ChainCatcher news, Bankless co-founder Ryan Sean Adams posted on X that the current market is at the beginning stage of the second half of the crypto bull market.

ChainCatcher news, Bankless founder David Hoffman posted on the X platform stating: "The independent validator community is the ultimate line of defense for network security. The self-sovereignty of the network is related to its commitment to independent validators. Ignoring independent validators in 'good times' is a luxury (referring to the larger number of independent validators when the market is doing well), but in 'bad times' it will cost us (referring to the reduced number of independent validators when the market is doing poorly, which in turn affects the ecological network security)."

ChainCatcher news, Bankless founder David Hoffman posted on social media, "Ethereum development has prioritized L2 execution for over 2 years. This has come at the expense of L1 execution. L1 execution is lagging behind Moore's Law, while L2 has gained undue growth and valuation subsidies from L1. Therefore, we should re-establish the priority of L1 execution work. I agree with @MaxResnick1 that the hardware requirements for L1 should be 'the latest 2 generations of Macbook Pro', which aligns perfectly with the social contract of individual stakers. This would increase the accessibility of Ethereum L1 to over 10 times the users, and at a low cost.The argument against this is: the Ethereum ecosystem needs to reorganize around fewer synchronous composability—growing L1 execution will reduce the urgency to solve this problem. An rollup-centric Ethereum is the right roadmap—let's face the challenges head-on."

ChainCatcher message, Bankless co-founder David Hoffman posted on social media that, according to the survey data we obtained in Discord (which requires real identity verification), most people are generally satisfied with the ZKsync airdrop.He stated that those expressing disappointment mostly frequently use the ZKsync Lite network or use the Argent wallet, and feel that there was an issue with the airdrop verification process. The reasons for users' disappointment are completely different from the highly automated activities on X.

ChainCatcher news, according to The Block, the blockchain and zero-knowledge proof research institution Nebra announced the completion of a $4.5 million financing round, led by Nascent and Bankless Ventures, with participation from Tim Beiko of the Ethereum Foundation, Kartik Talwar of ETHGlobal, Nick White of Celestia, and Sandy Peng and Haichen Shen of Scroll.It is reported that Nebra plans to use this funding to advance and democratize zero-knowledge proof technology, aiming to reduce proof settlement costs on Ethereum and other blockchains, thereby creating a so-called new internet shared settlement layer.