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The Ethereum Foundation has announced the launch of a post-quantum security resource platform to centrally showcase Ethereum's research progress and roadmap in the direction of post-quantum security.The project is led by the post-quantum team and the cryptography team, and is promoted in collaboration with the protocol architecture and coordination teams. Relevant research has been ongoing for over 8 years. The platform covers the impact of post-quantum on various protocol layers, a complete roadmap, open-source code, and specifications. Currently, more than 10 client teams are participating in related development network testing.

The Ethereum Foundation today released a systematic explanation regarding the evolution of the roles of L1 and L2. The core point indicates that as the ecosystem matures, the primary goal of L2 has shifted from "scaling Ethereum" to "providing differentiated functions, customized services, and autonomous controllable areas," while scaling has become a secondary focus.The Foundation has redefined the roles of L1 and L2 as follows:· L1: As a permissionless, highly resilient global settlement layer, it undertakes the functions of shared state, liquidity, and DeFi hub, and must continue to scale while maintaining censorship resistance, open source, privacy, and security.· L2: While developing its own on-chain economy, it will extend Ethereum's core attributes to a broader user base, forming a "full-spectrum" ecosystem.The Foundation clarifies that L2s with the highest integration with L1 should pursue synchronous composability, complete interoperability, shared liquidity, and Stage 2 mechanisms. A large number of L2s with diverse business models and technical expertise will continue to play an important role, providing functionalities that L1 does not possess.The Ethereum Foundation stated that it will continue to invest in technology to help L2 smoothly extend L1's core attributes and securely access cross-layer liquidity, while emphasizing that L2 must maintain transparency and verifiability of its security attributes.

According to U.Today, the Bitcoin network experienced a rare two-block reorganization last night. At height 941880, the network briefly split into two competing chains. AntPool mined block 941881, and ViaBTC subsequently mined block 941882 on the same chain; meanwhile, Foundry USA mined its version of block 941881 and continued to mine its version of block 941882. After Foundry USA continued to mine blocks 941883, 941884, and 941885, the competing chain was broken, and the blocks from AntPool and ViaBTC were discarded as orphan blocks.This reorganization was not an attack or a failure, but rather a normal result of Bitcoin's decentralized consensus mechanism. Single-block reorganizations occur from time to time, but two-block reorganizations are relatively rare, indicating that the tie between the two chains lasted for an entire block cycle. Foundry USA mined seven consecutive blocks from 941879 to 941885.

According to CoinDesk, the Solana Foundation released a report titled "Privacy on Solana: A Comprehensive Approach for Modern Enterprises," which suggests that enterprise-level adoption requires flexible privacy controls and positions privacy as a customizable feature rather than a trade-off.The report argues that the next phase of crypto adoption will depend more on allowing enterprises to control the subjects and content of information disclosure, rather than solely relying on transparency. The Solana Foundation proposes that privacy encompasses four different modes: pseudonymity, confidentiality, anonymity, and complete privacy systems. Pseudonymity hides identity while transaction data is visible; confidentiality allows participants to be known but encrypts sensitive information; anonymity hides participant identities while transaction data is visible; and complete privacy systems obscure both identity and transaction data through technologies such as zero-knowledge proofs and multi-party computation.The report emphasizes that there is no single privacy model suitable for all scenarios, and enterprises can mix different tools according to their needs. The report notes that Solana's high throughput and low latency enable advanced privacy technologies to operate at near-network speeds, making applications such as encrypted order books or private credit risk calculations possible. The Solana Foundation also proposed mechanisms such as "audit keys," allowing designated parties to decrypt transactions when necessary, thus achieving coexistence between privacy and regulation.

Fernando Martinelli, co-founder of the Balancer protocol, announced the official closure of Balancer Labs (BLabs). He stated that BLabs, as a corporate entity, has become a burden for the protocol's development, and due to the ongoing legal risks from the v2 vulnerability incident on November 3, 2025, along with a lack of sustainable revenue sources, the decision to close has become inevitable.Core team members of BLabs will be integrated into Balancer OpCo through governance voting, with the relevant proposal submitted by Marcus and Danko.Fernando also stated that the protocol still has practical operational value—over $1 million in annualized total fee revenue in the past three months—so it will not cease operations entirely. He clearly supports the currently proposed tokenomics restructuring plan, which includes: reducing BAL emissions to zero, shutting down the veBAL mechanism, allocating 100% of protocol fees to the DAO treasury, lowering the v3 protocol revenue share to 25% to attract organic liquidity, and providing a buyback exit channel for BAL holders.

