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Ethereum Shows Signs Of Strength With Stronger Network Activity Supporting Growth

Despite a slight price pullback, Ethereum's fundamentals show strength, driven by robust network activity and transaction growth. The altcoin has broken out of a multi-year consolidation phase, suggesting potential for significant upward movement. Over 7.33 million ETH (6% of supply) is locked on corporate balance sheets, and Ethereum's inflation rate is now lower than Bitcoin's post-Merge. Network performance is surging, with transaction volumes on the mainnet and Layer 2 solutions reaching all-time highs. Ethereum maintains a dominant 55-60% share of the Total Value Locked (TVL) in DeFi since mid-2022, reinforced by deep collateral markets and proven resilience. It hosts 50% of all stablecoin market capitalization and over 60% of tokenized real-world assets, indicating strong institutional trust and sticky capital. Experts note the fundamentals are aligning with the positive technical chart setup, strengthening investor conviction in Ethereum's long-term value.

bitcoinist05/14 04:02

Ethereum Shows Signs Of Strength With Stronger Network Activity Supporting Growth

bitcoinist05/14 04:02

a16z, The Biggest Donor Behind the US Midterm Elections

Theodore Schleifer reports for The York Times that the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), along with its founders Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, has become the single largest donor in the current U.S. midterm election cycle, contributing over $115 million in political funds. This massive expenditure, far exceeding the $63 million from the 2024 cycle, marks a significant shift in political funding from individual billionaires to corporate entities. A16z’s strategy involves long-term political engagement. Immediately after the 2024 election, it injected over $23 million into key crypto-focused Super PACs. Its funding is now channeled through a bipartisan network supporting its core business interests: $47.5 million to the crypto Super PAC Fairshake and $50 million to Leading the Future, a new Super PAC promoting pro-artificial intelligence candidates. The firm and its founders have also donated $12 million to a pro-Trump Super PAC. This political push is closely tied to a16z's commercial stakes in crypto and AI and reflects founders’ evolving political views, particularly Andreessen’s shift toward conservative circles. His access has grown, including an advisory role during Trump’s transition and a seat on a White House tech council. The firm’s activism has sparked internal dissent and external backlash. Critics, including progressive Democrats and some Republicans, argue it represents an attempt to buy political influence. In response, a rival "Public First" Super PAC, dubbed "z16a," has formed to counter a16z’s spending on AI policy. Despite the controversy, a16z frames its involvement as essential for fostering a pro-innovation policy environment.

marsbit05/14 03:30

a16z, The Biggest Donor Behind the US Midterm Elections

marsbit05/14 03:30

The CLARITY Act Enters a Critical Review Today: What You Should Focus On?

The CLARITY Act (Digital Asset Market Clarity Act), a landmark bill to establish a regulatory framework for cryptocurrencies, enters a crucial committee markup in the U.S. Senate Banking Committee. While it has a significant chance of advancing to a full Senate vote, its path is narrowing with over 130 proposed amendments. Key tensions surround the bill: whether stablecoin rewards constitute unfair competition for bank deposits, if the legislation genuinely protects investors or merely enables industry expansion, and the push from Democrats to include ethics provisions related to the Trump family's crypto dealings. Banking lobbyists strongly oppose the stablecoin reward compromise, and with the summer recess and midterm elections approaching, the window for passage is tightening. Prediction markets currently assign about a 60% probability of the bill becoming law this year.

marsbit05/14 03:29

The CLARITY Act Enters a Critical Review Today: What You Should Focus On?

marsbit05/14 03:29

Narrowest-Ever Margin to 'Pass': US Senate Confirms Warsh as Federal Reserve Chair

On May 13, the U.S. Senate confirmed Kevin Warsh as the new Federal Reserve Chair in a historically narrow vote of 54-45, largely along party lines. This marks the slimmest confirmation margin since 1977. Warsh, a former Fed governor known for hawkish views, will succeed Chair Jerome Powell on May 14 amid a politically charged environment. His tenure begins as the Fed faces resurgent inflation, with recent CPI and PPI data exceeding expectations, and mounting pressure from the Trump administration for interest rate cuts. Warsh has pledged to maintain the Fed's independence despite these political overtures. His first major test will be the June FOMC meeting, where he must navigate conflicting demands between cooling inflation and political calls for monetary easing, all while working to restore market confidence in the central bank's non-partisan credibility.

marsbit05/14 03:20

Narrowest-Ever Margin to 'Pass': US Senate Confirms Warsh as Federal Reserve Chair

marsbit05/14 03:20

Zero Funding Rate? The New Contract Design of HyperEVM That Foreigners Are Talking About

