On January 6th, renowned cryptocurrency media outlet CoinDesk reported that global retail giant Walmart has officially integrated Bitcoin and Ethereum trading functionality into its digital payment application, OnePay.
Vitalik: ZK-EVM and PeerDAS will solve the blockchain trilemma, and the Ethereum network will simultaneously possess decentralization, consensus, and high bandwidth.
Global asset management giant BlackRock recently completed a large-scale cryptocurrency transfer, depositing a total of 1,044 Bitcoins and 7,557 Ethereums into the Coinbase exchange. This operation involved assets exceeding $114 million.
Chairman of Ethereum-based financial services company BitMine, shared his market insights, pointing out that the financial services sector is currently undergoing a series of positive changes.
On December 18, Ethereum network transaction throughput will increase again next month, and developers plan to raise Ethereum's gas limit from 60 million to 80 million in January.
According to CriptoNoticias, members of the Bolivian Blockchain Association plan to submit a proposal to the president that aims to tokenize gold and other precious metals on the Ethereum network.
According to the Ethereum Foundation, BPO-1 has been activated, increasing the blob size per block to 15 and adding L2 space without a hard fork. The Ethereum Foundation stated that BPO-2 will launch in January, further increasing capacity.
Pheasant Network announced that it has raised $2 million through seed funding and an ecosystem fund, with additional support from the Ethereum Foundation, the Optimism Foundation, Polygon Labs, and multiple Layer 2 ecosystems.
Payment giant Stripe will enable stablecoin payments for user accounts. This feature supports payments using stablecoins such as USDC on major blockchain networks including Ethereum, Base, and Polygon.
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has launched a pilot program allowing the use of Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), and the USDC stablecoin as collateral in the U.S. derivatives market.