Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of Ethereum, has proposed a new concept called "privacy pools" to differentiate between legal and illegal activities on the blockchain. The proposal aims to address concerns about privacy in blockchain technology, as governments have been increasing their efforts to combat criminal organizations using privacy mixers to obscure and launder their funds.

PeckShield monitoring shows that an address (0x5567...31B1) received about 999 ETH (equivalent to about $1.64 million) from a Vitalik related address (0xD04d...8fd7) four days ago. The address then transferred 300 ETH (about $490,000) to Bitstamp.

According to a report by blockchain analyst Yu Jin has monitored an address that withdrew 6,012 ETH (valued at $8.85 million) from Huobi on September 15, 2022, at a price of $1,472. Thirty minutes ago, the same address transferred the 6,012 ETH (valued at $9.82 million) to Binance. With the current ETH price at $1,633, the seller could make a profit of $970,000 (+11%) if they choose to sell.

On September 7th, Vyper, the Ethereum programming language, released candidate version v0.3.10. It added a code size optimization mode, a new #pragma instruction specific to Vyper, used Cancun's MCOPY opcode for some compiler-generated code, and generated selector tables that now have O(1) performance. Previously, reported on the vulnerability analysis report for the Vyper compiler release, which was fixed and tested in v0.3.1.

According to Bloomberg reports, liquid staking has experienced a significant resurgence, with assets locked in liquid staking services surging by 292% to reach $20 billion. This surge has positioned liquid staking as the dominant segment in decentralized finance (DeFi), surpassing the previous top application, lending.

Recent data reveals that the number of addresses holding 100 or more Ethereum coins has reached a 9-month low, prompting concerns about the state of Ethereum and its ecosystem. This decline in "whale" addresses could be attributed to market volatility, regulatory uncertainties, and the rise of decentralized finance and non-fungible tokens.

The transfer of 300,000 ETH worth almost $500 million from two cold wallets belonging to Coinbase to its hot wallet and subsequent dispersal among multiple addresses has led to speculation of a possible price dump for Ethereum. The reasons for the transfer are unknown and may not necessarily impact the price.

According to an official announcement on September 5th, Binance has completed the contract exchange and rebranding of Travala.com (AVA) on the Ethereum (ERC20) network to AVA (AVA). The old AVA (BEP2) and AVA (BEP20) tokens have been assigned AVAOLD as their code, and Travala.com (AVA) has been renamed to AVA (AVA).

Data from IntoTheBlock shows that the percentage of Ethereum holders with losses has risen from about 27% in early July to the current 44.2%. This is the highest level recorded since the beginning of the bear market, which was around 50%.

On September 4th, according to PeckShieldAlert's warning monitoring, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin's related address (0xD04d...8fd7) recently transferred about 999 ETH (approximately $1.64 million) to the address 0x5567…31B1. 20 days ago, the address starting with 0x5567 received about 1701 ETH from Vitalik's related address (0xD04d...8fd7), and in the past 20 days, these funds have been transferred to Bitstamp's deposit address.

Anatoly Yakovenko, co-founder of Solana, and Rune Christensen, co-founder of MakerDAO, warned their communities on the X (formerly Twitter) platform to stop attacking Ethereum and to avoid any behavior that would cause division within their own communities.

CyberConnect has released an emergency proposal [CP-1] suggesting three steps to ensure liquidity balance for CYBER between Ethereum, Optimism, and BNB Chain networks.

According to data from The Block Pro, in August, the open interest of Bitcoin and Ethereum futures declined. The open interest of Bitcoin futures decreased by 14%, and the open interest of Ethereum futures decreased by 18%. In terms of futures trading volume, the trading volume of Bitcoin futures in August decreased by 5.3% to $603 billion. The open interest of Bitcoin futures on the CME also decreased by 4.8% to $2.23 billion, and the daily trading volume fell even more, reaching 16.6% to approximately $1.37 billion.

Meitu Inc. recently released its mid-term performance report for 2023. The data shows that in the first half of this year, Meitu's revenue reached 1.261 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 29.83%; the net profit attributable to shareholders reached 228 million yuan, turning losses into gains compared to the same period last year, and exceeding the previously forecasted range of 220 million yuan to 265 million yuan.

According to a report by Arkham Intelligence, Grayscale has amassed approximately $5 billion worth of Ethereum, making it the second-largest Ethereum entity in the world. Grayscale's Ethereum Trust Fund is one of the top-rated crypto funds in the industry.

Bitcoin's price has fallen by 4.4% to $26,050, erasing the gains made earlier this week. The cryptocurrency's market capitalization remains above $507 billion, but its decline has also caused a 3% dip in the total market value to $1.09 trillion.

The Ethereum price failed to maintain its momentum after a bounce on August 31, dropping below $1,650 due to strong selling pressure. The broader crypto market is also experiencing a sell-off, with ETH trading down 3.21% in the last 24 hours. Around 143,000 ETH options are set to expire, with a balance between bets on price decrease and increase.

Several Ethereum liquid staking providers, including Rocket Pool, StakeWise, Stader Labs, Diva Staking, and Puffer Finance, have committed to or are in the process of committing to a self-limit rule that promises not to own more than 22% of the Ethereum staking market. This move is aimed at ensuring the decentralization of the Ethereum network. The proposal was put forward by Ethereum core developer Superphiz in May 2022, and the self-limit was set at 22% because at least four major entities would have to collude for the chain to reach finalization.

Crypto trader Bluntz, who has a large following on social media platform X, is not convinced that the recent bounce in Bitcoin and Ethereum is sustainable. He believes that both assets have more potential downside and that a further drop is needed before he will consider them to have hit bottom.

According to blockchain tracker Lookonchain, the investment fund associated with decentralized exchange aggregator 1inch has suddenly acquired $10 million worth of Ethereum over the weekend. The same wallet also purchased 17,000 ETH worth $26.8 million between January and March of this year. On July 5th, the wallet sold 11,000 ETH for roughly $21 million at a profit of $3.7 million. Additionally, Lookonchain notes that a wallet known as dimethyltryptamine.eth spent 27 ETH worth $45,000 to purchase 50 billion Pepe on Sunday.