Episode 452
📍 Elon Musk's brief name change to "Harry Bōlz" caused two Solana meme coins to plummet, with one token's market cap dropping from $25 million to near zero and the other falling 54% in 24 hours.
📍 The CoinDesk 20 Index is down 0.6%, with Litecoin (LTC) falling 4.7% and Hedera (HBAR) dipping 3.9%, while six assets are trading higher, led by APT (+1.8%) and DOT (+1.7%).
📍 Ethereum developers are exploring "based rollups" to improve layer-2 scaling and interoperability, with some pushing for a new approach to security and communication between layer-2 networks, while Uniswap has launched its layer-2 network, Unichain, powered by Optimism's OP stack.
📍 Bitcoin mining company Riot Platforms is exploring AI partnerships to generate new revenue streams, reflecting a growing trend among miners to leverage their power infrastructure and data center expertise beyond crypto mining.
📍 Ethereum's Pectra upgrade, set for an April release, aims to improve wallets and validators, with eight major improvements, including EIP-7702, which is expected to enhance the user experience of crypto wallets.
