s Trillion Dollar Security initiative, with the @ethereumfndn acting as a neutral steward. 3/ @SEAL_911 and @Wonderland_Fi introduced DARC, a Digital Asset Risk & Compliance standard for crypto teams, with continuous monitoring across GitHub, infrastructure, multisigs, DNS, and more. 4/ @arbitrum announced that LG Electronics' blockchain team is piloting an onchain advertising network on Arbitrum. 5/ @base activated Azul, its first standalone network upgrade, introducing multiproofs, new execution and consensus clients, CLZ opcode support, Osaka repricings, and performance upgrades up to 5,000 TPS. 6/ @Mastercard expanded stablecoin settlement support to include USDC, PYUSD, USDG, USDP, and SoFiUSD on Ethereum mainnet, @arbitrum, and @base. 7/ @EFDevcon 8 Mumbai early bird tickets went live. Tickets were available paid in ETH. 8/ Türkiye's Directorate of Communications (@Communications) registered cbiletisim.eth, making its first step in establishing an official onchain identity with @ensdomains. 9/ @CashApp launched stablecoin support, allowing nearly 60 million users to send and receive USDC with no wallet setup required, live on Ethereum mainnet and @Arbitrum. 10/ @torproject and @FundingCommons launched a web3-native crowdfunding initiative supporting 10 internet freedom projects. 11/ @JPMorgan launched a second tokenized money market fund on Ethereum. 11/ @lifiprotocol launched LIFI Intents, a full-stack intent execution engine built on the Open Intents Framework, an initiative for standardizing crosschain intents. 12/ @l2beat launched Token Frameworks, a dedicated place to explore interoperability solutions, token movement, volume, speed, chains, and framework adoption. 13/ @PrivacyEthereum launched a private transfers dashboard comparing 11 protocols across privacy, cost, UX, decentralization, compliance, verifiability, state, and composability. 14/ @Veildotcash launched Veil MCP 0.2.0, enabling agents to make private x402 payments on @base. 15/ @src_co_ introduced SLOW, reversible, self-custodial crypto payments on Ethereum. 16/ @ensdomains ecosystem builders launched ENS8004, a web app that converts an ENS name into an onchain AI agent other applications can find and verify. 17/ @OctantApp introduced properQF in Epoch 12, integrating quadratic funding into the funding round. 18/ @AragonProject launched onchain profiles, making governance participants readable across forums by resolving ENS names, avatars, bios, websites, and social links from Ethereum mainnet. 19/ The Ethereum Community Hub network expanded to Lisbon, hosted at the @gnosisDAO office. 20/ @SuccinctLabs introduced data confidentiality to OP Succinct, enabling institutions to keep transactions confidential while settling to Ethereum. 21/ @HardhatHQ 3 became stable, bringing Solidity tests, multichain support, a Rust-powered runtime, a revamped build system, and Hardhat Ignition for deployments. 22/ The inaugural @ethconf, in NYC, brought together thousands of founders, industry leaders, and builders to discuss building on top of Ethereum. 23/ @EthPrague brought Ethereum builders together in Prague to discuss protocol development, privacy, culture, and long- term societal impact. 24/ @ETHGlobal introduced a new format where, for the first time at an ETHGlobal hackathon, projects do not have to begin from zero.

EXPLAINED: 🏦 Wall Street seems to only be getting more and more bullish on blockchain, incorporating it deeper into its infrastructure every week. Citi, Mastercard, Visa, DTCC, and major banks are all testing rails for stablecoins, tokenized deposits, private shares, money market funds, and settlement. What’s behind TradFi’s embrace of crypto? We unpack everything you need to know. 👇 coinmarketcap.com/academy/articl…

Potential last retest of $60k - $62k, but this looks like a clear local bottom formation across the entire crypto market. Have a good Sunday!

Iron clears the mind like nothing else. Somewhere between the last rep and the drive home, the noise fades and what actually matters — patience, conviction, time — starts to make sense. Long game always wins.

Weirdest Crypto conditions ever. Most altcoins keep dying #Bitcoin mostly sucks. Whales want Saylor to capitulate. $HYPE doesn't care what the market is doing $ZEC is like I might jump off a cliff but maybe I won't. Then every 3 days a random altcoin does a 50% pump before selling off 2 days later. PvP baby. Eat or be eaten.

JUST IN: 🇺🇸 FBI Director Kash Patel says the FBI will find crypto scammers and bring them to justice.

Bitcoin bear markets make fools of both bulls and bears. BTC rallied from $80k to $98k from November 2025 to January 2026. People were calling for the supercycle and alt season. Then BTC set new cycle lows in February 2026, just like it usually does in midterm years. BTC rallied from $60k to $82k from February 2026 to May 2026, and the bears were relentlessly mocked and ridiculed again. Then BTC set new cycle lows in June 2026, just like it usually does in midterm years. The cycle keeps playing out. It makes the bulls look like fools because the market trends up for so long, only to wipe out all of the gains in a very short period. It makes the bears look like fools because the market spends a lot of time trending up, before breaking down quickly. So the bear thesis will often look wrong, even when its right. Do not let emotions rule your investment decisions. Have a plan and stick to it.

