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Ethereum’s Validation Threshold Is Melting: From 32 to 4 ETH

How Rocket Pool’s Saturn upgrade path aims to lower Ethereum’s validator threshold from 32 ETH toward 4 ETH, reshaping network security fr om capital concentration into distributed technical infrastructure.

A Digital Pawnshop for the Age of Smart Contracts

DeFi does not digitize finance. It reconstructs it. From automated lending protocols to always-on collateral systems, this article explores how platforms like Aave turn code into financial infrastructure, and why a “digital pawnshop” may be one of the most accurate metaphors for what is emerging.