Gate News bot message, During the Hong Kong Pop-X event, Ethereum founder Vitalik gave an interview. He discussed in detail multiple technical directions for Ethereum's development, including POS upgrades, Layer 2 security and interoperability, challenges of centralized PBS architecture, and the development of ZK and AI technologies. Vitalik clearly pointed out that the price performance of ETH has no direct correlation with the consensus mechanism. He elaborated on the balance between decentralized underlying architecture and limited centralized power, and proposed ideas for improving Layer 2 interoperability and security through the protocol layer. In addition, he also introduced specific plans to enhance the scalability and role value of the Ethereum mainnet. In terms of the developer ecosystem, Vitalik calls on developers to fully utilize new technologies and focus on building valuable and sustainable applications. Source: DappLearning

Golden Finance reported that L1 Blockchain expansion platform Litheum has announced that it has received strategic investments from Amber Group and Alphemy Capital, with an investment amount of $750,000. The new funds will be used to build its performance proof (PoP) based Decentralized Finance and microcredit decentralized applications, further dropping encryption lending costs.

South Korea's K-POP industry export growth slowed down, with only a 0.55% rise in 2020, reaching 291.8 million US dollars, showing a significant slowdown compared to previous years. Japan remains the largest export destination, with exports reaching 89.8 million US dollars, followed by the United States, reaching 60.29 million US dollars.

BlockBeats news, on October 24th, according to GMGN data, the 24-hour trading volume of Solana on-chain Meme coin KOTO reached 13.12 million US dollars, and the coin price is now reported at $0.00139. It is reported that Koto's Meme image is a visual artist and technology expert, famous for creating Grimes AI, known as the next step in artificial emotional systems and creativity. Currently, this CA has received the same name as the k-pop idol KOTO.

On September 21st, at the Solana 2024 Breakpoint conference, David Rhodus, founder of Permissionless Labs, stated that Pipe Network is in private testing phase and will soon announce Testnet information. Users can run Pipe POP Node or use Pipe CDN