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Ethereum's co-founder Vitalik Buterin has laid out a sweeping vision for what the network becomes after its next major upgrade. He argues that the Hegota fork will be the last conventional one, with future development built entirely on recursive STARKs and formal verification — a shift that would transform Ethereum into something closer to a mathematically provable computing platform.
On a less optimistic note for the crypto space, a Senate Democratic report is raising serious alarms about Tether's stablecoin USDT, alleging it has become a financial lifeline for the Iranian government. The report, published by the Permanent Subcommittee on Intelligence, puts fresh pressure on regulators to scrutinize how dollar-pegged digital assets move across sanctioned borders.
And on a broader geopolitical stage, NASA is marking a milestone in its effort to build international norms for space exploration. The Artemis Accords have now surpassed seventy-five signatories, with Albania, Croatia, Côte d'Ivoire, and San Marino among the newest additions, bringing the total to seventy-six nations committed to peaceful and transparent conduct beyond Earth's atmosphere.
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