This week's highlights focused on making Astar's ecosystem clearer.
Community-led explanations helped break down the Astar Stack, the Collective framework, and ASTR utility across different audiences and languages.
Here's the rundown 🧵

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Author: Vitalik Buterin
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TechFlow Dive: This is one of Vitalik's rare public self-criticisms. He directly points out Ethereum's near-absence in addressing various social issues over the past few years and proposes a new framework—"sanctuary tech."
This post represents one of the most valuable internal discussions within the Ethereum community: what exactly are we building, and for whom are we building it?
The full text is as follows:
Over the past year, many people I've met have been worried about two things:
First, the world's trend: government control and surveillance...

Vitalik's rare self-criticism: Ethereum missed the really important battleground

The cryptocurrency market has recently seen a long-awaited strong rebound. On March 5th, the price of Bitcoin briefly broke through the $74,000 mark, rising nearly 8% in 24 hours and reaching a new high in almost a month. Currently, the price of BTC is fluctuating between $72,000 and $73,000, with overall market sentiment improving. ETH rose to around $2,100, a gain of over 7%, and some altcoins saw a slight rebound.

Regarding liquidation data, according to Coinglass, the total open interest across the network reached $595 million in liquidations in the past 24 hours...

After "buy the dips" with 400,000 BTC: Is $74,000 a rebound or a reversal?

Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), the parent company of the New York Stock Exchange, announced a strategic investment in OKX, a leading global cryptocurrency exchange, boosting its valuation to approximately $2 billion.
The article, "Star Xu Statement: ICE's Investment in OKX is Not the End, but the Beginning of Deep Integration of Traditional and Digital Finance," was originally published on BlockTempo, the most influential blockchain ABMedia media.

Star Xu declared: ICE's investment in OKX is not the end, but the beginning of a deep integration of traditional and digital finance.

ASTR Token Use Cases 🌟
@0xMR_IMAN created a thread describing each part of ASTR's utility across networks, making the token's role easier to follow.