ETHWomen 2025: Empowering Female Participation in Ethereum and Web3

ETHWomen, a premier Web3 event dedicated to fostering inclusivity and female engagement in blockchain, is set to return for its third year on May 13, 2025, in Toronto, Canada. As part of the Blockchain Futurist Conference and Canada Crypto Week, this free event offers educational panels, networking opportunities, and industry connections for women exploring Web3. With a focus on encouraging new talent to delve into blockchain and cryptocurrency, ETHWomen 2025 aims to bridge the gender gap in the tech-driven financial landscape.

ETHWomen Returns for Its 3rd Year: A Free, Female-Focused Web3 Event in Toronto

ETHWomen, a leading Web3 event focused on inclusivity and female participation, returns for its third year on May 13, 2025, in Toronto, Canada. As part of Blockchain Futurist Conference and Canada Crypto Week, the event provides free access to educational panels, networking opportunities, and industry connections for women interested in Web3. The event encourages new talent to explore blockchain and cryptocurrency and serves as a hub for women already in the space to connect and collaborate.

NFT Trader Loses $10M on CryptoPunks Sale

An NFT trader has sold an Alien CryptoPunk for 4,000 ETH (approximately $6.04 million), suffering a $10 million loss. The trader originally purchased the CryptoPunk one year ago for 4,500 ETH, valued at $16 million at the time. The sale comes amidst a downturn in NFT trading activity, with sales volume falling 41.13% over the past 30 days to $416.8 million and transaction count dropping 51.03% to 5.68 million.

Vitalik Buterin Pushes for Privacy-Focused Ethereum Changes in New Roadmap

Vitalik Buterin has unveiled a privacy-focused Ethereum roadmap on April 11 on the Ethereum Magicians forum. The plan envisions creating a world where private transactions are the default, allowing users to interact across applications without publicly linking their activities. The roadmap outlines practical, incremental improvements to make private transactions and anonymous on-chain interactions more accessible for everyday users without major changes to Ethereum’s core consensus protocol. It addresses four key privacy forms by implementing various short-term and long-term solutions.

Polyverse: Revolutionizing Web3 Gaming with Multi-Chain Gameplay and Sustainable Tokenomics

Polyverse introduced a new standard for Web3 video gaming operations with multi-chain infrastructure from launch. Led by Vittorio Conti, former Senior Environment Director at Rockstar Games, the platform offers high-standard AAA-level browser gameplay combined with blockchain technology, providing exceptional gaming immersion. The Polyverse Ecosystem operates using the Ethereum-based Polyverse Token ($PTC) and includes an active NFT collection, aiming to create a sustainable economy focused on player requirements.

Vitalik Buterin Suggests Easier Path to Layer-1 Privacy on Ethereum

Vitalik Buterin has offered a four-stage roadmap to enhance privacy on Ethereum. The roadmap covers on-chain payments, anonymization of application activity, private chain interaction, and network-level protection. Buterin’s approach focuses on pragmatic upgrades through better wallet design, application isolation methods, and technological updates of existing systems, rather than suggesting complex and contentious protocol changes. The roadmap identifies four CORE privacy concerns for Ethereum users, including payment privacy onchain, anonymization of application activity, private chain interaction through RPC calls, and network-level anonymization.

Ethereum Apps Generate Over $1B in Fees in Q1 2025

Ethereum apps generated over 5X the revenues of the main chain for Q1 2025, producing over $1B in fees. This is in line with the results of 2024 and demonstrates that Ethereum still carries a robust ecosystem of apps. Despite ETH trading at a lower range, the chain’s activity and fee generation matched previous periods. ETH stabilized at $1,548.73 after recently breaking above $1,600. The chain is closely watched for signs of liveliness and recovery.