[2026-01-07] The latest IT, economic, blockchain and coin news

Ethereum, the world’s second-largest blockchain network, has increased the amount of data it can handle at one time. While it’s a minor and expected change, it affects how the network handles increasing application usage and provides a clearer view of how Ethereum plans to scale as that usage continues to grow. It comes as Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin claimed earlier this week that the network’s updates have transformed it into a “fundamentally new and more powerful kind of decentralized...