On October 23rd, 2025, President Donald Trump pardoned convicted founder of Binance Changpeng Zhao. Janet Yellen, former Treasury Secretary said of CZ and Binance, "Binance turned a blind eye to its legal obligations in the pursuit of profit… Its willful failures allowed money to flow to terrorists, cybercriminals, and child abusers through its platform." When CZ stepped down from Binance, he stated, "I made mistakes, and I must take responsibility.” He paid a $50million dollar fine and spent four months in prison, though he was allowed to keep his stake in Binance.

On the 23rd of May 2024, I spent the day with other ethfinanciers waiting for the US Securities and Exchange Commission to approve the exchange applications for spot ether ETFs. We did it!

Congratulations to /u/tricky_troll for completing TWO YEARS of daily doots in the /r/ethfinance subreddit. Sure, he has had a lot of support from /u/jtnichol and the EVMavericks, but it has been Tricky's continuous commitment and resolve that got us this far. Here's to a long future of doots! Art by Magduszka.eth with inspiration from chatgpt. Poap developed by /u/superphiz.

EthFinance Doots Happy Hour is a weekly stream that reviews the top daily doots of the week. Listen live in the EVMavericks Discord (https://discord.gg/evmavericks) or catch recordings on Youtube (https://www.youtube.com/@evmavericks/streams) and Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/show/08KYYXtOqzZbMpiciUt42I)!

Holders of this POAP celebrated Ethereum Mainnet's upgrade to Dencun. This eagerly anticipated upgrade is projected to reduce gas fees for Layer 2 networks, unlocking greater scaling for the Ethereum ecosystem. Special thanks to the Ethereum Foundation, Ethereum Cat Herders, The Daily Gwei and EthStaker for hosting the watch party call. https://ethereum.org/ https://www.ethereumcatherders.com/ https://thedailygwei.substack.com/ https://ethstaker.cc/

The address which minted this POAP participated in the KZG Summoning Ceremony: a publicly coordinated ritual to produce a random output. This output will be used in Proto-Danksharding, aka EIP 4844: an Ethereum scaling mechanism which will hopefully enable lower Layer 2 fees and greater global accessibility. EIP-4844 is expected to go live with the Dencun network upgrade in the near future. As of the time of writing, this ceremony was the largest setup of this kind when considering the number of contributions.

Ether first crossed $4,000 in October 2021, at the time it was near the end of a wild bull run. Today we passed $4k for the second time, nearly 30 months later, with a totally new perspective: this feels more like the beginning of a new bull cycle than the end of one. Congratulations to developers, operators, and community members who worked hard to bring value to Ether. Art by /u/Few-Bake-6463, POAP developed by superphiz.

EthFinance Doots Happy Hour is a weekly stream that reviews the top 10 daily doots of the week. Listen live in the EVMavericks Discord (https://discord.gg/evmavericks) or catch recordings on Youtube (https://www.youtube.com/@evmavericks/streams) and Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/show/08KYYXtOqzZbMpiciUt42I)!