According to DL News, David Balland, co-founder of the French company Ledger, was kidnapped by a criminal gang in January 2025. The assailants cut off his fingers and demanded a ransom of $11.5 million in Bitcoin. After the incident, the police acted quickly, rescuing Balland and his partner, and arrested 10 suspects at the scene, but one suspect escaped to Spain amid the chaos. After weeks of joint pursuit by the police of both countries, the suspect was eventually captured in Benalmádena, Spain.Currently, the Fuengirola court is advancing the extradition process based on the European Arrest Warrant agreement, and French authorities have confirmed that they have identified and arrested all individuals involved.

Analysts say that the IoTeX private key may have been leaked, resulting in asset losses of approximately 4.3 million dollars; IoTeX officials reported on-chain attack losses of about 2 million dollars.

SkyBridge founder Anthony Scaramucci stated that the current Bitcoin bear market can be explained by the four-year cycle theory and long-term holders selling at the psychological price level of $100,000. He pointed out that while the inflow of institutional investors and Bitcoin ETFs has made the four-year cycle "milder," it has not completely eliminated this traditional cycle, and the collective belief of market participants can create a self-fulfilling prophecy.He predicts that Bitcoin will exhibit a volatile trend for most of 2026, with a rise beginning in the fourth quarter as part of a new bull market cycle. Scaramucci mentioned that market participants, including himself, had generally expected Bitcoin to rise to $150,000 by 2025, driven by the pro-crypto agenda of the Trump administration and a warming regulatory environment, but the market crash in October completely shattered this consensus.He used the example of Bitcoin's performance in early 2023 following the FTX collapse in November 2022 to illustrate that the market often moves in the opposite direction of mainstream sentiment, with bull markets typically starting during periods of "extreme apathy and lack of interest." The current bear market is considered a "normal" adjustment consistent with past corrections.

Two co-founders of the Indian cryptocurrency exchange CoinDCX, Sumit Gupta and Neeraj Khandelwal, who received investment from Coinbase, were arrested by the police on suspicion of involvement in a cryptocurrency investment scam. However, according to reports from other local media, the two were only summoned and not arrested.CoinDCX issued a statement saying that the case involves someone impersonating the founders of CoinDCX and defrauding an insurance consultant of 7.1 million rupees (approximately $75,000), and is unrelated to the two founders.

Aave founder Stani.eth confirmed in a post on the X platform that their protocol has no exposure to Resolv Labs' stablecoin USR. Resolv only acts as a liquidity provider supplying its supported assets to the Aave protocol. The related assets are currently safe, and the supporting assets themselves have not been affected. Resolv can exit smoothly and has begun repaying its debts. At the same time, this incident has no adverse impact on Aave liquidity providers (LPs) and does not affect the protocol itself.

Lily Liu, president of the Solana Foundation, posted on X stating that "games on the blockchain will not return" and indicated that blockchain gaming is dead.Liu's remarks stem from a Polymarket post earlier this week, which stated that Mark Zuckerberg's Meta is abandoning its metaverse vision after investing $80 billion. Although Meta's vision does not explicitly include blockchain or crypto assets, its strategy shares similar characteristics with various blockchain-based web3 game concepts.Reports indicate that Mythical Games is still advancing mobile games for the FIFA and Pudgy Penguins brands, while Gunzilla Games' shooting game Off the Grid has on-chain interactions set as optional.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, Sky co-founder Rune has completely closed his long position in $ETH, with a loss of approximately $257,000.Meanwhile, Rune has increased his long position in $BRENTOIL (7x leverage) and closed his long position in $CL (20x leverage). Currently, his account still has time-weighted average price (TWAP) orders for further opening and closing operations.Rune currently still holds short positions in $SP500 (20x leverage) and $XYZ100 (7x leverage).

F2Pool co-founder Wang Chun expressed on the X platform regarding the BIP-110 controversy that Bitcoin should not be sanctified and criticized some Bitcoin extremists for hindering technological innovation.He pointed out that some supporters view attempts at scaling or functional improvements as "altcoin attacks," using moral accusations to cover up a lack of innovation, transforming Bitcoin from an economic concept into a system with ideological overtones. Wang Chun stated that in the context of the continuous development of DeFi, privacy, and payment infrastructure, Bitcoin should not become a system that is "too rigid to evolve."

According to on-chain analyst @ai_9684xtpa, Intuition founder billΞ.eth (@0xbilly) sold 5,571 ETH at a loss of $703,000.He had previously bought 7,768.56 ETH on-chain at an average price of $2,240.1 during a significant rebound on March 16, worth $17.4 million; in the past 10 hours, he chose to sell 72% of his holdings at $2,113.77, partially cutting losses, while the remaining portion has been deposited into Etherfi.

According to Lookonchain monitoring, a wallet suspected to be related to ShapeShift founder Erik Voorhees (0x71D...B9B8) has spent 36.75 million USDT to purchase 17,084 ETH, with a purchase price of 2,151 dollars.