A recent proposal (EIP-9698) by Dankrad was made to exponentially raise the gas limit on the L1. The plan would scale Ethereum’s gas limit by 100x over the course of four years. This comes at a time when sentiment around Ethereum has hit an all-time-low. And I’d argue that this sudden change in tone from the EF and the Ethereum community

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Berachain has their Boyco unlock today at 12:30pm UTC. Over the past month BERA has been incredibly weak, a 40% drop while basically everything is up a material amount. The chart is not pretty.

At 12:30pm UTC/8:30 AM EDT there will be $2B or so unlocking from Boyco’s pre-mainnet deposits. These deposits were locked before mainnet to

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Antifun is a token launchpad that eliminates sniping and MEV opportunities by queuing transactions into timed epochs and settling them at a single price. The platform uses a bonding curve pricing mechanism with two-step settle

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With most of Ethereum’s activity offchain, the battle for MEV extraction is entering a new phase. In the last two weeks,  Arbitrum’s Timeboost and Unichain’s Rollup Boost both went live, and we’re seeing the first test of opposing MEV capture philosophies on L2s. One of them centralizes value for protocol revenue; the other distributes

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As promised – yet another market update video. With “Liberation Day”  and the volatile month of April in the books, where are markets heading? What’s next? Given the macro calendar, we are surely in for yet another big week.

If you have any questions, please comment below or message in the PRO telegram chat and I will do my best to get b

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There’s been an intense debate in the AI community about reinforcement learning (RL). RL is the training approach where AI develops skills through experimentation rather than following precise human guidance. Some researchers claim RL is dead, arguing it adds little value beyond what base models can achieve with sufficient compute. Others

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In an unprecedented breakthrough, Apple has announced that for the first time, NFTs and crypto payments will be allows in IOS apps. Eliminating one of the main blockers for consumer adoption of crypto and ushering in a new era for crypto-consumer applications and products.

Such a massive paradigm shift enables many previously unsuccessful

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If you’ve been in crypto long enough, you’re likely familiar with the “ETH-killer” meme – alt L1s claiming to overtake Ethereum as the market-dominant L1, only to fail miserably.

The irony is that indeed, no alt-L1 has come close to replicating the same network-effects as Ethereum – except maybe Solana; but that, Ethereum has in fact dug

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Join Piers Kicks as he hosts BEN.ZZZ, founder of Cambria, for an insightful conversation about building high-stakes, risk-to-earn MMOs inspired by Runescape. Cambria is pioneering unique game worlds like Duel Arena and Gold Rush, recently concluding... Read more

At this point, we’ve covered the thesis on why GameFi has enjoyed some success over the last few months, and if you haven’t, feel free to catch up with the first or second entries of this series. The basic idea is that, through a combination of memecoin exhaustion, upcoming airdrops, and macro chop, people sought a new playground to sp

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