Vitalik Commits $45m For Privacy Tech
Vitalik Buterin donated 16,384 ETH to support open-source, secure, and verifiable software and hardware focused on privacy.
Vitalik donates 16k ETH for privacy tech.
Lido V3 goes live on mainnet.
Lighter introduces a composable EVM.
Frame Transaction EIP-8141 for Hegota.
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Vitalik Buterin has committed 16,384 ETH, worth $45 million, to support open-source, secure, and verifiable software and hardware focused on privacy, decentralization, and user self-sovereignty. He also plans to use decentralized staking, with staking rewards helping fund these efforts over the long term. Targeted areas include finance, communication, governance, operating systems, secure hardware, privacy, and biotech. He noted that he is personally taking on work that might otherwise have been funded by the Ethereum Foundation, as the Foundation narrows its scope to focus on delivering an ambitious scaling roadmap while keeping Ethereum performant, robust, sustainable, and decentralized, and preserving self-sovereignty, security, and privacy.
Lido V3, a major upgrade that is transforming the protocol from a pooled staking model into a modular, decentralized Ethereum staking infrastructure, is now live on Ethereum mainnet. Lido V3 introduces stVaults, which are non-custodial, customizable smart contracts that allow users to define their own validator setup. stVaults support overcollateralized stETH minting and feature critical safeguards such as immutable collateral caps and an escape hatch to opt out of protocol governance. All stVaults share stETH as a common liquidity layer. Lido is offering a 0% Lido infrastructure fee for qualifying stVault early adopters until March 31, 2026.
Lighter announced Lighter EVM, an EVM-equivalent rollup that natively interoperates with the Lighter L2, enabling general-purpose applications to compose with Lighter's trading markets and liquidity at low latency while preserving security. Lighter EVM adds EVM composability to Lighter's high-performance ZK-based L2 network. Lighter EVM leverages OpenVM, a zkVM by Axiom, to verify EVM execution alongside Lighter's existing custom circuits. Both systems jointly settle on Ethereum with proof aggregation, allowing users to move assets and positions between the Lighter L2 and Lighter EVM in seconds. Lighter EVM aims to support DeFi applications, fast bridges, shared collateral, and native stablecoins, with an initial devnet release planned in the coming weeks.
Ethereum core developer Lightclient introduced EIP-8141, a proposal to add a new Ethereum transaction type, known as Frame transactions. Frame transactions enable accounts to define transaction validation, execution, and gas payment logic directly in EVM code, rather than relying on a fixed ECDSA signature scheme. A Frame transaction is composed of multiple ordered frames, each with a specific role, which together determine who authorizes the transaction, who executes it, and who pays the associated fees. The standard enables native account abstraction at the protocol level. EIP-8141 is proposed as a Headliner for Hegota.
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TheDAO Funds Ethereum Security
TheDAO Security Fund activates over 75,000 ETH in edge case funds to support Ethereum security initiatives.
TheDAO returns with the TheDAO Security Fund.
ERC-8004 goes live on Ethereum.
Optimism launches OP Enterprise.
Fileverse launches Offline Mode.
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TheDAO, the infamous crowdfunded Ethereum project whose 2016 hack led to Ethereum's historic hard fork into Ethereum and Ethereum Classic, has returned with the launch of the TheDAO Security Fund, activating over 75,000 ETH (~$220M) to fund Ethereum security. The funds come from edge-case funds unclaimed in the last 10 years from TheDAO recovery process. 69,420 ETH, primarily from the ExtraBalance contract, will be staked to generate ongoing yield for security funding, while roughly 4,600 ETH with no clear claimants is immediately available to support the fund.
ETH in the original DAO withdraw contract remains available and redeemable by DAO token holders. TheDAO Security Fund will support Ethereum security efforts, including wallet UX, smart contract security, incident response, standards, and core protocol security. Funding will be allocated in rounds using open mechanisms such as quadratic funding, retroactive funding, and RFP-based ranked-choice voting. The fund will be stewarded by TheDAO Curators, including Griff Green, Vitalik Buterin, and new curators Taylor Monahan, Jordi Baylina, pcaversaccio, Alex Van de Sande, and Pol Lanski.
