The Fusaka Holesky testnet fork finalized successfully, with ethPandaOps reporting the network looked stable as testing proceeded.

Impact: This completes the first step toward shipping Fusaka on mainnet, clearing the path for client teams to wrap validation and rollout planning.

ZKsync announced that First Abu Dhabi Bank and partners are launching ADI Chain on the ZKsync Elastic Network, introducing a Dirham-backed stablecoin and compliance-focused infrastructure.

Impact: A regulated, institution-led L2 signals growing global banking adoption of onchain settlement while expanding the ZKsync ecosystem’s real-world finance footprint.

The Ethereum Foundation named Igor Barinov to lead the EF Privacy Team and Andy Guzman to lead Privacy Stewards of Ethereum as samrichards.eth steps down after six years.

Impact: Fresh leadership refocuses core privacy R&D and coordination across the ecosystem.

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Nixo.eth posted the latest “Checkpoint #6,” summarizing active research threads and coordination items across Ethereum core development.

Impact: Regular checkpoints keep client and research teams aligned on priorities and blockers as the roadmap advances.

Kacie Ahmed and Abbas Khan of the Ethereum Foundation's Founder Success team announced a community-focused weekly X Spaces for bleeding-edge Ethereum updates and open discussion.

Impact: The recurring forum strengthens information flow between builders, researchers, and the broader community.

growthepie highlighted September growth in the Ethereum ecosystem including higher transactions, stablecoin supply, and blob data posted.

Impact: Momentum underscores increasing onchain activity that can translate to more robust fee markets and usage.

The Rage reported that Roman Storm has moved for acquittal on all counts, arguing the case would criminalize publishing decentralized software.

Impact: The outcome could set precedent for how U.S. law treats open-source smart contract development and privacy tools.

GameSquare Holdings detailed working with Dialectic and Morpho to lend and earn yield for its ETH treasury, noting onchain returns around 8% in August.

Impact: Corporate treasuries leaning into risk-controlled onchain lending validate ETH-native yield strategies versus centralized staking benchmarks.

Aerodrome said the Coinbase DEX integration is now live for 100% of eligible U.S. users with broader rollout coming.

Impact: A deeper Base–Coinbase product bridge lowers frictions for retail access and brings more liquidity onchain.

Aave introduced native limit orders using CoW Swap, with functionality live on Arbitrum at launch.

Impact: Advanced order types expand DeFi UX and can improve execution quality for users bridging CEX-like behavior onchain.

StakeWise unveiled Vaults v4 with 0x02 validators, faster withdrawals, consolidations, and a new MetaVaults layer for flexible stake distribution.

Impact: The upgrade targets security and capital efficiency for stakers and operators as validator tech evolves.

Obol shared that Blockdaemon is expanding its use of DVT staking through Lido’s Curated Module and doubling down on Distributed Validators.

Impact: Larger institutional participation in DVT strengthens validator resilience and decentralization across the staking set.

Frax Finance opened the waitlist for FraxNet, an account-based platform to mint, redeem, and earn with frxUSD across 20+ chains.

Impact: A unified Frax platform could streamline stablecoin liquidity and cross-ecosystem incentives.

Giza announced its Pulse agent now allocates to Lido markets including stETH and other ETH-PT strategies on Pendle.

Impact: Automated agents managing ETH liquidity may boost market efficiency and composability across yield venues.

Entropy Advisors said 1.2M ARB in DRIP rewards are now flowing into Epoch 3 as the performance phase begins.

Impact: Incentives tied to market efficiency can concentrate liquidity in high-performing Arbitrum venues.

Polygon and Immutable announced a new Polygon Hub on Immutable Play with five titles, $100k in user rewards, and future crosschain gaming via Agglayer to Immutable zkEVM.

Impact: Coordinated L2 gaming infrastructure aims to unify fragmented liquidity and onboard mainstream users to onchain experiences.

The Starknet Foundation kicked off BTCFi Season to bootstrap BTC activity on Starknet with a focus on low-cost, BTC-backed loans.

Impact: Bridging Bitcoin collateral into a ZK L2 expands credit markets and diversifies onchain lending primitives.

Celo announced Nightfall testnet is live, marking the first deployment of the open-source Layer 3 for private enterprise payments on a payments-focused chain.

Impact: Privacy-preserving enterprise rails on an Ethereum-aligned stack could accelerate compliant B2B settlement use cases.

Alessandro Lodesani spotlighted the Quantum Biology Institute, a research effort supported by QuantumBioDAO funding.

Impact: This highlights Ethereum-backed philanthropy driving scientific research at the intersection of quantum biology and decentralized funding.

Collectr released Edition #16 in collaboration with qrcoin.fun featuring artwork by Pondering, available through October 2025.

Sherlock detailed how its AI surfaced a critical vulnerability affecting $2.4m in a live lending protocol—the first known AI-detected multi-million-dollar mainnet bug.

Onchain Foundation published a primer on the current state of prediction markets, with additional reading and context for users exploring Kalshi and Polymarket.

The Block reported that wallets linked to SBI Group suffered a $21m exploit spanning multiple assets, with funds sent to Tornado Cash per ZachXBT.

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