EtherWorld Weekly — Edition 302

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EtherWorld Weekly — Edition 302

Ethereum World News

Kenya Prepares to Legalize Cryptocurrency Trading

  • Kenya plans to legalize cryptocurrency trading by introducing regulatory frameworks to harness opportunities while addressing risks like fraud and money laundering.

Ripple Anticipates Approval of Spot XRP ETF

  • Ripple President Monica Long predicts the approval of a Spot XRP ETF following Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs, citing regulatory shifts and Ripple’s strategic plans for 2025.

Ripple and Chainlink Partner to Boost RLUSD Stablecoin in DeFi

  • Ripple teams up with Chainlink to enhance RLUSD stablecoin's utility, integrating Chainlink’s price feed for secure, real-time transactions across Ethereum and XRP ledgers.

Vitalik Buterin Donates $916K in Meme Coin Proceeds to Charity

  • Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin sold meme coins worth $940K, donating $916K to his biotech charity, Kanro, causing NEIRO's price to drop 3%.

News By EtherWorld

Glamsterdam: The Next Upgrade After Fusaka

Highlights of Ethereum's All Core Devs Meeting #148

Ethereum’s Next Big Leap: Blob Target Increase Sparks Heated Conversations

Aave v3 May Soon Expand to Mantle Network – Here’s What You Need to Know

Gas Estimation is About to Get Easier on Ethereum

Inside the Ethereum Foundation: Balancing Power, Transparency, and Decentralization

Unveiling the Analytics Tool on EIPsInsight

The Debate Over Freezing Ethereum's Core for Good

Fixing Ethereum’s Message Signing Chaos

Ethereum Developers Want to Combine Gas Estimation & Call Results

Client News and Updates

Client News

  • AVS Allocation Strategies: EigenDA and ARPA Compared
  • EigenLayer's restaking protocols, securing $19B in assets, face challenges in AVS allocation. This research proposes a framework for restakers to build balanced portfolios, analyzing ARPA Network and EigenDA AVS for risks, rewards, and sustainability.

Client versions

Execution Layer:

Consensus Layer:

Ethereum Standards:

EIP-7840: Add blob schedule to EL config files

EIP-7851: Deactivate/Reactivate a Delegated EOA's Key

EIP-2935: Serve historical block hashes from state

EIP-4788: Beacon block root in the EVM

ERCs and Their Current Status:(mention last call end date)

ERC-7777: Governance for Human Robot Societies

ERC-7751: Reached Last Call Status

  • Last Call Deadline: 2025-01-22

ERC-7734: Decentralized Identity Verification (DID)

  • Last Call Deadline: 2025-01-21

ERC-7820: Access Control Registry

  • Last Call Deadline: 2025-01-21
  • RIP-7560: Native Account Abstraction
  • RIP-7696: generic Double Scalar Multiplication (DSM) for all curves

Insights from EIPsInsights.com

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