ERC-8004 is now live on Ethereum. The standard extends the Agent-to-Agent (A2A) protocol with a native trust layer, enabling discovery and interaction with AI agents across organizational boundaries. ERC-8004's three onchain registries, Identity, Reputation, and Validation, are now deployed on Ethereum Mainnet, with singleton deployments on major L2s planned in the coming weeks. ERC-8004 is designed to support an open, cross-organizational AI agent economy by offering a unified interface and tiered trust models tailored to different risk levels. Alongside the launch, 8004scan launched its infrastructure layer for exploring, validating, and interacting with ERC-8004-registered agents, and Virtuals Protocol has integrated ERC-8004 into production.
Optimism launched OP Enterprise, a production-grade, managed blockchain infrastructure service that enables companies to launch and operate their own OP Stack chains without taking on the operational, security, or scaling burden. The service targets fintechs, exchanges, payments companies, and financial institutions building onchain products. Enterprises can choose between deploying on OP Mainnet with a path to their own chain, a self-managed option with self-run infrastructure and priority support and security from Optimism, or a fully managed service where Optimism operates the chain end-to-end.
Fileverse, an onchain file-sharing platform, launched Offline Mode V2 for its dDocs word processor, allowing users to create new docs, access existing documents, and search document history entirely offline. Offline edits are saved locally and automatically synced once users are back online, made possible because all Fileverse docs are stored both in the local browser and on IPFS.
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OFFSTAGE introduced
Protocol Guild annual report
EIP-8141: Frame Transaction
Kraken integrates ZeroDev accounts
Obol introduces Client Team Vault
PrivacyPools tutorial
Defillama token purpose page
CFTC statement on sports contracts
Upshot announces $50k grant
Cap launches Homestead
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Fidelity Announces FIDD Stablecoin
Fidelity Digital Dollar (FIDD) will be a U.S. dollar–pegged stablecoin on Ethereum.
Fidelity announces FIDD stablecoin.
Robinhood plans 24/7 tokenized stocks.
Client-side GPU acceleration roadmap.
Uniswap adds CCAs on its web app.
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Fidelity Investments announced plans to launch the Fidelity Digital Dollar (FIDD), its own U.S. dollar–pegged stablecoin. FIDD will be issued by Fidelity Digital Assets, National Association, and redeemable 1:1 for USD through Fidelity platforms. The product tagrets both retail and institutional investors. Fidelity will manage issuance, reserves, and daily transparency disclosures, with FIDD expected to launch on Ethereum mainnet in the coming weeks. The rollout comes as the stablecoin market reaches all-time highs above $300 billion and increased U.S. regulatory clarity for stablecoins with the GENIUS Act.
Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev said the company plans to introduce instant settlement, 24/7 trading, and self-custody for its tokenized stocks. First launched in June 2025, Robinhood's tokenized stocks are currently live on Arbitrum One, giving European customers access to more than 2,000 U.S. equities with 24/5 trading. Marking the five-year anniversary of the GameStop trading halt, Tenev said the episode reinforced his view that equity tokenization is the long-term solution to market disruptions. He argued that real-time, on-chain settlement can prevent the kind of trading restrictions seen in 2021. Robinhood ultimately plans to migrate its tokenized assets to Robinhood Chain, its own Layer 2 network.
The EF PSE team published a roadmap for enabling client-side zero-knowledge proof generation on everyday devices. The team says that modern consumer GPUs on phones and laptops are now powerful enough to accelerate core ZK primitives, making local proving practical. It notes that when proofs are generated on servers, the servers can see users' private inputs. The proposed roadmap focuses on building ecosystem standards and reusable client-side GPU libraries, prioritizing post-quantum ZK systems, and developing best practices optimized for mobile devices. Client-side GPU acceleration could make Ethereum privacy fast, seamless, and resilient to future quantum threats.
Uniswap will add Continuous Clearing Auction (CCA) token launches directly in the Uniswap Web App. CCA is a permissionless auction protocol that helps teams distribute tokens and bootstrap liquidity on Uniswap v4. The auctions will appear in a new Auctions tab on the Explore page, going live on February 2nd, starting with Rainbow's RNBW token launch.
EthersJS v10.1.1 release
Post-quantum kick-off
Rodeo winds down
RAAC partners with Frax
Doppler raises $9m seed
OpenAI plans a social network
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