【Golden Weekly】NYSE Group President Lynn Martin said that the success of Bitcoin ETF and the liquidity it brings are indisputable. In May, NFT sales on the Bitcoin chain were less than $200 million, the lowest level in the past 7 months. Cryptocurrency analyst Nancy Lubale believes that there are three main reasons why Ethereum prices have surpassed Bitcoin: the expectation of spot Ethereum ETF, the growth of network activity, and the bullish technical indicators. Bitcoin's native DA layer Nubit has completed integration with Babylon Devnet. On-chain analysis company Glassnode said that the selling pressure from the "diamond hand" was only half of the previous bull market top. The Bitcoin inflation rate after halving is now 75% lower than the current US inflation rate and 72% lower than the annual issuance of gold.
Jim Cramer, host of CNBC Mad Money, said he holds ETH because he believes that the US dollar will face difficulties due to the serious US federal budget deficit, and Ethereum is a good means of storing value. Bloomberg ETF analyst Eric Balchunas said that the US spot Ethereum ETF may be launched at the end of June. Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin described some of his regrets in the initial design of Ethereum at the ETHBerlin event. The research team at investment bank TD Cowen believes that following the approval of Bitcoin, the approval of the Ethereum ETF is inevitable.
WalletConnect released AppKit and WalletKit, its latest development kits for connecting wallets to dapps. Safe launched an ERC-7579 adapter that integrates modules from external platforms into Safe smart accounts. Conduit supports Arbitrum Stylus on the test network, and users can write contracts in Rust or any language that can be compiled to WASM. Pyth Network posted on the X platform that its Pyth Entropy and price feed services have been deployed to Sei v2. The Solana community has voted to pass a proposal to allocate 100% of priority fees to validators to replace the current 50% destruction and 50% reward structure. The Bitcoin blockchain may undergo major changes in 2026 with the launch of the Runes protocol and the OP_CAT proposal. Web3 infrastructure and digital certificate network Galxe (GAL) said on Wednesday that it is building its own L1 smart contract platform Gravity and migrating all its products to the new blockchain. SmartLayer is integrated with the multi-chain self-custodial wallet TokenPocket.