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Barclays Bank’s $131 million stake in BlackRock’s Bitcoin ETF highlights the accelerating institutional shift toward cryptocurrency investments. As traditional financial giants increase their exposure to Bitcoin, the market is witnessing a deeper integration of digital assets into regulated investment strategies.
As regulatory scrutiny in crypto intensifies, Hex Trust’s move to acquire Byte Trading highlights its push to provide institutional-grade financial services. With new capital from Morgan Creek Digital, the firm is doubling down on its expansion strategy.
While many have viewed Bitcoin as an asset to stash away, emerging Layer-2 solutions are beginning to unlock its hidden potential. By merging advanced programmability with Bitcoin’s robust security, these networks could steer the largest cryptocurrency toward a new era of decentralized finance.
The bill sets specific criteria for digital asset investments, limiting them to cryptocurrencies with a market capitalization exceeding $750 billion.
Grayscale aims to stake Ether within its Grayscale Ethereum Trust ETF (ETHE) and Grayscale Ethereum Mini Trust ETF (ETH).
Quick Take Argentinian lawyers, alongside the former head of the country’s Central Bank, charged President Javier Milei with fraud over his involvement with the $LIBRA token project, which collapsed 95% from its peak. Hayden Davis, an advisor to the project, accused Milei of sparking the crash by withdrawing his support, though the token had already lost significant value by that time.
- 06:59Bitcoin Core to Unilaterally Remove OP_RETURN LimitationsMay 6 news, Bitcoin Core developers have decided to remove the restrictions on transaction data in the next network upgrade, allowing more data to be included in a more efficient manner. Bitcoin developer Greg Sanders announced on GitHub on May 5: "The next version of Bitcoin Core will by default relay and mine transactions with OP_RETURN outputs exceeding 80 bytes and allow any number of outputs." In response, critics argue that the proposal was made without proper consensus procedures. Marty Bent, managing partner of Ten31 Fund, stated: "There is currently no consensus on the OP_RETURN issue." Reportedly, OP_RETURN allows transaction outputs that store small amounts of data on the blockchain, which became popular during the Bitcoin ordinal craze in early 2024. Unlike regular transaction outputs, OP_RETURN outputs are unspendable and do not increase unspent transaction outputs (UTXO). (Cointelegraph)
- 06:59Ethereum Developers Discuss Free DA Issue and Solutions Triggered by EIP-7886On May 6, Ethereum developer @nero_eth published an article discussing the "Delayed Execution and Free DA Issue." Delayed execution (EIP-7886) changes the verification process: validators certify block validity through pre-checks (such as nonce and balance) before transactions are fully executed. If a transaction fails due to insufficient balance during execution (for example, transaction A depletes account B's balance, causing B's transaction B to be unable to pay for Gas), its data is already written into the block and processed by validators, but no fees are paid. This leads to the Free DA issue: invalid transactions occupy on-chain data availability resources, and validators are not compensated. The article proposes four solutions: optimistic certification, pre-validation and pre-charging, pre-charging entities, and no-operation on the execution layer. These solutions ensure that data writing incurs costs through pre-deducting fees, block reorganization, or state rollback, preventing network congestion and economic unfairness caused by Free DA.
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