Vitalik Buterin says Ethereum now has the building blocks for its original Web3 vision, citing PoS, ZK-EVM, PeerDAS, L2s, Waku, and decentralized storage tools such as Fileverse.
The three independent decentralized infrastructure projects—Codex, Nomos, and Waku—have unified under the Logos brand, combining storage, consensus, and messaging into a single privacy-first stack. Public testnet targeted for 2026, mainnet for 2027.
EthSystems, a new for-profit company founded by Mo Jalil, Oskar Thorén, and Aaryamann Challani, has spun out of the Ethereum Foundation’s institutional privacy initiative. The team spent the past year running the Foundation’s Institutional Privacy Task Force, holding hundreds of conversations with central banks, regulators, tier-one banks, and asset managers. Now operating independently, EthSystems says it is building privacy and compliance technology that would let banks and asset managers use Ethereum without exposing trade data or client identities on a public ledger. The company starts with a year’s worth of open-source work already published, including proofs of concept for private bonds, confidential stablecoin transfers, private cross-chain settlement, hardened shielded pools, and an Ethereum Privacy Map. Its launch also comes as the Ethereum Foundation continues to shrink and restructure in 2026, with several teams splitting off to handle work the Foundation is stepping back from. EthSystems is backed by Bitmine Immersion Technologies, Sharplink, Ethereum co-founder Joe Lubin, and Asia-focused investment firm SNZ.
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin publishes 'Make Ethereum Cypherpunk Again,' calling for a return to decentralized, censorship-resistant, open-source values. He highlights progress in rollups and ZK proofs as key enablers for this shift.
Status (SNT) is an ERC-20 token powering a decentralized messaging app and Ethereum DApp browser. With ~4.81B tokens in circulation and no max supply, we analyze its technology, tokenomics, and market positioning in the Web3 communication space.
Russia escalates Telegram blocks, impacting over 95 million users including crypto traders. VPN usage expected to hit 50% by year-end, but Telegram's mini-app ecosystem remains irreplaceable. Market concerns arise over local crypto operations.
