• AWS AgentCore Payments with x402.

• Protocol Guild upgrades DAO to Agora.

• ArbitrumDAO approves rsETH recovery.

• Obol ships Stack v0.9.0.

AWS launched Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Payments, adding native payment capabilities to AI agents built on Bedrock with support for the x402 stablecoin payments protocol. The release was built in collaboration with Coinbase and Stripe and enables agents to autonomously transact using onchain stablecoins and traditional payment rails. AgentCore Payments handles authorization, settlement, and receipts for agent-initiated transactions, extending the agent commerce stack alongside ERC-8004 trustless agent credentials. Read more

The Protocol Guild upgraded its DAO smart contracts to Agora Governor, moving control of its split contract from a multisig to fully onchain DAO governance. The new contracts use two proposal types: membership updates require 33% quorum and 51% approval, while weekly distribution proposals require 0% quorum and 100% approval. The upgrade brings Protocol Guild's legal entity under DAO control. Read more

ArbitrumDAO approved a temperature check vote to release 30,765.67 ETH frozen by the Arbitrum Security Council following the April 18 KelpDAO exploit. The vote passed on May 7 with 90.96% in favor. The funds will be routed to the DeFi United recovery effort, a 3-of-4 multisig controlled by signers from Aave Labs, KelpDAO, EtherFi, and Certora, and applied toward restoring rsETH's backing. Approximately 42 days remain before the transfer is fully executed across the onchain execution stages. Read more

Obol released Stack v0.9.0, the latest version of its distributed validator technology (DVT) stack. The release introduces agent-payable validators via x402, allowing AI agents to programmatically pay for validator services using OBOL. The release also ships Hermes as the new default agent runtime and introduces a Claude Code plugin. Read more

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• Prysm celebrates eight years.

• Polygon PoS turns five.

• Privacy Pools reopens deposits.

• SharpLink Gaming plans an ETH treasury.

Offchain Labs commemorated eight years of Prysm, its Ethereum consensus layer client written in Go. Prysmatic Labs was originally formed in 2018 to support Ethereum 2.0’s sharding vision. Prysm went live as a consensus layer client on December 1, 2020, coinciding with the launch of the Ethereum Beacon Chain. Prysm activated the Altair hard fork in 2021, The Merge in September 2022, and was acquired shortly after by Offchain Labs, the team behind Arbitrum, in October 2022. Under Offchain Labs, Prysm has helped deliver the Capella, Dencun, and most recently, Pectra. Today, Prysm is the second most widely used consensus layer client.

Polygon PoS celebrated its five-year anniversary since its mainnet launch on May 30, 2020. Originally launched as Matic Network with a focus on Plasma scaling, Polygon serves as an EVM-compatible Ethereum sidechain. Polygon gained traction in 2021 due to its low fees amid the NFT boom. Today, it powers major applications like Polymarket, the leading prediction markets platform. Polygon PoS is undergoing a major upgrade to Polygon 2.0, a transition that involves converting the chain into a zkEVM Validium secured by the AggLayer. In September 2024, Polygon migrated MATIC to POL as its primary staking and gas token to support this shift. Polygon is now the eighth-largest blockchain by bridged TVL, with over $5.2 billion in assets, including $2.4 billion in stablecoins.

Privacy Pools, an onchain privacy protocol, is back online after fixing a deposit bug that allowed precommitments to be reused. The issue led to two users unintentionally submitting duplicate precommitments, which could have rendered their funds unspendable. Privacy Pools deployed an upgraded contract that includes a registry to track and prevent reused precommitments. Following the fix, the protocol received a 25 ETH deposit from Vitalik Buterin.

SharpLink Gaming, an affiliate marketing company serving the sports betting and gaming industries, filed a Form S-3 with the SEC to register the right to sell up to $1.0 billion worth of securities. The company has disclosed plans to use proceeds from a recently completed private placement to purchase ETH as a primary treasury reserve asset. The company cited ETH’s benefits, including capital efficiency, long-term appreciation potential, and alignment with digital-native gaming markets.

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• SEC statement on protocol staking.

• EIP-7917 is SFI'd for Fusaka.

• Base sustains 1,000 TPS.

• Etherealize announces open roles.

The SEC’s Division of Corporation Finance issued a statement clarifying that certain types of protocol staking on proof-of-stake (PoS) networks do not constitute securities. Protocol staking refers to the process by which users lock up assets to validate transactions and maintain the security of a PoS network, earning rewards in return. The Division concluded that solo staking, self-custodial staking with a third party, and custodial staking are not securities transactions. Such staking participants are not required to register with the SEC. The statement follows prior guidance clarifying proof-of-work mining activities.

Ethereum core developers agreed to include EIP-7917 in the upcoming Fusaka hard fork. The proposal is intended to eliminate the unpredictability in the beacon chain’s proposer schedule by making it deterministic. It aims to simplify the implementation of preconfirmation protocols. It also introduces a new field in the beacon state called proposer_lookahead, which lists validator indexes for upcoming epochs. EIP-7917 will be part of the fusaka-devnet-1 release, which will include seven EIPs. The inclusion makes EIP-7917 the eighth proposal scheduled for inclusion (SFI’d) in the Fusaka upgrade.

Base, Coinbase’s Layer 2 rollup, hit a new milestone in transaction activity, sustaining 1,000 transactions per second during the launch of a new token on the Virtuals Protocol AI platform. According to L2Beat, Base maintained an average throughput of 160 TPS for the day. Growthepie data shows that the network recorded over 1.6 million daily active addresses on May 29. With nearly $15 billion in Total Value Secured, Base now stands as the largest rollup by TVL, active addresses, and throughput.

Etherealize, a business development arm for Ethereum dedicated to connecting institutional investors with the Ethereum ecosystem, is hiring across engineering, legal, marketing, and operations. New team members will get to work with Etherealize co-founder and former Ethereum researcher Danny Ryan. Etherealize is building institutional-grade infrastructure to bring Wall Street onchain, with a focus on compliant, efficient, and programmable tokenized real-world assets.

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