According to data agency Arkham, on December 22nd, a new address starting with 0x454 borrowed 48 million USD worth of ETH on Aave by pledging 80 million USD worth of WBTC, and transferred the ETH to Coinbase. The address received the funds three days ago and made the transaction when the ETH to BTC exchange rate hit a new low.

Christine Kim, the Vice President of Galaxy Research, summarized the 177th Ethereum Core Developer Execution Layer Meeting (ACDE). This week, developers set a tentative date to activate the Cancun/Deneb upgrade on all three public Ethereum test networks.The test network upgrade schedule is as follows: Goerli fork on January 17, 2023, Sepolia fork on January 31, 2023, and Holesky fork on February 7, 2023.These dates may change as developers may need to update them in the coming weeks due to unexpected errors and issues with client releases.Developers also discussed the performance of the second Goerli shadow fork, the precompiled address range for Layer 2, and expectations for the Prague/Electra upgrade. The meeting also confirmed that the next ACDE meeting will be held on January 4th.

The market shows ETH has broken through $2300 and is currently trading at $2300.26, with a daily increase of 3.84%. The market is volatile, so please take caution and manage your risks.

According to Whale Alert monitoring, 12,800 ETH (approximately $29,230,271) was transferred from an unknown wallet to the Beacon Depositor Contract.

According to Whale Alert monitoring, 20,000 ETH (approximately $44,184,202) was transferred from Bybit to an unknown wallet.

The concentration of power among a small group of validators, including Lido, on the Ethereum network is a significant security risk. Lido controls a large portion of staked ETH, and if this share increases, it could lead to network outages or malicious activity. Decentralized validator technology (DVT) aims to address this vulnerability by spreading operations across multiple parties. Lido is testing a "Simple DVT Module" in partnership with Obol and SSV, and while larger institutions may take time to adopt DVT, hobbyist solo-stakers and community-run collectives are expected to embrace the technology soon.

According to Whale Alert monitoring, 16,123 ETH (worth about $35,685,329) was transferred from an unknown wallet to Coinbase.

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Bloomberg analyst James Seyffart recently discussed a noteworthy development in his blog. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has changed its stance on Ethereum. Seyffart stated that with the approval of Ethereum futures ETFs, the SEC is subtly acknowledging that Ethereum may be considered a commodity rather than a security. If the SEC changes its stance and classifies Ethereum as a security, it would have a significant impact.

According to WhaleAlert monitoring data, at 17:49 Beijing time, 9,614 ETH (worth $20,774,326) was transferred from BitFlyer to an unknown wallet.

According to Whale Alert monitoring data, at around 10:01 Beijing time, 9,682 ETH (worth about $21,534,509) was transferred from an unknown wallet to Binance.

Inscription certainly has a disadvantage compared to Bitcoin, but attempting to prevent Inscription may cause much more damage than Inscription itself.

According to on-chain analyst Ai Auntie's monitoring, about half an hour ago, address 0xf73...3242D deposited 5,000 ETH (worth $11.54 million) and 3 million USDT into Blast; all of these funds were withdrawn from Binance.

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On December 17th, EtchMarket data shows that the price of one Ethereum Name Service token, eths, has risen to $14,000, with a 30% increase in 24 hours. It is reported that eths is the first text token issued based on the Ethereum Name Service protocol, Ethscriptions.

On December 16th, according to Lookonchain monitoring, a whale address that has been dormant for a year is selling ETH on the chain. So far, 18,865 ETH has been sold through 4 new wallets at a price of 42 million US dollars in DAI, with an average selling price of 2,229 US dollars. The address still has 5,588 ETH (approximately 12.5 million US dollars) that has not been sold.

The Ethereum community has officially signed the Ethereum Improvement Proposal (EIP) ERC-3643, establishing it as the recognized standard for tokenization of real-world assets (RWA). The proposal has reached its final state, meaning that it has been formally reviewed, discussed, and agreed upon within the Ethereum community, similar to the process of establishing ERC-20 and other standards in the past.

Enphyr, an Ethereum Layer 2 solution, announced the completion of a $1 million seed round financing at a valuation of $10 million. Waveslab Ventures led the investment with participation from a group of industry private equity investors. Enphyr mainly helps projects use the security of Ethereum and build the next generation of Web 3 applications through its data privacy, data tokenization, and blockchain-supported KYC verification services. The new funds will be used to expand the team and build strategic partnerships.

According to Scopescan monitoring, a whale with an address starting with 0x597c withdrew 15,896 ETH (worth 34 million US dollars) from Coinbase within 24 hours.

On December 13th, the Ethereum 2.0 client Teku posted on X platform that Teku V23.12.0 has been released. The main changes are as follows: Added checkpoint-sync-url option; Bug fixes and performance improvements.