Ethereum News. Jan 6, 2025
Arbitrum introduced ArbiFuel, a gas fee sponsorship program empowering early-stage teams to ship fast
Black rock bought 31,737 ETH worth $100.23 million
Ethereum’s exit wait times is dropping to near zero as validators exit queue cleared
Etherealize dropped their ETH 2026 Ethereum outlook
Ethereum foundation released an ecosystem job page.
Stable coin transfer on Ethereum has surpassed $8 trillion in Q4 a new all time high
Jeff Bezos blue origin now accepts Ethereum for space travel
Allora mainnet is now live on base

















Solid roundup covering the key developments, but the ArbiFuel gas sponsorship piece really caught my attention because subsidizing transaction costs has been one of the biggest adoption blockers for dapp developers. From experience building on L2s, even small gas fees add up fast when you're doing user onboarding at scale, and teams burn thru runway just keeping their demo apps usable. What's intresting is how this shifts the economic model where the chain itself absorbs costs to bootstrap growth rather than passing everything to end-users or forcing devs into complex meta-transaction patterns.