Aztec Foundation Cut 55% of Staff Eight Days After Shipping V5
The Aztec Foundation cut 18 of 33 staff on July 29, eight days after shipping Alpha V5. Its November sale raised more than the token is worth.
The Aztec Foundation cut 18 of 33 staff on July 29, eight days after shipping Alpha V5. Its November sale raised more than the token is worth.
Zama benchmarked 1,040 confidential transfers per second on eight GPUs. Its live Ethereum protocol runs about 20, and the fees tell you why.
A dedicated team within the Ethereum Foundation is racing to harden the protocol against quantum computing threats before the technology matures. Protocol-level quantum resistance is targeted for 2029, with execution layer solutions to follow. The challenge isn’t picking the right algorithm — it’s migrating hundreds of millions of accounts without breaking the chain.
SDNY US Attorney Jay Clayton has pushed back against Roman Storm's attempt to use a 2026 Supreme Court copyright ruling as a defense against the two charges a jury deadlocked on last year. The case is a live contradiction: the same DOJ that issued a memo ending 'regulation by prosecution' on crypto platforms is now pursuing a retrial that could send a developer to prison for 40 years for writing open-source code.
Three protocol-level upgrades are already in development: account abstraction paired with anti-censorship lists, a new nonce system that breaks transaction linking, and a privacy toolkit that hides what your wallet is even looking at. Most are targeting the Hegotá hard fork in the second half of 2026.
The Ethereum Foundation lost five senior contributors in May alone. Vitalik Buterin responded with a 2,000-word post saying the Foundation will get smaller, sell less ETH, and stop pretending to be the center of Ethereum. He also said nearly 90% of his net worth is still in ETH.
The Foundation deployed 22,517 ETH across 11 deposits on Monday, its largest single staking move yet. After years of criticism for selling ETH to fund operations, the EF is betting on staking yield instead. The timing, with ETH below $2,100, makes the move harder to ignore.
A criminal group is threatening to release videos of internal systems unless Kraken pays up. The exchange says no breach occurred and funds were never at risk. Kraken has identified and removed the insiders involved in both incidents, notified affected users and is cooperating with law enforcement.
Jameson Lopp and fellow developers push a phased sunset of legacy signatures, putting $420 billion in dormant coins at stake. Critics call the proposal authoritarian; developers frame it as a defensive measure against future quantum attackers.
The ~$11 million conversion, executed in sub-$1 million tranches to minimize market impact, is the first TWAP sale since October 2025. It reflects a treasury strategy that increasingly relies on staking yield and targeted OTC deals rather than routine open-market ETH sales.
Multisig wallets replace a single point of failure with shared control. Here is how they work and when the added friction actually pays off.
The six-month ETH Rangers program recovered $5.8 million and flagged 785 vulnerabilities. Investigators say DPRK workers used fake identities and normal hiring channels to embed inside Web3 teams.
Bitcoin proved that money could exist without banks. Ethereum asked what else could exist without intermediaries. From decentralized finance to digital ownership, Ethereum is the infrastructure layer on which a new kind of internet is being built — and it has been running in production since 2015.
Fragmentation across Layer-2 networks has become a structural bottleneck for Ethereum. The newly announced EEZ initiative aims to turn isolated liquidity into a coordinated economic layer.
$143 million now locked in validators. Annual staking yield is projected between $3.9 million and $5.4 million. The foundation that spent years avoiding staking on neutrality grounds has now completed its entry into Ethereum's consensus layer.
The Ethereum Foundation is the nonprofit that stewards Ethereum’s research, funding, and roadmap without controlling the network. This tag tracks the foundation’s treasury ETH sales and their market impact, its funding of core protocol research and upgrades, the scaling and privacy roadmap, and Vitalik Buterin’s direction. Coinliva covers the treasury moves, the research priorities, and how the foundation shapes Ethereum’s future.