ETHEREUM NEWS FROM YESTERSDAY
- Ethereum Foundation Co-Executive Director Tomasz K. Stańczak has shared a technical roadmap detailing how zkEVM proofs could be supported directly on Ethereum L1
- Figure has officially announced OPEN (On-chain Public Equity Network) on Provenance, allowing companies to list public equity natively on blockchain, rather than as tokenized DTCC securities.
- Param launched Cryptoagg[.]io, a Crypto Card Aggregator, allowing users to compare crypto payment cards across multiple providers, including Kast, Tria, Etherfi Cash, Avici Money, Coinbase, and Binance
- Boundless launched zk upgrade for OP-stack rollups, cutting finality to minutes. The release enables rollups to reduce finality from seven days to 24 hours using zk fault proofs, or to minutes with full validity proofs
- ethPandaOps analyzed the Ethereum mainnet blob data following the activation of the BPO forks, which increased the blob target, and observed that validator head vote percentages declined as blob usage rose. However, the analysis shows the degradation is not caused by higher blob counts themselves, but by proposer timing strategies.
- All Core Devs ETH meeting #228 reviewed Glamsterdam devnet-2 scope, flagged challenges in EIP-7778 gas accounting
- Optimism announced upcoming scaling summit
- SwissBorg has integrated Base into its Meta-Exchange
- Chime has integrated ZKP2P, allowing users to onramp and offramp directly from their Chime accounts.
- Dolomite’s Ethereum instance has crossed $50 million in TVL
- 8004scan by Altlayer launched on mainnet, for the agentic economy.
- Obol publishes ecosystem report, sets 2026 focus on Ethereum decentralization.
- Fluidkey now allows users to receive USDC and USDT payments from 9 additional blockchains like Tron, Solana, Binance Smart Chain, Near, Avalanche, Ton, Sui, Stellar, and Monad while maintaining full privacy protection. The integration also enables Bitcoin payments
Trump changed his mind on Bitcoin because he got debanked.
But to be a widely-adopted and useful alternative to permissioned fiat payment rails, Bitcoin has to be on a level playing field from a tax perspective.
Bitcoin should be tax exempt.
This should be the focus in DC.
🗞 Top #CryptoNews: Fri, Jan 23
1️⃣ From prison to Davos, pardoned Binance founder CZ exposes a $33 trillion secret the global elite can’t hide anymore
2️⃣ BlackRock backs Ethereum gatekeeping tokenization even though its market share is under threat
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Stepping up ⬆️
We're pleased to announce that Luke Browning will be the team's Formula 1 Reserve Driver for 2026 👏
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So many tags & messages.
I’m really interested in BAGS at the moment.
I’ll be sending an invite to @AutCraft@JackBohmArt today to join me on a spaces this Thursday (ET evening).
Creator markets are fascinating, kudos to @finnbags and team!
Guys I just started a new position as the “Director of Content” of a Marketing Agency, PrecisionX.
A webinar is coming up on Saturday, 24th January with top tier marketing professionals. This is your official invitation.
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From the Court to Crypto: Serving the Future
WhiteBIT joins forces with @ElinaSvitolina as Global Brand Ambassador and becomes the official crypto partner of the Ukraine Women’s National Tennis Team and the Svitolina Foundation.
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Silver is above $98, trading at $98.35. Amazing that it's less than $2 away from $100. It's up over 35% so far this year and there's still over a week left in January!
Then why did you pardon John Banuelos, Christopher Alberts, Guy Reffitt, Mark Mazza, Mark Ibrahim, Lonnie Coffman, and Cleveland Meredith, who were convicted of bring guns to the January 6 insurrection (one of whom fired it and others threatened to kill).
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Jupiter hitting $3 trillion in volume was just the warmup. The real story is bringing in Bitwise to babysit the risk on their new Ethena market. This is the first time a major asset manager is actually running the dials on a Solana lending protocol.
It works because it is an isolated pool. Institutions are terrified of contagion, so having Bitwise set the collateral rules keeps the mess away from the rest of the platform. We are seeing a shift where DeFi provides the tech but Wall Street veterans provide the oversight.
With DeFi TVL sitting at $156 billion, the era of anonymous devs managing billions is ending. This partnership is a template for how we get the next 10% of global capital onchain. It is professional, boring, and exactly what the market needs to scale.
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BREAKING: Initial details on the Trump-Greenland deal have emerged:
1. Involves "small pockets of land" for the US
2. US involved in Greenland's mineral rights
3. Duration of the deal has an "indefinite" timeframe
4. Designed to block Russian influence in Greenland
5. US "Golden Dome" system will be involved
6. Opens door to US-backed infrastructure investment
Trump is looking to secure land, minerals, and defense in one deal.
Today's top stories on "CoinDesk Daily":
Coinbase launches borrowing feature letting users access up to $1M against staked ETH.
FTX's Caroline Ellison released from prison after 14 months, transferred to halfway house.
Ledger planning $4B New York IPO following Bito's debut as first 2026 crypto listing.
@JennSanasie breaks down the latest.