Ethereum’s much-hated staking 'tax' may already be obsolete
Ethereum’s latest “funding crisis” has triggered a fierce debate: a contentious plan to tax staking rewards versus a new wave of labs and large ETH holders funding development offchain.
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Ethereum’s first-quarter data showed a clear split: user activity reached record highs while fees and market value fell. The report points to a network scaling aggressively as tokenized assets, stablecoins, and institutional finance continue to build on its base layer. Ethereum Holders Reach 293 Million Despite 30% Drop in Market Value Ethereum began 2026 with […]
Read full articleEthereum’s latest “funding crisis” has triggered a fierce debate: a contentious plan to tax staking rewards versus a new wave of labs and large ETH holders funding development offchain.
Chainlink launches Project Pangea with 50+ banks to test T+0 FX settlement using stablecoins and ISO 20022. Chainlink has launched Project Pangea with multinational banking groups across Europe and South Korea. The project brings together more than 50 banks representing over $10 trillion in assets under management. The initiative will test how stablecoins can support […] The post Chainlink Joins 50+ Banks in Project Pangea for T+0 FX Settlement Push Today appeared first on Live Bitcoin News.
Enso, an onchain finance platform, has launched its real-world assets (RWA) app and announced major integrations to solve the fragmentation of tokenized real-world assets. Tackling Fragmentation in Asset Tokenization Enso, an execution and orchestration layer for institutional onchain finance, announced Tuesday the launch of its real-world assets ( RWA) app and an expanded distribution network […]
The initiative follows bets on stablecoins and the metaverse.
The Ethereum Foundation has eliminated 54 positions, about 20% of its workforce, as part of a restructuring tied to its updated spending mandate. Vitalik Buterin announced a 40% annual budget cut targeting a reduction in treasury spend from 15% to 5% by 2030. Arkham Intelligence places EF's ETH
PRESS RELEASE. The next bull run will be shaped by DeFi but let’s be honest: not every narrative deserves to survive it. AI agents, yield, wallet super-apps, stablecoins on DEXs, cross-chain everything—every cycle brings a new set of “inevitable” futures and quietly buries a few of them. The hard part is to understand which narratives […]
The two largest stablecoins shed supply over the past seven days, even as stablecoin legislation and a steady run of institutional partnerships pushed the sector to the front of the policy conversation.
UBS and Nethermind complete Ethereum compliance PoCs on Sepolia, testing bank-grade controls without protocol changes. UBS and Nethermind have completed two proofs of concept focused on Ethereum compliance tools. The work tested how regulated firms could use public blockchain infrastructure. The companies said the tests showed that Ethereum can support bank-grade compliance needs. They also […] The post Ethereum Gets Institutional Boost as UBS and Nethermind Complete Compliance PoCs appeared first on Live Bitcoin News.