Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin is proposing to raise the bar on what’s considered a rollup in the Ethereum ecosystem — and suggests developers should aim to get their decentralization efforts in order by the end of the year. The comments came in his latest blog post on March 28, reflecting on the year ahead following Ethereum’s latest Dencun upgrade,…

After rallying to $4,091 leading into the Dencun upgrade, Ether has underperformed over the last month compared to Bitcoin and the broader crypto market, leading traders to doubt whether the altcoin’s downtrend is over. To put this into context, Bitcoin’s price fell by 18% during the same period, while the total cryptocurrency market capitalization dropped by 16%. A number of…

The Ethereum network recently hit the one million validator milestone, with 32 million Ether currently staked, valued at approximately $114 billion based on current market prices. On March 28, the Dune Analytics dashboard created by Hildobby to track Ethereum staking progress showed that the network achieved a validator count of one million, with the 32 million ETH staked…