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The world of memes is always full of entertainment. Recently, a platform with the domain name "fun" — Pump.fun — has attracted considerable attention in the crypto community. Even professional poker player Tom Dwan mentioned Pump.fun in a tweet, hinting at his interest in its gambling entertainment.

EIP-3074 is an Ethereum Improvement Proposal (EIP) that introduces a novel approach to account management. It enables the delegation of control over regular user accounts (EOA) to smart contracts, facilitating more sophisticated transaction strategies. Proposed in 2020 by Ethereum core developers, EIP-3074 introduces two new opcodes, "AUTH" and "AUTHCALL," empowering EOAs to transform into smart contracts without the need to deploy new contracts. The implementation of EIP-3074 aims to enhance the overall user experience for wallet users by enabling gas sponsorship, batch transactions, and wallet asset recovery. While EIP-3074 presents promising advancements, it also raises some concerns such as increasing the risk of user asset theft, and possibly forming a parallel technology stack with the Account Abstraction (AA) proposal EIP-4337, which requires ensuring interoperability between the two.

Ethena.fi tokenises a ‘delta neutral’ carry trade on ETH by issuing a stablecoin which represents the value of the delta neutral position. Their stablecoin, USDe, also collects the carry yield - hence their claim, an internet bond providing internet native yield.