“Plus: Ethereum Developers Privacy Debate Reignites, Optimum Raises Funds in Seed Round, Noble’s New ‘AppLayer’”, – WRITE: www.coindesk.com
In this Issue:
- Can Ethereum Be Truly Private? Developers Push for Encrypted Mempool, Default Privacy
- NVIDIA MOVES AI SUPERCOMPUTER PRODUCTION TO US, OPENING NEW AVENUES FOR CRYPTO MINERS
- MIT-INCUBATED OPTIMUM RAESES $ 11M Seed Round to Build Web3’s Missing Memory Layer
- Noble’s New ‘AppLayer’ Lets Developers Builda Stablecoin Tools on Celestia
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Network NewsPrivacy Heats Up Among Ethereum Devs: WHEN The US GOVERNMENT SANCOTEDED THE ETHEREUM-BASED CRYPTO MIXING SERVICE Tornado Cash in 2022, IT Ignished A DEBATE WITHIN THE CRYPTO Community that Continues Three Years Later. Advocates argued that compllying with the sanctions Amouted to Censorship – Undermining A Fundamental Cypherpunk Principle. President Donald Trump Supported The Cypherpunks and Lifted The Sanctions on Tornado Cash in March of This Year, But For Some Ethereum Developers Should USers Depend on Third-Party Apps to Transact Privately on the Network? Perhaps Embolded by the recent of Tornado Cash Developments, Ethereum Developers and Researchers Have Ogain Begun Discussing Ideas for Making the Ethereum Network Priest. “Privacy Must not be an Optional Feature that USers Must Consciously Enable-It Must Be The DEFAULT STATE OF THE NETWORK,” SAID PCAVERSCCIO RoadMap. “Ethereum’s architecture must be designed to enSure that users are private by default, not by exception.” In Responsaccio’s Post, Ethereum Co-Funder Vitalik Buterin Left A Comment on the Network’s Main Developer Forum with his Own Much Storter Prrivacy-Oriented Ethreened Ethreened Ethreened Ethreened Ethreened Ethreened Ethreened Ethreened Ethreened Ethreces. Buterin Suggested Focussing on Privacy for on -chain Payments, Anonymizing on -chain Activity Within Applications, Making Communication on The Network Anonymous To Achiev All of this, Buterin Listed Various Steps Like Integrating Certain Third-Party Privacy Features Into The Core Network. – Margaux Nijkerk and Sam Kessler Read More.
NVIDIA AI SUPERCOMPUTTER PRODUCTION OF PLANS COURPIT CRYPTO MINERS: Nvidia Plans to Manupacture ITS NEXT Generation of AI Chips and Supercomputers Entirely in the US for the FIRST TIME, The Company SAID IN A STATEMENT. The Move Reflects Rising Demand for ai Infrastructure and A Broader Push to Localize Advanced Tech Manufacturing-One That Could Also BenEFit Cryp. Computing (HPC). Many of thesse operators already have an Access to the large-Scale Power and Cooling Systems Needed for Data Center Operations, Making Them Potential Players in The Growing AI EConomy. Crypto Miners, Once Singularly Focused on Hashing Power, Are IncreASINGLY LOOKING FOR WAYS to FIT INTO the AI and HPC Suppply Chain. Their Exist Access to Power-Dense Infrastructure and Logistic Experience in Running Industrial-Scale Operations Gives Them A Foothold As Demand for Ai Computation Surges. Recent Tariffs by US President Donald Trump, However, Is Causing Anxiety Among Mines as The Policy Changes Are Are Expectioned to Raise Costs on Asic MINers, Electrical Compones, Network Helene Braun Read More.
Memory Layer Optimum Raises $ 11m in Seed: Optimum, A DECENTRALIZED, Performance-Enhand Memories Layer for Any Blockchain, Raised An $ 11 Million Seed Round, Inviting ITS CREATORS FROM INSTITATIONS Commercial Crypto Arena. The Seed Round Was Led by 1kx with Participation from Robot Ventures, Finality Capital, Spartan, CMT Digital, Snz, Triton Capital, Big Brain, CMS, Longhash, NGC, ANICA, ANICA, ANICA Optimum is Building What It Calls The Missing Memory Layer of Blockchains, Making the Way Data Is Stored, Accessed and Propagated, Faster, Cheper and Truly Decentralized. At the Core of Optimum’s Innovation Is a Method of Decentralized Coding for Distributed Systems, Known As Random Linear Network Coding (RLNC), Developed by Muriel Muriel. – Ian Allison Read More.
