Brevis unveiled “Pico Prism,” reporting 99.6% of Ethereum blocks proven under 12 seconds (6.9s avg) using 64 RTX 5090 GPUs.

Impact: Moves Ethereum toward real-time proving and lightweight verification, a major step for scaling and validating from consumer devices.

Alibaba’s parent company Ant Digital introduced a new Layer 2 network branded as Jovay Network.

Impact: Signals continued enterprise adoption of Ethereum’s scaling stack and potential new onchain commerce rails in Asia.

Client defaults are expected to target a 60M gas limit (up from 45M) before the Fusaka upgrade in early December.

Impact: Roughly 33% more block capacity should ease congestion for apps while testing validator and network headroom.

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Justin Drake compared May’s SP1 Hypercube results (94% in <12s on 160 RTX 4090s) with Pico Prism (≈99.9% in <12s on 64 RTX 5090s).

Impact: Community validation underscores hardware efficiency gains that make real-time proving increasingly practical.

EF highlighted Electric Capital data showing Ethereum as the #1 ecosystem for new developers in 2025.

Impact: Strong developer inflows support long-term protocol and app innovation across the stack.

The Ethereum Foundation deposited 2,400 ETH and about $6m of stablecoins into Morpho yield vaults.

Impact: Shows EF’s continued use of DeFi primitives to manage treasury with permissionless, FLOSS-aligned protocols.

ETHZilla posted an update on ETH treasury financials alongside a 1-for-10 reverse stock split announcement.

Impact: Corporate-style financial communication and capital actions bring public-market discipline to an ETH-exposed vehicle.

An updated privacy dashboard (explorer.web3privacy.info) adds pie-chart scoring, card layouts, and explanatory tooltips.

Impact: Improves transparency and usability for comparing privacy attributes across onchain projects.

Syndicate Network Collective (DUNA) released its first full accrual-basis financials under U.S. law.

Impact: Sets a transparency benchmark for decentralized networks operating within U.S. regulatory frameworks.

David Tse shared a PoC enabling native BTC to be used as collateral to borrow on Ethereum without wrappers powered by Babylon and Morpho.

Impact: If productionized, BTC can enter Ethereum credit markets with minimized trust assumptions.

Following an accidental 300-trillion mint and subsequent burn, Paxos paused PYUSD markets on Aave while investigating.

Impact: Temporary controls contained risk and emphasized the need for robust mint/burn safeguards in stablecoin operations.

Zora launched the Believe Fund to accelerate creator support with an initial allocation of 20M ZORA.

Impact: Adds dedicated capital for onchain creators and cultural projects in the Ethereum ecosystem.

Ink announced the launch of its native lending and borrowing protocol, Tydro, which is powered by Aave and governed by the L2's $INK token.

Impact: Strengthens INK’s Layer 2 ecosystem by introducing native credit markets and creating direct utility for the $INK token through governance and liquidity incentives.

French bank ODDO BHF launched its first euro-backed stablecoin (EUROD) exclusively on Polygon, issued under MiCA with a Bit2Me listing.

Impact: Brings regulated euro liquidity to Polygon and broadens options for onchain settlement in Europe.

Starknet announced a collaboration with Alpen Labs to build a trust-minimized Bitcoin bridge to DeFi on Starknet.

Impact: A wrapper-free BTC bridge would expand BTCFi on L2 without honest-majority or custodian assumptions.

MegaETH opened registration for a potential token launch via token.megaeth.com.

Impact: Marks a step toward decentralizing ownership of a real-time blockchain focused on ultra-low latency.

Zora introduced a 20M ZORA fund to back the next generation of onchain creators.

Impact: Dedicated creator financing could accelerate art, culture, and media projects using Ethereum primitives.

Ready for Merge released its first episode profiling Erigon CTO Giulio Rebuffo, republishing a “Meet the Devs” interview.

ECH Institute and the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance previewed a limited-episode podcast hosted by Pooja Ranjan and Paul Brody.

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