Federal prosecutors charges Samurai Wallet founders Keonne Rodriguez and William Lonergan Hill with conspiracy to commit money laundering on Wednesday, as the U.S. government continues its approach to prosecuting crypto mixing tools that may be used by illicit actors and foreign governments to hide fund transfers.
Renzo restaked ETH (ezETH), the liquid restaking token representing a user's restaked position at Renzo, experienced a brief crash early Wednesday, trading at a massive discount to wrapped ether (WETH) in a low liquidity environment. Renzo, the second-largest liquid restaking protocol, uses the Ethereum restaking protocol Eigenlayer to allow users to restake their ether {{ETH}} in return for Renzo's ezETH, which users can deploy across other decentralized finance applications to generate an extra yield.
Five new editors were added to help speed up the process of approving and merging Bitcoin Improvement Proposals.