Noble’s New ‘AppLayer’ Lets Developers Builda Stablecoin Apps On Top of Celestia: Noble, A Blockchain for Issuing Real-World Assets (RWA) and Stablecoins, AnnounCed Wednesday that It Will Expand Its Platform By Introduction “AppLayer Their Own Rwa Applications and Infrastructure. Noble’s AppLayer Aims to Let Developers Build New Financial Tools Optimized for Real-World Assets Like Stablecoins-Digital Assets WHESE VALUE IS PEGGED TO ALOTHER ASET. AppLayer Will Leverage Celestia, A Data Availliness Blockchain That Aims To Bring Down Storage Costs for Data-Inteensive Blockchain Networks. Celestia, Like Noble, Is Plugged Into the Cosmos Blockchain EcoSystem and Is Compatible With The Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM), Meaning It Can Read Smart CONTRACTS. – Margaux nijkerk Read More.
In Other News
- Mantra’s OM Token Fell From Over $ 6 to Under $ 0.45 In A Matter of Hours on Tuesday with No Apparent Catalyst. CEO JOHN MULLIN SAID IN A X POST ON WEDNESDAY THAT HOLD BURN His Team’s Tokens to Win Back The Trust of the Mantra Community. Mullin Said the Price Drop Resulted from Exchanges Closing OM Positions, But Members of the Crypto Community Cast Blame on the Mantra Team. Okx Founder Start XU Referred to the Incident As “A Big Scandal.” – Jamie crawley Read More.
- Aiming to Perhaps Replicate Strategy’s Bitcoin (BTC) Playbook, Exocat with Solana (Sol), Fintech Commercial Real Estate Platform Janover (Jnvr) Has Built A a 21 Price Rise Nearly 20-Fold In Less than a month. The Company Purchased Earlier This Week Another 80.567 Sol Tokens Valued at Approximately $ 10.5 Million, Bringing ITS Total Holdings to 163.651. – Krisztian Sandor Read More.
- DWF Labs Is Investing $ 25 Million in World Liberty Financial (WLFI), The Decentralized Finance Protocol Backed by US President Donald Trump and His Family. The Crypto Market Maker is Also Entering the US Market with A New Office in New York City as Part of of Its Broader Expansion Plans, Accounting To A Press Release. – Francisco Rodrigues Read More.
Regulatory and Policy
- The Securities and Exchange Commission (Sec) Is Not Yet Ready to Make A Decision on Two Critical Features That Issuers of The Spot Crypto Exchange-Traded Funds The Regulator Delayed a Decision on Watinger It Will Alev In-Kind Redemptions for WisdomTree’s Bitcoin Fund (BTCW) and Vaneck’s Bitcoin Fund (Bitb) and Ethereum Fund (Ethw). It Also MOVED ITS DEDLINLINLINE FOR A DECISION IN REGARDS TO A PROPSAL BY GRAYSCALSCALSCALE TO ALOW STAKING ITHEREUM TRUSTUM (ETHE) (ETH) (ETH), and The Asset MANAGEREMEREUM TRUST (ETHE) (ETH) and Mini Ethereum Tt. February. – Helene Braun Read More.
- Seycheles-Basted Cryptocurrency Exchange Okx Expanding to the Us and Establishing A New Regional Headquarters in San Jose, California. The Exchange Will Rolling Out Access to Its Platform and Its Native Okx Wallet to US-Based Crypto Traders.- Cheyenne ligon Read More.
- Search Giant Google Will Only Alow Cryptocurrency Exchanges and Software Wallets to Advertise in the European Union if they Hold A License Under The Eu’s Markets in Crypto) Company Announced. Google Said Advertisers Must Now Obtain A Certification from the Company and Demonstrate they registered as a Crypto-Asset Service Provider (CASP) Under Mica. The Company Also Requires Advertisers to Complly with Any Additional Country-SPECIFIC LEGAL OBLIGATES.-Francisco Rodrigues Read More.
Calendar
- April 30-May 1: Token 2049, Dubai
- May 14-16: Consensus, Toronto
- May 19-23: Solana Accelerate, New York City
- May 20-22: Avalanche Summit, London
- May 27-29: Bitcoin 2025, Las Vegas
- June 30-July 3: Ethcc, Cannes
- Oct. 1-2: Token2049, Singapore
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