#948 - Linea Stack Becomes Lineth Under Linux Foundation
ConsenSys hands Lineth to the Linux Foundation as Lineth. Chainlink SVR is live on Aave V4. Vitalik deposits 50 ETH into Privacy Pools.
Linea Stack is now Lineth.
Chainlink SVR live on Aave V4.
Vitalik deposits 50 ETH into Privacy Pools.
Fileverse adds plain text command.
ConsenSys open-sourced the Linea Stack under Apache-2.0/MIT licensing and handed control to the Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust under a new name, Lineth. Anyone can now use Lineth to deploy a production-grade ZK rollup. Linea Mainnet remains under Consensys control and is targeting Stage 1 decentralization this month, a RISC-V prover transition in Q3, and real-time proving by year-end.
Aave integrated Chainlink Smart Value Recapture (SVR) into V4 Spokes. SVR is a specialized oracle solution that enables DeFi protocols to reclaim non-toxic MEV generated through Chainlink Price Feeds, redirecting liquidation-related value that was previously extracted by block builders. SVR leverages Chainlink Price Feeds and Flashbots' MEV-Share to redirect value back to DeFi protocols. SVR on Aave V3 has already generated $11 million for the Aave DAO treasury since March 2025.
Vitalik Buterin deposited 50.25 ETH, worth roughly $113,000, into Privacy Pools, an onchain privacy protocol that uses zero-knowledge proofs to break the link between deposit and withdrawal addresses. Buterin co-authored the research paper underpinning Privacy Pools and was among the protocol's first users when it launched in April 2025. The mainnet ETH pool now holds over 800 ETH.
Fileverse added support for raw markdown in dDocs, its onchain word processor. A new /plaintext command enables raw markdown and clean copy-pasting. The update also adds find-and-replace across entire documents and a full dDocs count, as well as mermaid.js for inline diagram generation. Fileverse allows collaborators to join documents anonymously via a link with no login required.
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#947 - CLARITY Act Clears Senate Banking
Senate Banking advances the CLARITY Act 15-9, Lido plans a 98% validator consolidation, and KelpDAO resumes rsETH withdrawals.
Senate Banking passes CLARITY Act.
Lido plans validator consolidation.
Coinbase treasury deployer for Hyperliquid.
KelpDAO resumes rsETH withdrawals.
The U.S. Senate Banking Committee passed the CLARITY Act to the Senate floor on May 14th with a 15-9 bipartisan vote, including two Democratic yes votes. Led by SBC Chairman Tim Scott, the bill draws a clear line between digital asset securities and commodities, establishes clear transaction rules, and ends the regulation-by-enforcement approach that has stifled crypto innovation.
Lido Finance completed its first validator consolidation on the Hoodi testnet, kicking off a wave of testing ahead of a planned mainnet rollout in August 2026. The protocol aims to consolidate all curated validators from roughly 240,000 0x01 validators down to approximately 3,750 0x02 validators, a reduction of over 98%. The shift is made possible by MaxEB, introduced in Ethereum's Pectra upgrade, which raised the maximum effective balance per validator from 32 ETH to 2,048 ETH.
Coinbase is becoming the official treasury deployer of USDC on Hyperliquid, managing USDC reserves and sharing yield with the Hyperliquid ecosystem. Circle will handle the technical side, using CCTP to facilitate cross-chain transfers. USDC will effectively replace USDH as the de facto settlement currency and official quote asset on Hyperliquid, where USDC balances already sit at roughly $5 billion. Coinbase has also increased its staked HYPE position as part of the transition.
KelpDAO unpaused rsETH withdrawals, bridging, and claims as part of a coordinated restart following recovery from the April 18th LayerZero bridge exploit. Exchange rates will be updated around 4:30 pm CET on May 15th, with accrued staking rewards during the pause reflected at that point. rsETH is now fully backed thanks to funds raised from DeFi United. Aave simultaneously unpaused rsETH across its Ethereum Core, Arbitrum, Base, Linea, and Mantle markets.
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#946 Ronin Completes Migration To Ethereum L2
Ronin completes its OP Stack L2 migration, Ben Edgington kicks off an Upgrading Finality series, and L2BEAT adds Gnosis Chain.
Ronin migrates to Ethereum L2.
Ethereum targets 10-second finality.
L2BEAT lists Gnosis Chain.
Japan Blockchain Fnd stablecoin.
Ronin, a gaming-focused blockchain home to Axie Infinity, completed its migration from an independent sidechain to an Ethereum Layer 2 built on the OP Stack. The transition was led by rollup infrastructure provider Conduit, with EigenDA for data availability. Ronin dropped annual RON emissions from 45 million to 5 million tokens per year, with rewards now flowing through a new Proof of Distribution system that allocates RON to builders based on network activity. The Ronin Treasury will earn sequencer fees and 1.25% of Ronin Marketplace fees.
Ben Edgington, a former Ethereum client developer and current finality researcher at the Ethereum Foundation, published the first edition of a new blog series outlining a practical path to reducing Ethereum's time to finality from roughly 1,000 seconds to under 10 seconds. The core strategy is decoupling finality votes from fork-choice votes. The Ethereum Strawmap places decoupled consensus as a headliner candidate for the I* fork, currently anticipated in late 2027.
L2BEAT added Gnosis Chain to its Ethereum L2 analytics tracker. Gnosis Chain is an Ethereum sidechain with over $300 million in assets secured through its canonical bridge. The listing comes amid growing interest in the Ethereum Economic Zone (EEZ), a proposed framework that could enable synchronous interoperability between EVM-compatible chains. L2BEAT noted that the Gnosis bridge is secured by two 4/7 multisigs and administered by an 8/15 multisig, with the central validator deposit contract also upgradable by the 8/15 multisig.
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