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Following a week of net outflows, U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs recorded $31 million in net inflows, primarily coming from Fidelity's FBTC and Bitwise's BITB. The inflows occurred as expectations increased around the launch of spot ether ETFs.
The crypto industry has significant political influence in the 2024 US election through a $169 million campaign fund managed by the Fairshake PAC. Companies like Coinbase, Ripple, and a16z are financing the fund but rarely discuss its decision-making process. In pursuing its goal of de-politicizing crypto, it has supported over 20 congressional primary wins and is preparing to influence races beyond the 2024 election cycle.
Paradigm has announced the release of Reth 1.0, a production-ready Ethereum execution client, after two years of development and a successful audit by Sigma Prime. It features reduced costs and enhanced stability, performance, security, and service performance. The team behind Reth 1.0 has invited industry players to integrate it into their Ethereum mainnet infrastructure.
Wormhole has partnered with restaking protocol Karak to develop two DSSs: a decentralized validator network for token transfers and a decentralized relay network. The validator network will make transfers more secure and decentralized, while the relay network sends messages between chains cheaply. This is the first major protocol to build on Karak, demonstrating interest in restaking beyond EigenLayer.
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Ethereum is moving towards a future where block attesters and proposers are different. There are a few proposals about how to achieve this meta in a decentralized manner. The design goals are to isolate timing games, incentivizing proposers to delay block proposals to make money, and burn MEV to make the protocol easier to reason about. The protocol must be conscious of not creating new economic attacks or perverse incentives that further promote centralization or block manipulation.
NFT royalties, crucial for ensuring creators get paid for secondary sales, face challenges as they have never been enforced onchain. It is difficult to distinguish sales from other transfers like gifts. New designs that balance strict royalty enforcement and the flexibility of NFT interactions are being explored to address this, with innovative approaches such as incentive mechanisms and staking models being proposed to encourage respect for royalties without compromising composability.
The latest DeFi guidance from the Danish Financial Supervisory Authority (DFSA) suggests a move towards heavy regulation of all crypto interfaces, including Bitcoin wallets, by classifying them as interface providers that must be regulated. This regulatory guidance may lead to a ban on unregulated p2p and unhosted wallets, aligning with past regulatory suggestions seen in other parts of the EU. Given MICA regulation recently coming into play, some see this as an overreach that could harm crypto use in Denmark.
Chain abstraction, which involves developers building infrastructure to work across dozens of different standards, has become a popular narrative. It would allow developers to deploy applications to the blockchain of their choice and users to seamlessly interact across chains. Its implementation will be a catalyzing moment for crypto and a step towards mass adoption.
Binance has obtained a Virtual Asset Service Provider license (VASP) from Dubai's Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (VARA) for its local exchange, Binance FZE.
Singapore-based Web3 developer OtherWorld has launched a beta version of an NFT Platform based on the hit South Korean webtoon "Solo-Leveling" on Avalanche.
Vitalik Buterin and economist Noah Smith discussed how blockchain tech could be used to subvert authoritarian regimes.
The government sent 3,940 BTC, worth over $240 million, to Coinbase Prime on June 26.