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Vitalik's Vision for Ethereum
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🚀 Vitalik Buterin's Ethereum Vision for 2024
Ethereum's 2024 Roadmap: Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin shares minor updates to the 2024 roadmap, focusing on six key elements for Ethereum's improvement.
Focus on Merge Success: The Merge, a crucial phase in Ethereum's development, successfully transitioned the network to a proof-of-stake consensus, significantly reducing energy consumption.
Cypherpunk Principles Revival: Buterin aims to revive Ethereum's original cypherpunk ethos, leveraging technologies like rollups and zero-knowledge proofs to enhance privacy and decentralization. Read More.
️ On today's Top Picks:
- ⚖️ SEC Bitcoin ETF decision this week.
- 🪂 ZKFair airdrop claim is live.
- 👾 Orbit Chain exploited for $81.5M.
- 🔓 Sui 34.62M token unlock on Jan 02.
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Crypto News
• ⭐️ SEC may notify Bitcoin ETF issuers of their decision this week.
• Sam Bankman-Fried prosecutors will NOT pursue a second trial.
• US Court blocks CZ from traveling for a second time.
• Tellor team allegedly sells ~$2.4M worth of Tellor $TRB after price quickly pumps and dumps.
• Tether withdraws 8888.88 $BTC worth ~$380M from Bitfinex, becomes 10th largest holding address with 66465.2 $BTC worth ~$2.8B.
Alpha
• Milk Road summarizes Coinbase, Bitwise, & a16z crypto 2024 market outlook reports.
• Monad co-founder posts, "wen testnet?" on X.
• Zora releases free Thank You 2023 NFT.
Airdrops
• ⭐️ ZKFair airdrop claim is live until January 11th.
• Manta airdrop strategy by Olimpio.
• Mantle 2 tokenless protocols airdrop strategies by Alpha Drops.
• Jumper airdrop strategy by Crypto Snooper.
Finance News
• US California projected to be $68B in debt in beginning of 2024.
Security and Exploits
• ⭐️ Orbit Chain exploited for $81.5M as nature of hack remains unknown.
• OKX BRC20 marketplace paused due to fake ordinals but has since been restored.
Token Unlocks
• Tornado Cash / 91.67K $TORN / ~$167K / JAN 01
⭐️ • Sui / 34.62M $SUI / ~$27.9M / JAN 02
• Euler / 117.04K $EUL / ~$445K / JAN 03
• Liquity / 657.35K $LQTY / ~$979K / JAN 04
• Galxe / 3M $GAL / ~$6.9M / JAN 04
• Hashflow / 13.62M $HFT / ~$5.1M / JAN 06
Funding
• Parallel Network, an omni-chain L2; raises an undisclosed amount in funding from Soma Capital.
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PROTOCOL | ASSETS | APY |
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![]() | USDT | 105.98% |
![]() | IDAIIUSDCIUSDT | 72.70% |
![]() | MKUSDUSDC | 45.27% |
![]() | DOLAUSDC | 39.88% |
![]() | USDT | 34.40% |
MIMUSDCUSDT | 31.17% | |
![]() | USDC | 26.97% |
![]() | USDC | 25.18% |
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