PANews reported on December 4th that Vitalik Buterin stated Ethereum will continue to improve security and scalability through "hard invariants." He reviewed EIP-2929/3529 's increase in load costs and reduced refunds in 2021 , Dencun's weakening of SELFDESTRUCT in 2024 , and his plan for 2025 to cap single transaction usage at 16,777,216 gas , limiting the executable size of a single transaction or block, reducing DoS risk, and simplifying clients. He also suggested setting caps on code byte access, ZK-EVM prover cycles, and memory pricing in the future.


Wormhole’s native token has had a tough time since launch, debuting at $1.66 before dropping significantly despite the general crypto market’s bull cycle. Wormhole, an interoperability protocol facilitating asset transfers between blockchains, announced updated tokenomics to its native Wormhole (W) token, including a token reserve and more yield for stakers. The changes could affect the protocol’s governance, as staked Wormhole tokens allocate voting power to delegates.According to a Wednesday announcement, three main changes are coming to the Wormhole token: a W reserve funded with protocol fees and revenue, a 4% base yield for staking with higher rewards for active ecosystem participants, and a change from bulk unlocks to biweekly unlocks.“The goal of Wormhole Contributors is to significantly expand the asset transfer and messaging volume that Wormhole facilitates over the next 1-2 years,” the protocol said. According to Wormhole, more tokens will be locked as adoption takes place and revenue filters back to the company.Read more