If you weren't here, it will feel coordinated. If you were here, you knew all along.

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Maybe the real altseason is the BTC bags we made along the way 😅 — but seriously, what's your line in the sand for rotation?

BTC dominance just won't let go 😤 Capital keeps flowing back to Bitcoin instead of spreading to alts. Feels like every "altseason is coming" call gets crushed lately. Are we in a new era where BTC just hoards everything? 🧐 #crypto

The agentic economy now has a town square. In Tiny Place, agents can talk to each other, find work, accept bounties, and pay using USDC via @x402. Powered by OpenHuman by @tinyhumansai, and compatible with agents from Openclaw and Hermes too.

We got everything we ever wanted. Pro-crypto President Pro-crypto SEC and Fed Chair Fed ending QT No new tariffs US-Iran peace deal Oil price dump ISM PMI above 50 Institutions Altcoin ETFs and yet Bitcoin is down -50% from ATH, ETH is down -65% Alts are down -90% and we are poorer than ever.

I was recently at Real World Crypto (that's crypto as in cryptography) and the associated side events, and one thing that struck me was that it was a clarifying experience in terms of understanding *what blockchains are for*. We blockchain people (myself included) often have a tendency to start off from the perspective that we are Ethereum, and therefore we need to go around and find use cases for Ethereum - and generate arguments for why sticking Ethereum into all kinds of places is beneficial. But recently I have been thinking from a different perspective. For a moment, let us forget that we are "the Ethereum community". Rather, we are maintainers of the Ethereum tool, and members of the {CROPS (censorship-resistant, open-source, private, secure) tech | sanctuary tech | non-corposlop tech | d/acc | ...} community. Going in with zero attachment to Ethereum specifically, and entering a context (like RWC) where there are people with in-principle aligned values but no blockchain baggage, can we re-derive from zero in what places Ethereum adds the most value? From attending the events, the first answer that comes up is actually not what you think. It's not smart contracts, it's not even payments. It's what cryptographers call a "public bulletin board". See, lots of cryptographic protocols - including secure online voting, secure software and website version control, certificate revocation... - all require some publicly writable and readable place where people can post blobs of data. This does not require any computation functionality. In fact, it does not directly require money - though it does _indirectly_ require money, because if you want permissionless anti-spam it has to be economic. The only thing it _fundamentally_ requires is data availability. And it just so happened that Ethereum recently did an upgrade (PeerDAS) to increase the amount of data availability it provides by 2.3x, with a path to going another 10-100x higher! Next, payments. Many protocols require payments for many reasons. Some things need to be charged for to reduce spam. Other things because they are services provided by someone who expends resources and needs to be compensated. If you want a permissionless API that does not get spammed to death, you need payments. And Ethereum + ZK payment channels (eg. ethresear.ch/t/zk-api-usage… ) is one of the best payment systems for APIs you can come up with. If you are making a private and secure application (eg. a messenger, or many other things), and you do not want to let people to spam the system by creating a million accounts and then uploading a gigabyte-sized video on each one, you need sybil resistance, and if you care about security and privacy, you really should care about permissionless participation (ie. don't have mandatory phone number dependency). ETH payment as anti-sybil tool is a natural backstop in such use cases. Finally, smart contracts. One major use case is _security deposits_: ETH put into lockboxes that provably get destroyed if a proof is submitted that the owner violated some protocol rule. Another is actually implementing things like ZK payment channels. A third is making it easy to have pointers to "digital objects" that represent some socially defined external entity (not necessarily an RWA!), and for those pointers to interact with each other. *Technically*, for every use case other than use cases handling ETH itself, the smart contracts are "just a convenience": you could just use the chain as a bulletin board, and use ZK-SNARKs to provide the results of any computations over it. But in practice, standardizing such things is hard, and you get the most interoperability if you just take the same mechanism that enables programs to control ETH, and let other digital objects use it too. And from here, we start getting into a huge number of potential applications, including all of the things happening in defi. --- So yes, Ethereum has a lot of value, that you can see from first principles if you take a step back and see it purely as a technical tool: global shared memory. I suspect that a big bottleneck to seeing more of this kind of usage is that the world has not yet updated to the fact that we are no longer in 2020-22, fees are now extremely low, and we have a much stronger scaling roadmap to make sure that they will continue to stay low, even if much higher levels of usage return. Infrastructure for not exposing fee volatility to users is much more mature (eg. one way to do this for many use cases is to just operate a blob publisher). Ethereum blobs as a bulletin board, ETH as an asset and universal-backup means of payment, and Ethereum smart contracts as a shared programming layer, all make total sense as part of a decentralized, private and secure open source software stack. But we should continue to improve the Ethereum protocol and infrastructure so that it's actually effective in all of these situations.