Jez, a prominent crypto trader, announced his new protocol PaperTrade on HyperEVM, sparking significant discussion. PaperTrade is a perpetual DEX with zero fees, no slippage, and no funding rates. The protocol's mechanism draws from the historical "bucket shop" model, where trades are settled directly against a public LP pool based on Hyperliquid's order book prices, without ever interacting with Hyperliquid's matching system. It combines perpetual contracts with P2P lending and DeFi Ponzi elements. User losses go into the LP pool, while a portion of user profits is taken as protocol fees. Crucially, the LP pool is seeded solely by user losses, not external deposits. If a user's profit exceeds the pool's balance, the profit enters an on-chain queue, to be paid out sequentially by subsequent user losses. The protocol mints its PAPER token based on user losses, with a minting rate that decays as the LP pool grows. Staking PAPER yields dividends from protocol fees and excess pool funds above a $5M cap. A key uncertainty is its deployment on HyperEVM. Since PaperTrade essentially uses Hyperliquid as a free oracle, its logic could be replicated on any high-performance chain with an external price feed, potentially offering better performance or incentives. The launch also serves as a stress test for HyperEVM's network capabilities.

marsbit05/14 03:15

Zero Funding Rate? The New Contract Design of HyperEVM That Foreigners Are Talking About

marsbit05/14 03:15

Wall Street Bets Big on RWA: BlackRock, Franklin Templeton, Morgan Stanley Are Moving Financial Markets On-Chain

Wall Street is fully embracing Real World Assets (RWA), with giants like BlackRock, Franklin Templeton, and JPMorgan Chase actively moving traditional financial markets onto the blockchain. The global RWA market has now surpassed $30 billion. BlackRock continues to expand its tokenization efforts, recently filing a new structure with the SEC that integrates blockchain-based fund shares directly into the regulated U.S. fund registry system, bridging the gap between on-chain and traditional finance. Its BUIDL fund, launched with Securitize, has grown to approximately $2.3 billion in assets. Franklin Templeton has partnered with Kraken's parent company to explore tokenizing traditional financial products, including stocks and yield-generating instruments. This shift highlights traditional finance's growing acceptance of blockchain as a core component of the future financial system, not just a niche market. JPMorgan Chase is advancing its on-chain dollar liquidity system by filing for a second tokenized money market fund (JLTXX) on Ethereum. This move aims to create a complete on-chain USD ecosystem where digital dollars can earn yield, moving beyond simple stablecoin payments. The trend signals a broader shift in crypto from speculative assets to building new financial infrastructure. RWA tokenization is enhancing efficiency through real-time settlement, transparency, and 24/7 global markets, positioning blockchain for a foundational role in the future of global finance.

marsbit05/14 02:51

Wall Street Bets Big on RWA: BlackRock, Franklin Templeton, Morgan Stanley Are Moving Financial Markets On-Chain

marsbit05/14 02:51

Introducing a 'Paid Subscription' in the Chinese Market, What's Doubao Thinking?

Chinese AI assistant "Doubao" (from ByteDance) has announced it will launch a paid subscription service alongside its free version, with plans priced at 68, 200, and 500 yuan per month. This move follows its achievement of over 345 million monthly active users and 1.8 billion daily interactions. The paid tiers aim to serve professional users with advanced features for complex tasks like PPT generation and data analysis, while basic functions remain free. The timing is strategic: user growth from free services is plateauing, and the market is now more receptive to paying for high-value AI tools. ByteDance leverages its technical edge in model efficiency and cost control to support this shift. However, significant challenges remain. The Chinese market is characterized by low long-term subscription loyalty, with users often paying only for immediate needs. Doubao's premium features face competition from free alternatives offered by rivals. Furthermore, the core business model of AI subscriptions struggles with scalability—more paying users mean higher compute costs, potentially creating a cycle where revenue fails to cover expenses. Intense price competition from rivals could also force difficult choices between maintaining premium pricing or engaging in a race to the bottom. In summary, while Doubao's massive user base ensures short-term subscription uptake, its long-term success depends on creating uniquely valuable, "sticky" services within ByteDance's ecosystem and solving the fundamental industry dilemmas of low renewal rates and unsustainable cost structures. The outcome will serve as a critical test case for the viability of premium C-end AI subscriptions in China.

marsbit05/14 02:50

Introducing a 'Paid Subscription' in the Chinese Market, What's Doubao Thinking?

marsbit05/14 02:50

EASY Residency Season 3 Graduation List Released: Which Tracks is YZi Lab Focusing On?

