Bridged ETH (NEAR Intents) (ETH)

EF going all in on their own network again 👀

Staking nearly double what they did last week.

Long-term conviction or just smart treasury mgmt? Either way, bullish for ETH security.

🚨 CANTON ISN'T PERMISSIONLESS OR A BLOCKCHAIN!

Canton IS permissionless, but it's permissionless like the Internet, not like Ethereum. Anyone can connect, build, and deploy applications, run participant nodes, request validator status (currently with sponsorship, evolving toward more open access in May), participate in governance through the Foundation, and interact with the Global Synchronizer.

The key nuance is selective visibility and permissioning at the application level:

➜ Transaction data is not broadcast to everyone (unlike Ethereum's public mempool and ledger).
➜ Only the relevant parties to a specific transaction or contract see the details, enforced natively by the protocol (sub-transaction privacy).
➜ The infrastructure operators (validators/Synchronizer) see only minimal metadata for ordering and consistency, not the full content.

Canton meets the broader, functional definition of a blockchain (distributed ledger + consensus + programmable state + token) by NIST, ISO, and other standards, but