EtherWorld Weekly — Edition 302

Ethereum World News

• Kenya Prepares to Legalize Cryptocurrency Trading

  • Kenya plans to legalize cryptocurrency trading by introducing regulatory frameworks to harness opportunities while addressing risks like fraud and money laundering.

• Ripple Anticipates Approval of Spot XRP ETF

  • Ripple President Monica Long predicts the approval of a Spot XRP ETF following Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs, citing regulatory shifts and Ripple’s strategic plans for 2025.

• Ripple and Chainlink Partner to Boost RLUSD Stablecoin in DeFi

  • Ripple teams up with Chainlink to enhance RLUSD stablecoin's utility, integrating Chainlink’s price feed for secure, real-time transactions across Ethereum and XRP ledgers.

• Vitalik Buterin Donates $916K in Meme Coin Proceeds to Charity

  • Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin sold meme coins worth $940K, donating $916K to his biotech charity, Kanro, causing NEIRO's price to drop 3%.

News By EtherWorld

• Glamsterdam: The Next Upgrade After Fusaka

• Highlights of Ethereum's All Core Devs Meeting #148

• Ethereum’s Next Big Leap: Blob Target Increase Sparks Heated Conversations

• Aave v3 May Soon Expand to Mantle Network – Here’s What You Need to Know

• Gas Estimation is About to Get Easier on Ethereum

• Inside the Ethereum Foundation: Balancing Power, Transparency, and Decentralization

• Unveiling the Analytics Tool on EIPsInsight

• The Debate Over Freezing Ethereum's Core for Good

• Fixing Ethereum’s Message Signing Chaos

• Ethereum Developers Want to Combine Gas Estimation & Call Results

Client News and Updates

Client News

• AVS Allocation Strategies: EigenDA and ARPA Compared
  • EigenLayer's restaking protocols, securing $19B in assets, face challenges in AVS allocation. This research proposes a framework for restakers to build balanced portfolios, analyzing ARPA Network and EigenDA AVS for risks, rewards, and sustainability.

Client versions

• Execution Layer:

  • Nethermind 1.30.3
  • Geth 1.14.12
  • Erigon 2.61.0
  • Besu 24.12.2
  • Reth 1.1.5
  • EthereumJS 8.1.1

• Consensus Layer:

  • Teku 24.12.1
  • Nimbus v24.12.0
  • Prysm 5.2.0
  • Lodestar 1.24.0
  • Lighthouse 6.0.1

Ethereum Governance & Related Standards

Ethereum Standards:

• EIP-7840: Add blob schedule to EL config files

• EIP-7851: Deactivate/Reactivate a Delegated EOA's Key

• EIP-2935: Serve historical block hashes from state

• EIP-4788: Beacon block root in the EVM

ERCs and Their Current Status:(mention last call end date)

• ERC-7777: Governance for Human Robot Societies

• ERC-7751: Reached Last Call Status

  • Last Call Deadline: 2025-01-22

• ERC-7734: Decentralized Identity Verification (DID)

  • Last Call Deadline: 2025-01-21

• ERC-7820: Access Control Registry

  • Last Call Deadline: 2025-01-21

Trending RIPs:

• RIP-7560: Native Account Abstraction
• RIP-7696: generic Double Scalar Multiplication (DSM) for all curves

Insights from EIPsInsights.com

Podcasts

• 2025 Will Be a Year of Crypto Competition. Can ETH Make a Comeback?:

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• Preparing for Pectra: A Paw-some Video by EthCatHerders:

  • Join the Ethereum Cat Herders' adorable team as they help in the highly anticipated Pectra upgrade, set to launch in 2025. Discover what's new and why this upgrade is a game-changer for the Ethereum network!

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