Vitalik Buterin Unveils Ethereum’s Block Building Roadmap Ahead of Glamsterdam Protocol Upgrade

TLDR: Ethereum’s ePBS lets proposers tap a free, permissionless builder market without fueling staking centralization. Big FOCIL assigns transaction subsets by sender address, cutting duplication while boosting censorship resistance. Encrypted…

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Vitalik Buterin Proposes Binary State Trees and RISC-V Upgrade to Overhaul Ethereum’s Execution Layer

TLDR: EIP-7864 proposes replacing Ethereum’s hexary keccak tree with a binary structure, cutting Merkle branch size by 75%. Blake3 and Poseidon hash functions could accelerate Ethereum’s proving efficiency by up…

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Ethereum Derivatives Market Contracts Sharply as Macro Pressures and Geopolitical Risks Drain Risk Appetite

TLDR: Ethereum open interest in ETH terms fell from 7.79M to 5.8M across all major derivatives exchanges. Binance notional open interest dropped from $12.6B to $4.1B, yet still holds nearly…

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