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 […]
The world’s largest crypto exchange by total users, trading volume, and other metrics will perform a wallet maintenance today, May 21. The procedure will halt some important functions, yet it is projected to be wrapped up in short order. Prepare for Disruption The upgrade is scheduled for May 21, and to support the process, Binance […]
ETH trader sentiment just reached its most bearish level since the 2023 bear market, reported CryptoQuant analyst ‘Darkfost’ on Tuesday. The metric has been measured using the Binance taker buy/sell ratio, which has fallen back to levels not seen since September 2023, when ETH had fallen to $1,600. “This highlights how much trader sentiment toward Ethereum […]