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Daily Edition · Page 6

THE DAILY INDEX

Technology, AI, software, security, crypto and business

MARKETS & BUSINESS

TLDR Crypto

TLDR Crypto

CANTOR STRIKES $3.6BN CRYPTO DEAL WITH SOFTBANK AND TETHER

A consortium led by Cantor Equity Partners will merge into Twenty One Capital, a $3.6 billion Bitcoin acquisition vehicle launching with 42,000 BTC, making it the third largest corporate reserve. The deal includes a $385 million convertible bond and $200 million private equity placement. Tether will contribute at least $1.5 billion in Bitcoin, with SoftBank and Bitfinex providing the remainder. Modeled on MicroStrategy's pivot to large-scale crypto holdings, Twenty One Capital aims to harness institutional demand under a more accommodating Trump administration. Strike founder Jack Mallers will act as CEO.

ft.com · 8 min

TLDR Crypto

PECTRA MAINNET ANNOUNCEMENT

The Pectra upgrade will activate on Ethereum mainnet on May 7, bringing major enhancements across accounts, validation, and data throughput. EIP-7702 enables hybrid “smart accounts” for EOAs that support batching, gas sponsorship, alternative auth, spending limits, and recoveries. EIPs 7251, 7002, and 6110 let validators compound rewards up to 2,048 ETH, trigger withdrawals via execution-layer credentials, and cut deposit queue delays from ~9 hours to ~13 minutes. EIP-7691 doubles blob capacity to slash L2 calldata costs, and EIP-7623 caps block size to manage bandwidth.

blog.ethereum.org · 8 min

TLDR Crypto

INTRODUCING THE BOUNDLESS PROTOCOL

Boundless Protocol, built by the RISC Zero team, is a decentralized marketplace that treats ZK-powered verifiable compute as a tradeable commodity across all blockchains, matching provers and requestors via auctions in a spot market. It introduces Proof of Verifiable Work, a primitive that meters and rewards proof generation and financializes compute through a tokenized market with price discovery, hedging, and a native ZKC token rewarding provers based on cycles proven. Deploys on each chain inherit that chain's security and liveness, while Boundless nodes provide horizontal scaling by aggregating abundant compute resources.

threadreaderapp.com · 5 min

TLDR Crypto

HOW CRYPTO PROJECTS FOLLOW A 2,200-YEAR-OLD SCRIPT

Crypto governance repeatedly cycles through historical political models. They start with founder “monarchy,” move through cults of personality, core-dev “aristocracy,” token-whale “oligarchy”, DAO “democracy,” mob-rule “ochlocracy,” and back to emergency centralization. Each phrase concentrates or disperses power until inefficiencies or self-interest triggers the next revolution. Pure decentralization leads to governance paralysis or mob rule, while centralization restores order at the cost of censorship resistance.

links.tldrnewsletter.com · 12 min

TLDR Crypto

VITALIK AND BALAJI PREDICTIONS

Vitalik Buterin and Balaji Srinivasan have complementary visions of crypto's trajectory. Buterin sees Ethereum as a hub for public-goods coordination and programmable equality, while Srinivasan frames it as a sovereignty-first, opt-out framework. They agree that DeFi must prove itself through real-world crises, stablecoins have become core financial infrastructure, and DeSci could reinvent medical research incentives. AI prompting is here to stay as a new programming paradigm. AGI will be judged by its ability to build viable businesses. Fiat's dominance will erode once money lives onchain.

threadreaderapp.com · 6 min

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