Layer 2 networks collectively processed over 25 million daily transactions, marking a new throughput milestone across the Ethereum scaling ecosystem.

Impact: Higher capacity and demand on L2s signal growing adoption of Ethereum’s scaling stack and increased room for onchain activity.

Arbitrum’s circulating stablecoin supply reached a new all-time high above $9 billion, reflecting rising liquidity on the rollup.

Impact: Greater stablecoin depth can tighten spreads and improve capital efficiency for apps and users on the network.

Immutable announced a new Mobile Gaming Division to accelerate the development and distribution of crypto-enabled mobile titles.

Impact: A dedicated mobile push can expand Ethereum’s gaming addressable market and onboard mainstream players via familiar platforms.

Data from growthepie shows Ethereum blob usage is approaching intended targets following recent proto-danksharding upgrades.

Impact: Stabilizing blob markets support predictable L2 data costs and more reliable rollup fees.

Ethereum hit another all-time high in aggregate stablecoin supply at roughly $170 billion, adding about $10 billion so far in September.

Impact: Expanding settlement liquidity reinforces Ethereum’s role as core collateral and payments rail for crypto markets.

@mTeamisloading hosted a X Spaces with Justin Drake, Josh Rudolf, and Donnoh discussing Ethereum composability dynamics and ecosystem design.

Impact: Coordination around composability advances best practices for building interoperable apps and protocols.

Analysis from Ethfucius.eth underscored Ethereum’s dominance in assets secured onchain relative to other smart contract platforms.

Impact: A larger base of secured value strengthens network effects and developer confidence.

Builder Stefan Star announced he has joined ethPandaOps to contribute to Ethereum client and infrastructure reliability efforts.

Impact: Additional talent in core operations can improve client robustness and network performance.

Fabda Rice shared an update on the Strategic Ethereum Reserve company’s ETH holdings and managed NAV metrics.

Impact: Transparent disclosures offer better visibility into institutional ETH exposure and treasury management.

Fairblock published a case study on confidential stablecoins and protected trading coming to Arbitrum by leveraging Arbitrum Stylus.

Impact: Privacy-preserving mechanisms can reduce MEV leakage and improve user execution quality across apps.

Consensys’ Joseph Lubin hinted that a MetaMask-related airdrop could arrive sooner than expected during an interview with The Block.

Impact: Anticipation of a distribution may spur wallet activity and liquidity provisioning across the Ethereum ecosystem.

Succinct Labs reported its SP1 system has taken the top spot among zk projects by total value secured.

Impact: Growing TVL around zk verification stacks can accelerate permissionless proving and light-client use cases.

Velodrome introduced a 1‑Click Swap feature aimed at streamlining token exchanges directly within its interface.

Impact: Reduced friction in trade flows can lift volumes and improve user retention for AMMs.

JoinEdgeCity partnered with the Ethereum Foundation Protocol Team to host an Open Intents Framework Catalyst event at a Patagonia pop‑up village.

Impact: In‑person coordination can accelerate experimentation with intent-centric architectures for user operations.

Giveth published a recap summarizing donations and rewards distributed in GIVbacks Round 97.

Impact: Retroactive rewards continue to incentivize public goods contributors within the Ethereum community.

Artist @1dontknows opened the auction for “Rise of the Immortals”.

Aztec Network confirmed development of a private OTC desk leveraging its privacy‑preserving L2.

Impact: Privacy‑first settlement could enable institution‑grade trading workflows on Ethereum infrastructure.

Token Terminal data showed a roughly 150% increase and all time high in active loans on Base.

Impact: Expanding lending activity can deepen liquidity and support more complex financial apps on the L2.

L2BEAT introduced detailed pages for its ZK catalog, aggregating specifications and risk information for zk systems.

Impact: Better documentation aids developers and users in evaluating tradeoffs among zk rollups and proving stacks.

An analytics dashboard focusing on usage trends on Polygon Payments was released by @obchakevich_

Impact: Transparent metrics help teams track adoption and optimize product decisions across payment rails.

A report indicated that Vietnam froze approximately 86 million bank accounts due to biometric verification requirements.

The Rollup Co. hosted a stream with contributors including Alexander of Aerodrome, Will Papper of Syndicate, and Tim Beiko, Dankrad, and Josh Rudolf of the Ethereum Foundation.

Bankless released a profile spotlighting Nethermind’s work across clients, research, and infrastructure.

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