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The Taipei Ethereum Meetup recently hosted Crosslink Taiwan 2019. It was a wonderful event and a perfect opportunity for the Ethereum Foundation’s Ecosystem Support Program (ESP) to provide a Taiwan-specific wave of grants! The recipients are as follows. 🍍 Group 1: Ethereum-based Technical Projects: USD$5,000 awarded to each project Eauth (License: MIT): An OAuth-compatible service based on Ethereum credentials to authenticate users on a website.Ethereum Wallet SDK (License: LGPL-3.0): An SDK enabling Dapps to connect with different wallets.SOLL (License: Apache-2.0): A new compiler for generating Ewasm code from Solidity code. The ceremony at Crosslink Taiwan. The pineapple is a pun…

Key Takeaways Sonic saw a surge in price following an inflow of over $23 million in TVL and positive chain netflows. However, the potential for a sustained boom does not fully align with the recent gains. In the past day, Sonic [S] emerged as one of the market’s top performers, posting a 10% gain—a sharp turnaround from the 17% drop it had recorded earlier. AMBCrypto analysis found that while the broader market remains bullish, sentiment across key metrics is not in full alignment, leaving room for a possible decline. Here’s how the situation could play out. S: Liquidity grows The Total…

Mike Novogratz’s Galaxy Digital closed a $1.4 billion secured term loan facility to accelerate the development of its Helios artificial intelligence datacenter campus in Texas. On Friday, the company announced that the loan will cover about 80% of the construction costs for the first phase of the project, with Galaxy Digital contributing $350 million in equity. According to a US Securities and Exchange Commission filing, the loan is secured by all assets of Galaxy Helios I, a subsidiary of Galaxy Digital, and it will mature on Aug. 15, 2028. The capital will fund the expansion of the Helios AI datacenter to deliver…

Solana throughput briefly spiked to six figures under a high load of program call transactions over the weekend, according to a developer. Mert Mumtaz, the co-founder of the Solana developer tooling firm Helius, said on Sunday that Solana became the “first major blockchain” to record 100,000 transactions per second (TPS) on its mainnet.He shared that a Solana block late on Sunday saw 43,016 successful transactions and 50 failed ones, claiming the total TPS reached 107,540.However, most transactions were not token exchanges or trades but no-operation or “noop” program calls, an instruction that doesn’t perform meaningful computation or state changes. Solana transactions must…

What if a single decision today could turn a modest investment into a fortune tomorrow? Crypto has always carried that promise, and the surge of meme coins shows no sign of slowing. Investors across the U.S. are shifting attention toward the top new meme coins to buy for 2025, driven by community hype, speculative potential, and the thrill of outsized returns. While meme legends like Dogecoin and Shiba Inu set the stage, newer tokens such as Turbo (TURBO), Cat in a Dog’s World (MEW), and the rising star Arctic Pablo Coin (APC) are creating waves of excitement. Arctic Pablo has…

Ethereum price started a downside correction below the $4,650 zone. ETH is showing some bearish signs and might decline toward the $4,180 support zone. Ethereum started a fresh decline below the $4,650 and $4,620 levels. The price is trading below $4,500 and the 100-hourly Simple Moving Average. There is a bearish trend line forming with resistance at $4,520 on the hourly chart of ETH/USD (data feed via Kraken). The pair could continue to move down if it settles below the $4,250 zone in the near term. Ethereum Price Dips Further Ethereum price failed to accelerate higher above the $4,750 zone,…

Thailand is reportedly planning a nationwide regulatory sandbox allowing foreign visitors to convert crypto into local currency for electronic payments in a bid to boost tourism.Known as TouristDigiPay, the scheme is expected to go live on Monday and allow users to exchange cryptocurrencies for Thai baht and make electronic payments through e-money service providers, according to a report on Saturday from local newspaper The Nation.Only tourists in Thailand will be eligible to use the service after undergoing Know Your Customer due diligence checks and opening an account with a digital asset business and an e-money provider regulated by the Bank…

A former Monero lead developer sparked controversy after revealing that a close friend—previously skeptical of crypto—wanted to buy XRP, believing banks would be obsolete within two years. Igniting the XRP Debate: A Skeptic’s Inquiry The claim by Riccardo Spagni, former lead developer for Monero, that a close friend and longtime crypto skeptic had expressed interest […]

Introducing the Ecosystem Support Program In the beginning, most Ethereum-related development and research occurred within the Ethereum Foundation. Today, the Ethereum ecosystem has grown from a small garden to a vast, vibrant rainforest. Along the way, the Ethereum Foundation’s role within the ecosystem has changed almost as much. However, supporting Ethereum to the best of our ability has remained constant as our number one goal. From DEV Grants, to scalability-focused grants), to general purpose support, grants have long been a large part of how we support Ethereum. Increasing the leverage of our grants program has compounding benefits. Accordingly, it’s one…

The community for Qubic, the AI-focused blockchain project that executed a 51% attack on Monero this week and gained majority control of the network’s computing power, has voted to target Dogecoin (DOGE) next.Sergey Ivancheglo, the founder of the Qubic network, asked the Qubic community which application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC)-enabled, proof-of-work blockchain the group should target with its next 51% attack, including DOGE, Kaspa (KAS), and Zcash (ZEC).“The Qubic community has chosen Dogecoin,” Ivancheglo, who goes by the online handle Come-from-Beyond, wrote in a Sunday X post announcing the results of the vote.Dogecoin, which has a market cap of over $35…