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Bit2Me has established a specialized unit to help law enforcement track crypto assets, formalizing previous cooperation with agencies including Interpol and Europol. The exchange processed €1.5 million in seized cryptocurrency during 2025.
Ethereum’s proposed Frames change would allow extra validation work at individual nodes, but privacy proofs studied so far exceed the shared 100,000-gas allowance. One proof reportedly requires nearly twice the proposed budget.
Ethereum’s EIP-8141 could allow users to pay transaction fees without holding ETH. The proposal has been in draft form since January and was initially presented by its authors as a defense against quantum computers.
Ethereum is advancing Frame Transactions, a feature designed to let users pay gas fees without holding ETH. The feature entered the Hegotá upgrade last month, and Vitalik Buterin says development has progressed quickly since.
CryptoSlate reports that a reduced RowDAS design shared reconstruction duties in 1,000-node tests, potentially easing Ethereum’s rollup-related computing load while retaining reliance on high-custody nodes.
Vitalik Buterin estimates a 60% chance of a cryptography breakthrough involving three primitives. At least one, probably SNARKs, could arrive by decade-end and potentially weaken traditional Wall Street intermediaries.
Harmony proposed shutting down its layer-1 blockchain and migrating ONE to Ethereum, weeks after an exploit led to plans to discard 109,000 transactions. The proposal’s timeline and implementation details were not disclosed.
A CryptoSlate-cited two-year model says Bitmine could exceed its 5% Ethereum goal without further purchases, but would need to retain about 74% of rewards with flat supply and 96.5% if supply grows 0.5% annually.
Robinhood Chain is an Ethereum layer-2 network built with Arbitrum technology. Decrypt describes it as infrastructure for tokenized stocks, meme coins, crypto applications and other on-chain financial products.
A Japanese company sold its Ethereum, Solana and XRP holdings for ¥878.8 million, while keeping $121 million in Bitcoin. Management may use the proceeds beyond cryptocurrency, leaving its portfolio Bitcoin-only.
Standard Chartered has launched bitcoin trading in the United Arab Emirates, Bitcoin Magazine reports. The UAE joins other markets where the bank has introduced spot bitcoin trading in recent years.
