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BlockBeats News, June 19th, according to Bitget market data, the stock price of US-listed TSMC surged over 6.94%, hitting a new all-time high, with a market capitalization now standing at $2.4 trillion.

Foresight News reported that former Ethereum Foundation member Trent Van Epps tweeted that the Ethereum Foundation will not be the main administrator of Ethereum for the next 10 years, and that the ecosystem needs to reset the social, political, and economic contracts among stakeholders. The Ethereum Foundation’s treasury is limited and becoming increasingly constrained. The four-year Client Incentive Program (CIP), which uses staking returns to fund client teams, will expire in April 2026, and no replacement plan has been seen. According to his recent conversations with core development stakeholders, Ethereum core development (clients, research, coordination) may face a slow funding crisis in the next 3 to 9 months. Currently, maintaining the delivery capacity of over 10 client, research, and coordination teams requires about 30 million USD in sustainable funding per year. If there is a funding gap, it will lead to the loss of key talent, reduced protocol maintenance capacity, and will affect long-term scaling and the response to challenges such as quantum computing.

According to Caixin, the export of tokens for AI inference services is seen as a potential application scenario for central bank digital currency (CBDC) in cross-border payments and settlements. The trusted settlement protocol features of CBDC can be integrated with enterprise-level AI service metering systems, enabling a closed-loop process from activation and billing to clearing and settlement.