Vitalik Buterin warns against overloading Ethereum consensus

    Buterin has advocated preserving Ethereum consensus minimalism and not overloading validators with other things. Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has published a lengthy blog post warning of the dangers of “stretching” Ethereum’s consensus past its core functions of validating blocks and securing the network. Ethereum consensus is the process whereby blocks are validated by the proof-of-stake mechanism implemented…

    Subway-themed trading bot makes millions using ‘sandwich’ attacks

    The anonymous MEV bot operator’s best day was April 18, where he profited about $950,000. An anonymous Maximal Extractable Value (MEV) bot operator has cashed in well over $1 million this week by executing “sandwich attacks” against buyers and sellers of two new meme coins. The wallet address, linked to the Ethereum Name Service (ENS) domain “jaredfromsubway.eth”…

    Ether hits 11-month high as post-Shapella withdrawals pass 1M ETH

    Since the Shapella hard fork on April 12, Ether has seen a price gain of nearly 10%. Over 1 million Ether worth $2.1 billion has now been withdrawn from Ethereum’s Beacon Chain within the first four days of the Shapella hard fork and Ether has pushed over $2,100 for the first time in 11 months. The 1.03 million…

    Ethereum researcher says staking reveals IP address sparking privacy concerns

    A researcher at the Ethereum Foundation said he had “internally” discovered that staking Ether reveals a user’s IP address information. A researcher at the Ethereum Foundation (EF) revealed that the IP addresses of Ether stakers are monitored as part of a broader set of metadata, causing the cryptocurrency community to flag Ethereum for privacy concerns. In…

    Solana faces slowdown in block production, network restarted

    The issue is linked to the recent network upgrade from 1.13 to 1.14, which slowed block finalization. Solana network faced a slowdown in block production on Fev. 25 following the upgrade in the validator software. The incident resulted in disruptions to transactions and led validators to downgrade the software in an attempt to restore network…

    Coinbase staking ‘fundamentally different’ to Kraken’s — chief lawyer

    After the Securities and Exchange Commission’s crackdown on Kraken, Coinbase chief legal officer Paul Grewal outlined the differences between that exchange’s staking product and its own. The staking services offered by cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase are “fundamentally different” to what was offered by its peer exchange Kraken — which recently came under fire from the United…