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[HTX @HTX_Global]

moon maxxing... 🚀🌕
whos unlocking the aura

[Baby Doge @BabyDoge]

Mexico won the vote 🇲🇽🐶
¡Vamos, México! 💚🤍❤️

We’ll start looking for local partners to help organize our next real-world dog welfare event.

Know reliable dog lovers, shelters, vets, or organizations in Mexico? Tag them below 👇

[Baby Doge @BabyDoge]

1,009 lbs of dog food collected.
500 BabyDogers.

Brazilian shelters resupplied this week.

This is what a community looks like when it actually shows up.

Obrigado, Brasil 🐶

Full report dropping soon!

[CoinMarketCap @CoinMarketCap]

CMC Market Pulse: The Mass Depeg

BTC -4.12%, ETH -7.83%. Market cap slides to $2.07T as msY, sUSD, and MIM all break pegs in the same week. Strategy overhang continues to weigh on crypto.

Let's break down this week's top crypto narratives

[vitalik.eth @VitalikButerin]

There have recently been claims that AI text analysis will make online anonymity untenable.

So let me cannibalize a piece of my own anonymity to do an experiment.

At some point this decade, I wrote a published document of medium importance to Ethereum - I estimate ~200 to 2000 documents in Ethereum are as or more important - not under my name.

Find it.

(I genuinely have no idea how easy or hard this is, will be very curious what comes out)

[ansgar.eth @adietrichs]

I'm incredibly excited to share that we are launching Ethlabs.

The core belief: This is a unique moment for Ethereum. Adoption is here, the global economy is moving onchain.

We want to help Ethereum realize its potential and become the shared global settlement layer.

[vitalik.eth @VitalikButerin]

This year, the EF is decreasing its budget by roughly 40%, which entails some difficult decisions. The goal of the decreases was set out in the Treasury Management Policy last year: the EF is transitioning into being a long-term-oriented endowment-based organization, shifting from its pre-2026 average of spending ~15% of its remaining funds each year, toward a post-2030 target of ~5% per year.

Often, when an organization goes through something like this, people try to pretend that nothing of great value was lost, that it is an efficiency increase, that the only people cut are unproductive dead weight, and everyone else stopped partying, studied the blade, entered cracked S-tier beast mode, and this was sufficient to make up for the downside. I will not try to pretend this. I respect my EF colleagues far too much to pretend that there was not much that is lost. They are brilliant people. They are dedicated engineers of whom some have worked on the Ethereum protocol for nearly a decade. They have brought a bright light to the Ethereum ecosystem with their code, their words, their warmth as human beings and their actions. My dearest hope is that they find a path that brings them fulfillment and happiness whether inside Ethereum or outside. Hopefully many will be able to bring their excellent talents and mindset to the wider Ethereum ecosystem, or the even wider CROPS world.

Instead, I will try to explain what *are* some of the grand sacrifices being made. The Ethereum Strawmap is no small thing. It is an extremely ambitious undertaking seeking to replace and augment almost every part of the protocol - consensus, proofs, privacy, account model, state, and more. This is the third iteration of Ethereum, in the same way that the Merge was the second, even if the shipping style is less Big Bang and more one-piece-at-a-time. On top of this, the EF is increasing its role in the Access Layer. We are not compromising on Ethereum being a Deeply Impressive protocol, something worthy of its place in a world with quantum computing, rockets to Mars and powerful biotech and AI, and capable of meeting the challenges that this era will bring.

Some of the deficit will be recovered through more work happening outside the EF. But not all. So what are the grand sacrifices that will enable a leaner effort to accomplish all of this? I will give a few examples (though far from an exhaustive list):

* The multi-client model will shift in the direction of multiple clients existing less for _redundancy_, and more for _specialization_. Up to this point, redundancy has been the main security strategy: if one client has a bug, if it has less than 33%, the chain keeps going and does not even stop finalizing. We are increasingly exploring moving more pieces of the protocol to a different security strategy: AI-assisted formal verification. Some smaller pieces of Ethereum (eg. BLS libraries) have worked this way already for a long time. But soon many more parts of Ethereum will likely function on this model. This may greatly reduce resource requirements of shipping a large number of EIPs. The resources saved by client teams can ideally instead be used to better serve different specialized user needs, including EF Access Layer goals.
* PSE (Privacy and Scaling Explorations) is winding down as a unit. The number of people working on ZKPs for privacy and scaling is probably as high as ever, but they are working less on "exploration" and more on *implementing* ZKP-based privacy and scaling into the Protocol and Access Layer
* Devcon will likely over time become smaller-scale, somewhat more spartan, much lower-deficit than previous years, in addition to other changes in vision in line with the Mandate.
* Fewer beyond-Ethereum megaprojects coming from EF. As I announced earlier this year, I am taking on some of the responsibility of doing projects in this category that I consider valuable with my personal funds.
* EF institutional work is reducing in scope, specializing more specifically on creating replicable test cases of highly CROPS-friendly deployments, even if at smaller scale.

These do not explain all departures; in some cases they do not explain departures at all and rather explain _reduced need for new spending_. But they are a large part of the strategy at play.

In the longer term, I personally favor a "soft lean-and-done" approach to Ethereum: once the Strawmap is completed, generally stick to security fixes and small high-value changes, and have a much higher bar for considering new feature additions to the protocol. This allows Ethereum to remain capture-resistant without demanding very large budgets. Learn less from multimillion-line-of-code behemoth projects, more from bitcoin.

The past years have been a challenging era for Ethereum. However, the ecosystem is adapting, both inside the EF and outside, and I am confident that Ethereum is very well-positioned to succeed and thrive.
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[Uniswap @Uniswap]

Teams can now launch token auctions directly from the Uniswap Web App

Onchain price discovery, transparent distribution, and instant liquidity, all without writing a single line of code

Powered by Continuous Clearing Auctions

[Coinbase 🛡️ @coinbase]

Huge rewards for our first ever trading competition.

The Coinbase Champions Cup.

Starting for our users in India on July 8th ↓

[Coinbase 🛡️ @coinbase]

It's been a big week.

So here's a 5 minute recap of everything we announced to make sure you don't miss a thing ↓

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