Ethereum Institutional was announced on Wednesday as a new independent non-profit to serve as a neutral front door for institutions navigating Ethereum, its layer-2s, tokenization, stablecoins, and on-chain markets. The new organization has been founded by the former Ethereum Foundation Enterprise team, David Walsh, Matthew Dawson, and Marius Smith, with funding coming from Bitmine, Sharplink, […]
The attacker behind the exploit of Ethereum MEV bot Jaredfromsubway has moved millions of dollars through Tornado Cash, despite a public offer to return half the stolen funds in exchange for a white-hat bounty. The transfer suggests that the attacker may have little interest in negotiating, even with the bot’s operator offering rewards and claiming […]
A new Ethereum funding proposal would allow validators to redirect up to 10% of staking rewards toward ecosystem development if a majority of validators agree to the change. The idea has reopened debate over how Ethereum should pay for public goods as concerns grow around shrinking funding sources for core development. Proposal Looking to Solve […]
Ethereum’s layer-1 network set all-time highs across every usage metric in Q1 2026, with monthly active users climbing 53.5% quarter-over-quarter to 13.2 million and transaction count reaching 200.4 million, even as ETH’s market cap dropped 30% and fees on the base layer fell nearly 50%. But according to Token Terminal’s Q1 2026 Ethereum Report, the […]
Hsiao-Wei Wang has stepped down as the Ethereum Foundation’s co-executive director and board member following the end of her sabbatical. Vitalik Buterin praised her role in shaping Ethereum’s research culture and building the ecosystem’s community. Ethereum Foundation Hit By Another High-Profile Exit Wang took to social media to announce her departure from the non-profit after […]
Ethereum may be heading toward a funding crisis that could begin to emerge within the next three to nine months, according to former Ethereum Foundation contributor Trent Van Epps. In a recent article on X, Van Epps, who recently ended his five-year stint at EF, said the risk is not simply the result of a […]
New data from on-chain analytics firm Santiment shows that trading activity across crypto’s largest non-stablecoin assets has fallen to levels not seen since 2024. According to the company, the slowdown is pointing to a market where traders have largely stepped back, a condition that has often appeared before relief rallies when confidence eventually comes back. […]
The “crowd has written off Ethereum,” reported Santiment on Tuesday. However, this makes the probability of a rebound “substantially higher,” it added. The onchain analytics platform said that Ethereum’s social sentiment has fallen into an “extreme fear zone” as traders react to months of underperformance relative to Bitcoin and many other altcoins. The recent selloff […]
ETH prices fell to $1,720 on Coinbase in early trading on Thursday morning, according to TradingView. This is the lowest the asset has been since April 2025, more than a year ago. Ether tanked to a low of $1,400 back then, so that could serve as the bottom support zone again if prices keep falling. The […]
After operating for around 1.5 years, the Ethereum Layer 2 project Zero Network announced that it is shutting down its standalone chain and pivoting toward expanding the Zerion API and wallet products. The team said the network was originally launched with the belief that gas fees remained one of the biggest barriers to mainstream crypto […]