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ChainCatcher reported that Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin mentioned that there are recent voices suggesting AI text analysis will make online anonymity unsustainable. In response, he revealed that at some point this decade, he anonymously wrote a publicly available document of medium importance to Ethereum, and he estimates that within the Ethereum ecosystem there are about 200 to 2,000 documents with importance no less than that one. Vitalik invited the community and AI tools to “find” this anonymous work among these documents, in order to test whether AI can de-anonymize authors at scale through methods such as writing style analysis.

One Chart: The Baltic Dry Index declines across the board, freight rates for all types of vessels decrease in tandem.

ChainCatcher news, according to Protos, the decentralized lending protocol Goldfinch, led by a16z and aimed at serving the unbanked population in Africa, has fallen into crisis. On-chain data shows that out of the project's eight borrowers, two have officially defaulted and six have entered debt restructuring, resulting in cumulative losses exceeding $18 million. Depositors lament that "50 million dollars have been lost." Its native token GFI has plummeted from a high of $32.94 in January 2022 to below $0.07, a drop of 99.8%. The project's market capitalization has shrunk from a peak of $390 million to less than $6 million.