Africa sends $100B+ in remittances yearly with brutal fees. Ripple plugging RLUSD + XRPL into Flutterwave's massive network could actually move the needle here. This is the real-world utility case I've been waiting for. #XRP Who's watching this space?

Seriously though, what's one project you're watching that nobody's talking about yet?

Crypto never sleeps and honestly neither do I 😅 The space keeps moving faster than most people can keep up with. Are you actually paying attention to what's building right now? #crypto Who's keeping up?

Some spend Sundays in silence. I spend mine chasing ideas buried in whitepapers. Maybe it's obsession, maybe it's curiosity wearing a different coat. Either way, the mind needs something to reach for.

What's your take? 👇

Crypto never sleeps and neither do I 😅 Every day there's something wild happening in this space — how do people even keep up anymore? Feels like blinking means missing a whole market cycle. #crypto Who else is overwhelmed? 👀

We need more DAOs - but different and better DAOs. The original drive to build Ethereum was heavily inspired by decentralized autonomous organizations: systems of code and rules that lived on decentralized networks that could manage resources and direct activity, more efficiently and more robustly than traditional governments and corporations could. Since then, the concept of DAOs has migrated to essentially referring to a treasury controlled by token holder voting - a design which "works", hence why it got copied so much, but a design which is inefficient, vulnerable to capture, and fails utterly at the goal of mitigating the weaknesses of human politics. As a result, many have become cynical about DAOs. But we need DAOs. * We need DAOs to create better oracles. Today, decentralized stablecoins, prediction markets, and other basic building blocks of defi are built on oracle designs that we are not satisfied with. If the oracle is token based, whales can manipulate the answer on a subjective issue and it becomes difficult to counteract them. Fundamentally, a token-based oracle cannot have a cost of attack higher than its market cap, which in turn means it cannot secure assets without extracting rent higher than the discount rate. And if the oracle uses human curation, then it's not very decentralized. The problem here is not greed. The problem is that we have bad oracle designs, we need better ones, and bootstrapping them is not just a technical problem but also a social problem. * We need DAOs for onchain dispute resolution, a necessary component of many types of more advanced smart contract use cases (eg. insurance). This is the same type of problem as price oracles, but even more subjective, and so even harder to get right. * We need DAOs to maintain lists. This includes: lists of applications known to be secure or not scams, lists of canonical interfaces, lists of token contract addresses, and much more. * We need DAOs to get projects off the ground quickly. If you have a group of people, who all want something done and are willing to contribute some funds (perhaps in exchange for benefits), then how do you manage this, especially if the task is too short-duration for legal entities to be worth it? * We need DAOs to do long-term project maintenance. If the original team of a project disappears, how can a community keep going, and how can new people coming in get the funding they need? One framework that I use to analyze this is "convex vs concave" from vitalik.eth.limo/general/2020/1… . If the DAO is solving a concave problem, then it is in an environment where, if faced with two possible courses of action, a compromise is better than a coin flip. Hence, you want systems that maximize robustness by averaging (or rather, medianing) in input from many sources, and protect against capture and financial attacks. If the DAO is solving a convex problem, then you want the ability to make decisive choices and follow through on them. In this case, leaders can be good, and the job of the decentralized process should be to keep the leaders in check. For all of this to work, we need to solve two problems: privacy, and decision fatigue. Without privacy, governance becomes a social game (see vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025/0… ). And if people have to make decisions every week, for the first month you see excited participation, but over time willingness to participate, and even to stay informed, declines. I see modern technology as opening the door to a renaissance here. Specifically: * ZK (and in some cases MPC/FHE, though these should be used only when ZK along cannot solve the problem) for privacy * AI to solve decision fatigue * Consensus-finding communication tools (like pol.is, but going further) AI must be used carefully: we must *not* put full-size deepseek (or worse, GPT 5.2) in charge of a DAO and call it a day. Rather, AI must be put in thoughtfully, as something that scales and enhances human intention and judgement, rather than replacing it. This could be done at DAO level (eg. see how deepfunding.org works), or at individual level (user-controlled local LLMs that vote on their behalf). It is important to think about the "DAO stack" as also including the communication layer, hence the need for forums and platforms specially designed for the purpose. A multisig plus well-designed consensus-finding tools can easily beat idealized collusion-resistant quadratic funding plus crypto twitter. But in all cases, we need new designs. Projects that need new oracles and want to build their own should see that as 50% of their job, not 10%. Projects working on new governance designs should build with ZK and AI in mind, and they should treat the communication layer as 50% of their job, not 10%. This is how we can ensure the decentralization and robustness of the Ethereum base layer also applies to the world that gets built on top.