Starknet launched STRK20, a new privacy token standard providing default anonymity for ERC-20 tokens. Powered by Starknet Privacy Pool and ZK-proofs, the standard obscures sender/receiver addresses and transaction amounts on-chain while maintaining compatibility with DeFi operations like DEX trading and staking. It also features encrypted viewing keys to satisfy compliance and auditing requirements. x.com/Starknet/statu…
1/ Privacy for Bitcoin… and for every ERC-20.
Introducing STRK20: a privacy capability that gives any ERC-20 confidential balances and private transfers, with compliance built in.
The market is now one click away from privacy on any token 🧵
📉#Crypto Market Overview 03.02.2026👇
🔴#Galaxy Digital shares dive following $482M Q4 loss (Decrypt)
🔥#Moscow exchange set to launch $XRP indices and futures contracts (Bitcoinist)
📈#Alphabet stock hits $350 record as investors brace for Q4 earnings (Cryptobriefing)
📈#Crypto Market Overview 26.01.2026👇
💵#Strategy purchased $264M in #Bitcoin last week (Coindesk)
🔥#BlackRock doubles down on #Bitcoin fund offerings with income-focused filing (Coindesk)
⬆️#Dogecoin price continues to struggle beneath key resistance levels (CryptoNews)
📉#Crypto Market Overview 15.01.2026👇
💵#Ripple injects $150M into #LMAX to push #RLUSD#stablecoin for institutions (Coindesk)
📉#Bitcoin slides below $96,000 as key Crypto bill stalls in Congress (Coindesk)
🔥#Ethereum new addresses hit record levels (Bitcoinist)
📈#Crypto Market Overview 14.01.2026👇
💳#Visa teams up with #BVNK to launch #stablecoin payouts (Coindesk)
🔥#DZ bank secures retail crypto trading #MiCA license (Coindesk)
🇵🇰 #Pakistan signs #Trump-linked World Liberty deal on #USD1 stablecoin (CryptoNews)
📈#Crypto Market Overview 12.01.2026👇
🔥#Dubai bans privacy token use on exchanges (Coindesk)
💵#Coinbase pushes back against banks to keep rewarding users for holding #stablecoins (Coindesk)
💰#BitGo targets $201M raise in #US#IPO (TheBlock)
📈#Crypto Market Overview 06.01.2026👇
🔥#BNB breaks $910 resistance on wider crypto market (Coindesk)
⬆️#Circle's #USDC outpaces growth of #Tethet's #USDT for second year running (Coindesk)
📈#Ethereum network usage hits record high (Decrypt)
Now that ZKEVMs are at alpha stage (production-quality performance, remaining work is safety) and PeerDAS is live on mainnet, it's time to talk more about what this combination means for Ethereum.
These are not minor improvements; they are shifting Ethereum into being a fundamentally new and more powerful kind of decentralized network.
To see why, let's look at the two major types of p2p network so far:
BitTorrent (2000): huge total bandwidth, highly decentralized, no consensus
Bitcoin (2009): highly decentralized, consensus, but low bandwidth - because it’s not “distributed” in the sense of work being split up, it’s *replicated*
Now, Ethereum with PeerDAS (2025) and ZK-EVMs (expect small portions of the network using it in 2026), we get: decentralized, consensus and high bandwidth
The trilemma has been solved - not on paper, but with live running code, of which one half (data availability sampling) is *on mainnet today*, and the other half (ZK-EVMs) is *production-quality on performance today* - safety is what remains.
This was a 10-year journey (see the first commit of my original post on DAS here: github.com/ethereum/resea… , and ZK-EVM attempts started in ~2020), but it's finally here.
Over the next ~4 years, expect to see the full extent of this vision roll out:
* In 2026, large non-ZKEVM-dependent gas limit increases due to BALs and ePBS, and we'll see the first opportunities to run a ZKEVM node
* In 2026-28, gas repricings, changes to state structure, exec payload going into blobs, and other adjustments to make higher gas limits safe
* In 2027-30, large further gas limit increases, as ZKEVM becomes the primary way to validate blocks on the network
A third piece of this is distributed block building.
A long-term ideal holy grail is to get to a future where the full block is *never* constituted in one single place. This will not be necessary for a long time, but IMO it is worth striving for us at least have the capability to do that.
Even before that point, we want the meaningful authority in block building to be as distributed as possible. This can be done either in-protocol (eg. maybe we figure out how to expand FOCIL to make it a primary channel for txs), or out-of-protocol with distributed builder marketplaces. This reduces risk of centralized interference with real-time transaction inclusion, AND it creates a better environment for geographical fairness.
Onward.
⚠️ ALERT: Wrench attacks on crypto holders are rising and growing more violent, especially in Europe and Asia.
A wrench attack is when criminals use physical threats or force to steal crypto.
Reduce risk by staying private, avoiding wallet bragging, and using multisig or custody solutions.
158 Followers 2K FollowingHello! My name is Smh Shah, and I am a dedicated and versatile freelancer with over 30 years of life experience and a solid academic background in msc geology
0 Followers 2 FollowingWhere advisors become your advantage. Formally WorkX. Backed by @TGEVentures. Built in the trenches by those chasing the next 100x. ↓ Everything Echo
1 Followers 4 FollowingWeb2 fortune 100 brand, marketing and growth hacking specialist bridging my talents to web3.
Web3 Doge dev and Spokesdog for @reallabs_one.
All posts NFA.
48 Followers 288 FollowingPercussionator 🥁 | Caretaker-in-Chief | Keto-fueled, Fitness-charged | Mindset Maestro | Drummer for State of Mind - Music DFW | Holistic Hustler | Great Vibes
8K Followers 5 FollowingPrivacy Pools by 0xbow is a compliant way to anonymously transact on Ethereum. @0xbowio blocks illicit actors to ensure pool integrity.
20K Followers 5 FollowingYour private space for online collaboration. Write, sketch, code, share, store and 💛 https://t.co/EMp8vFhn3l & https://t.co/d7XZUi8ZJF
557K Followers 407 FollowingImportant Crypto News mainly Asia
Lead by Colin Wu 吴说
More Channels: https://t.co/EWW3fUtX5v
Contact: Tele colinwu1989
non-financial advice
27K Followers 400 FollowingDeFi needs credit expansion. We blend onchain and offchain data to provide customizable credit lines for the digital economy.
https://t.co/gLubbIH4B0