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Coinbase announces that unstaking requests may take weeks or months to process as they are not in charge of Ethereum’s unstaking process.

The Ethereum ecosystem is edging closer to its latest milestone as the Shanghai upgrade draws near.

ConsenSys will release its zkEVM rollup to its public testnet on March 28, paving the way for an eventual mainnet integration later in 2023.

After a network-wide slowdown left users frantic, Solana released plans to improve its latest network upgrade.

The milestone is another step on the road to the Shanghai upgrade, which remains scheduled for March.

Developers are attempting to attack the forked testnet with malicious nodes to see if they can find vulnerabilities.

While 2022 proved catastrophic for investors across traditional and crypto markets, the crypto ecosystem’s potential has outshone inflation and centralized custody of assets.

As a decentralized trading and matching system, the 1inch Swap Engine connects DeFi users and provides liquidity for crypto trades through professional market makers.

The overhaul of the protocol, dubbed "Maple 2.0," comes only weeks after the decentralized lending platform saw two major defaults on the back of FTX's collapse.

Smart contract functionalities on the Bitcoin network could boost adoption and provide additional liquidity to DeFi.

A tentative timeline of March 2023 has been set for the Shanghai upgrade, which will enable staking withdrawals. A list of EIPs has also been packaged in, but EIP-4844 didn’t make the cut.

Among the main features of the Shanghai hard fork is Beacon Chain staked Ether (ETH) will be unlocked.

The minting of OFAC-compliant Ethereum blocks on a daily basis has grown to 73%, adding to the community’s growing censorship concerns.

Staked ETH withdrawals and lower gas fees are among the developments expected with the upgrade.

Some of the evident improvements experienced by the blockchain post-Merge include a steep increase in daily block creation and a substantial decrease in average block time.