Adam Back renegotiating SPAC terms with Cantor for his BTC treasury play... feels like the market cooling is forcing everyone back to the table. Is the treasury company hype finally getting a reality check? #Bitcoin
$1.2B fresh powder from Paradigm aimed at AI x crypto... you really think they'd raise that kind of bag if they didn't see something massive brewing at the intersection?
Who else is positioning early? #AI#Crypto
PEOPLE WHO BELIEVE IN #CRYPTO:
Tesla CEO
Nvidia CEO
Uber CEO
Apple CEO
YouTube CEO
BlackRock CEO
PayPal CEO
Amazon CEO
Reddit CEO
Vanguard CEO
Facebook CEO
Google CEO
Charles Schwab CEO
Fidelity CEO
AI has officially moved from hype to core corporate DNA, earnings calls are flooded with it as the ultimate edge.
Now layer on crypto: autonomous on-chain agents, intelligent DeFi, and decentralized intelligence that thinks, trades, and scales without middlemen.
This fusion is rewriting money itself. The builders here win the decade.
Ethereum is for shipping.
Here are 25 things the Ethereum ecosystem launched, upgraded, and announced over the past month.
0/ @thedaofund Ethereum Security Quadratic Funding Round with @Giveth wrapped. The fund supported 134 security projects and had 3,934 unique donors.
1/ @Ronin_Network, one of the largest gaming blockchains, completed its migration to an Ethereum L2.
2/ Clear Signing went live. It is an open standard designed to help end blind signing and make transaction data human-readable before signing. Contributors include wallets and hardware, infrastructure, tooling, individual builders, and the Ethereum Foundation’s Trillion Dollar Security initiative, with the @ethereumfndn acting as a neutral steward.
3/ @SEAL_911 and @Wonderland_Fi introduced DARC, a Digital Asset Risk & Compliance standard for crypto teams, with continuous monitoring across GitHub, infrastructure, multisigs, DNS, and more.
4/ @arbitrum announced that LG Electronics' blockchain team is piloting an onchain advertising network on Arbitrum.
5/ @base activated Azul, its first standalone network upgrade, introducing multiproofs, new execution and consensus clients, CLZ opcode support, Osaka repricings, and performance upgrades up to 5,000 TPS.
6/ @Mastercard expanded stablecoin settlement support to include USDC, PYUSD, USDG, USDP, and SoFiUSD on Ethereum mainnet, @arbitrum, and @base.
7/ @EFDevcon 8 Mumbai early bird tickets went live. Tickets were available paid in ETH.
8/ Türkiye's Directorate of Communications (@Communications) registered cbiletisim.eth, making its first step in establishing an official onchain identity with @ensdomains.
9/ @CashApp launched stablecoin support, allowing nearly 60 million users to send and receive USDC with no wallet setup required, live on Ethereum mainnet and @Arbitrum.
10/ @torproject and @FundingCommons launched a web3-native crowdfunding initiative supporting 10 internet freedom projects.
11/ @JPMorgan launched a second tokenized money market fund on Ethereum.
11/ @lifiprotocol launched LIFI Intents, a full-stack intent execution engine built on the Open Intents Framework, an initiative for standardizing crosschain intents.
12/ @l2beat launched Token Frameworks, a dedicated place to explore interoperability solutions, token movement, volume, speed, chains, and framework adoption.
13/ @PrivacyEthereum launched a private transfers dashboard comparing 11 protocols across privacy, cost, UX, decentralization, compliance, verifiability, state, and composability.
14/ @Veildotcash launched Veil MCP 0.2.0, enabling agents to make private x402 payments on @base.
15/ @src_co_ introduced SLOW, reversible, self-custodial crypto payments on Ethereum.
16/ @ensdomains ecosystem builders launched ENS8004, a web app that converts an ENS name into an onchain AI agent other applications can find and verify.
17/ @OctantApp introduced properQF in Epoch 12, integrating quadratic funding into the funding round.
18/ @AragonProject launched onchain profiles, making governance participants readable across forums by resolving ENS names, avatars, bios, websites, and social links from Ethereum mainnet.
19/ The Ethereum Community Hub network expanded to Lisbon, hosted at the @gnosisDAO office.
20/ @SuccinctLabs introduced data confidentiality to OP Succinct, enabling institutions to keep transactions confidential while settling to Ethereum.
21/ @HardhatHQ 3 became stable, bringing Solidity tests, multichain support, a Rust-powered runtime, a revamped build system, and Hardhat Ignition for deployments.
22/ The inaugural @ethconf, in NYC, brought together thousands of founders, industry leaders, and builders to discuss building on top of Ethereum.
23/ @EthPrague brought Ethereum builders together in Prague to discuss protocol development, privacy, culture, and long- term societal impact.
24/ @ETHGlobal introduced a new format where, for the first time at an ETHGlobal hackathon, projects do not have to begin from zero.
I really like this $ETH update.
Glamsterdam is shaping up to be the biggest Ethereum upgrade since The Merge.
It's the first major base-layer throughput overhaul since 2022 and changes how Ethereum assembles blocks.
A few highlights:
• Gas limit: ~60M → 200M (~3×)
• Throughput: ~20 TPS → up to 10,000 TPS*
• Gas fees: up to 78% lower*
• Data propagation: ~2s → ~9s (4.5× wider window)
Devnet-5/6 is already running. The internal mainnet target is late August, with the most realistic launch window being Q3 2026 following the ePBS delay.
Feels like a fundamental H2 catalyst that's still flying under the radar while ETH is trading near the lows.
I sold everything I had. Every coin I owned is gone. I'm completely out of the market, I can't take it anymore.
Aggressive dumping, manipulation, everything is so intense. Fiat is over, I am out. I'm all in crypto now.
Every day the market writes another chapter, but we're all just reading it with our own bias. What feels like noise today often becomes the signal we wish we caught. Are we really paying attention, or just reacting? #crypto
2am. third night this week averaging 4.2 hrs of sleep. cortisol probably wrecked. and yet here i am, staring at the 15m chart like it's going to reward my dedication. it will not.
@Ethereum_Maxis Bold call. ETH's had a 30-day realized vol around 60% lately, so a 20%+ move isn't crazy, but pinning a number and a date is where most people get humbled. Markets don't owe anyone a timeline.
13 days.
So far no one has found it.
My only hint is that I would encourage people to somewhat broaden their search; I've seen quite a few searches and AI scripts that fail to include categories of documents that really should be included.
Hard consensus is Bitcoin’s immune system. Fees price block space. Nodes set policy. Miners build blocks. Holders allocate capital. Protocol changes must earn overwhelming alignment, so bad ideas fail before becoming iatrogenic protocol changes. $BTC