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1. Ethereum Foundation: First Round of ZK Grants Now Open link The Ethereum Foundation has announced the opening of the first round of ZK Grants. Collaborating with Aztec, Polygon, Scroll, Taiko, and zkSync, the Ethereum Foundation has contributed $150,000 each to a shared bounty pool, totaling $900,000. The application deadline is March 18, 2024. 2. Uniswap’s New Proposal Aims to Distribute Protocol Fees Proportionally to Staked UNI Holders link The Uniswap Foundation has announced the release of a Snapshot vote for the “Activating Uniswap Protocol Governance” proposal on March 1, 2024. On-chain voting will commence on March 8, 2024. The proposal suggests upgrading the protocol to enable permissionless and programmatic protocol fee collection. It also proposes distributing any protocol fees proportionally among UNI token holders who are staking and delegating their voting rights, and allowing governance to continue controlling core parameters, such as which pools require fees and the ...

Upcoming web3 shooter game Shrapnel is about to become available for early access on the Epic Games Store marketplace. A Call of Duty-style blockchain video game Shrapnel is set to become available for early access from Feb. 8 till Feb 10., between 1 pm and 9 pm PT. Dubbed Shrapnel Training Exercises One (STX1), the game’s initial build will enable players to experience one of the characters at their highest progression level. Players will have the opportunity to test three different firearms, a grenade, and a unique “Sigma ability.” Are you ready for @playSHRAPNEL #STX1 STX1 Specifics – Dates: Feb 8–10, 2024, 1PM – 9PM PST – Prize Pool: $100,000 in SHRAP – Mode: Solos, featuring Sigma Wave ability – Weapons: Pistol, AR, Shotgun, plus throwables & medipen – Max 12 players per map ️ pic.twitter.com/BgtiZprpX6 — Crypto Class (@AlexiosKonstan) February 3, 2024 Those interested in early access would have to buy an ...

Join Our Telegram channel to stay up to date on breaking news coverage Yesterday, April 27th, The US House of Representatives saw two committee s — Financial Services and Agriculture Committee — hold crypto hearings . The hearings had very similar title s and covered the same ground, coming to similar conclusions. Do the standing securities laws apply to crypto? The Financial Services Committee held a hearing under the title of “The Future of Digital Assets: Identifying the Regulatory Gaps in Digital Asset Market Structure.” The leading speaker was Zachary Zweihorn, the Davis Polk partner. Zweihorn argued that the standing laws for the securities markets do not align with digital asset securities. “We’ve all heard the siren’s call to ‘come in and register.’ It sounds enticingly attractive. But this is an oversimplification that conflates registration, which may theoretically be possible, with compliance, which is not,...