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Following last week's milestone Shanghai upgrade, we moved to wind down CoinDesk's Ethereum validator project, but it could be a week before the 32 ETH we staked (about $67,000 worth) hits our wallet. C. Spencer Beggs, our director of engineering, breaks down the technical steps he's taken.

Developers and crypto market analysts are getting in their final words before staked ETH withdrawals are activated.

To better chronicle the Ethereum blockchain's transition to a proof-of-stake network, CoinDesk in 2020 started its own validator – nicknamed Zelda. We plunked down the 32 ETH (roughly $15,000 at the time) and laid the technical groundwork. With staking withdrawals due to start April 12, we take stock of the project.

Bugs, server crashes and scammers continue to plague crypto airdrops. Will regulatory pressures be next?

Profits made from MEV were more than twice as high as the last peak during the FTX implosion.

Ethereum’s (ETH) censorship concerns have, since the Merge, increased exponentially, with validators keen on complying with regulatory requirements. V

Updated Dec 31, 2020 at 5:58 p.m. UTC Valid Points: A Year in Review by Your Ethereum 2.0 Staking Experts In less than 48 hours, 2020 will be behind us.  It almost seems too big a task to recount all that has happened in this world, in this industry and in our own personal lives but our colleague Brad Keoun, editor of CoinDesk’s daily cryptocurrency markets newsletter, First Mover, offers an excellent start to summarizing  2020. He writes: "This year saw the biggest drop-off in economic act...