The Ethereum Foundation’s Barnabé Monnot introduced an “execution tickets” mechanism at the EthCC conference. The goal is to reduce block proposer monopolistic power by using a protocol auction for transaction execution and ordering rights, thereby increasing transparency and fairness. The revenue from execution tickets will be directly burned, ensuring that MEV profits are fairly distributed to all ETH holders, and lowering the participation barrier for home stakers. This mechanism is a core proposal of the Ethereum roadmap’s “Scourge” phase, and it will effectively prevent transaction censorship.

At the EthCC conference, Protocol Guild contributor cheeky-gorilla said that Ethereum L1 core developers are paid less than the market, and that high-performance projects lure them away with higher salaries, which could cause critical roadmaps to stall. To protect the Ethereum ecosystem, they urged project teams to give back to Protocol Guild with a "1% Pledge," emphasizing the necessity of maintaining L1 development.

Ethereum Foundation researcher Jihoon Song presented FOCIL’s progress at the EthCC conference. The project aims to reduce Ethereum’s centralization risk by using a decentralized committee of validators. FOCIL improves blocks’ resistance to censorship by randomly selecting validators and encoding rules, lowers attack risk, and supports account abstraction and privacy protocols. This mechanism has been confirmed as a core feature of Ethereum’s future upgrades.

Gate News update: On March 31, it was reported that OpenAI announced it has completed the latest round of funding, securing more than $120 billion in committed capital. The company said this round of financing will be used to expand the scale of its AI capabilities and accelerate the delivery of “useful intelligence” earlier and more broadly to users worldwide, enabling the rapid spread of technology and applications. OpenAI emphasized that its core goal is to generate a “compounding effect” for AI capabilities worldwide by improving accessibility, driving continuous growth in productivity and innovation.

Gate News, March 31: OSL Group released its full-year 2025 results. The data shows total revenue was HK$489 million, setting a historical high and increasing 30.4% year over year; core operating revenue was HK$534 million, up 150.1%. Platform total trading volume reached HK$201.22 billion, up 200.7%, with stablecoin trading volume accounting for 60% of total trading volume. In terms of revenue by region, Hong Kong accounted for 33% and overseas accounted for 67%.

Oskar Thoren of the Ethereum Foundation said at the EthCC conference that privacy should be core infrastructure for Ethereum, emphasizing the importance of protecting business strategies and transaction privacy, as well as how the maturity of privacy technologies supports institutions. He introduced three R&D directions of the Privacy Maintainers team: privacy writing, privacy reading, and privacy proofs, to advance Ethereum’s privacy protection.

The general-purpose robot network Orbion successfully deployed and went live on the BSC mainnet on March 31, with the goal of enabling end-to-end lifecycle management of general-purpose robots for users worldwide. The platform’s native token ORB has opened a 72-hour public subscription, serving as the core credential for governance, payments, and value transfer.

Gate News reports that on March 31, the latest weekly report from TRON's decentralized lending protocol JustLend DAO shows that the platform’s total value locked (TVL) reached $6.55 billion, and total deposits amounted to $3.53 billion. JustLend DAO is a core DeFi infrastructure within the TRON ecosystem, providing on-chain lending services to users worldwide.

Kevin O’Leary has recently said that Bitcoin and Ethereum account for 98% of the value in the crypto market, and he called them the only meaningful investment. However, the altcoin market still has room to grow, and investors need to balance risk and reward between core assets and emerging assets.

SWIFT, the global financial messaging network, is accelerating the development of blockchain settlement infrastructure and plans to launch its first minimum viable product in 2026. The new system is built on a permissioned network, enabling near-real-time transfers of tokenized deposits and digital currencies through smart contracts. Its core selling point is low integration and upgrade costs. The project has attracted more than 30 major banks and aims to improve the efficiency of cross-border payments, with potentially massive impact.