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Are we really on the road to financial freedom, or just laying down another path to serfdom? The pending “Altcoin ETF Summer,” made possible by a reportedly softer-spoken SEC, goes beyond providing better chances for investment. Rather, it is about the possibility for great social returns and good societal impact...
Robinhood’s plunge into tokenized stocks is certainly audacious. Perhaps a real future of finance has arrived. Will it truly transform the field, or is it merely another sparkly new object that will fizzle out in a few months? To put it frankly, this isn’t enough. What they are doing in...
The buzz is deafening. "Altcoin ETF Summer!" they scream. The SEC is finally easing up, the first ETFs are on their way, and your portfolio is about to blow up. But hold on. So before you start this altcoin adventure, let’s slow the roll and provide a bit of reality...
Robinhood has publicly reiterated plans to introduce tokenized stock trading after RBC’s launch on the firm’s new Ethereum-compatible layer-2, Robinhood Chain. The announcement during the EthCC conference in Paris is a key moment for the company’s further move into decentralized finance (DeFi). Robinhood Chain, which was developed on Arbitrum Orbit,...
Robinhood is planning on staking their tokenized stocks EU debut. It really can’t be overstated how much this feels like watching a high-stakes poker game with all the players pretty much new to the table. We’re not just referring to 24/7 trading and fractional ownership, but a much greater level...
Ethereum, the blockchain platform that had the vision to dream bigger than simple transactions, is ever-changing. Now, a new proposal is on the table, one that aims to tweak the very engine that powers the network: gas. Will this change really improve security and stability, or will it cause new...
Here’s one way to measure the gas limit increase Vitalik Buterin’s EIP-7983 is being proposed to limit Ethereum’s capacity expansion. Is this overkill security, or building a gilded cage for normal users, most especially those from developing nations? We’re told it’s all about stability, about preventing Denial-of-Service attacks. Again, who...
Vitalik Buterin and Toni Wahrstätter recently introduced Ethereum Improvement Proposal (EIP) 7983 to accomplish this. This proposal’s goal is to introduce a protocol-level cap on transaction gas usage. Through this proposal, we hope to achieve increased network security, improved performance, and greater predictability in the execution of transactions. This initiative...
Vitalik Buterin’s proposal EIP-7983, to add a gas cap to individual Ethereum transactions, seems like a simple workflow-enhancing security improvement. We get it, the threat of DoS attacks is scary and transaction costs you can count on are nice to have. But is it that easy, or are we ignoring...
