The Ethereum Daily mini app launched on Farcaster and Base to deliver daily Ethereum updates.

Impact: Offers a lightweight way for readers to consume ecosystem news and share in the earnings from future ad placements.

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During today's All Core Devs (Execution) Call #221, developers discussed a possible gas limit increase to 60M before the Fusaka upgrade, setting a deadline for Glamsterdam EIP proposals, and formalizing the “EIP champion” role.

Impact: Signals progress towards shipping the Fusaka upgrade on mainnet and clearer process accountability for upcoming network upgrades.

Data shared via The Block shows Ethereum now leads all networks in circulating USDT, surpassing Tron.

Impact: Reinforces Ethereum’s role as the dominant settlement layer for major stablecoins and associated liquidity.

The Ethereum Everywhere announced dedicated and global Ethereum Community Hubs, beginning in Berlin to support local builders and education.

Impact: Expands grassroots developer support and public-good infrastructure to grow the global Ethereum ecosystem.

The LF Decentralized Trust introduced new members including the Ethereum Foundation and Etherealize and revealed a new privacy initiative called Minokawa.

Impact: Brings additional resources and collaboration to Ethereum-aligned privacy research and development.

Ethereum’s account shared a guest thread by Jonathan Meyer of EthStaker covering concepts and best practices in staking.

Impact: Improves educational resources for new and existing stakers, potentially broadening participation in validator operations.

Nixo.eth announced email subscriptions are live again for the official Ethereum blog.

Impact: Restores a key channel for distributing protocol and ecosystem updates to subscribers.

Devcon announced a new Creator Crew program to support storytellers highlighting Ethereum builders and projects.

Impact: Broadens high-quality educational and narrative content, potentially attracting new contributors and users.

ETHZilla disclosed depositing $47 million worth of ETH into the restaking protocol Puffer Finance.

Impact: Highlights growing institutional-scale participation in liquid restaking and validator-aligned protocols.

Spark announced a collaboration with PayPal to help expand adoption of the PYUSD stablecoin.

Impact: Could accelerate mainstream integrations for PYUSD within Ethereum apps and payments.

Virtual introduced Butler, an agentic trading desk experience directly on X.

Impact: Experiments with social-native trading flows that may onboard new users via familiar platforms.

Calaxy’s mini app launched across Base and Farcaster, bringing personalized coin-gated communities.

Impact: Expands creator monetization and social features across Ethereum-aligned networks.

Self Protocol integrated India’s Aadhaar identity verification to its identity stack, enabling access to the protocol for 99% of the country's population.

Impact: Improves zk identity solutions for India-based users, aiding compliant access to onchain services.

Centrifuge introduced SPXA, a product offering S&P 500 exposure within its platform.

Impact: Adds a new route for traditional index exposure alongside tokenized real-world assets in DeFi.

Rocksolid announced its first rETH vault through a partnership with Rocket Pool.

Impact: Increases options for yield strategies built atop established liquid staking tokens.

Nansen announced an onchain agentic app called Nansen AI.

Impact: Showcases autonomous analytics and execution primitives that could streamline onchain research and actions.

Giveth announced the Causes quadratic-funding round extension through October 2, 2025.

Impact: Provides additional time for public-goods funding participation and matching contributions.

Artist Kubti released “Till Death Do Us Apart” via SuperRare

Forknet launched its Layer 2 on mainnet leveraging Agglayer with support from Polygon Labs.

Impact: Adds another L2 option to Ethereum’s scaling landscape with cross-ecosystem interoperability.

Inco added native USDC support and integrated Circle’s CCTP v2 for improved bridging and settlement.

Impact: Streamlines fiat on/off-ramps and interop for apps building on the Inco ecosystem.

L2BEAT launched a new interview series focused on Layer 2 builders, opening with Marek from Celo.

Impact: Provides deeper context on L2 roadmaps and risk models to inform users and developers.

Brother Bing published an article examining Ethereum’s decentralization characteristics and benefits.

Sean Mac Aonghuis of Safe analyzed “gasless” user experiences and the underlying transaction sponsorship mechanics.

Citi released a Stablecoins 2030 report that includes contributions from the Ethereum Foundation.

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