Ethereum

This article explores OP_VAULT, a Bitcoin feature designed to enhance security by safeguarding funds from loss or unauthorized access. As Bitcoin adoption grows, OP_VAULT introduces "covenants," which let users establish predetermined guidelines for how their cryptocurrency can be used. This feature adds both security and flexibility for protecting digital assets.

The article analyzes the necessity of increasing L1 gas limits, particularly in the value of key use cases such as censorship resistance, cross-L2 asset transfers, and large-scale exit mechanisms. Through concrete examples and mathematical calculations, the article demonstrates that even in an L2-dominated world, a 10x scalability of L1 still holds significant value. This analysis not only supports the short-term necessity of L1 scalability but also provides valuable references for Ethereum's long-term technical roadmap.

Explore how multidimensional EIP-1559 optimizes Ethereum's gas efficiency by separating resource costs, enhancing scalability, and improving network utilization.

Concrete Protocol is a modular DeFi platform designed for optimized on-chain borrowing, lending, and structured credit products. It integrates yield-bearing vaults (ERC-4626), liquidation protection, and cross-chain lending aggregation, for users to maximize capital efficiency with minimal risks.

Find out more about Hinkal Protocol’s privacy-oriented platform and on-chain data security services.

Instead of adapting existing services for crypto, traditional companies are creating blockchain-native products, with at least 55 innovating on public chains like Ethereum and its L2s (Polygon, Arbitrum, Base).

With the waning effect of Bitcoin’s halving and the launch of ETFs, the crypto market is entering a new paradigm. This article explores the reasons for the failure of the 4-year cycle, and shares strategies for sustained profitability in 2025, including using the time compound interest effect and setting transaction invalidation standards to help you move forward steadily in the new landscape.

We the Cypherpunks are dedicated to building anonymous systems. We are defending our privacy with cryptography, with anonymous mail forwarding systems, with digital signatures, and with electronic money.

Ethereum has always been where ideas become reality. Now we have the chance to build something even bigger. A platform that aligns Ethereum’s builders, researchers, and users on what actually matters.

On November 7, the Ethereum Foundation announced the launch of the Pectra testnet named Mekong, allowing developers to experience upcoming upgrade technologies before they go live on the Ethereum mainnet. The following article will introduce the background, purpose, and relationship between the Mekong testnet and Pectra.

The author analyzes the impact of excessive ETH Beta Tokens, liquidity fragmentation, and technological catch-up from other L1 blockchains on ETH’s performance. The article suggests encouraging L2 projects to incorporate ETH, reinforcing ETH’s central role in the Ethereum economy, addressing L2 fragmentation, and accelerating technological upgrades.

The current issuance curve of ETH is a trap. Unfortunately, like Bitcoin's issuance, Ethereum's issuance was misdesigned.

The Global Dollar (USDG) is a stablecoin pegged to the US Dollar, issued by Paxos Dollar Singapore Ltd and regulated by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS). Backed by the leading financial companies under the Global Dollar Network, USDG aims to promote real-world adoption and enterprise-focused use cases.

This article examines Ethereum's Pectra upgrade (Prague/Electra) coming in March 2025. The upgrade introduces key changes: raising the maximum validator stake to 2048 ETH, enhancing execution and consensus layer interactions, adding BLS12-381 curve support, optimizing blob transactions, and enabling EOA account code settings. These changes will reshape staking distribution, validator operations, cross-chain functionality, and user experience.

This article delves into the capital control issues of Layer 2 scaling solutions in the Ethereum ecosystem, analyzing how venture capital (VC) influences the decentralized foundation through governance and economic means, and proposes potential solutions to provide new insights for Ethereum's future development.