Node storage halved to 1.2TB, L2 expansion advances, but the staking lock-up reaches 26.3% ETH triggering a capital monopoly crisis; efficiency leap is reconstructing the balance of power

Technological nuclear explosion: a double-edged sword of the storage revolution

On July 8, Ethereum execution client enabled historical data pruning, reducing ordinary node storage requirements to 1.2TB. Core contradictions emerge:

Data pruning feature is merely a rehearsal for EIP-4444, historical data can still be retained locally

African node growth 11.7% → Nigeria becomes the largest increment country

StarkNet Gas limit practically increased by 300%, zkSync announced throughput enhancement plan at the same time

Truth: Infura/Alchemy control 61% of historical data, decentralized indexing protocols divert 39% of traffic

Staking war: liquidity exhaustion alarm

Total staked ETH 31.92 million (accounting for 26.3% of circulating supply)

Lido Share 31.2%

Exchange inventory 16.1 million

Whale operation update:

"07.06 Whale" is actually a Jump Trading market-making account, after staking, it borrowed and cycled through Aave to increase holdings to 2143 ETH

BitMine holdings disclosed: $210 million ETH, of which 35% is used for re-staking

EigenLayer re-staking yield annualized at 8.4%

Trump's tariff policy did not involve Thailand

The number of merchants participating in Hong Kong's stablecoin payment pilot reaches 527 (disclosed by the Monetary Authority on July 9)

The correlation coefficient between gold and ETH is actually 0.67 (Bloomberg terminal data)

US SEC suddenly approves BlackRock ETH staking ETF (July 10)

European Central Bank interest rate cuts stimulate €210 million inflow into staking protocols

Infura market share 58%

EIP-7983 proposal Gas limit value yet to be determined (originally 16.77 million is a community discussion draft)

ETH annual issuance rate 3.1%

Node service price war: AWS launches Ethereum archiving data service, rates 37% lower than Infura

L2 token economy reconstruction: Coinbase Base suspends token issuance, shifting to revenue-sharing model

Brutal truth: Wall Street institutions control 21.7% of circulating ETH through LSD, but the Compound vulnerability led to the liquidation of 9500 staked ETH (July 9) — efficiency gains come with systemic risks.

Retired servers from the Shanghai data center were resold to a Vietnamese mining farm, while UBS's $230 million staking actually flowed into the Coinbase institutional staking pool. When technological idealism clashes with capital's precise calculations, the democratic narrative of blockchain is quietly deteriorating in the annualized compound interest of staking returns.

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