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Morning Edition · Friday, June 19, 2026
A Developer Warns Ethereum Faces a Slow Funding Crisis
Contributor Trent Van Epps says foundation spending cuts could constrain core development over the coming months.
A long-running risk for open-source networks surfaced again this week. Trent Van Epps, a contributor to Ethereum's ecosystem support work, warned that Ethereum could enter what he called a slow funding crisis over the next three to nine mon…
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