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Ethereum News

Tech

Ethereum validators asked to fund projects with up to 10% of staking rewards under new proposal

A new governance proposal would let validators redirect part of their staking income toward ecosystem funding, raising questions about coordination, incentives and who gets to decide where the money goes.

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Tech

AI is making crypto security cheaper, faster and harder to ignore

As AI-powered security tools become cheaper, faster and more widely available, researchers said they could reshape what the crypto industry considers reasonable due diligence before deploying code, potentially altering expectations for developers and institutions.

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Tech

Ethereum Foundation loses another key leader as co-executive director Hsiao-Wei Wang resigns

Wang's departure follows the resignation of fellow co-executive director Tomasz Stańczak and marks the latest in a string of high-profile exits at the EF.

Hsiao-Wei Wang at Consensus Hong Kong 2026 (CoinDesk)

Tech

Algorand unveils roadmap to achieve quantum resistance by 2028

The announcement reflects a crypto's growing recognition that adopting quantum-resistant cryptography could take years, requiring changes not only to user wallets but also to core protocol infrastructure.

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Tech

Ethereum’s biggest protocol overhaul in years moves into its final development stage

Developers are entering the final stretch of work on Glamsterdam, the network's next major upgrade, as teams begin testing a version of the fork in a closed environment.

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Finance

Bitmine adds another $136 million of ether after raising $274 million in preferred stock sale

Tom Lee's Ethereum treasury firm, through the preferred stock sale, is using a financing tool pioneered by Michael Saylor's bitcoin treasury firm Strategy.

Tom Lee, chairman of Bitmine and cofounder of Fundstrat, speaking at Consensus 2026 in Miami (CoinDesk)

Tech

Aerodrome is turning liquidity into a prediction market with its biggest upgrade yet

The concept, called Predictive Allocation, will encourage participants to anticipate where liquidity will be needed next, instead of rewarding them for directing incentives toward pools that have already generated fees.

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Finance

Wall Street is moving past crypto pilots and deeper into Ethereum, says Etherealize founder

In an interview with CoinDesk, Etherealize cofounder Vivek Raman said Ethereum is currently in a transitional phase where the infrastructure has largely been built, but the scale of adoption has yet to be fully reflected in ETH itself.

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Tech

The company that makes your TV is taking ads onchain. Arbitrum helped

LG Electronics has built a blockchain-based advertising platform with the help of Arbitrum.

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Tech

Privacy returns to focus as Ethereum developers explore new token standards

In this week's edition of The Protocol Newsletter, we're looking at where privacy is headed in the Ethereum ecosystem.

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