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“If there is no feasible plan to incentivize shipping companies and insurers to arrange tankers to pass through the strait, the lack of secure alternative export routes could result in most of the Middle East's energy exports becoming ‘stranded assets’.” Expand

Vitalik Buterin is concerned about the issue of decision-making power over which transactions enter a block, and has proposed a series of solutions to prevent excessive centralization in the block construction process. He also focused on discussing "harmful MEV," referring to behaviors where traders exploit the visibility of pending transactions to front-run or "sandwich" user trades.

Meanwhile, the company is preparing for a crucial pre-IPO test, with its valuation possibly reaching 1.5 trillions USD. At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, executives from Elon Musk's rocket company provided the clearest timeline yet for the commercial debut of the next-generation rocket. Michael Nichols, Senior Vice President of SpaceX's Starlink business, stated that "Starship" will be ready in time to launch the next-generation upgraded Starlink mobile satellite constellation in mid-2027. SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell said during the conference that a test flight of "Starship" is expected to take place within the next four to six weeks. Musk had previously hinted in a social media post in January that the 12th test flight of "Starship" would occur in early March.