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Odaily reported that Polymarket has announced the completion of its acquisition of DeFi infrastructure company Brahma. Brahma was co-founded by Alessandro Tenconi, Akanshu Jain, and Bapireddy Karri, and its team will continue to play a key role, responsible for infrastructure, protocol design, and product integration. This integration aims to enhance Polymarket’s trading reliability, execution speed, and capital efficiency, while lowering the barriers to entry for new users and improving interoperability across blockchain networks.

Foresight News reported, according to The Block, that Ethereum researchers have proposed EIP-8142 "Block-in-Blobs," a solution that encodes the entire execution payload transaction data into the blobs introduced by EIP-4844. This approach replaces validator downloads of full transaction payloads with data availability sampling and cryptographic commitments, thereby reducing bandwidth requirements and standardizing fees under the "data gas" model. Under this design, in future zkEVM scenarios, zero-knowledge proofs ensure execution correctness, while blobs guarantee data availability, preventing the risk of data being deliberately hidden and passed by consensus based solely on proofs.

On April 8, Standard Chartered Bank stated that it is considering bringing part of the business of its digital asset custody company Zodia Custody under internal management. The plan is to merge Zodia's crypto custody business with Standard Chartered's Luxembourg digital asset division, while Zodia will continue to operate independently as a software-as-a-service business.