Ethereum News

Ethereum News

Tech

Ethereum Could Supercharge Transaction Speed to 2,000 TPS Thanks to Bold New Proposal

A new proposal hopes to increase gas fee limits by 100-fold, which theoretically would bump transactions per second to 2,000 in the coming years.

Retro gas pump (unsplash)

Tech

The Protocol: Will ETH Developers Swap Out the EVM for RISC-V?

Also: Matter Labs Sued; Scroll’s Euclid Upgrade; EigenLayer Adds ‘Slashing’ Feature

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Tech

Vitalik Buterin Proposes Replacing Ethereum’s EVM With RISC-V

Buterin argues that transitioning Ethereum to the open-source RISC-V architecture will “greatly improve the efficiency of the Ethereum execution layer.”

Vitalik Buterin

Tech

EigenLayer Adds Key ‘Slashing’ Feature, Completing Original Vision

A year after its launch, the Ethereum restaking protocol is rolling out the critical accountability measure meant to address lingering security concerns.

EigenLayer CEO Sreeram Kannan. (Bradley Keoun)

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Ethereum Is What Bitcoin Was Meant to Be

The other major cryptocurrency is becoming the global settlement layer for on-chain assets, says Advantage Blockchain’s Alec Beckman.

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Tech

Can Ethereum Be Truly Private? Developers Push for Encrypted Mempool, Default Privacy

Ethereum developers have begun kicking around a series of ideas that could make the Ethereum network private at its core.

Vitalik Buterin, Ethereum co-founder (Michael Ciaglo/Getty Images)

Finance

Ether Whale Dumps $22M of ETH After 9 Years

The trader also sold during major market dips in 2022 and 2023.

A whale tailfin sinks below the ocean surface. (Paola Ocaranza/Unsplash)

Tech

Ethereum Developers Lock in May 7 for Pectra Upgrade

The decision to schedule Pectra was made just over a week after the upgrade went live on the Hoodi testnet without any hiccups.

The latest Ethereum upgrade, Pectra, is partly named after Electra, one of the "seven sisters" in the star constellation known as Pleiades (Wikipedia)

Tech

0xbow's Ethereum Privacy Pools Surpass 200 Deposits as User Interest Grows

The system uses zero-knowledge proofs to ensure privacy while maintaining compliance by screening for illicit funds.

Oxbow's Ethereum privacy pools went live early this week. (ChristophMeinersmann/Pixabay)

Markets

Ethereum Reclaims No. 1 Spot as Leading DEX Chain for First Time Since September, Overtakes Solana

The shift in leadership occurred amidst a bearish market sentiment, particularly within the memecoin sector.

Ethereum was March's top blockchain by DEX volumes. (artellliii72/Pixabay)