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Ether Machine raised 150,000 ETH ($654M) from Jeffrey Berns, who will join the board, and is aiming for a Q4 2025 Nasdaq listing. The company expects to list with a 495,362 ETH treasury and $367.1M cash, positioning itself as an active ETH vehicle that uses staking and financing to scale holdings.

SharpLink Gaming is pivoting hard into Ethereum, starting with a $425M PIPE raise and a $1B crypto treasury plan. Joseph Lubin joins as board chairman.

Vitalik Buterin’s new proposal for Ethereum stateless nodes could make running a node cheaper and more accessible. It’s the next big step after the Pectra upgrade toward greater decentralization.

The Ethereum Foundation has restructured its leadership, appointing Hsiao-Wei Wang and Tomasz Stańczak as co-executive directors while Aya Miyaguchi transitions to president, signaling a strategic shift amid rising competition and regulatory pressures. As Ethereum navigates scalability challenges and market volatility, the new leadership aims to reinforce the network’s technical and financial sustainability to maintain its dominance in the evolving blockchain landscape.

Bybit, one of the world’s leading crypto exchanges, suffered a record-breaking $1.5 billion Ethereum theft during a routine wallet transfer on February 21, 2025, exposing critical vulnerabilities in centralized exchange security. The breach has reignited industry-wide discussions on safeguarding digital assets amid increasingly sophisticated cyber threats.