🌚 Crypto Evening: Looking Back.
🆕 Vitalik Buterin at EthTokyo 2025 stated that the future of Ethereum lies in Layer 2 and that the network plans to increase scalability by 10 times next year without compromising decentralization and security. He emphasized Asia's contribution: China - speed and scale, Japan - experimentation, and it is this energy that brought Ethereum to the global stage. The main mission of the network, according to him, is to connect the East and West, and he sees the future of funding in a hybrid of ICO and DAO, as a more open and fair model compared to venture capital funds.
🆕 In South Africa, Pizza Hut and KFC started accepting payments in Bitcoin through the Zapper service, which integrated the Lightning Network.
🆕 Co-founder of Derive proposed to increase the issuance of DRV by 500 million tokens (+50% to the volume). The new issuance is needed to retain key employees and to secure strategic deals. Major institutional partnerships are coming soon. 46% of the tokens will be allocated to the team with a four-year vesting.
