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Last week marked the one-year anniversary of Ethereum’s historic “Merge” – the shift to a more energy-efficient proof-of-stake network. But in some ways the largest smart-contract blockchain has become a victim of its own success: Staking is so popular that the number of network validators is mushrooming toward 1 million, introducing new concerns related to the sprawl. We discuss how Ethereum developers are addressing the issue with the EIP-7514 proposal.

Maker (MKR), the governance token of decentralized finance (DeFi) lender MakerDAO, is nearing its highest price since last May, buoyed by rising protocol profits and large investors accumulating the token.

Why all the excitement about spot bitcoin ETFs? Well, a gold ETF was a huge deal for markets, and people wonder if $BTC might be next.

Explosive Ethereum growth is on the way, with layer 2s like Arbitrum, Optimism and now Base paving the way, Michael Nadeau of The DeFi Report writes.

His planned exit follows that of the deputy CEO Noah Sharp in June.

The company filed for bankruptcy in August.

The recent decline in the ETH/BTC ratio continues a trend that began more than a year ago.

The Fed on Wednesday is widely expected to hold rates steady, but investors will monitor new economic projections and Chairman Powell’s press conference for clues about the direction of future policy.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) isn’t done chasing down crypto exchanges and decentralized finance (DeFi) projects it sees as violating securities laws in the same vein as Coinbase Inc. (COIN) and Binance, said David Hirsch, head of the agency’s Crypto Assets and Cyber Unit.