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Technologie

Ethereum Preps for Biggest Code Change Since the Merge With Pectra Upgrade

The upgrade is focused on making the Ethereum blockchain more user-friendly and efficient.

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

Markten

Vitalik Buterin Wants to Make Ethereum as Simple as Bitcoin

Buterin put out thoughts for a long-term roadmap that drastically reduces the complexity of Ethereum’s technology.

Vitalik Buterin at RadicalXchange Detroit, March 2019

Markten

Ether-Bitcoin 'Squeeze' Hints at Imminent Volatility as Ethereum Pectra Upgrade Nears

Ethereum's Pectra upgrade, set for May 7, aims to improve scalability and may impact market activity.

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Technologie

The Protocol: Inside Movement’s Token-Dump Scandal

Also: ETH Gas Limit Ceiling Proposal, Bitcoin Data Limits Debate, and Base Becomes a Stage 1 Rollup

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Technologie

Inside Movement’s Token-Dump Scandal: Secret Contracts, Shadow Advisers and Hidden Middlemen

Movement, backed by Trump's World Liberty Financial, says it was duped into an agreement that experts say incentivized price manipulation.

Movement Labs co-founders Cooper Scanlon and Rushi Manche (Movement Labs)

Technologie

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.

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Technologie

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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Technologie

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

Technologie

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)

CoinDesk Indices

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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