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Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has outlined sweeping changes to the network’s core consensus design following the release of the Ethereum Foundation’s new “strawmap,” a long-range technical roadmap aimed at accelerating layer-1 upgrades through the end of the decade. Summary Vitalik Buterin outlined plans to reduce Ethereum slot times from 12 seconds toward as low as 2 seconds, with finality potentially dropping to 6–16 seconds. The Ethereum Foundation’s “strawmap” sketches seven forks through 2029, targeting faster UX, gigagas throughput, post-quantum security, and privacy. Upgrades include erasure-coded P2P networking, reduced attester counts, Minimmit-based finality, and eventual quantum-resistant cryptography. Vitalik Buterin explains Ethereum…

On-chain data shows the Cardano sharks and whales have quietly been accumulating the asset even as the price has gone through a drawdown. Cardano Sharks & Whales Have Increased Supply Share By 1.6% In a new post on X, on-chain analytics firm Santiment has talked about the latest trend in the supply of the Cardano sharks and whales. The indicator of interest here is the “Supply Distribution,” which tells us about the amount of the ADA circulating supply that’s held by a given wallet group. Addresses or investors are divided into these cohorts based on the number of tokens that…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Ethereum continues to face sustained selling pressure as broader crypto market sentiment shifts toward caution and, in some segments, outright panic. Price action has struggled to regain stability in recent weeks, with repeated rebound attempts failing to produce sustained upside momentum. Elevated volatility, tightening liquidity conditions, and persistent macro uncertainty have reinforced a defensive posture among both retail and institutional participants, leaving Ethereum vulnerable to further short-term weakness. A recent CryptoQuant report provides additional context through on-chain activity. According to the data, the ETH Binance User Deposit…

Thanks to a surge in bitcoin’s price, Strategy (MSTR) is having a great day on Wall Street despite some alarming balance sheet data. Among global equities valued above $25 billion, Strategy Inc. (MSTR) now carries the largest short position relative to its size. Roughly 14% of its $41.6 billion market capitalization has been sold short, placing it at the top of rankings compiled by firms including Goldman Sachs and FactSet. This is not a typical short story. Strategy trades as a corporate balance sheet wrapped around Bitcoin. Its equity functions as a leveraged instrument on BTC, shaped by debt issuance…

Trump family-backed crypto venture World Liberty Financial (WLFI) has proposed new measures to boost participation in governance through a staking system and incentivize the use of its stablecoin USD1.In its latest proposal on Wednesday, the team suggested governance votes should require holders to stake their tokens for at least 180 days to ensure “voting power is held by participants with long-term alignment to the protocol,” instead of “short-term holders or speculators.”Stakers would earn an annual percentage rate of 2% provided they participate in at least two governance votes during the lock-up period. Governance power would be based on the amount…

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has added to a newly released roadmap outlining how Ethereum plans to dramatically speed up the production of new blocks and the confirmation of transactions.Vitalik’s comments on Thursday offered more detail on a visual public roadmap called “Strawmap” released by the Ethereum Foundation’s Protocol team. “Fast slots are off in their own lane at the top of the roadmap, and do not really seem to connect to anything,” said Buterin, noting that the rest of the roadmap is “pretty independent of the slot time.” Slot time is the time it takes for Ethereum to produce new blocks, currently…

UNI climbed roughly 15% over the past 24 hours, outperforming bitcoin’s 4.7% gain and ether’s 8.5% rise, as investors reacted to a Uniswap governance vote aimed at broadening the protocol’s revenue capture across multiple layer-2 networks.If approved, the proposal would expand the so-called fee switch to eight additional chains and replace the current pool-by-pool model with a tier-based v3 system that activates fees across all liquidity pools by default.Fee switch is the mechanism that redirects a portion of the platform trading fees to the protocol treasury itself from liquidity providers. This captured fee revenue is then used for UNI token…

The crypto markets are sitting in a mood that rarely looks like hope. Fear sits very high, and that kind of fear has traders asking whether the worst is already behind them or still to come. Extreme Fear And Market Signals Reports note the Crypto Fear & Greed Index recently hit a low of 11, one of the weakest readings this year. That kind of reading has shown up near big turns before, but it is not a guarantee of an instant rebound. Some pieces of market data point to deeper stress — consumer credit trouble, weak housing figures, and…

Bitcoin price climbed more than 7% today, pushing above $69,000 and marking one of its strongest daily moves during months of sell-offs. The rally follows weeks of compressed trading and comes as several price-based and miner-linked signals point to exhaustion in the recent drawdown. The bitcoin price fell close to 50% from its early-October high near $125,000 to a February low around $60,000. That decline placed bitcoin below its estimated average production cost for the first time since late 2022, a zone that has often aligned with late-stage selling and price stabilization.  Current estimates put average production near $66,000, meaning…

A former contender for governor of California has been banned from Kalshi after betting on his own candidacy last year in violation of insider trading rules, the prediction market platform said on Wednesday. According to a statement from Kalshi’s head of enforcement, Robert DeNault, the politician bet about $200 on his candidacy for governor of California and posted about it on X, leading to a five-year suspension on the prediction market platform and a $2,000 penalty.Kalshi did not name the politician, but said he is no longer running for governor and is now running for Congress. The description appears to…