YZi Labs has announced the 25 graduating projects from the third season of its flagship incubation program, EASY Residency. This cohort is focused on key Web3 sectors including the reconstruction of on-chain financial market structures, AI agents, tokenized real-world assets (RWA), prediction markets, and privacy/compliance infrastructure. The selected projects span a wide range of applications. In the AI and infrastructure domain, Bank of AI provides identity and payment infrastructure for AI agents on BNB Chain, while Cournot focuses on making AI probabilistic outputs verifiable. Functor addresses self-custody authorization for AI agent workflows. For decentralized finance (DeFi) and trading, several projects aim to enhance liquidity and user experience. LunarBase offers CEX-level on-chain liquidity, Möbius is building a unified margin layer, and Nemesis is a permissionless margin trading protocol. Others like LayerV and Vibe.fun are working on structured products and exotic derivatives. The RWA and asset tokenization category includes Renaiss, which provides liquidity infrastructure for physical collectibles, and Openstocks, a platform for tokenized private market exposure. Prediction markets and novel financial primitives are represented by Polysights (automation infrastructure for prediction markets) and PokerFi (an on-chain poker skill-games options market). Privacy and compliance are addressed by projects like 0xBow.io, which offers compliance-oriented privacy infrastructure, and SilentSwap, a cross-chain privacy swap protocol. The list also features projects targeting specific niches or improving core processes, such as Isaac, a non-interest stablecoin neobank for the Muslim market, Brief Tech, an AI-powered legal evidence indexing tool, and Flap, a programmable token launch infrastructure. Overall, this cohort reflects YZi Labs' investment thesis in foundational infrastructure layers, AI integration, sophisticated DeFi products, and real-world asset tokenization, aiming to advance the usability and capability of the on-chain ecosystem.

marsbit05/14 02:09

EASY Residency Season 3 Graduation List Released: Which Tracks is YZi Lab Focusing On?

marsbit05/14 02:09

Iran’s Hidden Crypto Trails Exposed As Arkham Publishes Public Wallet Map

Blockchain intelligence firm Arkham has published a public, searchable map of cryptocurrency wallets linked to Iran's central bank, Bank Markazi. The core of the map is two Tron-based wallets that were sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury on April 24, identified as property of the bank and tied to the IRGC-Qods Force and Hezbollah. Approximately $344 million in crypto was frozen in the action, with Tether complying to freeze the funds. Arkham's research aims to serve as a starting point for tracing transaction flows. Analysis reveals a complex, layered system where Iranian oil revenues move through brokers, intermediary wallets, and DeFi protocols to obscure their origin before reaching central bank-linked accounts. While the Tron network itself cannot monitor transactions, it points to a joint financial crime unit with Tether and TRM Labs to flag illicit activity. The exposed wallets are part of a larger trend. Estimates indicate Iran's total crypto transaction volume reached roughly $11.4 billion in 2024 and $10 billion in 2025. Furthermore, Iran is reportedly considering charging crypto tolls for ships in the Strait of Hormuz, signaling digital assets' expanding role beyond sanctions evasion.

bitcoinist05/14 02:02

Iran’s Hidden Crypto Trails Exposed As Arkham Publishes Public Wallet Map

bitcoinist05/14 02:02

EASY Residency Season 3 Graduation List Announced: Which Sectors is YZi Lab Eyeing?

YZi Labs has announced the 25 projects graduating from the third season of its flagship incubation program, EASY Residency. The cohort focuses on key areas such as rebuilding on-chain financial market structures, AI agents, tokenized real-world assets (RWA), prediction markets, and privacy/compliance infrastructure. Notable projects include: Bank of AI, building AI Agent identity and payment infrastructure for BNB Chain; Cournot, creating a verifiable reasoning platform for AI probability outputs; and LunarBase, a liquidity platform aiming for CEX-like execution quality on Base and BNB Chain. Other highlights are: Flap, a programmable token launch infrastructure; GEMINT, a marketplace for collectibles and IP assets; and Renaiss, providing liquidity infrastructure for physical collectibles as RWAs. In DeFi, projects like Möbius (unified margin layer), TermMax (fixed-rate lending), and LayerV (on-chain options) aim to enhance sophistication and capital efficiency. Several projects tackle AI automation, such as Newsliquid (automating news-based trading) and Taco AI (AI agent trading). Privacy and compliance are addressed by 0xBow.io (privacy infrastructure with compliance proofs) and SilentSwap (private cross-chain swaps). The selection reflects YZi Labs' focus on foundational infrastructure across AI, DeFi, tokenization, and next-generation financial primitives, supporting early-stage projects that aim to advance these critical sectors.

Odaily星球日报05/14 02:02

EASY Residency Season 3 Graduation List Announced: Which Sectors is YZi Lab Eyeing?

Odaily星球日报05/14 02:02

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