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According to official sources, the Ethereum Foundation stated that it has completed its five-year cooperation agreement with Argot Collective to support the development and maintenance of critical Ethereum infrastructure under a neutral, independent framework. Argot Collective stated that both parties have completed the final phase of the original five-year funding commitment, with approximately 4,938 staked ETH to be transferred to a multi-signature wallet and unlocked in phases on July 1, 2026, and July 1, 2027.
According to on-chain analyst Ember's monitoring, Sharplink received 5,000 ETH (worth $7.85 million) from FalconX 6 hours ago. This marks the company's first ETH accumulation in 8 months.Sharplink currently holds 876,000 ETH, valued at $1.37 billion, with an average cost of $3,609. It is currently facing an unrealized loss of $1.789 billion, a decline of 56%.On June 23, Bitmine, Sharplink, and Joseph Lubin jointly established the Ethereum non-profit organization Ethlabs to take over some of the Ethereum Foundation's functions.
Ink, an Ethereum Layer 2 network incubated by Kraken, has reached a multi-year infrastructure agreement with Optimism, upgrading to OP Enterprise Fully Managed.Under the agreement, Optimism will be responsible for running Ink's production infrastructure, while the Ink Foundation will focus on ecosystem growth and new financial products. Additionally, Ink will serve as a deep design partner for OP Enterprise, jointly advancing roadmap plans including programmable block construction, one-day Ethereum withdrawals, and sequencer-level compliance tools.Currently, applications built on the Ink network generate nearly $40 million in annual revenue. This partnership makes Ink another exchange-related blockchain network to join the fully managed layer service, following Bitpanda's Vision Chain. (The Block)
Odaily News David Hoffman, the founder of Bankless who previously liquidated all his ETH, posted on X regarding the newly established Ethlabs, stating: "The Ethereum Foundation (EF) deliberately left a power vacuum, allowing new organizational structures to step up and influence the direction of Ethereum's development.""I believe the direction Ethlabs is leading represents the brightest future for Ethereum. I am pleased to and will continue to support them on their journey ahead."Previously, David Hoffman publicly stated in late May that he had fully exited his ETH positions. Last night, several former Ethereum Foundation researchers announced the establishment of the non-profit organization Ethlabs, aiming to drive Ethereum into its next phase of growth. Bitmine, SharpLink, and Joe Lubin have all expressed their support.
Vibhu, Chief Product Officer of the Solana Foundation, and professional trader drews888 each contributed $10,000 to launch a public trading duel on the Phoenix Trade platform. As of market close on May 25, the participant with the better profit-and-loss performance will receive an additional $1,000 reward from the other.
According to documents filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the Gates Foundation Trust sold its remaining approximately 7.7 million shares of Microsoft stock in the first quarter of 2026, valued at roughly $3.2 billion based on current share prices. As of the end of the quarter, the charitable foundation no longer holds any Microsoft stock. Market analysts believe this full divestment aligns with Bill Gates’ recent charitable planning direction. In May 2025, Gates announced that the foundation would gradually wind down its operations over the next 20 years and allocate all its assets to charitable purposes, with the goal of permanently closing the foundation by December 31, 2045; charitable expenditures during this period are projected to exceed $200 billion.
According to on-chain analyst Onchain Lens (@OnchainLens), a wallet funded by the Ethereum Foundation deposited 1,744 ETH—worth approximately $4.03 million—into Kraken.
According to on-chain analyst Ember (@EmberCN), the Ethereum Foundation’s wallet received 22.92 million USDC from Coinbase Prime five hours ago. Ember noted that this transfer may be related to the payment for the Ethereum Foundation’s over-the-counter (OTC) sale of 10,000 ETH to Bitmine one week ago.
Odaily, Berachain Foundation issued a warning on the X platform, stating that the Wasabi Protocol experienced a cross-chain security incident due to a deployer's private key leak, which has impacted multiple blockchains including Berachain. To prevent the risk from spreading, Berachain has suspended and blacklisted all affected Wasabi Reward Vaults within its network, immediately halting the distribution of BGT staking rewards to the compromised contracts and blocking the flow of new BGT into the affected vaults.The official team requires all users who have previously interacted with Wasabi on Berachain to immediately revoke token approvals for the specified contracts to avoid the risk of asset theft. Berachain also emphasized that the BGT reward funds within the native Reward Vaults remain secure and users can claim them normally; this incident does not affect core ecosystem interests.
on-chain analytics platform Arkham posted on X, stating that the Ethereum Foundation has unstaked approximately $48.9 million worth of ETH. Tracking data shows that the Ethereum Foundation has deposited WSTETH into Lido's unstETH contract and will receive the corresponding ETH once the unlocking process is complete.The market's focus is on whether the Ethereum Foundation will proceed to sell the ETH obtained from this unstaking. Previously, the Ethereum Foundation has sold ETH on multiple occasions for operational fund management, drawing ongoing market attention to potential selling pressure.
According to on-chain analyst Ember (@EmberCN), the rsETH incident on April 18 resulted in a funding shortfall of approximately 68,900 ETH (around $160 million): the hacker collateralized rsETH to borrow 99,600 ETH; after Arbitrum recovered 30,700 ETH, the remaining funds were fully converted by the hacker into BTC. The incident has now entered the remediation phase. Aave is coordinating the establishment of a “DeFi United” relief fund, which has so far received cumulative donations totaling 13,500 ETH (approximately $31.45 million). Donors include Lido Finance (2,500 stETH), ether.fi Foundation (5,000 ETH), Aave founder Stani Kulechov (5,000 ETH), Golem Foundation (1,000 ETH), as well as LayerZero and Ink Foundation (amounts undisclosed).
According to on-chain analyst Yujin (@EmberCN), of the 5,000 ETH planned for sale by the Ethereum Foundation, 3,750 ETH have already been sold, generating approximately $8.3 million in proceeds at an average sale price of $2,214 per ETH.