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ENS DAO Sunsets Public Goods Working Group After 4.5 Years of Ecosystem Grants
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ENS DAO Sunsets Public Goods Working Group After 4.5 Years of Ecosystem Grants

The working group's final term committed $450,000 in USDC and 72.5 ETH to Ethereum infrastructure projects including Vyper, Argot Collective and Remix Labs before it was wound down.
Solana Launches Onchain Governance With Stake-Weighted Voting for Validators
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Solana Launches Onchain Governance With Stake-Weighted Voting for Validators

Solana Foundation says onchain governance is now live, letting validators with at least 100,000 SOL delegated open proposals that go to a stake-weighted vote once they clear 15% cluster support.
Avalanche Treasury Corp Stock Crashes 93%, Warns SEC It May Not Survive the Year
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Avalanche Treasury Corp Stock Crashes 93%, Warns SEC It May Not Survive the Year

Avalanche Treasury Corp told the SEC its ability to continue as a going concern is in doubt after its Nasdaq-listed stock lost 93% of its value in a month, with its AVAX position now worth less than half of what it paid.
Robinhood Launches Robinhood Chain Mainnet, Adds Stock Tokens, Onchain Lending, and Agentic Crypto Trading
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Robinhood Launches Robinhood Chain Mainnet, Adds Stock Tokens, Onchain Lending, and Agentic Crypto Trading

At a London keynote, the trading platform opened its Arbitrum-based Layer 2 to the public, rolled out new stock tokens and a Morpho-powered lending product, and confirmed launches in Canada and Singapore alongside plans for crypto trading in the UK.
Ethereum Institutional Launches as Independent Nonprofit to Court Banks and Asset Managers
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Ethereum Institutional Launches as Independent Nonprofit to Court Banks and Asset Managers

A new nonprofit backed by BitMine, SharpLink and Joseph Lubin spins the Ethereum Foundation's institutional outreach work into an independent organization, the second such steward group the three backers have funded in ten days, as the Foundation itself shrinks.
Base Suffers Second Chain Halt in 24 Hours, Complicating B20 Activation Window
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Base Suffers Second Chain Halt in 24 Hours, Complicating B20 Activation Window

Base stalled block production for a second time in less than 24 hours on Friday morning, describing the incident as showing 'similar symptoms' to Thursday's roughly two-hour outage, with the event arriving less than three hours before the B20 Activation Registry was anticipated to go live.
Canton Network Tops Blockchain Fee Rankings With $60M in 30 Days
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Canton Network Tops Blockchain Fee Rankings With $60M in 30 Days

Canton Network, the privacy-enabled institutional blockchain built by Digital Asset, generated $60.2 million in fees over the trailing 30 days, outpacing Tron's $27.6 million and Ethereum's $11.3 million by a wide margin, according to DefiLlama data.
Sophon Shuts Down Its zkSync Chain and Rebuilds as a Consumer App Studio on Base
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Sophon Shuts Down Its zkSync Chain and Rebuilds as a Consumer App Studio on Base

Sophon is decommissioning its zkSync-based Layer 2 chain and pivoting to Soph+, a consumer product studio building exclusively on Base. The shutdown caps a chain that raised $60 million through node sales but attracted fewer than 200 daily users and generated roughly $30 in daily fees.
Base Resumes Block Production After Roughly Two-Hour Mainnet Halt
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Base Resumes Block Production After Roughly Two-Hour Mainnet Halt

Coinbase-incubated Layer 2 Base stalled block production for about two hours Thursday after an invalid block triggered a consensus fault, before the network recovered. The outage renewed scrutiny of single-sequencer risk on major rollups.
Story Rebrands as DATA Foundation in Pivot to AI Training Data
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Story Rebrands as DATA Foundation in Pivot to AI Training Data

The intellectual-property blockchain that raised $140 million led by a16z crypto is migrating its $IP token to $DATA one-to-one and integrating data marketplace Kled, registering 1.1 billion user records on the network.