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CoinDesk’s Ethereum Validator Enters Final Weeks, Sitting on More Than $30K of Gains

To better chronicle the Ethereum blockchain's transition to a proof-of-stake network, CoinDesk started its own validator. We plunked down the 32 ETH (roughly $15K at the time) and laid the technical groundwork. With staking withdrawals due to start April 12, we take stock of the project.

Partial snapshot of chart of CoinDesk Ethereum validator's daily financial results. (Beaconcha.in, modified by CoinDesk)

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Arbitrum Shows Just How Messy (and Tricky) Crypto Airdrops Can Be

Bugs, server crashes and scammers continue to plague crypto airdrops. Will regulatory pressures be next?

(Creative Commons, modified by CoinDesk)

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Latest Ethereum Blocks Suggest Validators Are Reversing Censorship

Noncensoring relays such as Agnostic and ultra sound are delivering more data blocks on Ethereum than Flashbots, the one-time king of MEV-delivering relays.

(Creative Commons, modified by CoinDesk)

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MEV Rewards on Ethereum Reach All-Time High During SVB Bank Run and USDC Depeg

Profits made from MEV were more than twice as high as the last peak during the FTX implosion.

MEV profits soared during this latest crypto crisis. (Midjourney/CoinDesk)

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Gitcoin’s Owocki Says Crypto Can Regenerate the World. Just Don’t Call Him Starry-Eyed

A programmer by training, Kevin Owocki's view of securities law is not based in any formal legal training but crypto optimism, evolutionary science, economics and legal theory, with a focus on the principal-agent problem.

(Melody Wang/CoinDesk)

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Upcoming Upgrades That Will Shape the Ethereum Ecosystem

Here are some approaching dates and launches that Ethereum followers and observers should keep an eye on.

(DALL-E/CoinDesk)

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War of Words Over zkEVMs Might Portend Long Struggle to Tech Maturity

As Polygon and Matter Labs race to bring their zkEVMs to market, both will need to make compromises in the name of security.

(DALL-E/CoinDesk)

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Arbitrum Surges Ahead as Ethereum’s Layer 2 Landscape Takes Shape

Layer 2 rollups now see more transaction volume than Ethereum’s main network.

(DALL-E/CoinDesk)

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Contentious Uniswap Vote Highlights the Opaqueness of Decentralized Governance

A16z didn’t quash a proposal to launch Uniswap onto Binance’s BNB Chain, but that doesn’t mean it couldn’t have.

(Sanja Baljkas/Getty Images)

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What Is the Ethereum Blockchain’s Shanghai Hard Fork, and Why Does It Matter?

The network upgrade, set for March, will address staked ether withdrawals and reductions in gas fees for developers. The milestone will start a new era for the Ethereum ecosystem, following last year's much-hyped transition to a more energy-efficient "proof-of-stake" blockchain.

Everybody's waiting for Ethereum's Shanghai hard fork, expected in March. (Midjourney/CoinDesk)