Golden Web3.0 Daily | Ethereum Foundation adjusts its strategic direction

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Headlines

Ethereum Foundation adjusts its strategic direction and focuses on short- term expansion goals

Golden Finance reported that Tomasz K. Stańczak, the incoming co-executive director of the Ethereum Foundation, announced that the foundation is adjusting its strategic focus and turning more research energy to its near- term goals. The adjustment is intended to free Vitalik Buterin to focus more on research rather than daily coordination. The Foundation will prioritize the development of Layer 1 expansion, support Layer 2 expansion and improve user experience. These improvements will be implemented in three protocol upgrades of Pectra, Fusaka and Glamsterdam. At the same time, the foundation is also exploring how to accelerate projects that are currently expected to take 3-5 years, and strive to achieve some functions through plans such as the next generation of execution layer and consensus layer within 1-2 years.

MEME hot spots

1. TRUMP unlocked 40 million tokens 5 hours ago, which is approximately US$300 million

According to Golden Finance, TRUMP unlocked 40 million tokens 5 hours ago, worth about US$300 million, accounting for 20% of the circulation (another linear unlock of approximately 493,000 coins, about US$4.12 million).

DeFi hotspots

1.KiloEx releases a summary of hacking events: There is a vulnerability in the TrustedForwarder contract in smart contracts

On April 21, KiloEx released an analysis of the root cause of the hacker incident and an after-summary summary. The cause of the incident was that the TrustedForwarder contract in its smart contract inherited OpenZeppelin's MinimalForwarderUpgradeable but did not rewrite the execute method, resulting in the function being called arbitrarily. The attack occurred from 18:52 to 19:40 (UTC) on April 14, and the hackers carried out attacks by deploying attack contracts on multiple chains such as opBNB, Base, BSC, Taiko, B2 and Manta. After negotiation, the hacker agreed to retain a 10% bounty and has returned all stolen assets, including USDT, USDC, ETH, BNB, WBTC and DAI, to a multi-signature wallet designated by KiloEx.

2. The Ethereum Foundation focuses on L1 expansion and UX improvement, and Vitalik will focus on research directions

According to Golden Finance, Tomasz K. Stańczak, the new co-executive director of the Ethereum Foundation, issued a statement saying that the foundation will shift its R&D focus to L1 expansion, L2 support and user experience optimization, covering protocol upgrades such as Pectra, Fusaka and Glamsterdam. Vitalik Buterin will reduce daily coordination and focus on research drives, including RISC‑V, zkVM and privacy direction. He emphasized that Vitalik and other researchers' proposals are exploratory content and require community discussion and review, with the goal of accelerating Ethereum's future breakthroughs.

3. Solana 's staking market value briefly surpasses Ethereum, and Lido's liquid staking share is high, which has caused centralized concerns

According to Cointelegraph, the total value of SOL tokens pledged by Solana's network yesterday briefly exceeded the market value of Ethereum pledged ETH. On-chain data shows that 505,938 independent wallets pledged SOLs worth US$53.9 billion on Solana's network, with an annualized yield of 8.31%; a total of 34.7 million ETHs on the Ethereum chain participated in the pledge, worth US$53.93 billion. The high verification threshold of 32 ETH (about 50,000 US dollars) has led to a large number of stakers shifting from node stakes to liquid stake protocols, which is the key reason for the reduction of native stakes on the Ethereum chain. Currently, about US$21.5 billion of funds on the Ethereum chain are involved in liquid staking, and Lido alone accounts for 88% of the market share, which has exacerbated concerns about Ethereum's centralization. Ethereum developers are exploring solutions to promote staking decentralization.

4.PlanB: Ethereum is "centralized and pre-mined" and should be ridiculed and eliminated by the market

According to Golden Finance, analyst PlanB posted on the X platform, "Ethereum is a centralized, pre-mining project, using PoS instead of PoW, and the supply mechanism can be switched at will. I have always believed that this altcoin is doomed to fail, and it is reasonable to perform weakly now. Such projects should be ridiculed and eliminated by the market."

5. At the current gas fee level, the average Ethereum transfer fee has dropped to about US$0.01

According to Golden Finance, Etherscan data, the average gas fee for Ethereum main network has dropped to 0.297gwei, and the average transfer fee for transfer fees has been lowered to about US$0.01 at the current fee level.

6. Founder of ai16z: The native token of auto.fun is ai16z

On April 21, ai16z founder Shaw said on social platforms that auto.fun's native token is ai16z. Previous reports, ai16z founder Shaw explained that he had purchased a token called FUN on pump.fun: There has not been any official auto.fun tokens yet, nor has any related plans, and the tokens purchased are just to build momentum. I'll send my supply to the DAO and I think we'll keep it, you can do CTO or whatever.

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