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Staking Returns After Costs: Commission, Slashing and Exit Risk

The yield on a staking page is gross. What reaches you is that number minus the operator's commission, minus what the exit costs when you want your capital back, minus the small chance of a penalty. All three are published; none is in the headline.

Staking Enters ETFs: The Regulatory Green Light Explained

Regulatory clarity on staking within exchange-traded products opens a new yield dimension for institutional Ethereum exposure while raising fresh custody and disclosure questions.

Ethereum's fee market cools as rollups lean on cheaper data

Layer-2 networks are posting data more cheaply after the latest upgrade, pushing settlement costs down and nudging activity back on-chain.

Layer-2 Fragmentation Meets Intent-Based Interoperability

As Ethereum activity spreads across dozens of rollups, fragmented liquidity has become the core UX problem, and intent-based bridging is emerging as the market's answer.

Restaking Goes Live On Slashing, Forcing A Risk Reprice

With active validated services now enforcing real slashing, restaking yields must finally be priced against genuine principal risk rather than speculative points programs.

Based Rollups And Preconfirmations Test Shared Sequencing

Based rollups hand sequencing back to Ethereum validators, and preconfirmations promise fast finality without a centralized sequencer, reshaping who captures layer-2 ordering value.

Understanding gas fees in five minutes

Why does the same transaction cost pennies one hour and a small fortune the next? It comes down to an auction.

Ethereum Staking Yield Compression And The Exit Queue Signal

As the staked share of ETH climbs, base issuance yield keeps thinning, and validator entry and exit queues have become the clearest read on where marginal capital is moving.

Ethereum Blob Expansion Is Compressing Rollup Fees Again

A fresh increase in Ethereum's blob capacity is pushing layer-2 transaction costs lower, but it also raises hard questions about where rollup sequencer margins go next.

What Are Layer 2 Rollups? Optimistic vs ZK Explained

Layer 2 rollups scale Ethereum by processing transactions off-chain and posting proofs back to the base layer. Here is how optimistic and zero-knowledge rollups differ.

How Does Gas Work? The Ethereum Fee Market Explained

A plain-English guide to gas on Ethereum: what units, base fees, priority tips, and EIP-1559 mean, and how to read a transaction fee before you sign it.