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Ethereum Foundation Cuts 20% of Staff in Sweeping Reorganization

Ethereum Foundation Cuts 20% of Staff in Sweeping Reorganization

The Ethereum Foundation has eliminated 54 positions, about 20% of its workforce, as part of a restructuring tied to its updated spending mandate. Vitalik Buterin announced a 40% annual budget cut targeting a reduction in treasury spend from 15% to 5% by 2030. Arkham Intelligence places EF's ETH holdings at approximately $209 million, a nearly six-year low.

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MoneyGram Becomes Solana Validator, Joins Institutional Developer Platform

MoneyGram Becomes Solana Validator, Joins Institutional Developer Platform

Ethereum Foundation’s Interim ED Lays Out Execution Plan: MEV Elimination, Default Privacy, ETH Pay

Ethereum Foundation’s Interim ED Lays Out Execution Plan: MEV Elimination, Default Privacy, ETH Pay

Ethereum's Glamsterdam Upgrade Enters Final Devnet Phase With 200M Gas-Limit Target

Ethereum's Glamsterdam Upgrade Enters Final Devnet Phase With 200M Gas-Limit Target

Sui Processes $65 Billion in Stablecoin Transfers in Five Days After Zeroing Out Fees

Sui Processes $65 Billion in Stablecoin Transfers in Five Days After Zeroing Out Fees

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Ethereum Foundation Cuts 20% of Staff in Sweeping Reorganization

Ethereum Foundation Cuts 20% of Staff in Sweeping Reorganization

The Ethereum Foundation has eliminated 54 positions, about 20% of its workforce, as part of a restructuring tied to its updated spending mandate. Vitalik Buterin announced a 40% annual budget cut targeting a reduction in treasury spend from 15% to 5% by 2030. Arkham Intelligence places EF's ETH holdings at approximately $209 million, a nearly six-year low.
MoneyGram Becomes Solana Validator, Joins Institutional Developer Platform

MoneyGram Becomes Solana Validator, Joins Institutional Developer Platform

MoneyGram has launched an active validator node on Solana and joined its institutional developer platform, making Solana the payments giant’s third blockchain validator commitment alongside Tempo and Midnight. The move deepens a blockchain infrastructure push that began with Stellar remittances in 2021.
Ethereum Foundation’s Interim ED Lays Out Execution Plan: MEV Elimination, Default Privacy, ETH Pay

Ethereum Foundation’s Interim ED Lays Out Execution Plan: MEV Elimination, Default Privacy, ETH Pay

Bastian Aue, the Ethereum Foundation’s interim executive director, outlined how EF will implement its new mandate: treating MEV extraction as a structural threat, making privacy a protocol default, and moving EF compensation into ETH and Ethereum-native stablecoins.
Ethereum's Glamsterdam Upgrade Enters Final Devnet Phase With 200M Gas-Limit Target

Ethereum's Glamsterdam Upgrade Enters Final Devnet Phase With 200M Gas-Limit Target

Glamsterdam has reached its final devnet stage, locking in ten EIPs including ePBS and Block-Level Access Lists. The bundle clears the path for a 200 million gas-limit floor and mainnet activation in H2 2026.
Sui Processes $65 Billion in Stablecoin Transfers in Five Days After Zeroing Out Fees

Sui Processes $65 Billion in Stablecoin Transfers in Five Days After Zeroing Out Fees

The Layer 1's gasless stablecoin design pushed transfer throughput to nearly $65 billion since June 10, recasting Sui as a fee-free settlement rail for institutional and agentic payments.
LG Electronics Pilots On-Chain Ad Network Built on Arbitrum Layer 2

LG Electronics Pilots On-Chain Ad Network Built on Arbitrum Layer 2

LG Electronics is building a blockchain-based advertising network on its own Arbitrum-derived Layer 2, with a pilot completed and a commercial launch targeted for later this year.
Wall Street Piles Into Digital Asset as Canton Network Draws $355M Round Led by a16z

Wall Street Piles Into Digital Asset as Canton Network Draws $355M Round Led by a16z

Digital Asset has closed a $355 million funding round led by a16z crypto, with HSBC, Apollo, CME, BNP Paribas, ADIA, ABN Amro, S&P Global, Tradeweb and more than 20 other institutional names joining as investors.
Solana Ships Native Payments Rail for Subscriptions and Allowances

Solana Ships Native Payments Rail for Subscriptions and Allowances

The Solana Foundation has deployed a single onchain program that any merchant, payroll operator, or wallet can build recurring billing, capped agent allowances, and contractor pulls on top of, putting a native primitive into the rail layer that Stripe Billing, Recurly, and the card networks own offchain.
Cardano Community Votes Down 7.8M ADA Summit Budget, Killing Foundation's Flagship 2026 Event

Cardano Community Votes Down 7.8M ADA Summit Budget, Killing Foundation's Flagship 2026 Event

Cardano's Voltaire-era delegated representatives rejected the Cardano Foundation's 7.8 million ADA treasury ask for the 2026 Singapore Summit, with yes votes drawing 65.21% of stake — 1.46 percentage points below the two-thirds threshold.
Tempo L1 Hits 3.9M Transactions in Two Months

Tempo L1 Hits 3.9M Transactions in Two Months

The payments-focused blockchain Tempo has settled 3.9M transactions across 177K addresses since mainnet launch in March, with stablecoin supply exceeding $25M and full Dune Analytics integration live.