Tuesday Top Crypto News In one short thread…

Yesterday, Bitcoin spot ETFs recorded $187 million in net outflows, marking the fourth consecutive day of outflows. Ethereum spot ETFs saw $136 million in net outflows, also extending to a fourth straight day. In contrast, Solana spot ETFs posted $70.05 million in net inflows, marking a fifth consecutive day of inflows.

The Berachain Foundation announced progress on an emergency hard fork initiated to address a vulnerability in its decentralised exchange, BEX, stemming from a broader exploit that targeted Balancer V2 pools and forks across multiple chains.

Strategy Inc announced plans to issue 3.5 million shares of 10.00% Series A Perpetual Stream Preferred Stock ($STRE), a euro-denominated credit instrument, subject to market conditions. The proceeds will be used for general corporate purposes, including buying Bitcoin and working-capital support.

Chainlink has announced a collaboration with global index provider FTSE Russell to publish its index data onchain for the first time via DataLink, an institutional-grade data publishing service powered by the Chainlink data standard. The integration covers the Russell 1000, Russell 2000, Russell 3000, FTSE 100 Index, WMR FX benchmarks, FTSE DAR Digital Asset Prices, and FTSE Digital Asset Indices.

Vitalik Buterin said that modexp (the modular exponentiation precompile) is currently the most ZK-EVM-unfriendly component, being up to 50 times more complex than average blocks…

He suggested introducing a new EIP to replace it with computationally equivalent EVM code, even if this increases gas costs. Vitalik noted that modexp is mainly used for RSA encryption and signing, which can instead be handled through SNARK-based solutions.

Crypto majors trade at the following levels BTC 104,490 (down 2.8% in 24 hours) ETH 3,490 (down 6%) XRP 2.245 (down 7.8%) SOL 156.75 (down 11.2%) Have a great day!