Vitalik proposes “partially stateless nodes” to boost Ethereum privacy and decentralization
Daily top performer — CoW DAO (COW)
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Today’s top performer is COW, up 7.4% after CoW Protocol adopted Fair Combinatorial Auctions to improve trade execution and strengthen MEV resistance.
CoW DAO (COW), launched in 2021, is a decentralized platform offering secure, efficient crypto trading through CoW Protocol, an MEV blocker, and a protection-focused AMM. It spun off from GnosisDAO in 2022 to help DeFi users avoid exploits like MEV and LVR. CoW Protocol is replacing its single batch auctions with Fair Combinatorial Auctions (FCA), enabling solvers to submit multiple bids—both individual and bundled. This upgrade improves trade execution, fairness, and MEV resistance while increasing filled orders, lowering slippage, and boosting solver rewards by ~25%.
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Talk of the town
Vitalik Buterin has proposed adding “partially stateless nodes” to Ethereum’s scaling roadmap to make running a personal node easier, boosting privacy and censorship resistance. These nodes can verify blocks without storing full history, reducing reliance on centralized RPC providers. The proposal follows Ethereum’s recent Pectra upgrade and comes amid strong ETH price gains.
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Bitcoin spot ETF flows
Category | Flow (millions) |
GBTC | 0.0 |
Non-GBTC | 41.7 |
Total | 41.7 |
Yesterday, Bitcoin spot ETFs saw $41.7M in total inflows, all from non-GBTC funds, while GBTC recorded no flow.
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