Ethereum News

Ethereum News

Tech

Robinhood vs. Vitalik: Why the trading app is building it own L2 while Ethereum founder cools on them

Centralized exchanges are moving forward building their own blockchain infrastructure even as the broader Ethereum ecosystem debates its future.

Robinhood's Vlad Tenev speaks at Token2049 in Singapore (Token2049)

Tech

The Protocol: Zora moves to Solana

Also: EF’s Stańczak to leave ED role, XRPL member-only DEX and Ethereum revives the DAO.

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Tech

From 2016 hack to $150M Endowment: the DAO’s second act focuses on Ethereum security

Ten years after the famous hack, the DAO Security Fund has decided to stake the untouched ETH and use the yield to fund Ethereum security initiatives, honor claims indefinitely, and professionalize governance and key management.

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Finance

BitMine adds $90 million in ETH — Tom Lee says crypto sentiment reminiscent of 2018 and 2022 bottoms

The Ethereum treasury firm continues its buying spree with its largest weekly ETH purchase in token terms this year.

Thomas Lee, chairman of BitMine and CIO of Fundstrat, on the main stage during Consensus Hong Kong 2026 (David Paul Morris/Consensus, modified by CoinDesk)

Tech

Ethereum Foundation leadership shake-up: Tomasz Stańczak out as co-executive director

Stańczak came aboard in 2025 after the exit of longtime chief Aya Miyaguchi amid criticism the foundation wasn’t doing enough to push the Ethereum ecosystem.

Tomasz K. Stańczak and Hsiao-Wei Wang

Finance

ETHZilla prepares for takeoff: How you can now own a piece of a jet engine for just $100

ETHZilla unveiled a tokenized aviation asset, Eurus Aero Token I, offering accredited investors access to lease income from two commercial jet engines.

Plane in the air (Artturi Jalli/Unsplash/Modified by CoinDesk)

Markets

Tom Lee says stop timing the bottom and start buying the dip

Thomas Lee, speaking on stage at Hong Kong Consensus 2026, said investors should be looking at opportunities as crypto is in the midst of a "mini winter."

Thomas Lee, chairman of BitMine and CIO of Fundstrat, on the main stage during Consensus Hong Kong 2026 (David Paul Morris/Consensus)

Finance

MrBeast's finance bet could become the new generation's Schwab, Robinhood, Tom Lee says

The BitMine chairman said at Hong Kong Consensus 2026 that MrBeast acquiring neobank Step could win over a new generation of investors to crypto.

Tom Lee Consensus Hong Kong 2026

Finance

Robinhood starts testing its own blockchain as crypto and tokenization push deepens

The Robinhood Chain, built on Ethereum-based Arbitrum, aims to become key plumbing for around-the-clock trading and plugging tokenized stocks into DeFi.

Robinhood Senior Vice President Johann Kerbrat (CoinDesk archives)

Finance

Vitalik Buterin outlines how Ethereum could play a key role in the future of AI

In a post on X revisiting ideas he first outlined two years ago, the co-founder of Ethereum argues that the push toward artificial general intelligence often resembles the kind of unchecked speed and scale the blockchain was created to challenge.

Vitalik Buterin