Author: Olivia Martinez
This is an update from the Next Billion Fellowship Program. Applications are rolling and open for cohort 6 beginning in October 2025. Individuals interacting with an application have a user experience. Collectives interacting with a protocol have a world experience. There are many worlds that the Ethereum protocol touches; places where organizations, communities, or institutions experience trust through coordination. The Next Billion Fellowship is a program to support individuals working on new use cases and improving trust experience within the world computer. The stories of a global protocol are as diverse and varied as the humans that use it. In…
Ethereum’s weekly All Core Developer calls are a lot to keep up with, so this “Checkpoint” series aims for high-level updates depending on what’s happening in core development. See the previous update here. This is a special edition of the series! Kicking off Berlin Blockchain Week, ethereum core devs and researchers got together for an interop hacking week to make progress both on long-term research directions and short-term implementation of the Fusaka upgrade and gas limit increases. Two of these days solicited feedback on longer-term research directions from L2 and zk teams. The most recent in-person interop was in Bangkok…
Truth Social has filed for a Bitcoin and Ethereum ETF with the US SEC. The Truth Social Bitcoin and Ethereum ETF will offer combined exposure to BTC and ETH in one product. The move marks Truth Social’s bold entry into digital finance. Truth Social has officially entered the cryptocurrency investment space, pursuing a Bitcoin and Ethereum ETF. According to a tweet by Bloomberg ETF analyst James Seyffart, the social media platform backed by US President Donald Trump on June 16, 2025, filed an S-1 registration statement with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to launch a new cryptocurrency exchange-traded…
ETH holdings among the 1,000–10,000 wallet cohort now exceed 16 million. ETH-focused funds saw $583 million in inflows last week alone. Price remains in the $2,150–$3,600 range despite a 90% rally over two months. Ethereum has seen a dramatic surge in accumulation activity among its largest holders, with wallets holding between 1,000 and 10,000 ETH adding over 818,410 ETH—worth roughly $2.5 billion— on Sunday. This marks the sharpest one-day increase in holdings for this wallet cohort since 2018, according to on-chain data. The same addresses, typically linked to early adopters, crypto funds, and so-called “whales”, now control more than 16…
Ethereum ETF holdings hit an ATH as institutional inflows surge. SPX6900 cools after 230% rally, holds key $1.30 support level. XRP remains bullish despite the US SEC case delay to August 15. Ethereum, XRP, and SPX6900 are moving in different but equally significant directions this week, revealing major developments across the crypto market. The market is showing signs of rotation, and investor attention is quickly shifting among top altcoins as new narratives unfold. While institutional accumulation pushes Ethereum ETFs to an all-time high in on-chain holdings, SPX6900 takes a breather after a parabolic rally, and XRP sustains a bullish tone…
We’re thrilled to announce that internship applications are now open for the first-ever Ethereum Season of Internships! The Ethereum Season of Internships is a collection of paid, fully-remote summer internships offered across the Ethereum ecosystem. It is designed to help establish more paths for the next generation of contributors to connect with Ethereum projects and apply their skills – whether in development, research, design, marketing, operations, or more. Our long-term goal is to make Ethereum an even more welcoming place for new talents. Over the past few weeks, 18 teams from across the ecosystem have created over 30 internship opportunities.…
Bitcoin (BTC) trades near $110K (at $109.7K), challenging recent “summer stagnation” predictions after a 3.26% weekend surge. QCP Capital noted BTC was “stuck in a tight range,” with signs of fatigue like softening open interest and tapering ETF inflows. Bitcoin’s breakout coincides with US-China trade talks and a $22B US Treasury bond auction, injecting market uncertainty. Bitcoin (BTC) is currently trading just shy of the $110,000 mark, changing hands at around $109,700 as the Asian trading week continues. This upward momentum challenges a prevailing market narrative that had anticipated a period of summer stagnation, and it comes even as analysts…
Ethereum price jumped above $2,800. ETH is seeing gains amid altcoin season chatter and as regulatory clarity inches closer. With market sentiment positive, ETH bulls could likely reclaim $3,000 as they eye a breakout. Ethereum (ETH) price has again moved above $2,800 after gaining more than 4% in the past 24 hours. The top altcoin reached an intraday high of $2,832 across major cryptocurrency exchanges, with these gains coming amid a robust spike for altcoins. Market sentiment was also positive after Securities and Exchange Commission chair Paul Atkins commented on crypto and decentralised finance. While Ethereum price hovered around $2,769…