On March 22nd, Christine Kim, the Vice President of Galaxy Research, summarized the 130th Ethereum Core Developer Consensus (ACDC) conference call, during which developers discussed and coordinated changes to the Ethereum consensus layer (CL). This week, developers discussed prominent action items related to the Dencun upgrade, the Pectra upgrade proposal, and improvements to the Ethereum network layer. Developers agreed to include EIP 7251 (increasing max_effective_balance) in Pectra and continue studying EIP 7547 (including lists) for possible inclusion in the upgrade. Among them, Danny Ryan, a researcher at the Ethereum Foundation, emphasized two major proposals, EIP 7251 and EIP 7547, when discussing Pectra code changes, and emphasized the urgency of making decisions. He pointed out that the team needs to make a decision before the end of March in order to achieve the functional prototype and development network of Electra in May. In addition, the meeting also discussed two draft proposals for light client development, including the synchronization committee penalty and light client data backfill components. The meeting solicited the opinions of the CL client team on these components, especially the impact of EIP 7251 (increasing max_effective_balance) on the punishment conditions for large validators participating in the synchronization committee.

On March 20th, according to CEHV partner Adam Cochran's disclosure on social media, the report by Coindesk, a cryptocurrency media outlet, that "the Ethereum Foundation is under official investigation by a certain country" is not true and is an old news from three weeks ago, with a title designed to attract readers' attention. Adam Cochran stated that the regulatory agency sent a "voluntary" general information request to the Ethereum Foundation, but the title says "under investigation", which is like a police officer walking past you in a mall and asking "Hey, did you see anything happen here?" and someone writing that you are under investigation.

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On March 13th, it was announced that the Ethereum Dencun upgrade had been completed. In response to community questions about "what's next," core developer Tim Beiko stated that EIP-7600 would be discussed at tomorrow's core developer meeting. EIP-7600 is the code name for the Pectra upgrade, which is similar to the Dencun upgrade in that it combines two upgrades, Deneb and Cancun. The Pectra upgrade combines two upgrades, Prague and Electra, with Prague being the more familiar "Prague upgrade" in the community. The Pectra upgrade is expected to include four Ethereum Improvement Proposals: EIP-2537, EIP-6110, EIP-7002, and EIP-7549.

According to Etherscan data, the current Ethereum network gas fee has risen to 100 gwei.

Data shows that the current market value of Ethereum is 485.9 billion US dollars, surpassing Walmart (483.3 billion US dollars) and ranking 19th in the global mainstream asset ranking.

Suppose that it is announced tomorrow that quantum computers are available, and bad actors already have access to them and are able to use them to steal users’ funds. Preventing such a scenario is the goal of quantum-resistant cryptography (eg. Winternitz signatures, STARKs), and once account abstraction is in place, any user can switch to using a quantum-resistant signature scheme on their own schedule. But what if we don’t have that much time, and a sudden quantum transition happens long before that?

Spot On Chain monitoring shows that in the past hour, wallets associated with PulseChain/X have used 59 million DAI to purchase an additional 15,003 ETH on the chain at a price of approximately $3,932 per ETH. The total amount purchased in the past four days is 163,295 ETH (cost: 620.7 million DAI, average price: $3,801), with unrealized profits of $24.3 million.

People describe Ethereum in a lot of different ways. It’s a smart contract platform, an asset ledger, an always-on financial system, a massive multiplayer online money game, and so on and so forth.

According to OKX market data, Ethereum returned above $3,900 after 792 days and is currently priced at $3,901 with a 24-hour increase of 4.22%.