Understanding new financial tools on Ethereum – Yesterday in Ethereum, March 19, 2025

/u/LogrisTheBard wrote the article Next Gen Tokens about finance on Ethereum, the ways we can do it better than TradFi, and how you can manage your finances better with these tools. The article contains too much to summarize here. I'd just say: read it! The sections are: Yield Bearing Indices, Leverage Tokens, Delta Neutral, Timelock Tokens, Permissionless LRTs, and Insured Position Tokens.

Coinbase introduced Verified Pools. They're curated liquidity pools on Base, which seem to be targeted at institutions and are KYCd.

The Treasury Department is still fighting the court ruling that Tornado Cash's smart contracts must be delisted from the OFAC sanctions list, but Coinbase is fighting back.

EigenLayer is bringing decentralized proving to ZKsync's rollup and Elastic Network. Creating ZK proofs of rollup activity is the slow and expensive part for ZK rollups; verifying them on Ethereum is easy.

Obol is giving their OBOL tokens to people who stake through their Distributed Validator technology (multiple people running validators and contributing stake, which contributes to safety and decentraliztion). You can earn even if you stake through one of their partner companies that run Distributed Validors (Chorus One, EtherFi, StakeWise, Swell, etc.).

The previous Yesterday in Ethereum is here.