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Ethereum Institutional Launches as Independent Non-Profit

Former Ethereum Foundation enterprise team leads launch a new go-to-market organization backed by Bitmine, Sharplink, and Joe Lubin.

• Institutional-adoption
• Ethereum-foundation
• Governance

#979 - Open USD Consortium, BlackRoc Integrates USDe, ENS Security Council Blocked

Open Standard alliance launches Open USD stablecoin, BlackRock Aladdin integrates USDe risk modeling, and Nick Johnson's vote blocks ENS Security Council renewal.

• Digest
• Stablecoins
• Rwa

Vote Blocks ENS Security Council Renewal

Nick Johnson rejected the renewal of the previous ENS Security Council. ENS Labs proposed a successor council with a tighter, legally binding mandate.

• Governance
• Ens
• Eth-daily

Ethena Integrates USDe Into BlackRock Aladdin

Ethena brings its synthetic stablecoin to institutional asset managers alongside supporting a $100 million BUIDL liquidity facility.

• Stablecoins
• Rwa
• Institutional-adoption

Open Standard Introduces Open USD

A new consortium-backed stablecoin features zero-cost enterprise minting and yield-sharing.

• Stablecoins
• Defi
• Payments

#978 - Loopring L2 Shuts Down, Bitmine Holds 5.7M ETH, Vitalik Unpacks Obfuscation

Loopring shuts down DEX/rollup, Bitmine reaches 5.7M ETH, Vitalik unpacks indistinguishability obfuscation, and Aave targets tokenized stock lending.

• Digest
• Loopring
• Bitmine

Loopring ZK Rollup And DEX Shut Down

Loopring shut down its DEX and underlying ZK Rollup on Ethereum. It will distribute assets back to its users on Ethereum L1.

Bitmine Amasses 5.7 Million ETH

The corporate treasury giant acquired 27,084 ETH last week, putting it 94% of the way to its target of holding 5% of all supply.

• Institutional
• Staking
• Treasury

Vitalik Unpacks Obfuscation, Cryptography's Final Boss

Vitalik explores how combining indistinguishability obfuscation with blockchains simulates a universal trustless third party

• Research
• Cryptography
• Eth-daily

Aave Plans Tokenized Stock Lending

Aave CSBO Luigi D’Onorio DeMeo outlines a plan to capture a share of the massive $4.6T securities lending market on Aave V4.

• Defi
• Aave
• Rwa

JP Morgan Buys $102m BMNR Shares

J.P. Morgan acquired 1,974,144 shares of BitMine Immersion Technologies Inc. (BMNR), the world’s largest Ethereum treasury company.

• News
• 2025
• November2025

Succinct Announces $PROVE Airdrop

$PROVE is the native token of the Succinct Prover Network and will serve as payment for generating proofs, economic security through staking and slashing, and governance.

• News
• 2025
• July2025

EigenDA Launches On Holesky Testnet

Restakers, operators, rollup sequencers, and full nodes can now interact with EigenLayer on Holesky.

• News
• 2024

SharpLink Expands ETH Reserve

The company acquired 10,000 ETH in an over the counter transaction directly with the Ethereum Foundation.

• News
• 2025
• July2025

Introducing Ethereum Hoodi Testnet

A new long-lived Ethereum testnet featuring a similar configuration and validator count as Ethereum mainnet.

• News
• 2025
• March2025