Standard Chartered expanded Bitcoin and Ether trading services to professional investors in the UAE, reflecting Gulf traditional financial institutions’ response to institutional crypto asset allocation demand.
Ethereum Layer 2 network Starknet has launched a privacy feature called Shadow Accounts, allowing users to isolate their main wallets from DeFi activity at the account level, making it harder for external observers to directly correlate on-chain behavior between the two. The feature is implemented through account abstraction and privacy routing mechanisms, but on-chain transactions themselves remain visible.
Ether ETFs stretched their outflow run to nine sessions while Solana funds broke a 14-week inflow streak in the latest week. Bitcoin ETFs also logged weekly outflows, pointing to a broad-based softening in institutional crypto positioning.
Core Summary Ethereum’s core development team has officially confirmed the specific timeline for the Glamsterdam upgrade, marking the countdown to this highly anticipated network upgrade. The team also warned that some fake builders may drag down network performance and the upgrade process through low-quality protocol proposals, calling on the community to focus on substantive improvements that can truly advance the ecosystem. Editor: GoodInfo Global News Team
Tom Lee’s Bitmine continues massive ETH accumulation, purchasing 9,926 more tokens bringing total holdings to approximately $11 billion, representing 4.8% of Ethereum’s total supply.
Goldman Sachs announces $2.25 billion acquisition of NEOS Investments, expanding its derivatives platform to $130 billion in total ETF assets.
Ethereum Researchers Propose Burning Validator Rewards to Cap Staking at 50% [Core Summary] According to The Block, Ethereum core researchers have submitted EIP-8361, proposing to gradually burn validator rewards as the staking ratio rises, capping the network’s staking rate at approximately 50%. This proposal aims to address Ethereum’s “over-financialization” concerns, balancing network security with ETH token value. Event Details The EIP-8361 proposal, submitted by Ethereum Foundation researchers, introduces a core mechanism: when the network staking ratio exceeds a set threshold, an increasing proportion of validator rewards will be automatically burned. Specifically, if the staking ratio rises from 30% to 50%, the burned reward proportion will gradually increase from 0% to 100%. ...
Bitcoin ETF weekly trading volume has fallen to its lowest level since October 2024, while ether funds have continued to attract inflows over the past three weeks, signaling a shift in crypto market capital preferences.
The Ethereum Foundation’s privacy team has officially spun out as a for-profit company EthSystems, focusing on providing Ethereum privacy solutions and consulting services for institutional investors.
Core Summary The Ethereum Foundation used coordinated AI agents to conduct security testing on validator node software, successfully discovering a remotely triggerable crash vulnerability. The bug could cause validator nodes to go offline, affecting network stability. However, some AI-generated findings were false positives, ultimately requiring manual verification by human security researchers. This event demonstrates both the potential and limitations of AI in blockchain security. Event Details According to CoinDesk reports, the Ethereum Foundation launched an experimental project, directing multiple coordinated AI agents at the software code running validator nodes. These AI agents identified multiple potential issues in the code, including a remotely triggerable crash vulnerability that could indeed cause validator nodes to go offline. ...