Despite his role at Consensus, Max Resnick has been vocal on crypto Twitter, criticizing Ethereum’s scaling roadmap for lacking ambition and suggesting that the platform has taken the wrong path.

Currently, two block builders, Beaverbuild and Titan Builder, dominate Ethereum block production. They hold approximately 88% of the market share, making the Ethereum network vulnerable to the risk of transaction censorship.

Ethereum has reclaimed its position as the primary blockchain for hosting USDT for the first time since 2022. Tether is minting new stablecoins on Ethereum as it expects higher demand.

BlackRock's tokenized money market fund is expanding to new networks, three of which offer a 60% discount on management fees.

The Ethereum Foundation aims to roll out several major upgrades over the next few years to improve Ethereum’s consensus layer. Developed five years ago, the current consensus no longer aligns with today’s realities and needs updating.

The new Layer 2 network aims to make the ENS project more decentralized and open to new use cases and connections, solving the issues previously caused by the Ethereum mainnet.

The project seeks to bridge the gap between the two leading smart contract blockchains and develop a network that integrates the advantages of both Ethereum and Solana.

Pectra aims to enhance the user and developer experience on Ethereum and will lay the groundwork for future scalability improvements.