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Mantle executed an upgrade to become the first OP stack rollup to switch to using zk technology and the largest zk-rollup in TVL ($2 billion) across the entire Ethereum ecosystem,
Impact: The upgrade targets stronger security guarantees and faster finality, potentially improving user experience and developer confidence.
Coinbase and Stargate Finance announced they have joined Open Intents Framework pioneered by Across, to improve and coordinate intent-based execution.
Impact: A shared framework could standardize intent formats and routing, reducing fragmentation across intent solvers and apps.
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Gauntlet shipped a mini app on Base to extend access to three of their defi vaults at launch.
Impact: This expands Gauntlet’s distribution to more users and protocols on Base.
Vitalik Buterin outlined an updated Ethereum roadmap during EDCON, highlighting a short-term focus on increasing the L1 gas limit while preserving decentralization, block-level access lists, ZK-EVMs, and more.
Impact: Clarified priorities can guide client teams and researchers, aligning community expectations around upcoming protocol work.
Leon Waidmann highlighted Ethereum’s dominance in total circulating stablecoin supply, via data by Grow The Pie.
Impact: Continued stablecoin primacy reinforces Ethereum’s role as foundational settlement infrastructure for dollar liquidity.
@mteamisloading posted a three-part series on “Programmable Ethereum,” framing composability and programmability themes.
Impact: The thread offers educational context for developers considering new design patterns across apps and protocols.
@CryptoGucci reported Ethereum ecosystem transactions per second reached a new all-time high.
Impact: Higher realized throughput signals improving capacity and demand, with implications for fees and user experience.
EigenLayer detailed their collaboration with Google Cloud on “Programmable Trust” for AI agents.
Impact: Pairing restaking security with cloud tooling could accelerate trusted agent workflows for enterprises and developers.
Stargate launched Fast Swaps with sub-second quotes, guaranteed pricing, and single-second execution across Arbitrum, Base, Ethereum, and Optimism.
Impact: The upgrade made same-chain and crosschain swaps faster and more reliable, reducing friction for users moving assets.
Polymarket records an all-time high in trading volume for Federal Reserve rate-cut market at more than $200 million.
Impact: Spike in activity underscores prediction markets’ utility for price discovery on macro events.
EtherFi and Token Terminal established a data partnership to deepen protocol analytics coverage.
Impact: Expanded datasets can help investors and builders evaluate performance and growth drivers more rigorously.
3Jane announced a partnership with Block Analitica focused on an asset risk engine product.
Impact: Enhanced risk tooling could improve lending and collateral management across compatible apps.
Sign in with Ethereum released a public OIDC provider with a demo and Railway template, making it simpler for apps to add Sign in with Ethereum login.
Impact: This reduced the setup work for developers and expanded the use of Ethereum-based sign-in beyond crypto apps.
Pi Squared named EigenLayer as its default registry platform for validators and verifiers and EigenDA as its default data availability layer.
Impact: Standardizing on registry and data layers may streamline verification workflows and reduce integration effort.
Onchain Foundation introduced a research services offering to support projects with custom onchain analysis.
Impact: Dedicated research capacity can help teams validate hypotheses and inform product decisions with data.
Lido announced that Hex Trust has integrated support for institutional custody of staked ETH (stETH).
Impact: Additional qualified custodians can expand institutional access to staking-derived assets.
PierTwo integrates Obol Collective’s distributed validator technology for its offering.
Impact: Broader DVT availability can improve validator resilience and decentralization for participating operators.
The Ethereum Daily mega thread tracked three new app launches across Ethereum mainnet and top L2s.
Impact: Centralized discovery helps users and builders find fresh deployments quickly.
Art Blocks notes the completion of Jack Butcher’s “Gas Wars” auction.
Messari data shows Base leading aggregate onchain activity metrics among major networks.
Impact: Sustained traction can attract more developers and liquidity to Base’s app ecosystem.
Polygon shared details on its upcoming Rio upgrade, including a 33% increase in transaction capacity.
Impact: Capacity gains can reduce congestion and improve user experience for high-demand periods.
Optimism releases August metrics covering Superchain activity.
Impact: Transparent reporting helps teams benchmark adoption and performance across linked chains.
Taiko partnered with Chainlink to enable Data Streams on Taiko Alethia.
Impact: Native data delivery can enhance low-latency use cases such as trading and automation.
Jarrad Hope and E.J. Spode shared their book on crypto sovereignty and post-nation-state governance.
@starkience made the case for validity rollups and their security properties.
Pol Finance surveyed different fee mechanism designs, summarizing approaches and trade-offs.
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